New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-08-13
Philadelphia Letter.
MATTERS AND THINGS IN THE QUAKER CITY.
Correspondence Of tb, grrsrtnt

| MATTERS AND THINGS IN THE QUAKER CITY.
Correspondence Of tbs crrsrtnt.
philadelphia, August >.
The alarm which was occasioned bv the an
pearance Of the yellow fever, or a disease greatly
resembling it, in the vicinity of South Wharyes
has subsidized with the disappearance Of the OK
citing cause, but has just left behind an acri
monious newspaper discussion between the VI
D. s, the friends of the victims, and the Quaran
tine officers, as to what the disease really vas
and whether the officers were derelict in duty
in allowing the infected vessel to approach the
city. The former question is an endless one
thepr0 and con of the doctors being proycrbially
inexhaustible, but ON the latter point the public
mind is settled in the belief that the Quarantine
officers We're greatly in fault, and that their re-
moyal is the only satisfactory sacrifice that can
be made to public indignation and to the names
of the deceased victims | would not be so IN
charitable as to hint that the outcry against
the officers is kept up by the thousand ami one
applicants who consider their chance the hest
for their vacated berths.
An interesting point Of law in connection with
the Fugitive Slave Act has been decided in the
Supreme Court of our State during the present
" "a e. T.
sued an Ascending white apprentice boy to
this city and had him arrested and brought be-
fore the L. S. Commissioner, and demanded his
to his custody under the provisions of
the aforesaid act The matter was carried into
the Supreme Court on a writ OF babeaS c0rpJS
where the legal points were deliberately aud
ably argued by eminent counsel, and much in
terest was manifested rs this was the first in
stance in which the applicability of the law to
the recovery of white fugitives from labor had
been brought up for adjudication. Judge Kane
decided that the words persons
held to labor in one State under the laws there
Of included all fugitiyes from labor, whether
white or black, apprentice or slave, and that
any other construction would work the manifest
injustice Of freeing all apprentices who choose
10 eYade their obligations by passing from one
state into another, This practical and evident
y just construction Of the intent Of the law will
ieprlve the aholitionists hereafter of all pre-
enee of denouncing it rs inYidous ard restric-
i've IN application only to negroes
The notorious George Albert, the hangmon,
itdnapper, etc, has again come within the law $
,tutches. lie was convicted in 1901 Of kidnap-
ping q free negro and carrying him into Mary
had as a slave, and on that charge Yas sen
fenced to the peuitentiary Marx land through
t' Governor and Legislature, interterel, aud
a ~ 'ge influence she exerted, obtained his par
aoh rom nov Bgler. Though the former pro-
,i against Albert ana its revival now,
w" W a'ihe ihslgated by the ubUltionists have
Always regarded the interference of MARYLAND /
as lhJuulclous, and the pardon by R,oigr as
calculated greatly to ALLEVIATE and disg9st III
true friends OF the South aud of Tho Gor,.rr
ihiRe IN our city and State Such bas ,,nd,i,It
GUY peen us eneet' Albert was clearly guilty