New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-17


name Of Joshua Sowden. TRAVELLER
Colombia, Jsn o. ltS4
BY tho way there appears to be an extraordinary domsnd
of negro property" at the South Just now. What the
cause is we cannot say II may be because the country
threatened with an extension of Slave tertorywe
tanIy can think Of no better It u.s. at all events
clear that negroes bringing good prices Observe the
following:
SLAvEs-IIGH PRIcIs-Yesterdsy was the annual
day for selling and hiring slaves In this city,
and never before such prices paid. More
than fifty of different ages and sex were sold.
Children from four to sx years brought $500 ssce
grs eight to twelve from $500 to $500 women $500
age black and not very likely at that sold for $500.
woman thirty one years of age common field hand sold
for 1885, three men, field hands aged respectively H. 70
and IS year, sold for 81 05o Pas and 25o woman.
years Of age good cook and washer sold privately
for 81 leo.
These are indeed enormous prices and It shows one Of
two things, that either money Is very plenty or negroes
very scarce. st. Louis Evening News, Jan. ..
Negroes rent well will be seen by the annexed para
graphs from Thezhrandra SertiHei'
The high prices for labor and the products Of labor OF
every description have bad their natural effect On ne
At Cats Tavern. on Saturday and Monday, men
brought sloo to sl25 women, $40 10 800;
AT Wauenton we learn that men hired from sioo 70
el25 women from $40 10 go.
SENTENCE OF MRS. DoUGLAs-We learn from The
Norfolk Beacon that Of the first acts Of Judge Baker,
Of the Superior Court on Monday Jan was to sentence
Mrs Douglas, Who convicted at the last term, for
nrucing negroes to read and write contrary 10 law to
one meDh imprisonment 10 the city jail which sentence
was Immediately carried into execution.
RuyAwArs ARRESTED AND RETURsED-On Sunday
evening the three blacks negro man and two negro
women together with the French Canadian in whose com
PAM and under whose guidance they left Boonyile few
Levi Blunt and j. Slaughter, Of Aadrsln County,
their way back TO Boonvie. They we've arrested, NO
learn in the eas,ernpar Of Aadran IL seem, vas thei.
were found by following the Canadian who had been
slrners house TO obtain food TO their retreat We IN
r.tend the Canadian states that he was employed 10 do
"a and deliver negroes ut some point on tho Msssp
River, TO perons who take them South, while they sup
pose thew are going land OF freedom and that he
TO receive t25 per head Columbia tMiisl Sentinel
SALE ExrRAonDisARr.-Mr. J. l.. Bryan, Of Moore
County sold at public auction on the 10th inst, pack Of
ten hounds trained for hunting runaways for the sum Of
$40 The highest price paid for any one dog was s3oi
i sost Irce s75 average the ten s@ The term, Of
ssls were months credit with approved security and
interest from date. Fayetteville observer.
HIGH PRICES FOR EEGKOEs.-The sale o. some forty
negroes, men, women ard children sold ~ Joha Seldom
Esq, Committee Of Nancy sed1sn attracted large
crowd OF purchasers on Tuesay last and spirited bidding
manifested 1t thought before the sale that the
lot would realize se 10000 but the aggregate footed
about $4,000 about twenty five years old BROUGHT
elfSO 1 the balance OF the negroes sod at nearly the
same ratio. Frederick Herald, Jan o.
BEATIsG A NEGRo.-Benjsmin Tyler was up before the
Jcner charging him with beating Watson, her slave
the 9TH instant without provocstion. She knew Watson
to be one Of the best OF servants and thought her property
ought 10 be protected The Mayor said the beating unless
II ives cruel and unprovoked not such oense ~
he could take cogniEOnce Of and discharged Tyler:
eiehnosd Nail
A HARD CAsE-A slave named Lewis Was taken be
fore the Recorder yesterday, who stated that he bad
away from bis master the opposite eide OF he river be
be found his tuferings too great to eEddre in hi,
- vice His master he said bad tried 70 shoot hi AMI
b beaten him for being able do mere work thsa
b. able to do The slave had lost one Of his hands
sreshng machine, in Virginia. The Recorder sent b.
The Workhonse and promised to give his master "a
when he shs call fer him. IN o. Bullstin Of Dec p
Nine fugitive slaves from Virginia. arrived al Roche
n. last week, via the Underground Railroad"
ar SALE Of NEGROES-The subscriber
vs. IN f,r cash 70 the hishsst bidder C5Vndon
y TUESDAY The sls, d. o. y,ag,ry isa a, he segoe
re sfont any number consisting Of Asn Women,
roash cs,ysrgr --EA sRowN, lAss stsrf S<ssr.