Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-03-19
The Fugitiyes-The Reouisition.

Chase had made a requISltlon upon Gov
ernor Morehead Of Kentucky, for the
return of the slave woman who killed
her child within the boundaries Of Ohio,
but who under the decision ofthe United
States District Court, had been reman-
ded back into slavery. The party who
was comm sionedby Gov. Chase proceed
ed to Frankfort, the capital of our neigh
BORN. State, and make the requisition
upon Gov. Morehead, returned to this
city yesterday without having accom-
plished their purpose. They reached
Frankfort on Thursday evening, and had
an interview with Gov. Morehead, and
placed in his hands the Official papers
relating to the case with which they were
entrusted. The Governor told them that
he would examine them and give his an
swer On the morrow. On Friday NOR.
ming he granted the request Of the Ex-
%ecutive of Ohio for the return of the wo-
man. whohad been indicted by the Grand
Jury Of this county for the murder of
her child.
Thus provided the parties proceeded
to Louisville, having ascertained at
Frankfort that she had been taken there
the evening previous, for the purpose of
being transported to Arkansas. She
was accompanied by her other child.
and the slave persons belonging to Mr..
Gaines, who had made their escape and
who were ARE sted and examined in this
city with her. Upon arriving at Louis
vile, very little information could be OBJ
tanned respecting the parties named
it was however. ascertained that they
had been shipped that morning on board
the Henry Lewis, and ticketed through
to GaineSport, Arkansas. She was there,
fore out Of the reach Of the warrant of
Governor Morehead, and could not be
brought back.
And now another act in this strange,
sad and melancholy drama has to be re-
lated. The steamer Henry Lewis, on
board of which these slave persons were
placed, was run into by another steamer
some miles below Louisville, and wreck
ed, and the remaining chilli of this wo-
man was drowned, all the others we be-
licve were saved, and are perhaps by
this time very near their destination,
Gainesport, Arkansas.
We stated several days ago that the
slave woman, who was indicted for muir
der, retained on the estate of Mr.. Gaines
in Kentucky, and that he pledged his
word as a gentleman, that she should
be given up for trial here if the Governor
Of Kentucky acceeded TO the request
ofthe Governor of Ohio. He did sccede
to this request, but before it could be
enforced Mr.. Gaines had placed his slave
woman beyond reach of the legal author.
tiles having the requisi:ion in hand.
We have been told that Mr.. Gaines
had assured Gvovernor Morehead that
he would not send the woman out of the
State, and that she should be given up
if be should so require, and hat Cover
nor Morehead was very much surprised
and chagriEed when he was made ac-
quainted with the fact that she had been
sent off to Arkansas. This is a matter
which Mr.. Gaines, as an honorable man,
is hound to explain.
What course Gov. Chase will now
take we know not, nor can we say wheth-
err it becomes the duty of Gov. Morehead
TO demand her return from the Governor
Of Arkansas, or whether hat duty rests
with Gov. Chase. We firmly believe
that neither of them will finch from exc
cutting his constitutional obligations. 1t
is due the violated avs of the sovereign
State of Ohio that the slave woman who
murdered her child should lie returned
here to take her trial, as the crime was
committed on our soil, and in violence of
our laws.-Cin. Gdzet s.
The Cincinnati Commercial says, that
Margaret displayed frantic Joy when told
her child was drowned, and said she
would never reach Gaines Landing in
Arkansas, (the point to which she
was shipped) alive, intimating a desire
to drown herself. Another report says
that she threw the child into the river
and jumped in herself.
Dufs Mercantile College, Pittsburg-
"Rut the principal attraction of the es-
Enlistment is the comsumate ability
with which the commercial depart
ment has been for many years, conduc-
ted, under the immediate direction Of the
principal. Mr.. Duff has himself former
" oficiaiei in every department of bust
ness, from the bookkeeping up to the
extensive foreign merchant, ship owner,
bank director, DE, and, as it Is observed
by one Of our city merchants, ga man of
such multiplied and varied experience
must know how to direct others what to
learn AID how TO learn it." He not only
unfoldS the abstract science OF accounts,
but his lectures upon every department
Of commerce cast a light oyer all its de-
tails and its intricacies which can be Civ
en- alone by one familiar with its realities.
With this light before him the young
merchant enters into the laboIs and re-
sponsibilities Of his profession with many
valuable practible lessons which he can
obtain from no other source. : Mr..
Duf7s new and excellent treaties upon
merchants accounts, p~ublishedby Messrs.
Harpers, will be priced by every mer-
chant as an indispensable addition to
his library (; and there are but few &C
countants so old or wise as not to draw
valuable information from it.''--HunfS
AereAaAtS' Magazine for February.
College Riots.
At last accounts the Students of Co.
lumbia College, South Carolina. were
armed and equipped with rifles, and
the exercises Of the institution su-
pended.
Yale College, too, has caught the bel