Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-03-19


/. Rsgassitiosr ~ Keafncky-Bad Faith Of
Games Percy on tie Sasakea Boat
In another column are the detailed accounts
OF the sinking of the steamer Henry Lewis
Among those rho we're on her we're the slave !
woman Peggy $50 well known in this city from
the fact that she killed one of her chiidrenl with
her babe, and at least four other slaves OF Mr.
Gaines. Hwas understood, it viii be remeiu- ,
bered tha. Peggy was held subject to requisition
in Frankfort The Kentucky papers gave as this
information Gaines gave them their cue
But on Friday. Peggy was sent to Louisville, and
shipped aboard the Henry Lewis, which left that
nor, at four clock in the evening
On Thursday, Joe Cooper 1.-THE veritabe old
Joe, OF Springfield township left sovington for
Frankfort with requisition on Gov. aorehead
for Peggy That such was the fact he endcavor-
ed to keep private. but limitations of it leaked
out. and he was Intercepted as he passed thro,
this city an route between the capitals OF ONO
and X ntucky, vet gave no direct answer. 1t is
supposed, however, that Geographic dispatches
were sent to Gaines at Frankfort, telling him that
the reauisition had been issued, for when Cooper
was at Frankfort and was talking with the Coy
ernor Gaines started on his way to Louisville |
with his slave. Cooper was very graciously re-
| ceived BY Gov. Morehead, who granted the prop
er writ for surrendering Margaret, but when Joe
proceeded to the jail, armed with the documents,
| to nut his finger on her. she was not there, hav-
| ing been hurried off with four other of Gaines'
negroes to Louisville, to take the first boat for
| the South Cooper wendell his way back to the
Governors Office and stated the case, when the
/ Governor expressed himself warmly indignant at
the conduct of Gaines, saying that that individ.
uai had triHed with him and deceived him, and
| had insulted the dignity OF the commonwealth Oh
Kentucky.
In Justice to Mr.. Gaines, we must state that he
u saws that having kept the woman in Jail six days,
awaiting a requisiton, he concluded that none
would be issued, and sent her OH South. IN
| Justice to ourselves, we must say that we don't
| believe a word of this story. On the train OF
cars for Frankfort which conveyed Cooper were
four slaves of Gaines, being sent South. they
had attempted to escape after the fight OF Mar
garet and the others, but had been overtaken
on the Kentucky side. One of them was.a very
likely and rather pretty mulatto girl, which our
informant said Cooper had great notion to buy,
to save her from the Southern excursion to
which she was destined. These negroes were in
charge of Marshal Butts Of Covington, who did
not permit them to larry at Frankfort, but put
them on to the first train for Louisville, and with
/. them Margaret. So that it appears Cooper ar
rived in Frankfort before Margaret was taken
away. After Coopers interview with the Gov
ernor he took the first train to Louisville and
reached that town two hours after the Henry
Lewis had started. He next took the mail boat
Telegraph for this city, where he arrived yester-
day morning. This narrative is not direct from
| Mr.. Cooper for whom we sought in vain yester-
day, but from an intelligent person with whom
he conversed when on the Telegraph. mere
NAV therefore, be trifing inaccuracies, but we
) are sure this statement is substantially cor
rect.
/, When the accident occurred to the Henry
Lewis, the negroes were in the nursery las a
place betweed the cabin and Storage in the stern
of the boat is called ironed by couples. After
the disaster they were heard calling for help and
TO be relieved Of their handouts. Some one
; happened to be on hand to save thcm Margar'
ct had her chd-the infant that she hit on the
/. head with the shovel wien arrested herein her
!. arms, but by the shock of the boat that came to
;, the assistance of the Lewis las one story goes
= she was thrown into the river with her child
s and q white woman who was one of the stceragt
G passengers, and was standing by her at the mo
4 lnent. .'' -
This woman and the child were drowned, bu
: a black man, the cook the Lewis sprang
into the river and saved Margaret, who it Is salt
o displayed frantic JOY when told that her cmi,
! was drowned, and said she would never reacl
alive Gaines Landing in Arkansas, the point to-
{ which she was shipped, thus intimating desire
If to drown herself. Another report is that a
e soon as she had an opportunity she threw he
% child into the river and jumped after it. Still an
other story has it that she tried to jump upol
4 the boat along SIDE but fell short. 1t Is onl
1t certain that she was in the river with her child
rs and that it was drowned while she was saved b.
ar the prompt energy of the cook. We are told b.
one of the officers of the boat that Peggy wa
. the only female among the slaves. tisp robabl
therefore that the story about the good-lookln
rn mulatto girl, who was being sent South, and al
= tracted attention and sympathy is romance
Oh The last that was seen ofPeggy, she was on tn
re Hungarian. crouching like wild animal, nea
in the stove with blanket wrapped around he'
of Our readers will we presume, be struck with tn
: dramatic feature of the Fugitive Slave Case, an
- that it progresses like plot wrought by som
master of tragedy. First there was the night
is the crossing of the frozen river in the twIIgf
of of morning the place of fancied security, tn
surprise by the officers the fight with them, tn
:" murder of the child the arrest the scenes abou
rr the court room and in the Jail, the long SUI
d., pense, the return to Kentucky, the removal
I'd Frankfort, the separation there the approach {
-. the messenger with the requsition for Pegg.
e her removal to Louisville the pursuit of the me
nd senger tie boat on which she was to have bee
he taken South leaving two hours ahead OF Coope
of with the writ from Governor Morehead-the
:. | the speedy catastrophe to the steamer, tn
III drowning of the babe Of the heroine, and he
III own rescue as if yet saved for some more feari
Ter and startling act of the tragedy and lastly tt
M curtain falls, leaving her wet and dismal, on
-, boat bound South, perfectly careless as to HI
''u own fate, only determined never to set her fo
Oh the soil Of Arkansas. There is somethir
fearfully tragic about this, which must occur
every mind, and we shall look with much int
est for information of the catastrophe which W
% complete the dramatic unity of the affair.
And here an incident, related to us as occu
ring during the awful moments when the Hem
Wis Lewis was sinking and breaking, suggests itse
A. %kn,N tfn hut So
~ telling anyhow Marshal Butts, Of Covingto
asst who had charge of the negroes, is said to ha
ar been inflated somewhat with the Importance
his position, and talked of his charge as his nj
gers and displayed an immense amount OF C,
est lery and fireayls with which he expressed hi
ing self resolved to slaughter whole armies OF Alb
ev- litonists. And it happened that he exchang
erh some sharp words with q gentleman on t
eir steamer about the Fugitive Slave case, etc:
ant When the accident occurred he was In his roo
ers and one the tables rolling against his door
inu could not get out, and yelled tremendously
ing assistance Some persons heard him, and we
ny to work cutting hole through the root to
OF him out The most active of those SO epgag
her was the man with whom he had the quarrel.
IN When hole was made large enough to let t
eat rescuer and the prisoners communicate with Gu
me other, but not sufficient to crawl through, t
on man learned for the first time whom he was
pas boring to save, and called out-'Hallo, Butts,
nj this YOU? D-n you, if I'd known that, y
OK might have drowned And tafter moments
he feetion) you shall anyhowif you wont give yo
ere word to let these niggers 60. There was
nd ii, ne to be lost, and Butts fearing that he mig
of be left to perish, said-'To tell you the trr
Ike, now. 1 don't own the niggers. II did "a
ces 'em 60. I'm only the agent, Well, said al,
oat man no, ding the axe Of deliyerance or dea
av- take the irons Of them anyhow That Blu
ere agreed to do, and the opening being enlarg
/. he crawled out, ard began to inquire with so
,as- anxiety, Where's them d-n nggers? and v
I'D much grasihed when he found that only The
-ge / by was lost. t b9.5te Egd
,ur An IMMENSE FISH SroRf.-The National
ne ,e, .neer, publishes under the head Of "Patt
l .s nsiea Natural Agricuiture-,Fishe
- the follow ing story: ,.c.
- :. .tconnacae. I with this subject-somewhat
i, motelv it NAV be-is the experience OF Mr. :;
I'M l. Peil, of Pellha n farm, near saassruss,
! t .,,,H'.,. Ii has sold as the product