New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-26

Benjamin Screws. The individual dong business
in Grayier street, New Orleans. The only trader
heretofore pulled in these columns without bong
distinctly ranked as al advertiser. The man who
d, ale in the cerebrums and the cerebellums, the
,iuIl,, the wiBdPiPes, the chests, the sSdomnal
regions, tie less the heels the great toes and the
little tees Of bis fellow creatures. The man VINO
sends cut a card announcing his large and we'll
selected assortment of human goods. Who has the
warranted &C ok n aids And the blacksmlshs. Ana
the carpenters And the pretty, wasp wasted
brisbt.eyed little yellow women for that msttsr ii
one will but plesse TO call fer then. Everything
choice, Solid muscular fascinating. and even voluP-
tuous, upon the premises of BerJsmn Screws
Twice we have given Mr.. Screws notice. ana eur
readers may we'll b. weary OF him. But we ieei
it TO be our duty to stard BY Screws, asst well
marked biosrsphic phenomenon Of the century.
The great flesh broker is in trouble and az such al
hour i. j. not for THE TRIBUNE to desert him.
He i. at present in q sore state OF htlgaVon'
br uett op by his attempts to furnish the inhaoi-
tsnis Of Louisiana with A No. | houfe-hands aud
field hsres, and to make everything pleasant aud
tdsy lu
Screws is Low in the noble attitude OF plaint'h:
Heretofore we have considered him IS defendant
When last we had occasion to speak well OF nim'
Sc.ews was in that receptacle populr'y and 10
ccmmop psr'auce known as "the Jug" Screws
in bis intense ard unwaverins efforts 70 supply
every body with "feld hands, house servants car
"pen,ers ard blacksn i.hs, had sold the boy Toby
to Col. Hardy. Toby, instead Of being good, pa
tent hard working and generally useful boy mad
the susscity 70 die Of the measles, Toby, before the
uea.!es, and before passing into the brokiog hands
of our friend Screws, wss owned BY one Wnitnel1
of Mississippi. Whitfield sent Toby to Screws TO
be sold, And Screws sold him. Aud Col. HARDY
of "a hat regiment 10 not stately bought him. Aud
Toby suffered himself to be "tOOk" with the
measles, ard died notwithstanding bis benefactor,
B. Screws, esq, had warranted him sound in limb,
wild snd muscle. Actually popped off with the
mea.les Imsgire the anguish of Screws. esq
Imagine the greater anguish Of Col Hardy who
had nothing but cadaver, when be fapcied he had
paid 81, $50 for tiptOp niger lm'gine the still
deeper OF guish of Mr. Whitfield when he heard
that Toby was Dead and that BeDjsmin Screws
would lot, except upon legal compulsiOn, pay him
over the 81 35O-Toby's price. There seems to
have been great deal of distress oil about. Whit
field was distressed for the thirteen hundred and
fifty; Col Hardy was distressed at having Only the
fatal measles when be expected fine field hand;
ard dear Berjamin Screws was distressed because
be had in On unwonted moment compromised his
character as a NEGRO broker" by dispOsing Of o
nesrly African.
Send me my thirteen hundred aud fifty wrote
Whitfield. 81 can't do it," wrote Bepjsmin in
reply. TIDY" he continued, "is dead-of the
"mea,les. / warranted him against the measles
"aId all other cutaneous disorders. He had one Of
"them, however, and his life has paid the penalty
"of bis audacity. Hardy says | must pay him,
card Tot you" Whether or not friend Screws
ended with Cd Toby" we cannot say. Very
likely be has in the most unnecessary manner con-
signed Toby to that fate before this.
We'll, to make long story short Whitfield hay
ing an tsger appetite for bis money Gas who has not
in these daysl, walled Screws, esq to the Gala
booze upon a charge Of embezzlng. The benevo-
lent Screws was actually locked up Aud all becau'e
niger Toby had the measles. The report from
which we copy, that of New Orleans Newspaper,
states that Mr.. Screws was "paraded before the
public urder no very pleasant relations" We
blame nobody. Whitfield wanted the thirteen
hundred and fifty; Hardy wanted the thirteen hun
drtd and fifty; and Of course Benjamin Screws did
not psssioDaeIy desire to pay $4,000, to say moth
ing Of hi. lawful commissions. 1t wasa dead loci.
But we think We have the key to unlock it.
Al 4 Al; ~ Tahufs
winfulne,s in dying Of the measles. He had
grrdee against Whitfield for selling him; against
Screws for brokirg him; against the Colonel for
buying him; so he sup and died. Served him
right. the urgrateful black person! What would
be thought Of an ordinary servant who, in the hight
CT the season, sbonld have the meanness to 60 away
ard catch the measles, and die just to avoid work
ingl
When Screws was haled before the Court, the
Judge said: go, Benjamin thou art innocent"
And be did go, and stirred up bis stock, we sup
pose, in lively manner BY way Of venting his feel.
iDes. But be did not stop with the Aogginys, the
picklipgs, ard the paddliRgs which the Law allows
bin. He had been hurt in bis good name. The
teLderest portions Of his constitution had received
an abrasion. So be brought Whitfield to account
'for falsely ard maliciOuny charging him with en-
bezzement This civil action fer lnciviity 10 stl
pei Ding in ew,Orleans; and We hope to report
that Benjamin Screws has received swins eing
damages
Mary persons have supposed Benz Screws to be
a myth-a fabulous peIsonage-a creation of this
paper. But it becomes more and more certain
hat Screws is q veritable being. We annex his
card spologizipg for not reproducing it in its orgi
cal elesaLcs-an act Of justice which our typical
IIaxa Il Ii nell