Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-04-17
[conespOndence Of the Ny. po..l

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GREAT EMIGRATION 10 Kansas. VEN
WORTH, Kansas, March 30, Emigration
TO Kansas and Nebraska has now set in with
wonderful yigor, and such force as none have
ever anticipated. Every train from Boston and
New York to St Louis rs crowded to- excess
! More boats arc running on the Missouri fifer
than ever before, yet all are crowded. have
NesN Nearly a>wSeS on the river, and have slept
on the cabin floor every night with some hun
dred other bed, or rather hOor-fello being un-
/ able to get a state room. 1t is estimated that
seven thousand Kansas ctnigTants have landed
at Kansas City since the opening of navigation,
and thousands more have gone on to IYyan-.
dOtte, Quindara, Leavenworth, &c. The arri-
! yals here will average about two hundred per
day since the opening of navigation, and proba-
! bly, more thansfour hundred per day for this
! week. And still they come. A single party of
thousand persons was expected in ST. Louis
/ last Tuesday. If the present ratio continues
/ for three or four months, Kansas win close the
/ year l S57 with q population of nearly two hun
! dred thousand.
The character Of these emigrants is generally
good. A large majority are farmers and me-
/ chanics, who come to settle, and who will make
cheerful and attractive homes AT least nine
/ tenths of this seasons emigration is from the
free states; New York taking the lead, and Ohio
coming next 1t is mostly composed of young
men, many of whom are married, and their
wives join them with tho same spirit of deter
mination and courage that aided the early
settlers of the wealthy East toreduce their will
derness to garden of luxury and refinement
/ they come expecting to endure many priva-
| tons, and with their stout hearts and cheerful
spirits, their hardships, though they exceed ex-
! Pectation, will be overcome, and Kansas will
soon Join her sister states second to none in the
/ Intelligence, virtue and energy of her people
Thus shall the dark days of her early history
be prelude to a joyful future.
About half the etnigrants to Kansas territory
leave tue river at Kansas City, and the remain
der go to QuindarO and LeaYenworth. Nearly
j all are now pushing back to the interior, and
the valley of the Kansas seems to be the great
i attraction, and Lawrence their depot The
! roads from Kansas City, .Quindaro and Leaven-
| worth, to Lawrence, look like road leading in
4 to country town on Fourth of July or gene
raj training day. There is constant success
sion of travellers on foot and in vehicles Of all
descriptions from the stagccoach to the ox-cart.
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a BoSToN NEGRO ToRruRED TO DRATu or
Board 4 BRITrsn YEsssL.-A sea captain, nam
ed Hugh Orr, has lately been on trial at Exeter,
England, for the murder of Edward Deyoe An
English paper says =
A case of such fearful cruelty and atrocity, as
detailed in the opening of the case, was, per-
haps, mover heard. The prisoner, fine look-
/ ing man, was the captain of a vessel called the
Hannah Jane, of about120 tons burthen The
deceased was a black man, a native of Boston,
about 80 years of age, and was engaged as cook
in the ship The crew of the ship consisted of
the captain, six men and boy. In February,
4 1856, the vessel sailed from London to Newcas-
tie for cargo of Goals, and then proceedto SEN
| egal, then to Cape Verde Islands, to Rio Grande
and then back to England. While they were in
the Senegal river the captain commenced n SER
les of notwithstanding and tiogging the cook
day by day for four weeks until becoming wea-
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more mercifulthan his prosecutor, relieved him
from his sutFerings on the 3d.of July. He was
beaten by the captain and mate with ropes,
with broom handles, and with scat, " and when
his back was raw he was scrubbed with brush
The poor fellow used to cry for mercy, and cal
led upon the crew to come and help him, but
the crew dared not interfere. When the vessel
REACHED Rio Grande the crew took occasion to
inform the Consul there of the treatment the
lcook had received, and of his death, but he said
he could not do anything in the matter. The
ship arrived at Plymouth in December, and an
inquiry wos instituted, which ended in the cap
tain being sent to prison for trial.
i One seaman testified-
Il scrubbed the cooks back with sea water and
brush by order of the captain. Once / saw
the captain andnate fog him, andI counted the
lashes. The captain gave him IS, and the mate
1865. The captain beat him with the cat and the
mate with n plated rope with knots in it
When he was dead the body was cut every
where. The mate saw him living on the deck
the night before he died, andkicked him on the
breast with his heavy sea boots, and he struck
him with q large heavy block heard him
moaning after this, but never heard him speak
after that
The jury returned verdict of guilty of man
slaughter, and theprisoncr was sentenced to be
transported for life.
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PEEEUNED BRE4TH-What lady or gentleman would re.
main under the of isareeabe when by use
Ing the BALM or THOUSAND as dentIfrice would