Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-05-09
Capture of an American Slayera>Horri,
BILE Scene on board.

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On the ieth inst, the British brig.of-
war, Arab, spicd a suspicious looking schoon
er off Famouth, Saaaica, The Post says:
She was closely pursued, and the captain, |
sind,ng tnat there WAS no possibility of es.
Gaping from the arab" deserted her, tax.
ing with him in shallop his crew, money.
Ghronometer and other useful articles. The
commander OF She Arab dispatched his gun
boat with | 5 men, under the command of
ms hrst lieutenant with orders for the cap
lure of the shailop. The chase continued
Tor nearly three hours--and a shot having
destroyed the rudder Of the shallop, the
captain, who was owner Of the SLAYER. sur
rendered. Two of his principal slaves, and
an interpreter, were taken FROM the sballop
ard the crew were left in it, to make the
best OF their way to Cuba. Tho first lieut.
enant then boarded the schooner, and
found her filled with young Africans, males
and females, to the number ofa373, no less
than l26 having fallen victims to the hor.
rors of the middle passage during ayovare
OF twenty-uine days, The poor, captives
were in wretched condition-all of them
were naked--and the greater part seemed
to have been half starved. They were pack
ed closely together, aud covered with dirt
and vermin. On the arrival Of The schoon-
er, in st. Arms. Bay, several gentlemen
went on board, and their sympathies were
excited at the misery they Witnessed
Messrs. Bravo & Bro. suggested measures
which werc adopted, and with their usual
liberalty, ordered steer to be Killed, and
soup prepared for the esufferors; other gen
tlemen furnished ground provisions. bread.
,Go aud whle the food was being prepared
the whole of tho human cargo was brought
upon deck, washed, and had blankets given
TO themu until clothing could be procured.
Thirty of them were ina dying state. The
slave schooner has two decks, and between
them the captiyes we're packed in such a
manner that they had scarcely room to
move. During eaeh day of The voyage .hey
sat in a painful posture, eighteen inches
only being allowed for each turn in, ands
in deck-rooin Of thirty feet ia length 800
human beings were slowed away, and.
brought up, in plattoons, once every day,
TO get a small portionof fresh air. The
schooner draws but six feet of water isof
great breadth, and flat bottomed, and was
thus built TO enable berrin case of pursuit,
to run into aport whore there was not much
depth Of water. The interpreter states that
when slaye-trading captains, cannot escape
cruisers, they make their way TO partictI-
la, point Of land on the Cuban eoast--run
the vessels ashore--and leave the slaves to
perish, The place alluded tots surrounded
with rocks--none but fiat botton1ed boats
can getin- and, tho whole of that portion
OF tile coast is blanched with human bones.
The Difficulty between the United States
and Granada Apprehended.
We find in the Baltimore Sun, of Thurs
day, Especial telegraphic despatch of con.
siderable Importance. 1t purports to- give
the propositions made by this Government
to New Granada. with view 10 settle ihe
existing difficulties one declares that New
Granada unqualifedly rejects these propo-
sails, and IN turn mAkes demands for herself.
She claims s 10000 from the United States
for damages done at Panama, To New Gra.
dadian citizens, by Americans on the 18th
April, 1856, and declares that the United
States owe her rerHration for the uncivil
conduct of the formers representative. In
the House of Representatives of New Gran,
ada, motion had been made TO raise $500.
900 for preparation against invasion by the
Americans 49, .,
letter dated at Aspinwal. goth ult.,
says: "Thc alarming aspect Of our rela
tons with New Granada is creating GREAT
excitement. Immediate war with the Uni,
ted States is apprehended. The property
holders of Panama had begun alreadysto,
calculate the chances of loss during the
scenes which may yet transpire before the
settlement of the difficulty. For, some
weeks they have openly declared that no
negotiations could settle The matter-that
there certainly would be rapture. and the
result would bethe temporary posting of
United States troops on the Isthmus.
We give the reported propositions Of our
Government as furnished in the despatch to
the S@n. In the fourth article, something
is undoubtedly omitted. as the sense of the
sentence, as il now stands, is hardly appa-
rent:
First. To constitute the cities Of Panama
and Aspinwall two independent muncipali,
lies and invest them with the powers of
self government, extending over the terrific.
ry ten miles wide on each side of the rail
roGd-perfeet freedom Of the transit route
tie sovereignty not to be changed, and
otber nations TO be invited TO Join in. the
guaraa;y.
Second, 80 cede 10 the United States
Che fMl seVesAigHty Of two small groups of
islands in lie On banana for naval sta
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