Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-09-03
The CIug. Fever in Charleston.

ers, TO posses and put them to profitable use
A writer in the Charleston Courier, Of August
2sth. urges thst the negroes "are wanted eve
rvwhere-odr planters want them; our me-
chapics " ant them; our railroads want them;
eu,- waste IA nds are in want of them'-and de-
cIares that There is no reason why we should
send them back, but in this, that it has be-
come Agreeable to another section of this Union
+, look with disgust on our institutions, and We
are called UPON to make this sacrifice Of inter
est and humanity to proP;tiate them" This is
no doubt the sshtime6t-Of tss Fri SeirSlina
ehiyalry as 4 whols, and the mOnthspiece Of
s avery wlnds up as followsy al il Il.
When tbeses snegroes gAi be taken from hef
port Of CharIest0n fsteept it tkfto Elkeshem
elsewhere in a slave State), it will be i brand
upon our institutions that shoald FIRE the heart
Of every nithaE loves his eohntry. 1T will be
the declarati 10 to th9aaoSEd thst this scpnSfsOn
in which eur ioFn negroes 4fzi $50 se$enslye'
to even our own government bat u az stca "a :
bent upon IT - use its-soYereign PeNeF IA fszr'
euing from the Ike condition all who come
within its rehch We may submit to proper
declarations, 10 laws whose practical enforce
ment is not thought to oGf de9Is, but in this at
of reprobatioh there is e tsun dhihst which
every Souihekn man ought to enter has indig-
nant protest.
The ChArieAtOn Mercury, of the sane date,
states that the cargo, generally speaking, fur
nishes good specimens of negroes, and that
speculation as to the zesult of the capture,
the fate of the cargo, and the general bearing Of
the affair, is great No doubt of it, for the
Charleston correspondent of the New York
Herald reports that the ''pUlse Of Charleston is
beating at fever heat"-that the "3e0 coal black
CongOes sre fine, hearty, healthy looking, star
naked neg groes as ever cultivated rice, cotton
or sugar"-that stAey are mostly young, and
only SIXTY women''-that "they are worth prob
ably $500 round''-that ''the Marshal is in the
country, and has dsputed the duties Of his Of
fce to an assistant, who chances to be the Presi-
dent of the Young Mems Christian AssOcia-
ton" How the slaye-hOlding pulse beats in
Charleston may be fully seen in the following
extract from the letter of the Hsrald's cores
POndent; - '.
The slave crew, part of whom were brought
on in the Rcho, the balance by the Cahawba,
Just IN from Key West, were carried to our Dis
trict jail this day, handcuffed. Think of that
Twenty meu carried handcufied through the
streets of q slavehOlding city by the. President
of the Young Mems Christian Association -
And what fori For purchasing negroes in
Africa and bringing them to the New World
For .rescaiIg undying soGls from the night Of
heathen barbarism and Transporting them to the
full blaze Of the Christianity Of the 18th cent1-
~; for redeeming Quashee from life Of indo-
lenee and uselessness, and making him an ae-
tive, energetic unit among philanthropists
The negroes are much Tejoieed at their arri-
val. They are singing songs, dancing, and tes-
tifying in every conceivable manner their at
tainment ofinereased happiness. One of them,
daughter Of chief, and taitOed from her neck
to her launches, has, through an interpreter, a
negro. positively refused 10 go back, and says
her followers VIII not 90 either. In fact, so |
near as can be learned, they are unanimously |
in favor of coming on shore, and most posi-
lively and unmistakabiy refuse to 60 70 sea 1
again. Their music, rude as it is, is gleeful |
and hearty. Public sympathy is in their favor, |
and the determination Is rapidly forming to in |
trOduce them TO the mysteries of the nee and |
cotton field at the earliest practicable moment |
Be sure that no Amistad tom-foolery win be al
lowed in this ease.
servaiism in twain. It is the real, actual re-
opening Of the African Slave trade, whose legal
iZatiOn must soon follow. Emigration TO Charles
ton from the west coast Of Africa viii employ
the vessels of your own and other Northern
cities We viii have our Black Ball, Swallow
Tail and Dramatic lines, and our emigrants will
land at the Mart instead of Castle Garden. For
every hundred negraes introduced, thousand
spindles shall ay in Yani1eem Atrade has
been opened more huElanizing, of greater wealth
and more importance than the alma tkHle If
California and Fraser River. Lieuts. Msffit and
Bradford have done the right thing in. bringing
this brig to Charleston This is the very spot to
give the unfotunates in charge Of the President
Of the Young Mems Christian Association @
iair trial, and to extend a helping hand tn the
iortunates of Congo who will receive the bless
ngs Of the spirit Of the age and scatter the seeds
If bounteols harvest in every Southern State.
ItaPpcars by letter of Lieut. Bradford tdtha
Department, "that the negrSes as soon Is they 7
ound they had new masters, destroyed large !
Quantities of water and provisions for the sake !
# obtaining small quantity of each for their
vn use" And for this the cooped up and
alf starved poor creatures, Lieut.. B. says, :
were restored to Their former r.asters, and !
hey lad 10 resort to the fereesf eTuelty Bstore }
iey could break up these practices If The sLa5ssn
iout- B. further states that twelve of the ne !
roes have died since their capture, the effects .
ute likely ofthc ''hefce cruelty" permitted by '
be officers of the U. S, brig Dolphin. The sui.
.rers were nothing but negroes What right
ave human beings to be black Id
..
Shocking Pittsburgh Railroad Disaster,
A terrible accident eecurred on the Alleghe-
y ALLEY Railroad IA miles above Pittsburgh, Y
t7O'elcek the evening # the Ist A train of p
lree cars was c-ming t the city filed princi- c
ally with TersOns returning firm the Tarentum v
amp Meeting, when the hind car was detach-
By the breaking Of tho ccuphng, and pitched II
own q steep embank,lcnt some twenty feet a
he car, filed with passengers, was smashed G
} fragments, and Miss N A. KinsaiFs J|ugh- O.
Il of Mr. J. I. Kincaid, of Pittsburgh, Is
as instantly killed. Her parents were con- u
derably injured, and 7e;bout stvsnts petppz =
Iere more or less bruised. The GG=eHe says: =
We are Informed that the scene Of the casual =
yas frightful-with the screaming, and moan ] <,
lg of those who were injured, and the ankle "
: Of those who were rot TO find relatives who y,
ere in tbs car-persOns searching for hus- 10
ands and brothers, wives and sisters, fathers er
ri mothers, sons and daughters, and other | .,
ear and dear ones, with whom they had BEEN 81
srSlng IN the cause Of Christ, but a short time