Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-12-21
From the Savannah (Ga.) Republican Dec Is,
THE SLAVES LANDED IN GEORGIA.

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The rumor which we announced in the Re-
publican of Saturday, relative to the landing
of a cargo Of Africans on the coast or islands
near Brunswick, we regret to learn is borne
out by many circumstances, which, though
not strictly legal proof, are sufficient to carry
conviction to any mind that this unlawful deed
has been perpetrated. The landing Of the
Africans was the absorbing subject of CONVEX
sation on Saturday, the paragraph in the Re-
publican being the first ntimatiOn that our
citizens had Of the occurrence; and all sorts
of rumors were afOat, as to who were inter-
ested, how it was done, what were the profits,
and hundred other things, which nothing but
rumor could originate. The report Of the
landing having come to the ears of Joseph
Ganahl, ESQ., District Attorney who being
already cOgnizant of the fact that there were
some suspicious characters in town, made fur
ther investigation, and found that three persons
had arrived in the Florida boat on Wednesday
last, in an apparently destitute condition. and
had stopped at the City Hotel, where they had
kept quiet, under plea of being indisposed,
until Saturday, when, to prepare, it is suppos-
ed, for leaving in the New York steamship,
they visited the clothing establishment of Mr.
VIM. OPrice, and spent some 5000 for cloth
ing. This fact directed the suspicious of Dis
trict Attorney Ganahl towards them, and he
ASAA val ldillCu Ill RblllR DGlOTS OuQGG NlcIOlS,
OF the United States District Court, and tax
ing the necessary oath for their arrest Their
names, as registered at the City Hotel, are
Juan st. Rajesta, n. A. Brown, and Miguel
Aguirvi, all mailing from New Orleans. The
last name was first registered Miguel Raires
but Rajres was afterwards scratched out by
running pen through it, and Aguirvi written
after it. Upon their arrest, Mr.. Brown, an
American, appeared as spokesman; the other
two apparently were Spaniards, and could
neither speak nor understand English. Mr..
Brown, upon being addressed as captain, re-
piled that he was not a captain, was in a strange
place, where so far from having friends, he
really had no acquaintance. AS soon as it
was reported around that the arrest had been
made, Mr.. Ganahl was approached to know
what bail was necessary, to which he replied
that it was not a bailable case, as the arrest
was piracy. They were put in Jail, and we
understand are provided with everything of
the best. Mr.. Ganahl assisted by U. s. Mar
shall ID. II. Stewart, is using every exertion
to obtain all the evidence bearing on the case,
and for this purpose has sent to Brunswick to
elicit information correct about the transaction
in time for examination, which will probably
be on Thursday next. We feel assured that
Mr.. Ganahl will do all in his power to have
justice melted out; and if upon trial they are
found guilty, such an example will be made of
them as will put a stop to the slave trade, at
least in this district
A tug was dispatched to Brunswick, to tow
the Wanderer to Savannah, but we learn that
the shipmaster who had been left alone on
board, and III charge, refused to give her up
acting, it is supposed under the advice of the
citizens of that place. We hear that the Col.
lectOr Of the port of Darien, who has been on
board the Wanderer, says that she has no ap-
pearance of ever having had slaves in her.
What was done with the negroes seems to be
as important question as any of the forego-
ing, and rumOr has been quite as busy with it.
They were landed, we hear, on Jekyl Island,
for which privilege, it is said, the negro traders
paid $1,000, and that steamboat from this
city went down and brought one hundred and
fifty of them past Savannah and up the river
to plantation, from whence they were scatter
ed over the country. 1t is said the cargo con-
sisted of three hundred and fifty, but it is diff
hcult to believe so small vessel could hold so
many.
1t will be recollected that this yacht was ar
rested last Summer near York. on suspicion of
being fitted out for the slave trade, but there
was not sufficient evidence to convict her, and
she was released Capt. Corrie of South Car
DINA was then In command, as he is now, and
stated that he had bought her for a pleasure
yacht, which was borne out by her elegant APP
pointments and small tonnage
After being released at New York, she clear
ed for Trinidad, and thence to ST. Helena. from
whence she now halls, and accounts for being
without regular papers now, by stating that
this Government had no Consul there, and she
could not obtain any. Capt. Corrie had papers
purporting to be from the native officials at St.
Helena, but they lack the necessary seals.
1t is with much regret that we are compelled
to believe that this act has been perpetrated on
Georgia soil 1t has been our pride to know
that while the fanatics of the North were vio-
lent in their denunciations of our peculiar in
situations, and our sister States of the South
were trying to lead us into favoring the ex-
IRENE issues of the day, that Georgia stood
firm in her conservative principles but we
cannot now call upon other States to do as we
do, for we have broken the laws of our own
land and the laws of other nations. We do
not utter these sentiments in the expectation
that anybody's mind will be changed by them,
because no one has ever entered the slave trade
to establish principle but purely for the mon
ey that can be made at it. The deed has been
committed, and while but few are interested,
the community will be visited by the odium
that such a transaction will be sure to create