New-York daily tribune., 1858-12-04
TIE I,NDERGROUND RAILROAD, SOUTH
nee Of The n. Y. Tribune.

Correspondence Of The N. Y. Tribune
WHEELING, Va, Nov. ~, 1853
The public are frequently informed of travelling on
the Underground Railroads bat these journeys are
always reported as preceding Northward. the trips
III the Southern direction are seldom reported. Some
account of proceed to lay before your readers
About six YEARS ago, tavernkeeper in the City of
Wheeling, Va, had four or five negroes, male and
female, living about his house and working in his sta
bles end kitchen. Only one of them-a blind man
was believed TO be slave; the others were young,
ard were understood to be bound to him, either by the
County Court their former guardians, for term Of
years after which they would be free. One of these
negroes, n boy named Alck, disappeared suddenly.
Various suImises existed about his fate. At length
the fact leaked out that his master had sent him down
the Mississippi River by an agent and sod him into
life Slavery. Legal proct edings were instituted
against the tavern-keeper, which were terminated by
the restoration OF Alck from captivity, and his lib
Grafton fiom further servitude with the tavern
keeper.
Some weeks ago Sheriff execution was laid upon
the property OF the tayerD-keeper at the suit OF
Younger brother. a compromise effected between
the cOntendpg brothers, by which the tavernkeeper
agreed to vacate the premises. Meantime, negro
woman named Mag who worked in the kitheD, about
o5 years OLD, with her two children disappeared mys-
tenUusly What has become of Mag This question
was asked by the neighbors after her departure, but
no satisfactory answer obtained The children Of
white man. Parties who know, state positively that
Mog is not slave, but was bound to tue tavern
keeper for six ars, and that this time has long
pirtd. Ii this be tTue and know no reason doubt
1t, Mag and her children were free. | would also
state that the iayeu-seeper never claimed Mag as a
slave.
A traveller coming up the Ohio River toward Wheel
Ing, has brought some information about Mag. He
states that she decoyed from her home at the in
stance Of her MASTER by the information that sue aud
hc children were about to be sold for debt That if
she would go down TO MouBdsvle twelve miles below
Wheeling ON the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on the
cars, she could escape from thence across the Ohio
River into Ohio, ana get Il good situation. She ac-
coIdinCly fed with ler children, believing she was
escaping from Slavery and her masters whip bv a
ceycry concerted plot Alas, for a negros expecta.
ton Arrived ii Moundsvile, she was attended by her
conductor, snd taken into ferryboat. But the mo-
meut she went OF board she discovered the steamer
WAS bound south. and was made q prisoner with her
children. The boat was oOsed from her moorinrs
and AMID the scream Of Mag, steamed of toward the
SOUTH A. Portsmouth. Ohio. where the boat stopped
for coal, Mag made an abortve effort to e,oape The
conductor claimed ownership, and she was retained in
custody. Onward the boat proceeded and arrived in
Kentucky, whore Mag and her children were trans
erred into hopeless Slavery. II the tavern keepers
wife is now asked, Where is Mag p she answers,
significantly, " In my pocket
l would here ask, If Mag really were q slave why
resort to this un6erhaDd way of disposng OF her l.
is easy TO sel and transport slaves here as il is 10
sell and convey barrel of whiskey. If all things are
hbht, why smSSg.e theHi ihus n. L.