Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1858-09-11

thirtyhvc years of age and there we're
evidently several births cn this voyage ~
More than sevcn.t tiehth,of the slaves, male
and feeale we're 81 nude state. They
we're conhned to The deck ID a sitting pos.
ture Spoon fashion, nj as We learn
from Dr.. J. NJ Browne Of the Dolphin
presented a most disgusting, slckening and
rcyloting appearance. Many had the lcp
rosy. others with their eyes obtruding from
the socket, others with horrible sores and
almost all conceivable ailments, consequent
TO their position IN confinement and treat.
ment on board. 0riginalls, there were
$50 taken on board, Of which number lao
had died.
Among the incidents Of the capture,
We learn that the night before that event,
the vessel being within about eighty miles
Of the port Of destination, grand cham.
pague "blow out was had ON board in nm
licipatiou Of soon successfully completing
the voyage and lingering the procccds--of
which we were informed each Of the crew
was to received 5000, and the owners ex-
pcctcd to clear $3.50, O00--but before they
had time to sleep of the effects Of their
potations. the Dolphin hove in sight at
DAYLIGHT, much TO their surprise and cha
grin. Also during the chase, When it was
thought by the slavers that there vessel
was distancing the Dolphin they again in.
dulged in champagne, drinking confusion
to the pursuers, leaung over the rail and
bowing and tossing of a bumper in the
most improved and don't YOU wish you
canld catch MS" style But when the last
shot was fred, going between her masts,
their self assurance and hopes of escape
turned TO fear and excitement and after
the capture they expressed great astonish-
meut as to the accuracy of the shot, and
asked what kind of gun sent ball that
distance
The slave slip sailed from New Orleans
on the 9th of March last with captain,
two mates, eight seamen, cook, steward
and one passenger. On the 9th Of July
she shipped 455 slaves at Kabenda. Oh the
west coast of Africa, not far from the Con
go river. She was ~ days reaching the
coast of Cuba. No papers were found on
board but a signal of black cross on a
white ground, which was used to notify the
party on shore. The crew, nineteen in
number, professed to be all passengers,
without captain or officers. The captain
aud crew will be tried for piracy, under
the law of 1919, at Columbia, s. c., on
the fourth Monday in November.
The government declares that it shall
send the negroes back to Africa, and the
attorney general has been requested to say
what evidence is necessary in order to
justify the president in sending them back.
The Charleston Courier continues to argue
earnestly that the negroes are wanted in
this country, and that it will be both just
and merciful to make slaves Of them -
"Why should we send them back /? Do
We not want them They are wanted
eyerywhere-our planters want them our
mechanics want them our railroads want
them our waste lands are in want Of
them. Is it from any sense, among our
selves, of the inhumanity Of rendering
them useful ! We put our soas aud broth
tlO NuQcl l4HShGAo % ltdiH ~ 0dIy uuu 10
it humane to do this, and not humane to
do the same to creatures that arc certainly
as much need in training and instruction
There is no reason why we should send
than back, but in this that it has become
agreeable to another section of the union
to look with disgust on our institutions,
and we are called upon to make this sacri-
fee Of interest and humanity 20 propitiatc
them"
So much sympathy for the poor free ne
groes of the Echo is manifested in South
Carolina, aud so earnest purpose to bless
them with homes on the plantation, that
the attorney general Of that state has
thought it necessary to come out in the
Charleston Mercsry with his official opin-
ion that the Africans are in legal possession
of the United States marshal, and are not
subject to the laws of South Carolina.
ArLAsTIc & GREAT WESTERN R. R.-Tho
telegraph has announced that this road had
succeeded in negotiating three millions Of