Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-10-21
a sLAvE CAgE n LoWEI1.. MAss-An inter.


a SLAVE CASE NJ LOWELL, MAss-An inter-
esting case, involving the ownership,of slave
property, hassbeen pending in Lowell for sever
81 days, and the vox Populi states the facts in
relation thereto: e
Jesse CornWell, arieh planter in Mississippi,
had afavorIte slave named Betsey, whoswas EN-.
ployed In the con6dential relationof house keep
or, and with WHOM he 'cohabitcd. The result
OF this cohabitation was daughter, who is now
"a years old, named Caroline. Cornwell on his
death bed six years since, requested his friend,
DR.. Lewis KeYes, to take charge of his effects
including considerable sum of money and
charged him to take theswoman BetSey and her
child Caroline to a free Stote, and there see
them comfrrtably located. Forsthis special SER
vice keyesSwns directed to take $4,000 cash,
s., 900 of which was to be equally divided be-
tween mother md daughter, aud 81 900 to be
retained for hisioWn services.
Instead of performing faithfully this request,
tits alleged, Reyes, Immediately on the death
OF Cornwell, took the mother and daughter and
hired them outat 800 year for q period of
81 years, when he finally brought them with
him North, arriving in Lowell the latter part
OF May last. They have been there with
I Reyes family, under slrict surveillance since
On Saturday, the eth inst, the mother and
daughter appeared before Isaac g. Morse, Esq,
to whom they made a complaint and told their
| story. Mr.. Morse, in their behalf, instituted q
suit against Keyes for'the recovery of the mon.
ey given by Cornwel, md also for the six year's
labor.
5 Reyes was arrested and held to balm the
sum of $1,000. Hewill be tried in December.
IHesalleges that Cornwell gave him these slaves
to do what he pleased with:
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GoNE UP UNDER TnE HooP.-The West Point
(Ga.) Citizen tells the following of married
man at the commencement exercises OF a GER
tain college in Georgia this summer:
He started up the stairway at a swift pace
notsnoticing any further until he came nearly 70
the top of the steps, when, he says a strange
sensation came over him, and suddenly he found
himself enveloped, in darkness, as though the
lights had been extinguished lie was aston "a
Eished and bewildered. But the mysteryswas
soon explained; and it appeared that lady,
wearing very large hoop, had met him at the
top of the stairs, and was just in the act of de-
scending, when our friend, being small man,
had, With out noticing, actually gone up under
the hoop.
TnE ACADEMY OF Music, New York, was the
scene of great excitement on Monday last. On
that morning the Office was opened for the sale
of tickets to the first performance of Me Pic
coiomini. Long before the doors were opened
the people were in waiting to secure tickets
The seats1were all taken. The receiptsamere
over IS, 900.
TnE CoTToN WANTS OF CuIssA. The London
Economist estimates that with free commercial
intercourse under the late treaty with China, the
four hundred millions of Chinese alone willrre-
quire the whole cotton crop;of the United State,
to supply their wants. To say the least, the
opening of this new market will add greatly to
the cotton power, and add materially to the
value of the cotton lands of the South, and to
the productive labor required toiraise it,
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letter from Havana, says that three or four
days after the late xplosion . dog was obseryI
cd scratching up the earth and whining at a
particular spot; few heavy stones were re-
moved, and beneath! them was found; ALIVE, the
dogs master, carpenter; mis- leg, however,
was shockingl crushed. Five or six days after
the explosion, another man. was taken out of the
ruins alive. 5e24st soolil
QgE of the most promising results, of the re-
cent treaties with China, is. the eagerness which
has been displayed blythe different Christian
sects to avail themselves of the opportunities
afforded by them ofcarryying the light of the
gospehipto the heart Fofthat yastgsmpire! The
ink onsthose instruments was scarcely dry when
vast preparations were everywhere set on4foot
tozrecrnit missionaries for this great work.
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Is ATtthe Agricultural Fair at BrookyilIe, IRdil
ana, tomato plant, thirteen feet high, was ex4
hibited, fromthe first three feet of which, It is
stated, g bushel Of tomatoes had been gathered!
Some plant, that. e.sse -, I,
IS A a recent session Of tho Virginia Supreme
Court, the law taxing hysicians for the priyi4
legeEef practising was declared unconstit utional
"a KICK THAT KILLED BorH YhileeaShoFse
was standing on Old street, near Sycamore, yes
,terday evening, a dog passed underneath him,
and received kick, which oinpletely smashed