Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-05-30
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

exc;tament M III. North. where all the news
papers are vebemently protesting against .he
apparently growing favor with wnicn the iaea
is received in the slsveholding section of the
Confaderacy. That il is growing in popular
favor throughout the South is a fact so palpable
as that none may now deny it, as unpalpably
as 1t is, generally. Where one person professed
to favor it year ago at least fifty now avow
approval of it. The failure to convict Captain
Corrie, and the abortive results of the Georgia
trials, and of the efforts Of the authorities to
get possession Of the negroes imported in the
Wanderer, indicate most forcibly that the null
LITIGATION of the law against the commerce is
about to be as universal throughout the South,
as the notification of the law against slave
stealing-the fugitive slave law-has been at
the North. The result bids fair to be the vir-
tual immunity of the trade after the cargo shall
have been landed. We take it for granted
that the Government will strain every nerve to
prevent the landing of such cargoes, and that
its increased efforts to that end will prove of
much avail. Nevertheless, until Congress shall
change its system of legislating for the Navy, so
as to enable the Department to build suitable
vessels to intercept the savers they will fire.
quently make successful voyages, despite all the
Government can do.
1t will be recollected that, through the SYM
patty of the people of Cuba with the trade, the
landing of cargoes Of slaves on that island Is Of
weekly occurrence, though English and Amer
lean men-of-w war guard the west coast of Africa,
while English and Spanish men-of-war almost
surround the island (Cuba,) to intercept them
when about to land.
So soon as it may become an established fact
that the people on the coasts of the Southern
United States will as surely defeat the require
ments of the law in such cases, as those of Cuba
do, quite as much capital will be invested in
the trade as is now invested in the Cuban Afri-
can slave trade; for the risks of the defeat of
the voyages to the Southern United States will
not be greater, if as great as the risks of the
defeat Of the Cuban slave trade voyages
Awopos.-We find floating around,'' let
ter from the L. S. sloop of war Dale, recently
arrived at Boston, which. in shedding some
light upon the now famous voyage of the ia
nous yacht Wanderer, tells the tale of the ne
cessity for the employment of a class of vessels
for the prevention Of the African slave trade.
differing entirely from any now in commission
in the Navy of the United States We extract
from it, as follows:
The Nincennes, from her little Northern cruise
last summer, was ordered 10 st. Paul de Loanda
where she Joined the CumbeTland i'm September
News Of the arrival out of the Yacht Wanderer
and other suspicious vessels having been received
she left OH the 9th Of October. and proceeded to-
wards the Congo, by day keeping close to the
shore, and at night standing far ont to sea- to
avoid those well-hidden dangers which, althou0 b
unmarked upon the chart have a frightful exist
ence in the imagin atiOn of more than one fossil
ferrous commander. On the afternoon Of Tues
day. the 18th, she rounded one of the forest-cIad
headlands south Of the great river a rakish-lCok-
ing fOreand-after was deserted near the head of a
bag beyond immediately this vessel, which had
Perhaps. been lying to, began to crowd all
sail. and long canoe was at the same instant
Seen to leave her and make towards the land
The stranger being soon made out TO be an Amer
lean built schooner of unusual beauty it was not
difficult to guess at her name and an exciting
chase soon commenced. AS the Vincennes was
steering north. with the wind on the port BEAM
the schooner To leave the bay and escape found il
necessary to beat out and cross either her bow or
stern. She succeeded in doing sO.-pasSing ahead
befOre sunset, At rate OF speed which must have
exceeded twelve knots. An old quartermIaster
gave ii rs his opinion that tue "cussed TELLER must
ha' laid within two pints OF the wind and sich
saiin beat old Nick hisself.''
Ii has been suggested that shot from the pur-
might have arrested the pursued in her heatly
flight, but those who have been thus presum pin
have but lightly appreciated the effects of aston
lshnent and deep sense Of responsibility upon
the human mind which have at critical moments
rendered able men incapable of properly estimat-
Ing time and distance. So the Wanderer, for she
1t was, went on her way rejoicing and landed at
last her cargo on our shores. Meanwhile. all on
board Of the Cumberland had paid a pleasant
visit To the cool climate OF Lobto Bay and
having done full and signal justice to the delicious
oysters which there do cOngregate. they returned
north, after cruise along the coast which to them
must have been very fatiguing, for it lasted
almost four weeks,
For the sum which has been wasted in support
ing this large mastery inactivity; during
the Last two years three small steamers could have
been kept constantly cruising. The case of the
Wanderer shows the superiority in point Of speed
OF modern vessel over our antiq men-of war
The Navy Department now sees that no depend
ence can be placed upon them, and it is to be
hoped that they will one and all, be replaced by
ships propelled by steam.