Litchfield enquirer., 1859-01-20

swear" Such cynic, rioting over the frail- ties of the best of men, would die of euyy and disappointment, if he could find no blot on his brothers memory. We have sunk low in the social scale, if such men are accepted as lead CTS in reform
 IS The African slaves. recently imported by the Wanderer. are lions wherever they go. An Alabama man, who lot of them in Montgomery. thus describes them
 s' was carried through Browns specula- tor house. so called) on Perry street. In house in the back lot were luddled together Mrty-eight natire (Congo) Africans Don't shudder and say The moral sentiments of Chrstendom condemn the traffic. But it is fact; have seen the Africans And it is a fact--thcy were Africans
 l found them jabbering, in guttural sounds, someth!ng-l could not comprehend what They were nearly all apparently in good health, fat, sleek ahd greasy. In the party were some five or six men, two or three women, four or five girls, and tue rest boys, or what might be called youngsters They were each clad in common Kersey pants and roundabout, over which they wore a heavy blankct Women and all were thus dressed None had shoes for the reason that they could not walk in them in fact, they could scarcely walk at all having been confined and crowded so close on shipboard. .-sl
 Most of them were very pert and lively,
 laughing and talking in their native tongue, and pointing at and jabbering about every thing that particularly attracted their atter- ton. Some of them had very singularIy sha- ped craniums-they almost bnfie description. One nearly square, one had a convex face, and another sort of double coacave, convex head but most of them had good heads, large fat noses, big mouths, front teeth knock ed out, rather small ears, and quite small hands ard feet. Some of them were gcod- looking, but others shockingly ugly some were what might Le vulgarly called puff , or hoge;jawed. noticed one, man, who had very high clcek-bones and several scars on his face, and appeared very intelligent He was big chief no doubt in his own country l was much surprised at one thing they re- peatcd precisely every word said to them. l asked one, Where did you come from 2 and he prepounded the same interrogatory to me, but of course without knowing the meaning |; and in like manner many other things.
 Not being able to walk, they were carried Ill wagon from the railroad depot to Browns 1 and thence by wagon 10 the St. Nicholas. l saw strong old farmers and sober-sided merch- ants gazing at the sable creatures, some of 1 them having no doubt, holy horror at such sight. The negroes were we'll skilled in pan l tomime and some of them gave unmistakahle signs that they wanted something to drink putting both hands to their mouths, and throw ing their heads back. The thirty-eight Afri- cans brought here were tue share, as l learned, in the venture of citizen of New Orleans, and that they cost him, delivered at Savan- nah, $50 each-only $l,9OO for thirty-eght Africans, sound and abe-bodied negroes They were in charge of Mr. Brodnax, who was car rying themto New Orleans. I said the ne- groes were all we'll So they are, as well as could be expected, but, as might be conjee- tured, they were mostly suffering much from disorders incident to acclimaton.
 For some time the Africans could not be
 induced to go on board the boat, and seemed much frightened at the smoke, &c. Doubt
 less they had perfect horror of travelling on the water, after having so recently endured a long and crowded sea voyage. The manner in which they were finally induced to go on is worthy of notice. The mate tried every means to get them on board, but to no effect. Finally, he concerted plan with big, black Alabama negro. He tried to get him on board, but he resolute]y refused, when the mate laid him down on the gangway plank, and hit him four or five substantial icks with his ponderous strap, when the said Alabama negro got up, yelling awfally and went straight on board, beckoning to the Africans to follow. And they did follow, to the amusement, and amid the cheers of the crowd"