, 1859-06-15

tEr"uthe Meies County 90 Telegraph. Maye}
On Tuesday Inst, our tuwn was thrown into q
most intense stats of excitement by what was
supposed to be yeritAbic "Fngtive Slave
Case"
There has bcen very pretty girl here attend
lns school for tro or three years plst, TO whotn
one Of the F. +. VS. stands in the double rela-
ton OF father and ndstfr. AS tnast<r, lie sent
her here TO 60 TO schuol, aud rs the ackuow
ledgcd fdth1", lie has paid her boarding aud
tuition.
Thc girl is very mich attached to her father,
but from the fact that he is engaged in buying
up slaves in Virginia, and shipping them South,
she hls had tile good senke to refuse to return
70 that State for fear she might share the same
fate. Last winter strong effort was made to
induce her to return to Virginia, and large pro-
misses we're mndc to her By her father, if she
would do SO, but she declined. As a last resort,
her mother was sent oyer TO persuade her to 60,
but she still refused. Her mother, on her re-
turn, WAS shipped south the culore1 people,
and others here. believing that it was the inteu-
tion to ship bots mother and daughter, if the
girl could lare been obtained.
On the day above mentioned, the father, in
company with u very hard looking customer,
both well armed With revolvers. called to see
The girl. She, having full confidence in her fa-
ther, who had always acknowledged and treated
her az his daughter, was not at all nlarmcd-~-ln
faet, it is said she had written to him to send,
come and bring her sone moncy-but some Of
her friends, believing that the design WIS to
NIL other cries, that tue town was instantly
alarmed, and quite crowd was soon congrcGa-
ted TO ascertain the cause Of the ruw. The Tir-
ginians solemnly protested their pacific inten-
1ions-the fathcr protesting that he had come
to visit the girl and pay her bills, without any
had c1nancipated her, md in proof Of this,
showed what puzportcd 10 be deed Of emanci-
patton, which he offered to givc her. The i'll
struult nj, however, on examination, proved to
le Of no yalidisy. This fact tended to increuse
the suspicion. AL things, however, would havc
gone oil smoothly hut for the fury Of one Of tue
negroes. who had private wrong of his own to
avenge.>
1t seems that after the birth Of the girl in
question, her mother, with the consent Of her
master, married tilis excited individual, who, by
his efforts, Lad bought and paid for his own bo-
dy md soul, and had made u payment or two on
his wife, whose freedom he had also purclta ed,
and who was ttr mother Of this girl before lie
purchased aud married her.
Tawney Is his skin is, he seems to have been
somewhat outraged by the sale Of his wife, after
lie had lived with her fourteen wears, and had
partly paid for l,er. lie claimed tlut he lad
utller grievances-that he had detected between
his wife and tic gentleman sundry peccadilloes,
and that accordin. to the luw in the Sickles
meant to do it instanter.
Hereupon the chivalry Of Virginia fouu.l safe
ty in the house Of co!ored man, drawing the
curtains Of the windows to prevent being shot
through them. Here was exhibited some of the
taliest specimens Of humble supplication eycs
before poured forth from the feur-shriyeu soul
Of moral. Gods, men aud negroes were I'M
rlored to saw. him from the wrath Of this furi-
ouB "chattel."
At length, after the crowd had been excess
lively amused, and thu Virginians scared, it was
proposed that boti purties ground their arms
and coulc to n truce. Whereupon the 1irgini-
:1ns surrendered their rcyolvcrs into the hands
Of Esg. Lee, and the t1utkcy his into the hands
Of Sheriff. Smith, and the war ended.
The EirEnians, pale and trembling, with the
awful vision Of the terrible darkcy still haunting
them, mud accompanied by tile Squire" who
was to escort them to ''Old Eirginia's Shore"
und there, in due furn deliver up tue rrvolvers,
reached thu ferry, where SO terribly were they
alarmed that they offered fifty dnllars to tho
ferry1nun If he would land them 81 safely on tic
other side,'' before the darkey could get ut
theul.
We are happy to SLY that the Virginia gen.
tc1nan las since scut to his daughter IL canine
deed of nlanunlission, and she is now free. SLu
is almost pure white, intelligent and beautiful
such an article us would readily sell ut from two
to five thousand dollars in the South, according
to the abundance br scarcity Of that kind of
goods in the market, So that the gentleman
llus, according to tho ethics Of slavery, sacrifice
cd that amount of property.