The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-20
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GOLDEN GATE.

A correspondent of the New York
/ Times" writes from Salem that the Col
lector of that port denies that any slavers
are fitting out there, as do the largest Afri-
can firms in the town.
Wendell Phillips has written long and
severe letter to ChiefJustice Shaw and
President Walker, of Harvard, for being
present at the public dinner to Morphy, at
the Revere House, place where liquor is
sold in direct hostility to the law.
A movement is now on foot among the
;oucneymen BARRIERS of this city to secure,
4c. their own benefit, the freedom from
work on Sunday. They contend that the
practice of keeping open in the forenoon
is not only unnecessary, but pecuniarily
Improbable to their employers, and COM
plain that they are deprived of the same
privileges which other men enjoy. 1t is
contemplated to hold public meeting to
consider the subject at no distant day.
We learn from the Duquoin (Ill. y "Jour-
nal" that three slaves escaped from G.
Vaughan, of Ballard county, Ky, on the
night of the 10Th ult., crossed the Ohio
near Caledonia, and proceeded thence to
Carbondale, jackson county, where they
were overtaken by their master. Two
Of them were encountered in the public
square, and were fired on as they attempt
ed to escape. One was shot in the arm,
and the other in the side, and both were
captured. The third man fled from town,
| and hid under haystack near Duquoin,
| belonging to a man named Goodman,
where he was discovered by thelatter mis-
named individual on Sunday morning,
the 24th,) captured, and given up to his
master.
A letter from Rio to the Richmond "Dis-
patch" /" states that a young American, whose
name, we believe, is John Gephart, from
Cumberland, Nd, has been released from
prison, where he was confined for whip
ping a negro who attempted to assassinate
him. The writer says: "Our Consul and
Minister tried for some time to get him out,
but failed, until the railroad company
agreed to deposit 1 300 millreas $3.50 as
bail; and, after an Imprisonment Of six
weeks, he was released, but is compelled
to stay here to await his trial During his
Imprisonment, his uncle came to the city
to assist in getting him out; but, having
failed, the wretched state of mind into
which the occurrence threw him caused i'll
ness, and he died in few days.
A Baltimore journal says that more than
half the free blacks of Maryland reside in
that city, where the returns of the savings
| banks, as well as the condition of the
churches and societies supported by them,
evince their perfect ability to take care of
themselves, when they have an opportuni-
ty for employment and improve it Slave
ry in Maryland exists mainly in the coun-
try, on large farms The towns, including
the large commercial city of Baltimore, are
favorable to freedom.
Professor J. NJ. Ryan lectured at the
colored church in Division avenue, corner
Eleventh street, Williamsburg, last Mon
day night, to a large audience, on the
right of all men to the elective franchise" !"
Rev w j. Hodges, and others, also ad-
dressed the meeting which seemed unani-
nous in the determination to agitate for
the abolition of the colored property quail
ifcation for voting.
A tree pedlar named R. Workman is
advertised in Georgia paper as an Aboli-
ZIONIST, because he is reported to have said
he would give half his income to free ne
groes The public is warned against him.
A correspondent of the New York "Her-
ald," writing from Cuba, says "No doubt
you have heard of the new regulations with
regard to our colored militia 1000 blacks,
or sixteen companies of 125 men each, will
hereafter be drilled as regular army sol
diers, and with the same privileges as
white soldiers.
A gentleman from Alabama, Mr.. James
H. Carney, apweared few days since in
the Superior Court of Cincinnati, with eight
persons Beld by him in bondage, to have
the fact of their manumission duly entered
on theminutes of that court. -Four other
persons, formerly slaves of another slave