The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-05-02

Particulars.
The telegraph has noticed the arrest O
Nalle. slave Of B. w. Hansboroueh. of Cul
peper county, Va in Troy. N Y, and his res
cue by mob. The negro escaped from vir
ginia in October, 1858, and at the time of his ar
rest was employed as a coachman in Troy. Or
Friday last Henry J. Wall, the agent Of ths
saves owner, arrived in that city with ths
necessary papers for the arrest, which was nc.
complished. The Troy whig says:
determination before Commissioner Beach
was quite brief. The evidence of Averill and
the agent was taken, and the Commissioned
decided to remand NalIe to Virginia. The
the Marshal
by tuis time it was o'clock, aud the fac
began To be noised abroad that there was a tu
gitlve slave in Mr.. Beach's office corner OF
STATE ana First streets. People in knots Of ten
or twelve collected near the entrance looking
AZ Naiies VINO could be seen at at upper VIM
dow William Henry, a colored man. with
whom n ALE boarded. commenced talking from
| .ne corb-stohe in q loud voice to The crowd
ne uttered such sentences as, "There is a fugi-
| tive slave in that Office-pretty soon you will
see him come forth. He is going to be taken
| down South, and You will all have q chance
to see him. He is to be taken to the depot to
60 to Virginia by the first train. Keep watch
! u those stairs and you will have sight" A
| number OF women kept shouting, crying, and
| assembled.
SUN the crowd grew in numbers Wagons
| matted In front OF the locality, and were soon
| piieo with spectators. An alarm of fire was
| sounded, and hose carriages dashed through
| tne ranks OF men, women aud boys; but they
| closed again. and kept looking with exDectant
| eyes AZ the window where the negro was yisi-
| o'e. Meanwhiie angry discussions commenced
| some persons agltated a rescue and others IA
vored law and order. Mr. Brockway, law
yer, had his coat torn for expressing his sem
timents, aud other msiees kept the interest
| alive.
All at once there was a wild hulloa. and
| every Eye was turned up to see the legs and
| part OF the body of the prisoner protruding
| from the second-story window, at which he
| was enueavoring to escape Then arose such
snout; " Drop down !''"Catch him - "Hur-
| ran y But the attempt was Il fruitless one
Tor somebody in the Office pulled Na,le hack
| again, amid the shouts of a hundred pair of
| lungs. The crowd at this time numbered
nearly thousand persons. Many of them
were plack ana good share We're of the fe.
male sex. They blocked up State street from
fl[st street to the alley, and kept snrging to
and fro. w
Martin I. Townsend, ESQ. who acted as
counsel for the fugitive, did not arrive in the
commissioners office until decision had been
rendered. He Immediately went before Judge
Gould, OF the Supreme Court, and procured q
writ OF habeas corpus in the usual form re.
turning Immediately. This was given to
Deputy Sheriff Nathaniel Upham, who at
once proceeded to Commissioner Baach's of.
fce and served it on Holmes. Very injudi-
clously the officers proceeded directly to u jge
Gould's office, although it was evident they
would nave 10 pass through an excited, unrea.
soning crowd. AS soon as the officers nd their
prisoner emerged from the door, an old negro.
VINO mad been standing at the bottom of the
stairs shouted: Here they come" and the
crowd made terrific rush at the party
FROM the Office OF Commissioner Beach,
IN tne mutual Building, to that of Judge
Gould in Congress street. is less than 1wo
blccks, but it was made n regular battlefield
The moment the prisoner emerged from the
doorway, IN custody of Deputy Sheriff Up
ham, Chiefof Police Quin, Officer Cleveland
and Deputy Holmes, the crowd made one
grand charge, and those nearest the prisoner
seized him violently, with the inten ton of
puLing MIN away from the officers; but they
were folled, and down First to Congress street
and up the latter in front of Judge Gould's
cham bers, went the surging mass Exactly
what did go on in the crowd it is impossible to
say, but the pulling, hauling mauliup and
shouting gave evidences of frantic efforts on
the part of the rescuers, and a stern resistance
from the conseryators of the law. In front of
Judge Gould's office the combat was at it's
height. No stones or other missiles were
used; the battle WAS fist to fist. We believe
an order was given to take the prisoner to the
courthouse, but the crowd carried the pris-
omer QUE, tue , other way, and there was grand
rush towards the west, past First and River
streets, As far AS Dock street All this time
there was continu nual melee. MANY of the OF.
hcefs We're hurt-among them Mr.. Upham,
1ks
Ing Nalle before Judge Gould in accordance
with the writ of ha beas corpus. A numbe in
the crowd We're more or less hurt, and it is a
wonder mat these were not badly injured, as
pistols were drawn and chisels used
The battle had ragged as far Us the corner of
DOCK ana congress streets, and the victory re.
manned with the rescners at last. The officers
were completely worn out with their eyer
tIons, and 1t was impossible to continue their
hold upon him any longer. NalIe was at lib
cry. MS friends rushed him down Dock
street to the lower ferry, where there was
SKIN lying ready to start. The fugitive was
put II, the ferryman rowvd OFF, aud amid the
shouts Of hundreds who lined the bank of the
river Naiie was carried into Albany county |
AS the skill landed in West Troy a negro
sympathiZer Waded up to the waist and pulled |
Nalie out of the boat. He went up the hill |
alone, however, and there who should he meet
put Constable Becker The latter Official see. |
lug Il man win manacleS on, cOns sdered it his |
duty to arrest him. He did so, and took him |,
IN wagon to the Office Of Justice Stewart, on |
the second floor OF the corner building near |
the ferry. The Justice was absent
When the crowd on the Troy bank had seen |
Nalie safely landed, 1t was suggested that he |
might be recaptured. Then there was another
fush made for the steam terry boat, which car
rled over about four hundred persons and |
left as many moTe-a feWof the latter being
soused in ihar efforts to get on the boat On
landing in West Troy, there, sure enough. was |
the prisoner locked up in a strong office, pro- !
tected by Officers Becker Brown and Morri. |
son, and the door barricaded
Not moment was lost. Up stairs went |
score or more of men-the rest "piling in'
paomiscuonsiy, shouting and execrating the |
officers. Soon stone flew against the door
then another-and bang, bang went off a cou.
pie OF pistols, but the officers who fired them
LOOK good care to aim pretty high. The as. |
sailanfs were forced To retreat for moment |
They've got pistols, said one "Who cares ,,
was the reply they can only kill a dozen of
us-come on" More stones and more n,stnl
shots epsued At last the door was pulled |
n ~ m.
he was fe.led by a hatehet in the baEds of de-
putty Sheriff Morrison; but the bodv OF the |
iallen man blocked up the door so that il could
not DC smut and friend of the prisoner pulled
nlm out. Poor fellow, he might well say.
save me from my friends" Amid the pulling
and hauling the iron had cut his arms. which
were bleeding profuseiy, and he could hardly |
walk owing to fatigue.
PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY-The
session OF the Princeton Theological Semina- |
ry, closed S on Tuesday The graduating class |
D. ID resigned his Office as Secretary of the |
Board. which he has held for IS years The |
Rev. Or. j. L. Janeway was elected in his |
place. The Directors recommended the ap. |
polntment of the Rev. DIR. Dabney. Of Va.
aud Rev. Q. Wistar Hodge, son Of the Rev. DR.. |
Hodge, to Professorships in the Seminary. by |
supplying the chair of the late Prof. A. Alex |
ander, and also creating new Professorship. |
The Rev. DIR. Atwater was elected Trustee. to |
MI the place Of DIR. Cooley, deceased. Ii is |
understood that the Rev. Henry q. Alexander |
declines the associate Professorship In the Col
lege, which was rendered to him recently
D1ArH or THE Last AcroR IN TRAGEDY.
"Mlss Saline Mercer" the last survivor Of the |
actors In the Heherton tragedy in Philadel-
pnla some y years ago. In which her se- |
ducer was shot BY her brother, died in that |
city Saturday, aged 30 years. She was
married after the tragedy to Mr. Harry |
Knapp. but was divorced recently and |
again married to DIR. McCauley OF New