New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-21
UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS OFFICE-ACa 20

Before Commissioner STILwELL.
John w. Parker, captain, and james NJ Selby, first
mate Of the alleged SLAYER Thomas Acho, brought up
charged with having about 10Th day of June 1850 vol
unfairly served In the said vessel while benz sF5agea IN ,s
foreign place unknown The AehOn was .ge at hseen
INFO pcrt by United States ship Mystic The prisoners are
Leg Nathaniel Green having sworn testified that the
br Tbomss Ichorn was sent in his charge New York had
been previously seized on the African coast as SLAYER was
Sb had been seized by bis vessel the United States
Myrtle the west coast Of Africa - miles ron he congo
se told the captain he wished to see the ships pa
some papers %es S he found that one Of tie papers
had been signed by Mr. RUSSELL witness supposed that sI
ker of the Achon asked witness he had seen the snip
Falmouth around the COAST the question We; IePes,ed
then handed the papers to Capt. Parker; Capt p then
asked witness H., he BE- aS,e to see tS hold Of tn brig
first the captain and witness then went 20 tire hold together
witness aIte1 b see cs PsrEer then baed down some bar
I of bread til barrel which he opened containing
Do The Ladwsre be wished to see Captain Parker then went
deck followed by witness WHO sgsn asked to see the
hardv of the big after short time pad elapsed osptn
Parker appeared doubtful about which box held the hdwse
Cant Parker then said the box held hardware, and asked
witness If he wished open witness replied that he did not as
he had such Of hardware boe witness then asked
b was In the box set apart nware and after some
hesitation the mate Mr. LIBBY said it contained tin pans
yitb the manifest except that the scaning (sqaaIe
sticks Of me Ss on not bos9 us and e captain the
NJ The CAPTAIN Piled that he passenger. though he
~ not on the paper; went board the Mystic and re-
oed 10 Cant Leroy then given TO allow no com
uncstion between the brig and the shore few moments Her
T eRoy and Lieut. Hudson board Of the brig re-
tuning again the Mystic at about sundown Lieut. hihg
Ne t I'M charge Of the brig next morning at about O'CLOCK
r. et on hoard and that the box OF hardware and
Ae had been open ia the box Of hardware found
t boilers; found also copper po In which SIXTY or esy
o,Ss of nee might be cooked; iheS were put up In pne
box iron bounds the box was abat the man hstsI ~ s
So ound another box containing tnwsre the package was
npbroken and contained eight ten dozen OF au5esi
thew sppeared to be tin pans like those used IN serving
nj opd 10 Messengers vessels aterwsId examined te
cabins found six reyoyeTs, pistols ana Iee OF ,o % a.
tycs Gun and cuas; Of the revolver sewed up In
one of M pssseuges Capt Parker I9oksd 1iItey
at the whites during this portion OF his testimony e ~
ves were out sight; two Of them we're among thS
spuad baggage the baggage OF tine cabin ionnd one
IN uoue, money sewed mp IN susPensAy
and Of the Spaniard had belt CONTAINING money sea- ma
The rons of the captain atewards the money wa,
counted out In presence Of Capt and put up IN Ds @
little hlOOO Caps Lrioy
sd 10 ant Parker the circumstance he would nave
10 send The big TO United States charge OF being en-
psqed In the slave trade Capt Parker made no protest against
spanaIds on board the vessel then landed on the
coast; Capt Parker sold they were passengers ols
hundred ffty dollars were given % all OF then oi
their support shore Capt Parker said he came into Ma
bendA Bay TO land his pafteugeTsi Ne WAS gong IauB
Congo yeT the Achorn had hoist
"a the American flag and the Mystic lying at anchor In
kebendor Bay the Mystc hotsO It's coors when one Of M
boats got alongside Of the Achom the Achon came into the
bay with her nag flying her at distance Of about twes
miles nom the the the Achorn
besides the mate and the spand who the captain said
were psssenge occupied the oreeae there were no accom-
modation Tor the bg the oil casks which ne oun
non bound they differed from the palm oil caak ~ not
being made sop some VI the casks he found would bold o