The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1860-10-10
Niger in the Brush.

! Our usually quiet village was thrown in
10 state OF excited curiosity on Wednes-
day last, by the announcement that fuei-
tive slave was TO be tried before his honor
Judge Sales, on that day.
| A runaway nigger had been captured
so the rumor ran-by two citizens, and
from whose custody said nigeer had been
| taken by writ of Habeas Corpus, at the
instance oftwo or three OF our citizens, and
The matter was TO be judicially investigated.
Great was the desire 10 sac that nigger,
and equally great was the lmpossibil,y of
getting TO see him. Not that people in
general cared anything about that niger,
or any other but under TIE circumstances,
he had already become a Iona real Afri-
can lion, and never since Hannibal came
through town-we don't mean the Cartha-
genian hero, but the big eephanl-but, as
we were saying, never since the classical
9uadruped came to town, has so great
crowd collected, on short notice 10 see any
animal, of any color, and wearing hair,
wool or cotton.
Lawyers paraded The streets with brisker
pace than usual, or stood in earnest consul
tation on the corners and in by places
The town was ransacked for the Dred Scott
decision and Fugitive Slave Law, and we
believe in vain. AT last, the Court conven-
ed, the crowd rushed into the Court House,
the niger was brought in, and modeslly
occupied back seat, as every niger sho ID
when among white folks.
But one thing seemed peculiar; the nig-
ger sat with his hat on. Now we all know
that welI-o.ed ngger will never keep his
hat on in the presence of white folks, but
that nigger did, and hence it was evident
either that he was very impndent nigger,
or-something else, and not exactly famil
character and their duties.
All The while, however, matters were
progressing. An attorney came in with
most impressive calmness and astounding
dignity, and aid huge pile of ponderous
volumes on the table. The opposing attor-
nev, who SAT at the table with his chair tilt
ed back, and his heels at angle of sixty de-
grees from the horizontal, and consequent
ly I5O degrees from the place where they
ought To have been according to Chester
field, thinking it not best for The fun in hand
to be wholly without books, hastily dis
patched an associate to his office after a
few volumes, instructins him to get the big
gest he could find
All things being in readiness, and all
parties nxions, the Judge ordered the trial
10 proceed Observing that the niger still
had his hat on, The court ordered it remov-
ed. All eyes ceutered upon the niger -
The hat was removed, and-a read head
blaZed like a comet in the midst of the
crowd. And then, a shout. and a roar-a
perfect thunderburs: and hurricance Of mer-
rimeht went up from The assembled multi
tude and announced TO the plaintiff in Ha-
beas Corpus and attorney, that they had
been sold
The nigger was sham-a white man,
blaeked for thin purpose, and acting the part
of a fugitive for the purpose of bambooz-
ling couple of Jealous aud Extensively Of
fcious abolitionisis.
We understand the following to be the
origin of the affair:
Some time ago, real nigger ran away
from Missouri, and was captured by two
citizens of this county. After that, several
aboltionists about Decatur City, concocted
a scheme 10 black a white man and send
him through the country, aud thus jecoy
those two who had captured the niger,
into pursuit of him, and then rush upon
them from some convenient ambush, and
thrash them tremendously. But the plan
leaked out. The two intended Aictms
heard of ii, and resolved TO beat their abo-
lition friends at their own concocted sheme.
Accordingly they imrrovised nigger,
ran him down and caught him, had the sat
islaclion OF seeing their abolition friends
take him from them by a writ of Haheas
Corpus, and 90 into court for trial, with The
result above detailed. 1t was one OF the
best jokes of the season.
In half an hour after The trial, one of the
gentlemen who got out the ha5eas corpus
was seen disappearing in the direction of
the big woods, with the speed of a comet
his coat, tail and all, streaming back from
his neck like flag from pole, only The
button at the collar holding il on. Another
was busly preparing affidavits TO prove
that he had not been in town that day.
Aud the third, who had the cost 10 pay,
was speechless with rage, and quite coma
tose when last seen in this fown The niu.
ger speedily disappeared, not in thunder
gust, but in pail of water, aad then all
became quiet as before. And SO ended the
first fugitive slave case ever :ried in Leon
lowa.-Leon Pioneer.
81 HAVE learned the profound TRUTH" says
Alderman Johnson, ssirom eating turtle, that
it shows most depraved taste 10 mock
anything for IFS greenness."