, 1860-12-13

In Illinois Sheriff Surrender III
Prisoner and Files for His Life.

| From tho New Orleans Delta, 7th,1
i SEB1ECT or MCcM ExClTEMEST-A NEW
| ORLEANS MERCHANT CARRIED Orr Br IN L.
LIMOS SHHR1rE.-Sincc Wednesday, numbe.
the wholesale grocers, have been no little cx-
| cited by IN event which has led to the convey
ing, By gubernatorial requis.ion, of mem
Der OF 4 leading firm, on q civil snir. from this
city to Cairo, l'y The sheriff Of that PLACE. The
| particulars ofthc case have been given Us, but
we forbear thci. publication until the dxnoue-
'n<rf shall hare hcen learned.
i New Orleans merchant has cyidcntlv been
trapped by a willy Illinois sheriff; but il thc
rcscuing parties and thetclcgrarh hare proved
successful, VIC doubt not but VicSsbur. will
have said sheriff in a hot place, and his pri.-
nncr in pleasant one, ere this VI will girc
the particulars in proper time. The case has
Eone very fine points legally, pro and con-, and
We will ycntilatc them and see how the people
Of Illinois regard the question Of the fugitive
slave law in precisely the same regard and
bearing as this case exhibits.
T. $. Since writing the abore, ne learned by
telegraph from Vicksbury that the above
named merchant Is all right, and will ho down
to New Orleans this dny. and the Illinois
sheriff is, like Paady's fortune, 'no whcrcn
From The Delta Of thu sth.]
THAT ILLINOIS SuERlFF AND New ORLEANS
MERc11AST-1t is said that the Illinois sheriff,
when he got to Vicksbnrg with the New Or.
became 80 alarmed, that, like i certain owner
Of celebrated parrot in this city, on one occa-
sion, he did not know which part Of the week
Sunday came in. lie sloped of at c::2I pace.
and the merchant quietly looked on and
laughed, aud Is now on his way 10 this city.
IN FRESHMAN rARRED AND FEA1uEnEn.
(From the y. o. Delta, 6th.1
FEATHER Wig WITH TAR L1~IN0.-I.att
evening Capt. Mazerat, OF the Third District
q ~ cf1rrf +
on board the steamboat Creole, and locked him
up in the Second District Police Station. under
the following circumstances: Our Chief Of
Police; Mr.. John McClelland, had letter sent
dated til inst, stating that the Vigilance Com
1niltee Of Hansboro' had sent him hither, b.
the Creole, u man named Richard Ltssop, who
had been ordered to Leave Mississippi This
Vigilance Committee advised the Clief token
IN eye on Lison. and to have him sent to some
more suitable climate than this. as hc had been
guilty of gross insult to the citizen: Of Hans
toro', and threatened tho lives OF the Vigilance
Committee.
This letter to our Chief Of Police bears no
signature. An important omission, rs, indeed,
is the saine omission OF tho names Of eyerv
Vigilance Committee on the subject, and
should be looked to; for, If Southern man
las anything to be afraid ar ashamed Of In the
object Of properly organized and honest,
working Vigilance Committee, the sooner be
leaves It the better-for It and him.
When the Creole azr: Cd here yesterday
Captain Mazctat waitcd, her Captain, who
had everything in complet4 'er for handing
over Lisson to the antboritic aptain Maza-
rat received Ltssop, who had " mead closely
shaved by the staunct Hansboroeans, thcn
covered with coating Of tar and oznamcnted
with an outside army Of feathers.
Lisson says be deted the Vigilance Commit
tee of Hnn1boro' to touch him, and hence his
treatment Its said be is an 1rishman, but
his appearance indicated rather in fayor Of his
being an Indian Of the Choctaw tribe, Particu- |
aTly s 1s9ther Ted1y he will ara1Sdt oe dss
the Mayor: