The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-02-01
THE CLEVELAND FUGITIVE SLAVE CASE

THE CLEVELAND FUGITIVE SLAVE CASE
RENDITION OF THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF sENTI-
MENT IN oHIo-YINDICATIoN OF LAW AND JUS
TICE, ETC.
For several weeks past the people of Cleveland,
Ohio, have been kept in state of considerable ex-
element concerning fugitive slave woman, named
Lucy, who had escaped from Virginia and sought
refuge in Cleveland. At the time of her flight the
woman was in the service of Mr.. VIM. S. GOshOrn,
of Wheeling, Va. Soon after her escape Mr.. Cos.
horn received information that the slave had gone
westward, and he therefore started in pursuit. He
arrived in Cleveland the 10th instant, and after
brief search succeeded in finding that she was
employed in the family of L. A. Benton, jeweller,
whose residence is No. Isl Prospect street A
warrant was issued by United States Commissioner
White, and placed in the hands of j. II. Johnson
Deputy United States Marshal, who, assisted by
Deputies Seth A. Abbey, Lambert White and the
owner of the slave, proceeded to the house of Mr..
Benton, on the morning of the 18th Of January,
and made the arrest.
1t was about seven O'Clock that they reached the
house. They proceeded to the back door of the
kitchen, and as they were mounting the steps the
woman Tor whom they were in search parted the
curtains of a window near the door and looked out
As her eyes fell upon her master she gave slight
scream and disappeared. The officers burst the
door open, for it was bolted and followed the wo-
man, who fled into the sleeping apartment of Mr.
and Mrs. Benton, who had not yet arisen. She
locked her arms through the foot of the bedstead
and some little force required to remove her.
After she was placed in a carriage standing at the
door she became quiet and made no further resist
ance. Her greatest fear appeared to be that her
master would sell her "down South" She be-
sought him not to do so, and he assured her he
would not. This Quoted her. She was taken be.
fore United States Commissioner White, who COM
mitted her to Jail to await examination.
Shortly after her arrest Mr.. Benton went to the
house of negro with whom the woman had lived
previously to working for his family (she had lived
with him only about two weeks to inquire about
the woman. Intelligence of her arrest soon spread
among the negroes, and in short time after she
had been lodged in Jail large and excited crowd of
whites and blacks assembled in the neighborhood
of the Jail and remained there discussing the affair
throughout the forenoon. No demonstrations
were made, although the sentiment seemed to pre-
vail among the colored people that the woman
should not be taken back to Virginia. Lucy is
twenty-seven years of age, full-blooded African,
of comely and healthy appearance. She was
placed in the female apartment of the Jail. and
seemed little affected by the reflection that cole
| massa' was likely to 'carry her back to old Vir.
GINA" She was dumb to all questions probably
on the advice Of her counsel.
After Lucy had been safely ensconced in prison,
W lillian Ambush, Esq, made application to
| Judge Tilden for a writ of habeos corpus. The
| Judge granted the writ, and the woman was
brought before him on Saturday, the 10th instant
| the same day on which she was arrested When
the fact became known that Lucy was to be brought
| before the Judge at z. NJ, the crowd, which had
been quite large in the neighborhood of the Court
| House and jail since morning, was considerably in
| creased. The colored females, who formed no in
considerable portion of the crowd, were loud in
their threats and expressed great contempt for the
black "men folks" for their "mastery inactivity -
They would be satisfied with nothing but an instant
attack upon the Jail, and liberation of the fugi.
| tive.
Judge R. P. Spalding appeared in behalf of the
| prisoner.
1t was not deemed prudent to take the woman
from jail, and it was decided that the case should
proceed without her presence.
Judge Tiden, in calling the case, stated that the
matter under consideration was hdbedS corpus,
the proceeding being against the sheriff and jailor
oil Cayuga county, for holding cOlored woman,
name unknown, without legal authority
The investigation resulted in the delivery of the
woman to her master, who took immediate steps
with the aid of the authorities, to convey her back
| to the scenes of her youth.
On the following Thursday, the Slave girl Lucy
| accompanied by armed escort left Cleveland
| for the home of her master in Virginia where she
| arrived about halEpast six O'Clock in the evening
| and was restored to the Goshorn family. There
was great satisfaction on the part of such of the
people as were aware of her arrival at.the result
| the affair, and the escorting party were warmly
| welcomed. The girl was not returned, however
| without running the gauntlet of an attempt at
| rescue, which was planned at Lima, village oil
| about one thousand inhabitants, near Alliance
| where there is no telegraph station and but few
| people could be assembled to repeI an attack
| Negroes and abolitionists from all quarters were
THE New STEAMBOAT WHEEL.-AtlO% O'Clock yes.
terday morning party of forty or fifty gentlemen
| interested in steamboats, made an excursion upon
| the steamboat Anna, from the foot of Robinson
street up the East River, six miles beyond He'll.
Gate, for the purpose of witnessing the operation
OF a new steamboat wheel, the invention of Mr.. B.
| Densmore. Among those on board were Captain
John Tallman, Mr.. Van Santvord, of the Sviftsure
| line; Capt. Frank Quintard, Capt Foster of the
| Alice Price, and others. The working of the new
wheel gave universal satisfaction. There was a
| great gain in speed and in the steadiness of the
boat while moving through the water. The in
crease OF speed and power is estimated from IS to
50 per cent. The object sought in this invention is
to get rid of the loss Of power in the ordinary
padde-wheel in pressing down on the water as the
buckets enter and in lifting the water up as they
leave it. The wheel is made in the ordinary
| way, except the buckets. Instead of the
buckets being placed against the arms in
| the usual manner, they are set off from the arms
| by means OF series of brackets attached to the
arms and corresponding series of brackets at
taehed to the side of the buckets and these brack
cts connected By hinge joint, so that the buckets
turn on this hinge about onefourth of the reyolu-
ton; that is, each edge of the bucket describes an
arc OF one fourth of circle. The buckets are kept
In position by rod from each bucket to an eccen-
trlc attached to the side of the boat in novel but
simple manner. The buckets on each side of the
wheel horizontal TO the shaft, instead of being in
horizontal position, pitch their outer edges down
ward about forty-ive degrees, then as they reach
the water they are in nearly perpendicular posi-,
ton II the wheel is not working dipped more than
one-third its diameter in the water, at the same
| time having lead enough forward and back not to
carry the water along with them if the wheel is
dipped one-halti its diameter in the water The Anna
is engaged as tow-boat, and her captain saws that
| he can tow much larger number of vessels than
with the old wheel.-Nelo York Tribune, JAM 81.