The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-10-31
A Deserter From the Yankee Fleet.

A Deserter From the Yankee Fleet.
The Charleston Courier of the Goth
says, deserter from the Yankee fleet
was brought TO the city Saturday after
noon in charge of an officer from Camp
Stone. lie gavo his name as Alexander
RUSSELL and says he is from Nova Scotia.
He deserted last Thursday morning from
the Isaac p. Smith, Capt. Dennison, on
which he was engaged as a seaman, and
at the time of his desertion was lying in
side of Stoho bar. On Thursday he was
sent ashore with nine others to kill
COW on one of the small islands, and talk
ing advantage of the occasion, made
some excuse to the rest to 60 short dis
lance, when he came and delivered MINI
self up to our pickets.
At the time he left there were four YES
sells lying outside the bar off Stone, be-
sides the Isaac P. Smith, inside the bar.
He knew the names of only two of those
outside-the Marblehead and the Wine
Harbor. Before he left he was acting as
Assistant Quartermaster, and overheard
q conversation between Capt. Dennison
| and another officer on the poop deck of
his vessel, in which one of the officers
stated that an attack on Charleston would
be made on the arrival of two iron. clads,
and some additional vessels with an ex-
pected reinforcement to the land forces
of some seventeen thousand men. They
expected to make the attack by land and
water between the LIST and 10th of No
vember. Their light draught gunboats
were to run up the Stono, shell the woods
and attack the batteries along the banks,
while the ron-clads were to come up and
attack Fort Sumter and the city
The officers on board, he says, did not
appear to be at all sanguine of success
Should the effort fail. it was thought by
them that the reaction in New York
would be so overwhelming as to lead to
an almost unanimous demand for peace.
The Richmond Negro Market.
The Enquirer of the 18th inst. has the
following:
The market for the sale of slaves has,
within the pnst week, been subjected to
a decided depression, and the prices will
continue downward, doubtless, for some
time. Bidders are few and the market is
stocked-overstocked we might more
properly say-owing to the large num-
beers of slaves brought from the upper
counties of Virginia. Parties having
slaves in such localities, and wishing to
obtain high prices for them, would do
better to take them farther South, for the
present, at least. Field hands now COM
mand, in Richmond, more than any 9th.
er classes OF negroes, except mechanics,
proven of a good stamp A carpenter OF
smith will bring from 81 800 to $4,000
Field hands command from 81 300 to 81,
$50. Ordinary drivers. walters, &C., 81,
300 and $3.50. Boys from fourteen to
sixteen and women, generally the same
There is but slight variation in the differ
ent grades of ordinary servants, and the
above indicates with tolerable accuracy
the present prices for male and female
young and middle aged, sound negroes
Children are usually sold with their moth
} ers and when so disposed of, bring more
than they would otherwise The prices
a week hence will, in all probability, be
still lower.
ssS' Ex-President Fillmore is exten
sively circulating, under his own frank
pamphlet copy of the opinion of Judg
Hall. of the U. s. District Court for tn
Northern district of New York in the ia
nous Buffalo habeas corpus case. wherein
, was involved the question of the legalit
of arbitrary arrest by order of the Wa
Department, and of the suspension of tn