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INTERESTING FROM NEW ORLEANS.
Negro Stampede---Deadly Weapons Used--Desperate Conflict Between Policemen and Negroes.
[From the New Orleans Delta, August 5.]
We learn that there was a stampede of one hundred and fifty negroes yesterday form the plantations along the canal below the city.
NEGRO STAMPEDE— We learn from the New Orleans Delta, of the 5th inst., that there was a stampede of one hundred and fifty negroes from the plantation along the coast below the city. On the 4th the Delta says:
From the St. Mary's (Md) Beacon.
WHEN WILL IT TERMINATE.
LETTER FROM AN ARMY CHAPLAIN.
The following is an extracted from the letter of an army chaplain, dated camp near, Russelville, Alabama, August 22, 1862: —
THE CHARACTER OF THE WAR.
Tell us no more that America is without a history on which to rear a national literature or art. In less than two years the nation has made for itself a history, as full of interest, glory and romance as any on record. Now it seems to be reaching a climax, in the proclamation of freedom to the slave. What vista is that might deed destined to open before us? Many argue that the proclamation will be a nullity. But with or without the proclamation, the work of exterminating slavery is already progressing. Here, for instance, is an extract from the Richmond, Va., Dispatch of September r2:
SLAVERY IN MISSOURI. A St. Louis correspondent of the New York Commercial says that negro property is worth so nearly nothing in Missouri that it is said to be nearly impossible to sell a slave anywhere in the country for one-fifth the ordinary price, while every other species of property has increased in value. A Ste. Genevieve paper reports a stampede of negroes from that country. Slaves have long since ceased to be of value in the counties adjoining Kansas. The counties between Kansa City and the towns in Atchison county, on the St. Louis side of the river, are said to be patrolled by the enrolled militia to prevent the escape of slaves from island counties. There were only fourteen hundred slaves in St. Louis two years ago, and the best judges now estimate that there are less than five hundred, and these principally old decripid house servants. One of Gen.
ADDRESS OF HENRY B. BOUTON.
To the Voters of the Sixth Congressional District for the State of Missouri.
FELLOW-CITIZENS: I propose to represent you in the next Congress of the United States. This proposition is offered in some confidence, that my political antecedents, which run through a period of twenty-one years residence in this State; as also the relations I sustain to the present administration, and the dominant party in Congress, may afford me, to some extent, superior facilities for efficient service in that department. In times like these, the Representative should occupy no equivocal position.
EVENING DESPATCHES
Received from 8 P.M. to 11 P.M.
Important from the Potomac
Pleasanton and Burnside Moving.
ACTIVE MOVEMENTS ON FOOT.
From Fortress Monroe.
Late Southern News
Rebels Threatening Helena
GREAT FIRE IN ST. LOUIS
Five Steamers Burned
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 27.
SLAVERY IN MISSOURI. – Negro property in Missouri has depreciated, and it is said to be nearly impossible to sell a slave anywhere in the country for one-fifth the ordinary price, while every other species of property has increased in value. A St. Genevieve paper reports, a stampede of negroes from the county. Slaves have long since ceased to be of value in the counties adjoing [adjoining] Kansas. The counties between Kansas City and the towns in Atkinson county on the St. Louis side of the river, are said to be patrolled by the enrolled militia to prevent the escape of slaves from inland counties. There were only fourteen hundred slaves in St. Louis two years ago, and the best judges estimate that there is less than five hundred, and these principally old and decrepit house servants. [From New Orleans Delta]
Slavery in Missouri. – Negro property in Missouri had depreciated, and it is said to be nearly impossible to sell a slave anywhere in the country for one-fifth the ordinary price, while every other species of property has increased in value. A St. Genevieve paper reports, a stampede of negroes from the county. Slaves have long since ceased to be of value in the counties adjoing [adjoining] Kansas. The counties between Kansas City and the towns in Atkinson county on the St. Louis side of the river, are said to be patrolled by the enrolled militia to prevent the escape of slaves from inland counties. There were only 1400 slaves in St. Louis two years ago, and the best judges estimate that there is less than 500, and these principally old and decrepit house servants.
The Missouri Elections––Emancipation in the Border Slave States.
The emancipationists have carried four or five of the nine members returned for Congress from Missouri by the late elections of that state. The same party have made a vigorous effort for the State Legislature, and they have almost succeeded in securing it against the hitherto invincible democracy. These results indicate a political revolution as remarkable as that which has just overthrown the republican radicals in New York; but wit a little inquiry into the subject it will be seen that the people of Missouri, in the election of these emancipation members to Congress, have by no means endorsed the slavery exterminating policy of the abolition radicals, but the widely different schema of President Lincoln's compensative emancipation, and for very good reasons.
General,
A case occurred to-day in this town, which may give rise to a conflict between State laws and Federal authority; fo this reason we refer at once to the highest tribunals to your Generals for your decision or order on the subject
A stampede of slaves had taken place from beyond the river, Loutre Island, Montgomery County, some of whom had crossed the river and had been in this town. To-day several of the respective owners, for the most part avowed secessionists and enrolled sympathizers came cross and demanded of John B. Miché, Justice of the Peace, a warrant, according to the Statutes of the State. We advised him to refuse it on the ground that the matter belonged before the Federal authorities under the order declaring martial law over Missouri and under subsequent orders from the President and Department Commanders...
Maj Gen Curtis
Sir,
My Appointment as Provost Marshal was received last night there was immense excitement here in regard to four Negroes confined in the jail here their owners had taken out a writ before a Justice of the Peace under the old civil law of the state and would taken or would have attempted to take them across the river the citizens had turned out and would have broken open the jail and freed the Negroes but for your timely dispatch I upon the receipt of the dispatch issued an order and they were turned loose by the Dept Sheriff they are here in the immediate Neighborhood will in all probability go to work for Union men by the month I will state my reasons for turning them loose
SLAVE-CATCHING AT HERMANN.
Full Details of the Transaction––
General Curtis Refuses to Release the Fugitive Slaves.
HERMANN, MO., Nov. 26
Editors Missouri Democrat:––Opposite the town of Hermann, in Gasconade County, is Loutre Island, an exceedingly fertile bottomland, occupied by slave owners. The property of these had conceived the idea of emancipation, and had stampeded accordingly. The recent election triumphs of the Democracy inspired the slave barons with new courage, and they followed their chattels even into German Gasconade with foul intent. The following letter tells the sequel:
"HERMANN, NOV. 19, 1862.
For the “Westliche Post”
From Hermann.
Freedom triumphs!
Never before, dear editors, have I been as proud of our Hermann as I am today. As we spoke, wrote and voted, so we have now acted and gloriously sealed our bold word through manly deeds.
But to the point. As you know, from Loutre Island opposite us, situated in Montgomery County, many slaves fled to this side of the river, and found lodgings, that is, as free laborers, with farmers in our neighborhood. As is also well known to you, last week several of your former owners tried to persuade our good squire John B. Miche to issue a warrant in order to wrest their black property from us again. Squire M. duly trumped them, in accordance with the existing laws of war and his duty as a Republican, and let them go their ways in a rage and snarling vengeance.
Reported Capture of a Supply Train––Movements of the Frontier Army––An Interesting Fugitive Slave Case––Political Matters––Thanksgiving-Day, &c., &c.
From Our Special Correspondent.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 29, 1863
SLAVERY IN MISSOURI. – A St. Louis correspondent of the New York Commercial says that negro property is worth so nearly nothing in Missouri that it is said to be nearly impossible to sell a slave anywhere in the country for one fifth the ordinary price, while every other species of property has increased in value. A Ste Genevieve paper reports a stampede of negroes from that county. Slaves have long since ceased to be of value in the counties adjoining Kansas.
THE FREEDOM PROCLMATION.
Hermann, Mo. Jany. 6th 1863.
Hon. Provost Marshal Genl }
Dept of Missouri
Sir:
Our Provost Marshal Hon. C.C. Manwaring being absent in the Legislature and his deputy, Mr R.C. [illegible] declining in consequence of pressing private business to serve any longer, we the undersigned citizens of Herman take the liberty to reccomend John B. Miche, J.P., as the at present most [illegible] person in our midst for the vacant office; to hold the same until Capt. Manwaring's return or until otherwise ordered by you.
Should you prefer to appoint some volunteer officer to special duty here we shall of course cheerfully submit and regard this recommendation as void.
Very respectfully
K Kilker Wm Wesselhoeft
Wm Poeschel.
FROM BURNSIDE'S ARMY.
Effect of the News from the West––The Weather––The 8th Illinois Cavalry––How the Proclamation Works––Its Effect upon the Rebellion.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
8TH ILLINOIS CAVALRY, ON PICKET,
KING GEORGE CO., Jan. 11, 1863.
Correspondence of the Republican.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.
NEGRO SOLDIERS.
Col. Montgomery, of Kansas, goes to South Carolina with Gen. Hunter, armed with full power to organize a negro army. This office in that Department was spoken of for Gen. Butler, but it appears his Kansas rival had stronger claims.
A "CONFLICT OF AGES."
When the first "proclamation of freedom" was issued on the 22d of September last, unaccompanied as it was with a statement of the considerations which had induced the President to depart from the policy previously prescribed to himself in the conduct of the war, we were tempted, in giving publication to the paper, to adopt the following hypothesis on the subject. We quote from the Intelligencer of last September 23d:
NEGROES AS SOLDIERS. A correspondent of the New York Times, who writes from Lake Providence, Fed. 25, describes a complete stampede of negroes, old and young, from the Bayou Macon region, and says that the remaining slaves are a source of more anxiety to the rebels than even the Yankees. Speaking of the fighting qualities of the negroes, the correspondent says:
Arming the Negroes—"whither are we Tending?"
ARMING THE NEGROES––"WHITHER ARE WE TENDING?"––Under this flaming head the Herald of Tuesday perpetrates the following:
"The delegation from Fall Creek, on their way to attend the meeting yesterday, overhauled some fifteen or twenty negroes in a body. A conversation ensued, in which the charcoal delegation disclosed the fact that they were armed to the teeth with revolvers, &c. They made one or two "overt acts" in demonstration of hostility to the Fall Creek Delegation and Democracy generally, whereupon they were speedily disarmed by the "unterrified of Fall Creek. Our abolition neighbor will not probably, think it a very "big thing," but if revolvers and mob law are the elements by which they propose to rule the country, they will soon find that the game is very like euchre––"never out until it is played out," and they can rest assured that their game won't win."
From the Quincy Herald
THE WHIG'S NIGGERS.
The facts in this case as related by Wash. Minter, an intelligent contraband, and one of the party, are these: Himself and eight others, whose former masters had deserted them for situations in Price's army, concluded, as they had been left to take care of themselves, they would do it, and left Hannibal for this city. While on the way they were attacked by a gang of ruffians numbering about fifteen, one of whom levelled a pistol at Wash's head and demanded his arms.––[Whig.
SLAVE STAMPEDE FROM HANNIBAL. —
STAMPEDE OF SLAVES.––Jerry, Louis and Nathan, slaves of Judge Olly Williams, whose farm is sixteen miles from the city, on the St. Charles Rock road, Saturday night ran off from their master, taking with them his buggy, light wagon, two mules and other property belonging to him.
RUNAWAY NEGROES––Night before last six negro men, belonging to Judge Olly Williams, living sixteen miles from the city, on the St. Charles rock road, decamped from their master's plantation, taking with them a horse and buggy, a wagon, and two mules, besides one or two other horses. The names of three of them are Jerry, Louis and Nathan. It is supposed they have struck for Illinois "shouting the battle cry of freedom."
SLAVE STAMPEDE IN MISSOURI. – The St. Louis News says that that the “deportation without compensation” movement is going on at such a formidable rate in Western Missouri to threaten the absolute extirpation of slavery in that quarter in a short time.
SLAVE STAMPEDE IN MISSOURI
Slave Stampede from Missouri.
Slaves in Missouri continue to take to themselves legs and run away. And what troubles the rebels of Western Missouri particularly is, that the negroes take horses with them and arriving in Kansas enlist in the Black Regiment organizing for the service of the United States. A letter in the St. Louis Republican complains bitterly of this stampede and says an average of fifteen go every week from his own country, taking with them a horse apiece.
The Lexington Union of Friday, says: On Thursday night another stampede of negroes occurred. About seventy-five left, taking with them a lot of horses, males, wagons, — &c. We think it would be a good plan, and an economical one too, for the owners of slaves to get them all together, charters a steamboat and send all who wish to go, to Kansas. There is no security for slaves, and as long as they remain for nothing else.
Office Provost Marshal
Hermann, Mo May 20th/63
Capt C.C. Allen
Pro. Mar St. Louis dis.
Sir
A letter from Eigblt [illegible] Buckner addressed to Mr. Plunket [Clark's overseer] was handed to me today in regard to Mrs Clarks negroes who are in this place. Mr. Buckner states that you acquainted him of the fact of having sent me some time since written instructions how to act. I have not received any such instructions that I am aware of. The late article of war forbids me returning fugitives, please inform me on that point a prompt reply is solicited
I am, Capt very Respectfully Your Obdt Servt
N.J. Camp
Slave Stampede in Missouri
The “deportation without compensation” movement is going on at such a formidable rate in Western Missouri [illegible] to threaten the absolute extirpation of slavery in the that quarter in a short time. Under the encouragement and armed aid which the movement receives from Kansas the slaves, not only of the border counties, but of counties low down on the river, are swarming across the lines in droves, taking whatever moveable property, such as horses, wagons, cattle, furniture, belonging to their masters they can seize, and making their way without molestation. On Friday night of last week fifty runaways in a gang from Lafayette county, carrying off six wagons, eighteen horse, and one carriage.
About sixty slaves ran away on Tuesday last from their respective masters, being near the Annapolis Junction. Messrs. WM. ANDERSON RANDOLPH, ABRAHAM WOODWARD AND CHARLES HAMMOND are the principal losers by this wholesale stampede. They are supposed to have gone to Washington, D.C
The Chicago Telegrams.
CHICAGO, June 8, 1863.
A special despatch from Walnut Hills (near Vicksburg), dated June 2, says:––
General Blair's expedition has returned, without the loss of a man.
Fifty-six miles of country, from the Big Black to the Yazoo, and eleven miles below Yazoo City, were completely scoured by our troops.
Several bridges and a number of grist mills and cotton gins, used to grind corn, were destroyed; also a large quantity of cotton, marked C.S.A.
The country towards the Yazoo is teeming with agricultural riches. Cattle, sheep and hogs abound in all directions.
Flourishing crops of corn, oats, wheat and rye are seen on every side.
Slave Stampede in Maryland.
WASHINTON, JUNE 16. – On Sunday night some slaves in the neighborhood of Annopolis, stampeded taking horses and wagons. They traveled all night and were reinforced till they numbered 72. Yesterday morning they were met by armed patrolmen, who endeavored to stop them, firing upon them when about a mile from ort Meigs. One of the slaves fired in return. The fugitives then separated and fled. So far as known two males and one female slave were killed, and five wounded. The remainder reached Washington.
STAMPEDE OF SLAVES.
On Sunday night some seventy-five slaves, belonging in the neighborhood of South river, Anne Arundel county, and Queen Anne’s, Prince George’s county, Md., stampeded, taking with them a wagon and cart, with horses, and bringing with them a portion of their effects. The party left about 11 o’clock at night, and travelled all night, at various points on the road being reinforced, until the number reached about seventy-five.
STAMPEDE OF SLAVES.
On Sunday night some seventy-five slaves, belonging in the neighborhood of South river, Anne Arundel county, and Queen Anne’s, Prince George’s county, Md., stampeded, taking with them a wagon and cart, with horses, and bringing with them a portion of their effects. The party left about 11 o’clock at night, and travelled all night, at various points on the road being reinforced, until the number reached about seventy-five.
State of Missouri } In the Circuit
County of Marion } Court July Term
1863
The Grand Jurors of the State of Missouri for the body of Marion County empanelled charged & sworn in for the body of Marion County to enquire [illegible] presentment make upon them each present that one John Lock on the. day of March 1863 at the County of Marion aforesaid feloniously then & there did entice decoy & carry away out of this State one slave man belonging to Wm B. Phillips with intent to effect the freedom of the said slave––against the peace & dignity of the State
State of Missouri }
County of Marion }
A Letter form Chaplain Morris of the 8th C.V.
Incidents of the Blackberry Raid---Feelings of the People---How the Blacks Act---Rebel Crops---Results of the Expedition.
The Negro Exodus.
Still they come. Yesterday morning two boat loads of negroes landed near the mouth of Three Mile creek. About fifty of their brethren from this side were on hand, to greet and welcome the new-comers. We understand that a number of the new arrivals propose to place themselves under the fostering care of Uncle Samuel at $10 per month and a good suit of clothes. – Lawrenceville Conservative, 18th,
SLAVERY PASSING AWAY IN MISSOURI AND KENTUCKY. – The St. Joseph (Mo.) Herald contains the following: — “Capt. Woods, sheriff of Platte county, was in the city a few days since, and from him we learned something of the negro stampede now going on in the lower counties. During the last two months the darkies have been leaving Platte county at the rate of about thirty or forty per day. By the census of 1860 Platte county had a slave population of three thousand three hundred and thirteen, and our informant thinks that there are but two or three hundred left now. From all portions of North Missouri we have like information. The slaves are leaving by day and by night. Very few owners pretend to stay the exodus. Many pack up their duds and walk boldly off in broad day, while other quietly retire in the night.
STAMPEDE OF SLAVES. Maryland papers say that at the present rapid rate the stampede of slaves from the State will render all talk of Emancipation unnecessary— there will be none to emancipate.
EMANCIPATION PROGRESSING. It is such a common occurrence for the slaves of rebels to run away from their masters in this county, that we have considered it of too little importance to even notice in our columns. But a stampede took place about two weeks ago, that we cannot forbear mentioning. Two of the most valuable negro men, belonging to E.K. Sayre, the rebel delegate from this county to the State Convention, ran away from him, each one taking with him a fine mule. Pear Mr. Sayre, he has our deepest sympathies in his “bereavement”— and may he bear up under it lie a man! Don’t cry, Mr. Sayre, it will all come out right a hundred years hence. You believe in gradual emancipation, Mr. Sayre, but it appears you have little influence over your darkies— some of them at least for in for immediate emancipation without compensation, but with transportation. Do you see it, Mr. Sayre?
Letter from St. Louis.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
ST. LOUIS, August 23, 1863.
The Negro Exodus from Missouri.
The St. Joseph Herald of late date, says: