EASZARWS

Mamas” Johnson, Afib G®MMEh@EAh .hEVEh.“ll.'l§Eh..J

Charlottetown, Prince Edward island, Wednesday, June 8, 1853.

New Series. No. 503

Easaas-d’s Gazette. GEORGE T. HASZARD, Proprietor and Publisher. Published everhwedtwsdey ;ntlE8'atar:lay mornings. I

0lliee,South stde ueen re, . . . . TllIs—-Atmtml 8 ion, lbs. Discount for cash in advance.

Summer Arrangement of Mails. HE MAILS for the neigltbouring Provinces will be made up until further Notice every TUES- DAY and THURSDAY NIGHT, at Nine o'clock. and forwarded via Pierce, and the MAILS for En- gland will be closed upon the following days at the same boar. Tuesday, May to, Tuesday, August I. May fit, " A

" ugusflC. “ June 7, “ Augustlo, “ Jnoe 8|, " Sept I8, ll y I‘ s

ept. 21, “ July ~I9, " October ll. Letters to be registered, and Newspapers, must be mailed belt’ an hour before the time ofeloeing. THOMAS OWEN, Postmaster General. General Post Ofllce, April 80, I858.

COMMISARIAT. COJV TRACT FOR OATS.

VPHE Deputy Commissary General ‘will receive Sealed Tenders, in duplicate, (to be marked on

ll!!! Envelope “ Tender for 0ats.") at this Oflice. until I2 o’cIoc|t on SATURDAY, the 18th day of June next, for the supply of the undertnantioned quantities of OATS, for Her Majesty's Service in the West Indie Command. for the year commencing lat April, I85-t,n°vt'a. sh"

tee 7,880 I

Demersra 41,088 " Ba rbedces 282.99! ' ‘ Tobago «.640 -- Trinidsd 54,000 "

re a 48,630 " St. Vincent M,0l6" St. Lucie 46,500 " Do inica 46,438 " An ms 84.848 " St. itts 81,716 “

Total 668,108 lbs

The Oats to he of the best quality. perfeetl free from stones, dirt, weevil, &c., the growth ei of the United States or British orth America.

One moiety to be delivered into the Conttnissariat Itegmieee at each station at the Con expense on or before the let April, l8M—-and the remainder to be delivered between the swaths of July and Sep- tember fullowing, and will be subject to the eppro val of a Board of Olllcers, end mast be warranted to keep sweet and good for six months from the period of issue, vh.—'Ihe lint moiety from the In April, and the second delivery from the let October, I864.

Olfers may be sent in for sub ststioa separately. or for ‘ ‘ ' -- -— -at ....tt....:....t.. - - -' A-an

Tenderer, and each tenderer musi eapreesihe rate in Sterling per 100 lbs. net weight, in ligures end iuwcsd at is h . at which it is proposed to supply the article, distinguishing whether the Oats are to be the produce of But": North America or the United States, end the color and ever we’ per bushel to be stated. Payment wil be made b the Senior Commiseeriat ear at Barbedoes (out e production oftbe usual receipts) in Bills at 30 days sight on the Lords Com tnissioeers d’ H. M. Treasury at par, if the sum be above £50, and if under, in Specie. . 'l‘he Duties‘, btath and Colonial, upon the “II tation 0 ate enn e det excepted wiilnlis re Ceniraatorqt the , )

rnittedtoths e periedof im- portalton. ‘The Tendon tenet be accompanied by a letter stgned.by two races of known engsgsog rt tendering, in_a sent

to become bou with the pa y not exeesdi onothird of the value of the estttneted quantity of Is to be delivered.

The containing the (late will be returned

P‘ $0 :0 Contractor, after their contents have been Issu .

Comtsiusrtst Ojlce, Halves, JV. N., 1805 Hey, ISBI.

CARD. 30. P. 'I‘AN'I‘0N'8 Dsouanrsw Ganuar, Great, Street, apposite lr.J. K. Watt’s. whore Likenesses are taken by the most improved Northern Sky-light—the only light that see produce a I001! picture. assortment of LoeItets,l"ramse, end plain and my (lease ltept constantly on head. M"-Roots!‘ n has I e. m..fto tIp.fnt. d I most er a re ' , seeh-as bhlldrttufie, W ‘b " P V...“ y M ADMINIITRATION NOTICE. Al-L person having claims against the Estate or thelete Lawsasrcs Wsaateae Gear. sf Cimrlottetown, deceased ssqggggg g. ,1. -beer bsr ssolsmeae-sad ell 80

t. GALL. Mfl Clterlettetows, larch list, last.

Clint John Bale ltables. A. OUIIIINO. Veterinary Se , u- - ietlmetete rtiesheving HOR limb- ' t to se a Sale Dtable,thue seat ' . of late. It. John; where license will be kept at liv- er sold as commission. as well-understood piece in It. Jobs sis; and wasting Hines, knew whareteled each other, M. A. c. an. ‘In htutselfthet a House lessen, or Sale Stable,

mgeefkessee ‘ r _ ,5..,.,|,.

-Min-uestn, ethlhl ‘ betlttesellsreed

'‘ "“7'°""5'°l'U " leruees Horses

‘' idle sraoso etss fD.e'II.:flIme|Qd |$t.h%.Ih4sI|I.lle& It

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urtcu: 'roat’sc.utt1v. CIIAP. XXX.

The Slave-Weareltouse-—Mr. Ska Pride end Punishmcut4—Motlter and sughter-—'.l‘he Mother's Advice—Rcligous Consolation- The Sale—-Tom sold-—A Mother's Petition-

A st.evs warehouse! Perhaps acute of my reed-

ere con'ure up horrible visions of such a place.

They sncy sotne foul, obscure den,some horrible amsrus"inforrrtis,in s,cut' mm .”

But no, innocent fr end! in these days men

have learned tlte art of sinning expertly and

genteelly, so as not to shock the eyes and son- ses of res ctable societ . Human prepay

is high in t emarket: an is therefore wel f ,

well cleaned, tended and looked after, that it

ma cotne to sale sleek, and strong, and shining.

A s ave-warehouse in New Orleans is a house

externally not much unlike many others ; kept

with neatness; and where every day on may see arranged, under a sort of shed a ong the outside, rows of men and women, who stan there as a sign of the property sold within.

Then you shall be courtcously entreated to cell and examine, and shall find an abundance of husbands and wives, brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, and young children, to be “ sold sepa- rately or in lots, to suit the convenience of the pprc nser ;” and that soul immortal, once

tight with blood and anguish by the Son of

‘ , when the earth shook, and the rocks rent, and the graves were 0 nod, can besold, leased, mortgaged, exchange for groceries or dry s, to suit the phases of trade or the fancy of

the purchaser. was a day or two after the conversation be- tween Maria. and Miss 0 helia, that Tom,

Adol h, and about half-a ozen others of the

St. 0 are estate, were turned over to the loving

kindness of Mr. Skeggs, the keeper of a depot

on root, to await the auction next da . Tom had with him quite a. sizable trunk fu l

of clothing, as ind most others of them. They

were ushered for the night into a long room, where many other men of ell ages, sizes, and shades of complexion were assembled. and from which more of laughter and unthinking

Inerrimont were proc ing.

“ Alt, ah! that's ri ht. Go it, boys '—go it!" said Mr. Skeggs,t£e keeper. “ My peep e are always so merry; Sambo, I see!” he satd, speakin up rovingy to a but-le ncgroe who was per ormtng tricks of low bu oner , which occasioned the shouts which Tom had heard.

As mi ht be imagined, Tom was in no hu- mour’ to yoin these proceedings ; and, therefore, setting his trunk as far as possible from the noisy group, he sat down on it and leaned his face against the wall.

The dealers in the human article make scru- pulous and systematic efiarts to promote noisy mirth among them, as a means 0 drownin re- flection and renderin them insensible tot air condition. The who e object of the traing to which the negroe is put, from the time he is sold in the northern market till he arrives south, is systematically directed toward makin him

ous,unthinktn ,and brutal. The slav ealer collects his gang in Virginia or Kentucky, and drives them to some convenient, healthy lace

-—oftnn a waterin place—to be fatlcned. glare

the are fed full ly; and, because some are

inc ined to pine, a fiddle is kept commonly going among them. and they are made to dance

ally; and he who re see to merry-—in whose soul thoughts of wife, or child, or home, are too strong for him to be gay-—is marked as sullen and dangerous, and subyected to all the

evils which the ill-will of an utterly irres n-

sible and hardened man can indict upon im.

Briskness, alertness, and cheerfulnes of appear-

ance, es ' re observers, are constantly

enforce upon them, both by the hope of there- by.getting a good master, and the fear of all

t t the river may bring upon them if they

prove unsa a .

“ What dat ar ni r doin’ here!" said Sam-

bo, Coating up to cm, after Mr. Ska? had

left the room. Sambo wssa full black, 0 great sis_e, very lively, voluble, and full of trick and ace

tm . 8'“ What you doin’ here i” said Sambo, coming up to Tom, and pok' him facetiously in the side. " Moditatin', eh!"

“ 1 am to be sold at the auction to-morrow !" said Sent, quietly.

“ Sold at auction——haw ! haw! boys an't this 1* fun‘ I wleh’t I was gwine that ar way! —te ye, wouldn't I make ‘em laugh 1 But how is i yor whole lot ine to orrow!” said Santbo, laying his banffreely on Adolph's shoulder.

“ Please to let me alone ?" said Adolph llercly, straightening himself up with extreme

l

. " law, now, boys ! dis yer's one o’ yer white i ind cream colour, ye know, scen- ." said he, coming up to Adolph and

suufinglo

"0 r! he'd do for a tobaccer-eho , they could keepohim to scout sand‘! Lor, he d keep a whole s p a gwine-—he would!"

"I say, keep of, can't you !" said Adolph, an . " r, now, how toutch we is-we white

eel Look at us, now!’ and Sambo gave a

t imitation of Adol ‘a manner;

“here's de sire and . e's been in a . ’ “ You," said dolph ; "I had a master that could have bought you all for old truck!" " Inn. now, only think," said sent». “the ‘Clans tweis!" “ I longed to asset. Clare family," said Adol h proudly. ‘ . I dldl he has if the ar'u't lnckytogetshetof . tsslieysgwlne I with a e’ esa-pots and

to ye o deh llke!|" said kmbog rwll a provoking téolpih, enraged -t ugh U"Idn|,-Iwhrlonsly at is versar , swear a striking dds -of rest Eu ' and‘ the to lie door. Order, order I" he ml, so ht and do shlng a large whip. < All in difiteet directions, eaos£.hmbe, Iheypuuhg as we tvsur whtslt keeper

and the b t -«wJl":’.'.'. ’°“"i

had to him as a licensed wag, stood his ground, ducking his head with a facetious grin when- ever the master-made tt dive at him.

“ Lor, mas’a, ’lnn’t us—we’s reg,lar stiddy —it‘s those yer new ltands; they’s rea agrava- tin‘-—kinder pickin’ at us, all time !"

The keeper at this turned upon Tom and Adolph. and distributed as few kicks and collie without mttch inquiry, and, leaving general orders for all to be good boys and go tosleop,

the apartment.

While this scene was going on in the men's sleeping room, the reader may be curious to take a peep at the correspondin apartment allotted to the women. Stretchedgout in vari- ous attitudes over the floor, lte may see number- lesa sleeping forms of every shade of com lexion, from the purest ebony to white, and of all years, from childhood to old a , lying now asleep. Here is a fine bright gir , of ten years, whose mother was sold out yesterday, and who lo~night cried herself to sleep when nobody was looking at her. llere, ts worn old ncgress, whose thin arms and callous fingers tell of hard toil, waiting to be sold to-tnorrow, as it cast-of article, for what can be t r her ; and some forty or fiftly others, wit heads variously on- v o in lankcts or articles of clothing, lie stretched around them. But, in a corner, sit- ting a rt from the rest, are two females of a more interesting appearance than common. 0 e of these is a respectably dressed mulatto 0- men between forty and fifty, with soft eyes and a gentle and pleasing ph siognomy. She has on her head a itiglt-raised turban, made of a gay red Madras handkerchief, of the first qua-

tt , and her dress is neatly fit , and of

material, sbowin that she has been provided for with a carefulltand. By her side, and nest- ling closely to her, is a young girl of fifteen- her daughter. She is a quudroon, as may be seen from her fairer complexion, though her likeness to her mother is quite discerusble. She has the some soft dark eye, with longer lashes, and her curling hair is of a luxuriant

rown. She also is dressed wt t neat» ness, and her white, delicate hands tray very little acquaintance with servile toil. These

two are to be sold to-morrow, in the mute lot with the St. Clare servants ; and the gentleman to whom they belong, and to whom the money for their sale is to be transmitted, in a member of a Christian church in New York, who will receive the money, and thereafter to the so- crement_of his Lord undo theirs, and think no more . These two, whom we shall call Susan and Emmelinc, had been the ‘personal attendants of an amiable and ions is y of New Orleans, by whom they had n carefull and piously in- structedaud trn'ed. Th adbee in t :0 rtqlad t;_nd ‘writ; diliigeqllfy ipstrpctldd I: e

ru s o rei 'on, an t on ot ad becnos happy ale; one Eh thelir condiqioq] it was possible to . ut t e on son 0 t e'r rotectress bad the managernenyt of her proplcrtp; and, by carelessness and extravagance, tnvo ved it in a large amount. and at last failed. One of the lar est creditors was the respectable firm of B. an Cc., New York. B. and Co. wrote to their lawyer in New Orleans, who attached the real estate these two artilcs and a lot of plantation hands ortned the most valuable part of it), and whzotenword to that efect to New York. Bro- t r . being, as we have said, a Christian man, and a resfildent bin a frqtie Stale, {fit some uneasiness on t e su ' t. e didn't i e tra- ding in slaves and soiil: of men—of course he didn’t; but then there were thirty thousand dollars in the case, and that was rather too much money to be lost for a rinoi le ; and so ttalftcr mtgch plon;idering,aq§ tI(l‘!l(ingptIdV‘i6O froni

was t at s new w u a 'ise to suithim, Brother B. wrote to his lawyer to dispose of the business in the way that seemed ix) him the moflsl sqiifiablef, andhreqtit the proceeds.

e y a ter t e etter arrived in Now Or- leans, Susan and Emntcline were attached, and sent to the depot to await a general auction on the following morning; and as they limmcr gintly upon us in the moonlight Whitfit steals

rough the grated window we may listen to their conversation. Both a’re wee ing, but each Jointly, that the other may not ear.

“ other, just lay your head on my lap, and sec_il‘ you can't slecpa little," says the girl uzlnlglrdvlt iwahiymltlenalrt to sleep, Em! I can't. It's the last rtig t we may be together!"

“Oh mother don't so so!’ Per-ha swe shall‘ ’t sold together-wlho knows! 1’; P

“ ’twas anybod 's e se case, n ould say so too, Em,” said t e woman; " but I'm so ‘feared of losin' you that I dcu’t see anything but the danger."

" Why, mother? The man both likely, and vbrpuld sell well. k

Susan renteut red the man's loo s and yrhords. Wlietlitup fileadgy sickness :3 lterEl:neart,

e t-emem cw e had look, at me- line’s hands, and lifted up her curly hair, and

renounced her a llrst-rate article. Susan had trained as a Christian, brou ht up‘ in the daily reading of the Bible, and ad the same horror of her child's being sold to a life of algame bthathanympther Christian tnothteih might

ve; utse noho no rotec on.

" Mother, I think we mi ht do lirst-rate, if

on could get a place as , and I as cham-

rtnsi , or seamstress, in some fam y. dbl: say we shall. Let's both look as bri t an livel as we can, and tell all we can 0, and perhzps we ehallh,:“ said lhnntellne.“ h

“ want you to sh our hair a ck stral ht to-ntorrow,” said

“ hat for, mother! well Ythet gray." ‘“ H

“ as‘ at as better so."

u 1 coin seeyoiihy,” said the child.

“ lleqccmble hutalies would be more a t to buy you if they saw you looked plain an de- cent, as if you wasn't in to look handsome. I the r we

" Well, motheyt-., then I will."

“ And, finmeline, if we shouldn't ever see each other a9=;.al\s.rhnto-ntorrowM—lf 3: sold we a on a nu somsw re, n somyewhere else-always remem u,’ove beeabroughtngsndallmisslshaetu . ‘like year I with yen. and year I}:-

said we were )7

Ilflll. I don't look near so

names:-n, ‘butbemwleflb

book, and if you're faithful to the Lord, he’ll , it

be faithful to ou.

So speaks t is poor soul in sore discourage- ment ; for she knows that to-morrow any man, however vile and brutal, however godless and merciless, if he only has money to pa for her, nta become owner of her dau hter, d sou ; and then how is the chi! to be fai hful! She thinks of all this as she holds her daughter in her arms, and wishes that she were not so handsome and attractive. It seems almost an ag vation to her to remember how purely an lpiously, how much above the ordinary lot she as been brought up. But she has no re- sort, but to ,- and many such prayers to God have gone up from those same trim, neatly- arranged, res table slave-prisons-prayers which God has not forgotten, as coming da shall show ; for it is written, “ Whose causet one of these little ones to oEend,'it were better for him that a mill-stone were hanged’about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of

e sea."

The soft, earnest, uiet moonbeam looks in fixedly, marking the rs of the ted win- dows on the prostrate, sleeping orms. The mother and dau hter are singing together a wild and melancholy dirgc, common as a func-

hymn among the slaves ,—

. . 3"!” ’Rtved tn the goodly hnd.

These words, sung by voices of a peculiar and melancholy sweetness, in an air which seemed like the siglting of earthly despair after heavenly hope, floated through the dark prison- rooms with a pathetic cadence, as verse after verse was breathed out,-

" Oh, where are Paul and Silas '! Oh, WGIIPPQ aredfntgidanil iilads 1 009.30 C II . T are dud anq goo); to ‘heaven ; II‘! Illl I0 CIVBII; h.y’Rived in the gfiii, laud."

Sing on poor souls! The night is short. and the morning will part you for ever!

But now it is morning, and evegthing is astir, and worthy Mr. Skeggs is usy and bright, for a lot 0 goods is to be fitted out for auction. There is a brisk look-out on the toilet; injunctions passedaround to every one to put on their best faces and be spry; and now all are arranged in a circle for a net re- view, beiore they are marched up to the Bourse.

Mr. Ske , with his pelutotto on, and his cigar in his mouth, walks around to put fare- well touches on his wares. '

“ How's this .3” he mid, stepping in front of Susan and Emmeline. “ Where's your curls,

‘ll’

1 ..

The girl looked timidly at her mother, who, with the month adroitness common among hot- class, answers ,—

“ I was tellin ‘her last night to put u her hair smooth an neat, and not havin' it in about in curls-— s more respectable so !’

“ Bother !" said the man, peremptorily, turn- ing to the 'rl. “ You go right along, and cttrl yourselFreo.l smart!" he added, giving‘): crack to a rattan he held in his hand : “ and back in quick time, too! You and hel her,” he added to the mother. "Them cur I may make a hundred dollars‘ difierencc in the sale of her.”

Beneath a splendid dome were men of all na- tions, movin to and fro over the tarble pave. On every si e of the circular v .s little tri- bunes, or stations, for the use of speakers and auctioneers. Two of these, on op site sides of the area, were now occupied by brilliant and ta-

nt ntlemen, enthusiastically fort.-in up, in Fla ltsh and French commingled, the b ds of connoisseurs in their various wares. third one on the other side, still unoccupied, was sur- rounded by a up waiting the moment of sale to begin. here we ma recognise the St. Clare servants, Tom, Adolp ,and others; and there, too, Susan and Emmcline, awaiting their turn, with anxious and dejected fices. Vari- ous spectators, intending to purchase, or not to purchase, as the case might be, thered around the group, ‘cg, exanitt ng, and commenting on t sir various points and faces, with the saute freedom that a set of jockeys dis- cuss the merits of a horse.