The New York Herald

Attempt to Abduct a Slave.—On the 25th ult. Captain John Dillion, of Savannah, took a negro man slave, whom he has the control of, from on board the British bark China, Capt. Jones, about four miles from Tybee Island, where she was at anchor, on her way to Liverpool. But for the fact of an extraordinary detention of the vessel after she had left the city, the negro would have been successfully stolen away from his owner. The vessel left the city on the 23d, bound to Liverpool, and after her departure, Captain Dillion was informed that the negro was on board. He obtained a pilot boat and went to the spot where she had anchored. Upon arriving at the vessel, the captain denied that any such person was on board—search was made, and the negro found secreted in one of the seamen's bunks.