New Hampshire Statesman And Concord Register

At a late session of the Federal Court of Kentucky, an action was tried which had been instituted by a Mississippi dealer in human flesh, against the Captain or owners of a steam boat, to recover the value of slaves lost on board the boat. The evidence having been closed, one of the counsel for the defendants, in addressing the jury, remarked with much severity on the inhuman practice of buying up droves of our unfortunate fellow creatures, and carrying them like beeves or sheep to a foreign market.—— Such was the force with which he presented the enormity of this abominable traffic in the blood and bones of man, that the negro trader's feelings were aroused. The lawyer closed his eloquent address, and the man-merchant approached him and addressing him said: " Mr do you really feel the aversion to the negro trade which you express?" " Yes," says the lawyer, with honest indignation—"I abominate the trade and all who engage in it." "I thought I had understood that you supported General Jackson for the Presidency," said the negro trader. "I do,"replied the lawyer. " And yet," said the Mississippi man-merchant, "General Jackson has dealt in ten where I have dealt in one." The lawyer so fairly caught in his inconsistency, so forcibly exposed, was unable to carry the conversation further : he cast down his eyes and retired.

Query.-Is it from the circumstance that General Jackson is a man-merchant, that his printers say so much about " Ebony"?

Kentuckian.