Show HELD IN SLAVER I 1 1 P I 1 IN turpentine Y 0 I 1 I 1 WHITE MEN HELD PRISONERS bt B NEGRO GUARDS 1 i I 1 11 ii A number of the enslaved havee haveis Ha s and relate stories of 1 brutality J 1 1 V I 1 I 1 A 1 new another A ima man va n L returned c from florida to the east side yest yesterday erda with a story of peonage in florida and another letter lias been received rec rece dIved alved from a man there begging aid there are still fifty immigrants immigrant i who are known to have started for the florida camps within the last six months who have not been heard of since 1 davis krall who ived with ht s sister tirs mrs jennie abramowitz came home after an absence in florida or of i seven weeks when he left this city for the turpentine camps he was ir IP I 1 good health heal thi when he came home yesterday his bis sister did not recognize him and attempted to drive him out i of her flat his back was black and blue and still marked with deep re scars anere he said he had been he had been taken k to jacksonville 1 he said and from there to matec lie he I 1 was then carried to a camp in tho the woods where there th ere were huts and negro guards at the end of two I 1 weeks he said he found that he ha I 1 owed the company 24 above his promised I 1 12 a week he was still strong and decided to escape ile he ran away one night and in the morning found that he was lost later in the day he was recaptured and beaten the next morning while lie he was at work in the swamp one of those with whom he had shared the company stores slipped 30 to him which he said he had kept hidden in a boot this man did not dare to escape but he begged krill to take the money meney and it if possible 1 get north so eo as to ia tell of the horrors of the slave camp that night when he saw the guards were vore asleep kirill slip slipped through the lines and managed to reach a city he worked his way as far AS baltimore and from there walked albed to his sisters home in this city mrs airs bernard of cher cherry ry street received the following letter from her son yesterday dated mobile Mob lle ala 1 I do not dare to give the ebat place where I 1 am this is written at night and forwarded by a friend in u greater danger than I 1 am in if he be should be caught with it lie he would bo killed like a bog as others have been beed I 1 escaped and walked miles in tour four lays days wh when en I 1 was found ahl brought back and beaten one thing I 1 would say and that Is that the negroes would not stay it if they were not afraid of the white men |