Show A Vicious Sloop COLUMBIA S C March Information has been received here of an outrage on Cooper river near Oakley A large number of colored laborers who had been working on a plantation on one side of the river were being conveyed across to their homes on the other side on a flatboat When the boat > was in the middle of the river it was passed by the sloop Carrie and Hattie After passing about 100yards the sloop came about and notwithstanding ample room in the river ran directly into the flatboat which was partially split open and a number of men knocked into theriverfour of whom were drowned The jury on the inquest put the responsibility Captain Poinsett of the sloop who has been committed to jail |