Helm and the vendue.
The sale continued for several days, during which there was no such thing as rest or sleep or one quiet moment on the premises.

As was customary in that State, Capt.

Helm provided the food and drink for all who came, and of course a great many came to drink and revel and not to buy; and that class generally took the night time for their hideous outbreaks, when the more respectable class had retired to their beds or to their homes.
And many foul deeds and cruel outrages were committed; nor could the perpetrators be detected or brought to justice.

Nothing could be done but to submit quietly to their depredations.
One peaceable old slave was killed by having his head split open with an ax.

He was found in the morning lying in the yard, with the bloody instrument of death by his side.