We are at some loss to decide whether this arose from indifference to the interests of the emancipated, or from a conviction that the blessings of freedom to them were self-evident and needed no specification.
While we were in the boiling-house we witnessed a scene which illustrated one of the benefits of freedom to the slave; it came quite opportunely, and supplied the deficiency in the manager's enumeration of advantages.

The head boiler was performing the work of 'striking off;' i.e.of removing the liquor, after it had been sufficiently boiled, from the copper to the coolers.

The liquor had been taken out of the boiler by the skipper, and thence was being conducted to the coolers by a long open spout.

By some means the spout became choaked, and the liquor began to run over.

Mr.C.ordered the man to let down the valve, but he became confused, and instead of letting go the string which lifted the valve, he pulled on it the more.