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They, hovevar, declared their intention to kill him vhen the boat should reach Mobile, and vhen it touched the vharf he started up tovn at a rapid rate. His antagonist vas on vatch and went after him at full speed, with a regular Dahomey yell, followed by the whole pack.
There was not a wide reach between the fugitive and the leading pursuer, but as he reached a corner, a boy, who had probably observed the race from the levee, and understood its meaning, drew a pistol and blazed away at Sambo shooting him through the leg.
This put an end to the pursuit for at the report of the pistol the others scattered like a Clock of black birds and disappeared.
The wounded negro was taken to the guard house bleeding like a sacrifice, and was speedily conveyed thence to the Freedmen's Hospital. I?ve not heard of him since, for the Freedmen1s Bureau, like the victims of the pirates, tell no tales; but the surgeon who examined him soon after the bullet struck him, stated that a large artery was cut, and he was of opinion that aid could not be obtained soon enough to save his life.
Business
Business in general does not seem to have fallen off from its test stages two months ago, and cotton continues to come in, by railroad and river, quite briskly.