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Rh Southern Slavery, against which such a mighty crusade was waged, and which went down in blood?

Philadelphia Times of Friday says: In the dock at the Central yesterday was a shameful sight. Right among thieves, and beside a woman whose vocation it is a shame even to hint at, were placed by Sergeant Buchanan, three young girls, respectable and honest in appearance, and utterly unworthy of the indignity visited upon them by placing them within an inclosure intended only for crime. There had been a strike at Campbell's mills, and these young girls, who have worked there, and were among the strikers, had, it was alleged, pursued with reproaches several young women who, originally in the strike, returned to work; and the technical charge against the prisoners was inciting to riot perhaps technically true, but one that would be hooted out of court if ever attempted to be tried. The hearing yesterday resulted in two of these young girls being held for trial, and they were marched down stairs in custody to await bail, as were the vilest who occupied the dock. There was one of them with the face of an angel. Never was there an eye so bright, a face so perfect in contour, a smile so sweet, a cheek so shaming the bloom of the ripest peach, a form so light and lith seen in cottage or palace as this young girl. And yet this lovely young girl, so young, and with her eye audacious with the bravery of innocence, was subjected to the foul indignity of the Central Station dock, the grasp of a policeman and the vile confines of a subterranean dungeon. She was only a mill