On the 21st of August last Lieutenant J.N. Maffit, of the United States brig Dolphin, captured the slaver Echo (formerly the Putnam, of New Orleans) near Kay Verde, on the coast of Cuba, with more than 300 African negroes on board.

As she did so she glanced warily at the two Hudson Bay dogs dripping eager slaver from their scarlet tongues and following her every movement.

This singularly constructed personage had taken his seat on an empty barrel, and, with folded arms, he sat examining the often-mentioned slaver, occasionally favouring his companion, the black, with such remarks as were suggested by his observation and great experience.

The port of New York alone, which participates but too much in the misdeeds and tendencies of the South, fitted out eighty-five slavers between the months of February, 1859, and July, 1860.

It roared, flung its slaver into our faces, wriggled beneath our strokes.

It is to a Union which has abolished slavery in the District of Columbia, and interdicted slavery in the Territories,which vigorously represses the slave-trade, and hangs the convicted slaver as a pirate,which necessitates emancipation by denying expansion to slavery, and facilitates it by the offer of compensation.

This firman will complete our command over the Persian Gulf and the Arabian seas, and enable our cruisers to intercept the slavers from the eastern shore of Africa.

" "The slaver!" muttered our adventurer, hastening to a part of the ship whence he could command a view of that important, and to him doubly interesting ship; "ay, the slaver!

The representative of England at Washington is said to have already declared that in presence of the slave trade thus practised, his government will not hesitate to pursue slavers into the very ports of the South.

The pirates who sailed the slavers "Echo" and "Wanderer" yet remain to be punished.

Where have you been?" "I've been serving on board a slaver on the Guinea coast.

"I ask you, honest Joe, if you think the slaver, in the outer harbour of this port, a true man?" "You come across one, Bob, in your bold way, with such startling questions," returned the publican, casting his eyes obliquely around him, as if he would fain make sure of the character of the audience to which he spoke, "such stirring opinions, that really I am often non-plushed to know how to get the ideas together, to make a saving answer.

One morning that he happened to breakfast on board a Brazilian frigate, the commander, Captain Sheppard, kindly lent him a boat to visit a slaver of 320 tons, which had come into port the preceding night.

Miguel was the only one on board the slaver who had shown a ray of human sympathy.

Wilder followed the boat with his eyes, for a moment; but his thoughts were recalled by the voice of the pilot, who again called, from the forward part of the ship, "Let the light sails lift a little, boy; let her lift keep every inch you can, or you'll not weather the slaver.