Governor Chase, of Ohio, made a requisition upon Governor Morehead, of Kentucky, for the surrender of Margaret Garner, charged with murder.  The requisition was taken by Joseph Cooper, Esq. to Gov.  Morehead, at Frankfort, on the 6th of March—­an unpardonable delay in the circumstances.  Gov.  Morehead issued an order for the surrender of Margaret.  On taking it to Louisville, Mr. Cooper found that Margaret, with her infant child, and the rest of Mr. Gaines’s slaves had been sent down the river in the steamboat Henry Lewis, to be sold in Arkansas.  Thus it was that Gaines kept his pledged word that Margaret should be surrendered upon the requisition of the Governor of Ohio!  On the passage down the Ohio, the steamboat, in which the slaves were embarked, came in collision with another boat, and so violently that Margaret and her child, with many others, were thrown into the water.  About twenty-five persons perished.  A colored man seized Margaret and drew her back to the boat, but her babe was drowned!  “The mother,” says a correspondent of the Louisville Courier, “exhibited no other feeling than joy at the loss of her child.”  So closed another act of this terrible tragedy.  The slaves were transferred to another boat, and taken to their destination. (See Mr. Cooper’s letter to Gov.  Chase, dated Columbus, March 11, 1856.) Almost immediately on the above tragic news, followed the tidings that Gaines had determined to bring Margaret back to Covington, Kentucky, and hold her subject to the requisition of the Governor of Ohio.  Evidently he could not stand up under the infamy of his conduct.  Margaret was brought back, and placed in Covington jail, to await a requisition.  On Wednesday, Mr. Cox, the prosecuting-attorney, received the necessary papers from Gov.  Chase, and the next day (Thursday), two of the Sheriffs deputies went over to Covington for Margaret, but did not find her, as she had been taken away from the jail the night before.  The jailor said he had given her up on Wednesday night, to a man who came there with a written order from her master, Gaines, but could not tell where she had been taken.  The officers came back and made a return ‘not found.’

The Cincinnati Gazette said,—­“On Friday our sheriff received information which induced him to believe that she had been sent on the railroad to Lexington, thence via Frankfort to Louisville, there to be shipped off to the New Orleans slave market.

He immediately telegraphed to the sheriff at Louisville (who holds the original warrant from Gov.  Morehead, granted on the requisition of Gov.  Chase,) to arrest her there, and had a deputy in readiness to go down for her.  But he has received no reply to his dispatch.  As she was taken out on Wednesday night, there is reason to apprehend that she has already passed Louisville, and is now on her way to New Orleans.

Why Mr. Gaines brought Margaret back