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| SUNDRY ARRIVALS. 383 ARRIVALS IN APRIL, 1856. CHABLE3 HALL, JXMES JOHNSON, CHAELES CABTEE, GEORGE, AND JOHN 1XXJAX, JAMES HENBY WATSON, ZEBULON 6KEEN, LEWIS, AJJD PETEB BUBRELL, WIUXUK W1I.1JA113, AND HIS WIFE—JHABRIET TUBMAJf, WITH FOOB PAS8ESOEES. CHABLES HALL. This individual -was from Maryland, Baltimore Co., where " black men had no rights which white men were bound to respect," according to the decision of the late Chief Justice Taney of the Supreme Court of the United States. Charles was owned by Atwood A. Blunt, a farmer, much of whoso time was devoted to card playing, rum-drinking and fox-hunting, so Charles stated. Charles gave him the credit of being as mild a specimen of a slaveholder as that regiou of country could claim when in a sober mood, but when drunk every thing went wrong with him, nothing could satisfy him. Charles testified, however, that the despotism of his mistress was much worse than that of his master, for she was all the time hard on the slaves. Latterly he had heard much talk about selling, and, believing that matters would soon have to come to that, he concluded to seek a place where colored men had rights, in Canada. JAMES JOHNSOX. Jamas fled from Deer Creek, Harford Co., Md., where he was owned by William Rautty. "Jim's" hour had come. Within one day of the time fixed for his sale, he was handcuffed, and it was evidently supposed that he was secure. Trembling at his impending doom he resolved to escape if possible. He could not rid himself of the handcuffs. Could lie have done so, lie was persuaded that lie might manage to make his way along safely. lie resolved to make an effort with the handcuffs on. With resolution his freedom was secured. What Master Rautty said wben lie found his property gone with the handcuffs, we know not. The next day after Jim arrived, Charles Carter, George and John Logan came to hand. CHARLES had been under the yoke in the city of Richmond, held to service by Daniel Delaplain, a flour inspector. Charles was hired out by the flour inspector for as much as lie ooultl command,.for him, for being a devoted lover of money, ordinary wages hardly ever satisfied him. lu other respects Charles spoke of his master rather favorably in comparison with slaveholders generally. A thirty years' apprenticeship as a slave had not, however, won him over to the love of the system ; he had long since been convinced that it was nonsense to suppose that such a thing as happiness could be found even under the best of masters. He claimed to have a wife and four little children living in Alexandria Va.; the name of the wife was Lucinda. lu the estimation of slave-holders, the fact of Charles having a family might have |