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| 476 THE UNDE&GBOUXD BAIL ROAD. WILMIKOTON, 9th mo. 6th, 1858. ESTEEMED FEIBNDB, J. M. McKiK AND WH, STILL :—I have a mixture of good and bad news for you. Good in having passed five of God's poor safely to Jersey, and Chester county, last week ; and this day sent on four more, that have caused me much anxiety. They were within twenty miles of here on sixth day lu-*t, and by agreement, I bad a man out all seventh day night watching for them, to pilot them Bafely, as 1,000 dollars reward was offered for four of the five; and I went several miles yesterday in the country to try to learn what had become of them, bat could not hear of them. A man of tried integrity just called to say that they arrived at his house last night, about midnight, and 1 employed him to pilot them to a place of safety in Pennsylvania, to-night, after which I (rust they will be out of reach of their pursuers. Now for the bad nows. That old scoundrel, who applied to me some three weeks tince, pretending that he wished me to assist him in getting his seven slaves into a free state, to avoid the sheriff, and which I agroed to do, if he would bring them here; but positively refused to send for them. Ton days Bince I received another letter torn bim, saying that the sheriff had bten there, and taken away two of the children, which he wished me to raise money to purchase and so-t free, and then closed by Baying that his other slaves, a man, Ilia wifr, and throe children luwl left the ?air.o evening and he bad no doubt I would find them at a colored man's house, ho namoJ, here, and wished me to ascertain at once und let him know. I at. onco was convinced he wished to know so as to have them arrested and taken back. I found the man Lad arrived; but the wom«n and children bad given out, and he left them with a colored family in Cecil. 1 wrote him word the family had not got here, but said nothing of the man being here. On seventh day evening I sa.w a colored woman from the neighborhood ; sho told me that the owner and sheriff were out hunting five days for them before tliey found them, and says there ia not a greater hypocrite u; tint part of the world. I wrote him a letter yesterday letting him know just what I thought of him. Your Friend, THOS. GAKIIETI. ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND. BIRTH-DAY PRESENT FROM THOMAS GARHETT. WILMINOTOM, Sth mo. 21st, 1S5S. ESTEEMED FRIEND :—WILLIAM STILI, :—This is my 69th birth-day, and I do not. know any better way to celebrate it in a way to accord with my feelings, than to send 10 thee two fugitives, maa and wife; the man Ims been here a week waiting for his wiiV, who is expected in time to leave at 9 this evening in the car? for thy house with a pilot, who knows where thee lives, but I cannot help but feel some anxiety about the woman, as there is great commotion just now in the neighborhood where she resides. There were 4 slaves bet.ra.yed near the Maryland line by a colored man named Jesse Perry a few nights since. One of them made a confidant of him, and he agreed to pilot, them on their way, anJ bud several white men secreted to take them as soon as they got in his house; he is the scoundrel that was to have charge of the 7 I wrote yon about two weeks since , their master was to take or send them there, and he wanted me to send for them. I have since been confirmed it was * trap set to calch one of our colored men and me likewise, but it was no go. I guspeoted him from the first, but afterwards was fully ccmfirmed in my suspicions. We have found the two Rust boys, John and EUey Bradley, who the villain of a Rust took out of i»il and cold to a trader of the name of Morris, who sold them to a trader who took them to Richmond, Virginia, where they were sold at public eale two days be- |