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| SALT-WATER FUGITIVE. 245 at packing cotton for four or five months, and in the middle of November, 1852. was sent back to the railroad, where he was again set to wheeling. He worked at "task work" two months, being obliged to wheel sixteen square yards per day. At the end of two months he broke down again, and was sick. They tried one month to cure him, but did not succeed. In July, 1853. he was taken to an infirmary in Macon. Dr. Nottinghan and Dr. Harris, of that institution, both stated that his was the worst case of the kind they ever had. He remained at the infirmary two months and partially recovered. He told the story of his wrongs to these physicians, who tried to buy him. One of his legs was drawn up so that he could not walk well, and they offered four hundred dollars for him, which his master refused. The doctors wanted him to attend their patients, (mostly slaves). While in Georgia he was frequently asked where he came from, being found more intelligent than the common run of slaves. On the 12th of March he ran away from Macon and went to Savannah. There he hid in a stable until Tuesday afternoon at six o'clock, when he secreted himself on board the Keystone State. At 9 o'clock the next morning the Keystone State left with Davis secreted, as we have before stated. With his imprisonment in Newcastle, after being pronounced free, our readers are already familiar. We. subjoin the documents on which he was discharged from his imprisonment in Newcastle, and his subsequent re-committal on the oath of Capt. Hardie. COPY OP FIBST ORIXER OF COMMITMENT. New Castle county, ss., State of Delaware.裕o Wm. R. Lynam, Sheriff of said county.覧覧覧覧Davis (Negro) is delivered to your custody for further examination and hearing for traveling without a pass, and supposed to be held a Slave to some person in the State of Georgia. [Seal]. Witness the hand and seal of John Bradford, one of the Justices of the Peace for the county of Newcastle, the 17th day of March, 1854. JOHN BBADFORD, J. P. COPY OF DISCHARGE. To Wm. R. Lynam, Sheriff of Newcastle county: You will discharge 覧覧覧覧Davis from your custody, satisfactory proof having been made before me that he is a free man. JOHN BRADFORD, J. P. Witnesses憂oanna Diamond, John H. Brady, Martha C. Maguire. COPY OF ORDER OP RE-COMMITMENT. New Castle county, ss., the State of Delaware to Wm. R. Lynam, and to the Sheriff or keeper of the Common Jail of said county, Whereas 覧覧 Davis hath this day been brought before me, the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace, in and for the said county, charged upon the oath of Ko- |