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| 324 fSE UNDERQROUND SAIL ROAD. APBIL 15th, 1857. Big—We arrived here safely. Mr. Syrus and hia lady is well situated. They have a place for the year ronnd 15 dollars per month. We are all well and hope that you are all the same. Nor I wish to know whether you would please to send me some money to go after those people. Send it here if you please. Yours truly, OTHO TATLOE. WILLIAM STILL. ST. CATHARINES, Jan. 26, 1857. MB. WM. STILL :—Dear Sir—I write at this time in behalf of Otho Taylor. He is very anxious to go and get his family at Clear Spring, Washington county, Md. He would like to know if the Society there would furnish him the means to go afu:r them from Philadelphia, that you will be running no risk in doing this. If tb« Society can do this, lie •would not be absent from P. more than three days. He is so anxious to get his familv from slavery that he is willing to do almost anything to get them to Canada. You may possibly recollect him—he was at your place last August. I think he can be trusted. If you can do something for him, he has tbs means to take him to your place. Please let me know immediately if you can do this. Respectfully yours, M.'A. H. WILSON. Such appeals came very frequently from Canada, causing much sadness, as but little encouragement could be held out to such .projects. In the first place, the danger attendant upon such expeditions was so fearful, and in the second place, our funds were so inadequate for this kind of work, that, in most cases, such appeals had to be refused. Of course, there were those whose continual coming, like the poor widow in the Gospel, could not be denied. HEAVY REWARD. THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.—Ran away from the subscriber, residing near Bladensburg, Prince Geerge'a county, Maryland, on Saturday night, the 22d of March. 1856, niv negro man, Tom Matthews. age>1 af'Out 25 years, about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches £igh, dark copper colcr, full suit of bushy hair, broad faee, with high cheek bones, broad and square shoulders, stands nnil walks very erect, though quite a sluggard in action, except in a dance, at which h« is hard to beat. He wore awny a black coat and brown pantaloons. 1 will give the above reward if taken and brought home, or secured in jail, so that I get him. E. A. JONES, near Bladensburg, Md. As Mr. Jones may be unaware which way his man Tom traveled, this item may inform him that his name was entered on the Underground Bail Road book April 4th, 1856, at which date he appeared to be in good health and full of hope for a safe sojourn in Canada. He was destitute, of course, just as anybody else would have been, if robbers had stripped him of every dollar of his earnings; but he felt pretty sure, that he could take care of himself in her Majesty's dominion. |