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| PART OF THlt ARRIVALS IN DECEMBER, 1855. THOMAS JERVIS GOOSEBERKY and WILLIAM THOMAS FREEMAX, alias EZEKIEL CHAMBERS ; HENRY HOOPER ; JACOB HALL, alias HENRY THOMAS, and wife, HENRIETTA and child; Two men from near Chestertown, Md.; FEXTON JONES; MARY CUUTIS ; WILLIAM BROWN ; CHAELES HEXEY BROWN ; OLIVER PCRNELL and ISAAC FIDGET. THOMAS JERVIS GOOSEBERRY and WFLWAM THOMAS FREEMAN. The coming of this party was announced in the subjoined letter: ScnuYLKiLi,, llth Ho., 29th, 1S5 j. WILLIAM STILL : DEAR Fr.irso:—Those boys will be along by the last Xorristown train to-morrow evening. 1 think the train leaves Norristown at G o'clock, but of this inform thyself. The boys \vill be sent to a friend at Korriatown, with instructions to assist them in getting seats in the last train that leaves Norristown to-morrow evening. They are two of the eleven who left, some time since, and took with them some of their master's hones; I have told them to remain in tho cars at Green street until somebody meets them. E. F. PKSNYPAOKER. Having arrived safely, by the way and manner indicated in E. F. Penny-packer's note, as they were found to be only sixteen arid seventeen years of age, considerable interest was felt by the Acting Committoe to hear their story. They were closely questioned in the usual manner. They proved to be quite intelligent, considering how young they were, and how the harrow of Slavery had been upon them from infancy. They escaped from Chestertown, Md., in company with nine others (they being a portion of the eleven who arrived in Wilmiugton, with two carriages, etc., noticed on page 302), but, for prudential reasons they were separated while traveling. Some were sent on, but the boys had to be retained with friends in the country. Many such separations were inevitable. Li this respect a great deal of care and trouble had to be endured for the sake of the cause. THOMAS JERVIS, the elder boy, was quite dark, and stammered somewhat, yet he was active and smart. He stated that Sarah Maria Pcrkins was his mistress iu Maryland. He was disposed to speak rather favorably of her, at least he said that she was "tolerably kind" to her servants. She, however, was in the habit of hiring ont, to reap a greater revenue for them, and did not always get them places where they were treated as well as she herself treated them*. Tom left his father, Thomas Gooseberry, and three sisters, Julia Ann, Mary Ellen, and Katie Bright, all slaves. |