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| ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND. CHRISTOPHER GREEN AND WIPE, ANX MARIA, AND SDK NATHAN. CHRISTOPHER had a heavy debt charged against Clayton Wright, a commission merchant, of Baltimore, who claimed him as his property, and was in the habit of hiring him out to farmers in the country, and of taking all his hire except a single dollar, which was allotted him every holiday. The last item in his charge against Wright, suggested certain questions: " How have you been used ?" was the first query. "Sometimes right smart, and then again bad enough for it," said Christopher. Again he was asked, "What kind of a man was your master?" " He was only tolerable, I can't say much good for him. I got tired of working and they getting my labor and I fretting nothing for my labor." At the time of his escape, he was employed in the survice of a man by the name of Cook. Christopher described him as " a dissatisfied man, who couldn't be pleased at nothing and his wife was like him." This passenger was quite black, medium size, and in point of intellect, about on a par with ordinary field hands. His wife, Ann, in point of go-ahetul-ativeness, seemed in advance of him. Indeed, she first prompted her husband to escape. ANN bore witness against one James Pipper, a farmer, whom she had served as a slave, and from whom she fled, saying that " he was as mean a man as ever walked—a dark-complected old man, with gray hair." With great emphasis she thus continued her testimony : " He tried to work me to death, and treated me as mean as he could, without killing me; he done so muoh I couldn't tell to save my life. I wish I hud as many dollars as he has whipped me with sticks and other tilings. His wife will do tolerable." "I left because he was going to soil me and ray son to Georgia; for years he had b«ea threatening; since the boys ran away, last spring, he was harder than ever. One was my brother, Perry, and the other was a young man by the name of Jim." " David, mv master, drank all he could get, poured it down, and when drunk, would PUSS, and tear, and rip, and beat. He lives near the nine bridges, in Queen Ann county." AXN was certainly a forcible narrator, and was in ever)' way a wideawake woman, about thirty-seven years of age. Among other questions they were asked if they could read, etc. "Read," said Ann. "I would like to see anybody (slave) that could read our way ; to see you with a book in your hand they would almost cut your throat." ANN had one child only, a son, twenty years of age, who came in company with his parents. This son belonged to the said Pipper already described. When they started from the land of bondage they had large |