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| ARRIVAL FROM HOWARD CO., J£D., 1867. 419 John Stewart, behind; also one sister, a slave in Georgetown. One brother had beeu sold South. Her mother she had laid away in a slave's grave: but her father she hoped to find in Canada, he having escaped thither when she was a small girl; at least it was supposed that he had gone there. ARRIVAL FROM HOWARD CO., MD., 1857. BILL OOLK AND HjLSSON. $ 500 REWARD.—Ran away on Saturday night, September 5th, Bill Cole, aged about 37 years, of copper complexion, stout built, ordinary height, walks very erect, earnest but squmt look when spoken to. Also, Hanson, copper complexion, well made, sickly look, medium height, stoops when walking, quick when spoken to; aged about 30 years. Three hundred dollars v.-ill be paid for the apprehension and dalivetj of Bill, if caught out of the State, and two hundred if in the State. Two hundred dollars for Hanaon if oat of the State, and one hundred dollars if in the State. W. BAKER DOESET, HAUMON.D DORSET, Savage P. 0., Howard county, Md. Such notoriety as was given them by the above advertisement, did not in the least damage Bill and Hanson in the estimation of the Committee. It was rather pleasing to know that they were of so much account as to call forth such a public expression from the Messrs. Dorsey. Besides it saved the Committee the necessity of writing out a description of them, the only fault found with the advertisement being in reference to their ages. Bill, for instance, was put down ten years younger than he claimed to be. Which was correct, Bill or his master? The Committee were inclined to believe Bill in preference to his master, for the simple reason, that he seemed to account satisfactorily for his master's making him so young: he (the master) could sell him for much more at thirty-seven than at forty-seven. Unscrupulous horse-jockies and traders in their fellow-men were about on a par as to that kind of sharp practice. HANSON, instead of being only thirty, declared that he was thirty-seven the fifteenth of February. These errors are noticed and corrected because it is barely possible that Bill and Hanson may still be lost to their relatives, who may be inquiring and hunting in every direction for them, and as many others may turn to these records with hope, it is, therefore, doubly important that these descriptions shall be aa far as possible, correct, especially as regards ages. HAXSOJ? laughed heartily over the idea that he looked "sickly." While on the Underground Rail Koad, he looked very far from sickly; on the contrary, a more healthy, fat, and stout-looking piece of property no one |