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| 454 THE UNDERG&OUND RAILROAD. indispensable. Of the merits of the grave charges made by his master against his mistress, Alfred professed to liave formed no opinion; be knew, however, that his master blamed a school-master, by the name of Conway, for the sad state of things in his household. Time would fail to tell of the abundant joy Alfred derived from the fact, that his "heels" had saved him from a Southern market. Equally difficult would it be to express the interest felt by the Committee in this passenger and his wonderful hair-breadth escape. ARRIVAL FROM BELLEAIR. JTTLIU8 SMITH, WIFE MARY, AND BOY JAMES, HENRY AXD EDWARD SMITH, AND JACK CHRISTY. While this party was very respectable in regard to numbers and enlisted much sympathy, still they had no wounds or bruises to exhibit, or very hard reports to make relative to their bondage. The treatment that had been meted out to them was about as tolerant as Slavery could well afford; and the physical condition of the passengers bore evidence tliat they had been used to something better than herring and corn cake for a diet. JULIUS, who was successful enough to bring his wife and boy with him, was a wonderful specimen of muscular proportions. Although a. young man, of but twenty-five, he weighed two hundred and twenty-five pounds; lit- \vas tall and well-formed from the crown of hi.s head to the soles of his feet. Nor was he all muscle by a groat deal ; he was well balanced as to mother wit and shrewdness. In looking back into the pit from whence lit: had been dclivervd he could tell a very interesting story of what ho h;ul experienced, from which it was evident that lie had not been an idle observer of what had passed relative to the Peculiar Institution ; especially was it very certain that lie hud never seen anything lovely or of good rqiort belonging to the system. So far as his personal relations were concerned, lie acknowledged that a man named Mr. Robert Hollan, had assumed to impose himself upon him as master, and that this same man had also wrongfully claimed all his time1, denied him all common and special privileges; besides he had deprived him of an education, eto., which looked badly enough before he left Maryland, but in the light of freedom, and from a free State stand-point, the idea that " man's inhumanity to man " should assume such gigantic proportions as to cause him to seize his fellow-man and hold him in perpetual bondage, was marvellous in the extreme. JCLJUS had been kept in the dark in Maryland, but on free soil, the light rushed in upon his astonished vision to a degree almost bewildering. That |