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| SUXVR Y AMRIVALS IN 1859. 491 Alexander & Lewis and Ames will all be here and Isabella also, if you cant bring ail bring Alexander eurely, write when you will come and 1 will meet you in Albany. Love to you all, from your loving Husband, JACOB BLOCKSON. fare through $12,30 do here. MB. STILL : SIR -.—you will please Envelope this and send it to John Sheppard Bridge-ville P office in Sussex county Delaware, seal it in black and oblige me, write to her to come to yon. SUNDRY ARRIVALS IN 1859. SARAH ANN MILLS, Boonsborough; CAROLINE GASSWAY, Mt Airy; LEVIN HOLDEX, Laurel; WIJ.UAM JAMES CONNER, with his wife, child, and four brothers; JAMES LAZARUS, Delaware; RICHARD WILLIAMS, Richmond, Virginia; SYDNEY HOPKINS and HENBY WHEELER, Havre de Grace. SAHAH MILI.S set out for freedom long before she reached womanhood ; being about sixteen years of age. She stated that she had been very cruelly treated, that she was owned by a man named Joseph O'Neil, " a tax collector and a very bad man." Under said O'Neil she had been required to chop wood, curry horses, work in the field like a man, and all one winter she had been compelled to go barefooted. Three weeks before Sarah fled, her mistress was called away by death ; nevertheless Sarah could not forget how badly she had been treated by her wliile living. According to Sarah's testimony the mistress was DO better than her husband. Sarah came from Boonsborough, near Hagerstown, Md,, leaving her mother and other relatives in that neighborhood. It was gratifying to know that such bond-women so early got beyond the control of slave-holders; yet girls of her age from having had no pains taken for their improvement, appealed loudly for more than common sympathy and humanity, but rarely ever found it; on the contrary, their paths were beset with great danger. CAKOLIXE GASSWAY, after being held to service by Summcrsett Walters, until she had reached her twenty-seventh year, was forced, by hard treatment and the love of freedom, to make an effort for deliverance. Her appearance at once indicated, although she was just out of the prison-house, that she possessed more than an ordinary share of courage, and that she had had a keen insight into the system under which she had been oppressed. She was of a dark chestnut color, well-formed, with a large and high forehead, indicative of intellect. She had much to say of the ways and practices of slave-holders; of the wrongs of the system. She dwelt especially upon her own situation as a slave, and the character of her master; she told not only of his ill treatment of her, but described his physical appearance as well. " He was a spare-made man, with a red head and quick temper: he |