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| mond was open to all. John William on this occasion was on his way thither to see how his brethren together with their old oppressors looked facing each other as freemen. Miss Anna Brown was en route to Norfolk, where she designed to teach a school of the unfettered bondmen. The return of the Refugee was as unexpected as it was gratifying. Scarcely had the cordial greetings of the writer and his family ended and the daughter of Brown been Introduced before the writer was plying his Refugee guest with a multiplicity of questions relative to his sojourn in Canada, etc. " How have you been getting along in Canada ? Do you like the country'?" "First-rate," said John William. "You look as though you had neither been starved, nor frozen. Have you had plenty of work, made some money, and taken care of yourself?" " Yes." " "When you were on the Underground Rail Road on your way to Canada you promised that you were going to keep from all bad habits; how about the 'crittur?' do yon take a little sometimes?" " No, I have not drank a drop since I left the South " replied John William with emphasis. " Good ! " 1 suppose you smoke and chew at any rate ?" " No, neither. I never think of such a thing." " Now don't you keep late hours at night and swear occasionally ?" " No, Sir. All the leisure that I have of evenings is spent over my books as a general thing; I have not fallen into the fashionable customs of young men." Miss Brown, who had been an attentive listener, remarked: "HE OUGHT TO BE PUT IN A CAGE, ETC." He was twenty-seven years of age when he first landed in Philadelphia, in the month of February, 1860, per steamer Pennsylvania, in which he had been stowed away in a store-room containing a lot of rubbish and furniture; in this way he reached City Point; here a family of Irish emigrants, vory dirty, were taken on board, and orders were given that accommodations should be made for them in the room occupied by J- W. Here was trouble, but only for a moment. Those into whose charge he had been consigned on the boat knew that the kettle and pot-closet had often been used for Underground Rail Road purposes, and he was safely conducted to quarters among the pots. The room was exceedingly limited, bat he stood it bravely. On landing he was not able to stand. It re- |