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| ARRIVAL FROM NORFOLK. 659 fulness of its agents in guarding against accidents. After remaining a short time in Philadelphia, she made choice of Boeton as her future residence, and with a letter of introduction to William Lloyd Garrison, she proceeded thithcrwar^. How she was received, and what she thought of the place and people, may be gleaned from this letter (written by herself.) Bosios, May 15th, 1858. DEAE FEIEND :—I have selected this oppotunity to write you a few lines, hopting thay may find you and yours enjoying helth and happiness. I arrived hear on Thiraday last, and had a lettor of inuxhiction giving to me by one of the gentlemen at the Antoslavery office in New York, to Mr. Garrison in Boston, I found him and his lady both to bee very clever. I stopped with them the first day of my arrive! hear, since that Time I have been living with Mrs. Hilliard I have met with BO menny of my acquaintances hear, that I all most immagion my self to bee in the old country. I have not been to Canaday yet, as you expected. I had the pleasure of seeing the lettor that you wrote to them on the subject. I suffered much on the road with Lead ake but since that time I have no reason to complain, please do not for git to send the degarritips in the Shaimpain basket, with Dr. Lundys, Mr. Lesley said he will send them by express, tell Julia kelly, that through mistake, I took one of her pocket handkerchift, that was laying on the table, but I shall keep it in remembranc of the onner. I must bring my lettor to a close as I have nothing more to say, and believe me to be your faithfull friend. LOUISA. F. JOKES. P. S. Remember me to each and every member of your familly and all Enquiring Friends. Being of an industrious turn she found a situation immediately, and from that day to the present, she has sustained an excellent character in every respect, and as a fashionable dressmaker does a good business. ARRIVAL OF FIFTEEN FROM NORFOLK, VIRGINIA. PER SCHOONER—TWICE SEARCHED —LANDED AT LEAGUE ISLAND. ISAAC FOKMAN, HENRY WILLIAMS, WILLIAM SEYMOCtt, HABKIKT TAYLOB, MARY BIRD, MRS. I.EWEY, SARAH SAUNDERS, SOPHIA GRAY, HENRY GRAY, MARY GRAY, wiNFiELD SCOTT, and three children. About the 4th of July, 1856, a message reached the Secretary that a schooner containing fifteen Underground Rail Road passengers, from Norfolk, Virginia, would be landed near League Island, directly at the foot of Broad street, that evening at a late hour, and a request accompanied the message, to the effect that the Committee would be on hand to receive them. Accordingly the Secretary procured three carriages, with trustworthy drivers, and between tea and eleven o'clock at night arrived on the banks of the Schuylkill, where all was qoiet as a " country grave-yard." The moon waa |