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| 672 THE WDEBOSOVND RAIL BOAD. out me; bat as I told him before, I would go, if he still requested it, I would go; that's all, sir, except that I said I would be along in the stage. * * * * * * * * J. T. Hammond was then called, a young man who admitted he had never seen the respondent till he came to the court-house, but -was ready to swear that he would have known her by her resemblance to Dr. Purnell's set of negroes. " His whole set ?" said Mr. Brown. " Yes, sir." (Derisive laughter). ******** Mr. McMurtrie offered to prove, by persons who had known the two witnesses who had testified in this case, from their youth, that they were respectable and worthy men. D. P. Brown, said that if the gentleman found it necessary to sustain his witnesses' reputation, in consequence of the peculiar dilemma they had got into, he would object, and if he supposed that he "was about to contradict them in some point in the defence, he certainly was right, but as the case could not be concluded to-day, he would like to have the matter adjourned over until Tuesday next. Mr. McMurtrie objected, by saying, that his client was anxious to have the matter disposed of as soon as possible, aa he had been subjected to numerous insults since the matter had been before the court. Judge Kane intimated that no weight was to be attached to this consideration, as the full power of the court was at his disposal for the purpose of protecting his client from insult. Mr. McMurtrie replied that he did not know whether words spoken came within the meaning of the act of Congress, in such matters. The court took a recess until a quarter to three o'clock. The court met again at a quarter to three o'clock. Mr. McMurtrie asked that the witnesses for the defence be excluded from the court room, except the one upon the stand. This was objected to by Mr. Brown, as the witnesses for the prosecution had not been required so to do; but he afterwards withdrew his objections, and notified Mr. McMurtrie that he would require any witnesses he might have in addition, should retire also; as he would object to any of them being heard if tkey remained. The Defence.—Mr. Pierce opened the case by saying that the testimony for the defenae would be clear and conclusive; that the witnesses for the prosecution »re mistaken in the identity of the alleged fugitive. That at the time Aey allege her to have been in Maryland, on the plantation of Dr. Purnell, 4he was in Chester county, and in the year Lafejette visited this country, Ae was in this city. He would confine the testimony exclusively to these two counties, and show that she is not the alleged slave. •Henry C. Cornish, sworn. I live iu this city, and am a shoemaker; I came here in the year 1830; before that I lived iu Cheater county, East |