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110 River, opposite Fulton; he reached the Ohio side nearly exhauftedexhausted [sic] with cold and fatigue; as he lay resting on the shore he observed his pursuers on horseback, with rifles, on the opposite bank, They discuvereddiscovered [sic] their victim and crossed in a ferryboat at Pendleton, but the sight of these human tigers revived the almost drowned man, and like a deer he scaled the precipitous hill at the back of Fulton and disappeared. God speed the Fugitive — and I had liked to have said, "crush the black hearts of his pursuers." This was from quite a respectable clergyman who saw the Slave and his pursuers, but whose name I do not deem it prudent to give.

Again, we have the following from the Aurora Banner: — " Twenty-five Negroes ran away from their masters in Boone County, Kentucky, on the 2nd instant, among those who lost their servants are two Ministers of the Gospel." The Banner says further, that "some weeks before their departure one of the Slaves procured and read to his comrades Uncle Tom's Cabin, and it is supposed that the beauties of Canadian freedom, as pictured by Mrs. Stowe, were the means of inducing them to run away." The Under-ground Railroad pays the Shareholders very well, but not as well as might be desired; but business is flourishing to their satisfaction, as the following would indicate: — "The Under-ground