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 located about two miles and a half east of John White's, on the road leading from Monroes to Bastrope; and that he has a fine Pack of Dogs for catching Negroes: persons wishing Negroes caught will do well to give him a call. He can always be found at his stand, when not engaged in hunting; and, even then, information of his whereabouts, can always be had of some one on the premises. Terms, 5 dollars per day and found, when no track pointed out; when the track is shown, twenty-five dollars will be charged for catching Negroes.—Monroes, Feb. 17, 1852. M. C. Goff.

I was initiated into this underground business in the county of Ross, in the State of Ohio, in 1843, and continued in the office, faithfully discharging the duties, until 1855. Never, for one moment, have I regretted being thus engaged, though I experienced many very unpleasant things during that period. "But God knows how to deliver his own out of temptation." Many have been the times I have suffered in the cold, and beating rains pouring in torrents from the watery clouds. In the midst of the impetuosity of the whirl-winds and wild tornadoes, leading on my company. Not to the field of sanguinary war and carnage, but to the glorious land of impartial freedom, where the bloody lash is not buried in the quivering flesh of the vassal. Nor where the voice of prayer, the songs of Zion, the clanking of the handcuffs,