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78 From Poulson's American Daily Advertiser. CONVENTION OF TEOPLE OF COLOR. About a column under the editorial head of the Daily Intelligencer' of the 1st instant, is occupied in denouncing, in qualified terms. the existence and character, both of the pres ent ana iuture Dearing or said Convention, on the now unfortunate but otherwise peaceful condition of this country. The writer, like most men unacquainted with their subjects, una ramer amoiuous.io excel in intemperate declamation, has dealt out to us a lecture on bloody motives, which have had an existence only in his own imagination, and with an apparent sincerity, he declares them to be the ob ject which will occupy tho ueliberations of eaid Convention.

This is rather unfriendly, but we are willing to abide the issue, provi- dea tie will aaauce ins proots which, as a matter of courtesy, we most heartily request. I he Convention tor bettering the condi lion of the Free People of held it3 first session in this city in the month of Septem ber, 1830. It has since held two meeting in the month of June, 1831 and 2, and proposes to hold its next session on the first Monday in next month, rubhcity ot it3 meeting have always been given through periodicals of extensive circulation it3 business has always been transacted with open doors, and its pro ceedings puolishea to the world. The writer has betrayed considerable weakness in asserting that Conventions, conducted as these always have been, could endanger the peace -and happiness of society. 1st What scheme could be there concocted, that would not immediately be made public, through the medium or visitors i ad.

1 use his own language, their increased intelligence would deter them from the practice of any act so monstrous, without a perfect safeguard. 3dly. If they possess an insurrectionary spirit, what better mode of detecting it But why stop 'to discuss a the first analytic touch, will be dissolved into a pusillanimous element, fit only of itself to feed the 'Maw-worm'-of envy and malice, and to alarm the the ignorant and unthinking, by representing to them that the moral and literary improvement of the People of Color will bring down upon them the elements of destruction. No reflecting man could be induced to believe it No people accustomed to view causes and their effects, could believe that such inductive sophistry was other than the effluvia from the hot bed of prejudice and hatred. The original object of the Convention will -be vigilantly pursued, viz To elevate the character and condition of the Free People of Color.

To completo the promotion of said object, if has always appealed to the good, the great, and wise, to support them in an undertaking that must naturally redound to the peace, happiness and prosperity of the American People. The Convention has never meddled with the abstract question of slavery, although they deny the inherent right of 'man to bold property in They likewise differ'from a large portion of the American people oh the scheme of African Colonization; they prefer, to adopt the language of the paragraph, that is, rather to endure the ills they have, than fly to others they know If the system of colonizing onr people on the coast of Africa, is a scheme that promises so much towards evangelizing that benighted country, and the redemption of our people from a vassalage that ought to make the savage weep, it is certainly worthy of an investigation. No liberal mind could fault us for rejecting it, because the operation seems to us to promise destruction, while its theory promises blessings. It is a philosophical that it is ne cessary to feel acutely in ordef that we may judge Certainly our opponents will not deny us the advantage in this sense. Liet any man suppose Inmscir the workman ship of an 'almighty' hand, endowed by na ture with all the qualifications that ennoble 3the creature, whoso conduct and character has been such as to render him an ornament creation, and an object cf favor to the God whd gave him existence and then let him suppose that he i3 deprived of terrestrial hap piness without having committed crime that he must be transported from a land of science and civilization, to an uncultivated region to share savage barbarity and heathen darkness only because lii3 complexion is a little more sable than a majority of his countrymen will not his soul rise up with its majestic power and reject it We respectfully ask cohnizationists to draw their conclusions from such premises, and give us the result of their inquiries, He "says, 'that subjects will be tliere broached whose agitation sounds vie tocsin oj an eternal civil war.1 This is truly ridiculous, as it brings contempt on soma of the best citizens of our country, and if true would subjec to the crime ot being necessaries to such a plot, The convention has never been a secret depot for insurrectionary plots, it has been visited almost every day by men who rank a-mong the first for usefulness in our country Men who for literary worth, and unbounded benevolence, are fit to be compared with the greatest of th is or any past age men whose namea will live as long, and shine with as bril liant lustre on posterity, as those of a Franklin, a Howard, or a Benezet and are these men to be guilty of quietly looking on the bloody manufacture.

Are not these sentinels of public safety besides at almost every hour of the sittings of the convention there have been more or less white persons present un known to its members. Among the list of visitors, we shall take th3 liberty to name the Key. It. It. tiurley, Secy A.

Society, Air. Breckenbridge, of Kentucky, and the Rev. James Patterson of this city the first and of these gentlemen addressed the convention, and were treated kindly and are these to be ranked with those plot-makers who would destroy the happiness of society many others no less distinguished, and who we are proud to rank our best friends, might be men tioned and who are as noble safe guards of peace as ever trod the sou. But since enzt-colonization, fanaticism and heresy have become synonymous it i unnecessary to mention their names. The concluding question arises, what would our enemies have us to do They pour forth thir indignation at our ignorance, immorality, and degradation, if we attempt to become en lightened, moral, and respectable, they scoff and persecute us, by sounding the alarm of insurrection, bloodshed, murder, ana all those horrors, that are fit only to be committed by the savasre.

rather than the civilized. Therefore we will say to them, we cannot serve you you are neither Gon nor Mammo-v, for nothing will satisly you. We wyl pursue, wiui tne assistance of Providence, an onward, upright course, believing it to be the best adapted to promote the object of our creation, and which will secure us both temporal and spiritual hap piness and we will solicit the aid ot our mends in the discharge of every duty that is consistent with our relation to God and our duty to man. The People of Color have taken a review of their situation, and plainly behold the cloud that hangs suspended over them, but they are unwilling to believe but that it will dispel as their moral vision bemns to penetrate the re gions of human greatness their hope is in the advancement of science, morality, and religion. "They desire no such relief from thraldom, as was practised by the heathen nations or antiquity they do not desire to raise up a Hannibal, a Scipio, an Alexander, or a Bonaparte, or any modern warrior, that should drag them through a sea of blood, into a precarious lib erty, scarcely worth enjoying, they desire to have no such kings of murder, rapine, and blood thev rejoice that they live in other times, in an age of light, where that beautiful passage of scripture is fast fulfilling, 'when the swords shall be turned into ploughshears, and that people and nations shall learn war no The object of the convention, as will be seen by its publications, is to instil the doc trine; that the only true method of acquiring liberty is by moral suasion alone.

1 ac complish this we have recommended the total abandonment of immoral conduct, a strict attention to the advancement of education, and an honest upright walk in life. Finally, be lieving that these would remove the burden of degradation from our characters, and render us a useful people, we therefore hope for its success, and that wherever the tree of science may spread its branches our people will be found gathering its delicious fruits, until their moral light open to them the enjoyments and blessings due to all mankind. It is with reluctance I have ventured to cor rect the unjust accusation against the conven tion, but however feeble, I trust it shall never want for an advocate. A Member of the Convention. LIGHT IN THE WEST Taumadge, (Ohio) April 10th, 183a On this day we were favored with a lecture delivered by Rev.

Charles W. Denison, on the subject of the enslaved and oppressed Africans. The meeting was held at the Meeting House at the centre, was opened by an appropriate prayer by Rev. JWr. Raldwin, and closed by a prayer by Rev.

J. Keys. After an eloquent and animated address, a number of re- speciaDie mnaDitants or tne town proceeuea to torm an Anti-Slavery society, of which the alo-v-s ia olu Ot tne Preamble, anil one or two of the most essential articles of the Constitution. PREAMBLE. Whereas we believe that slavery is contrary to the precepts of Christianity, dangerous to the liberties of the country, and ought immediately to be abolished and whereas, we believe that the citizens of Ohio not only have a right to protest against it but are under the highest obligation to seek its removal by moral influence and as we believe that the free people of color are unrighteously oppressed, and stand in need of our sympathy and benevolent co-operation therefore, recoenizin? the inspired declaration, that God hath made of one blood all nations to dwell on all the earth, and in obedience to our Saviour's golden rule, all thing3 whatsoever ye would have men do to you, do jre even so to ve agree to form ourselves into a Society, cud be governed by the following CONSTITUTION.

Article 1. This Society shall he called the Tallmadge Anti-Slavery Society. Art. 2. The object of this Society shall be to endeavor by all means sanctioned bylaw, humanity, and religion, to effect the abolition of slavery in the United States, to improve the character and condition of the free people of color, to inform and correct public opinion in respect to their situation and rights, and obtain for them equal civil and political rights and privileges with the whites.

The Constitution was signed by thirty-two inhabitants of Tallmadare, friends to the equal rights of and also friends to the oppress ed Africans. Observer ij- JLclcgrapfu From the New-England Galaxy. HOUSE OF REFORMATION FOR JU VENILE DELINQUENTS. Mr. Editor, In reading the reports of the Prison Discipline Society I found the fol lowing expression used in mentioning t'ie inmates of the Leverett street jail in Boston: The old men and black From this expression one might infer that there were no while boys in that jail.

If there are no while boys there, it is owing I presume, to their be ing sent to the House of Reformation in South Boston. I was informed by a visiter to the House of Reformation that no black boys were to be seen there, and if I mistake not, there was none when I visited the place some years ago. I shall be much obliged, Sir, if you or any of your correspondents will inform me whv this distinction is mado between boys of two different colors. It is admitted thai white boys are likely to beccms depraved, if kept in the Leverett street Arc the morals of black boys less likely to suffer contamination in that place, or are their morals less deserving the attention of the community If we do not "tiiiiik these unfortunate descendants of an op pressed race worthy of any regard on their own account if we do consider them as not being members of the human family, and therefore unworthy of our sympathy, still the gen- era! interests of society require that their mor- al condition should be improved. THE LIBERATOR.

1 confess, sir, that I am shocked to find that young olored boys should be sent for punishment to a place where it would be thought ruinous to send white It is a melancholy instance of the cruel prejudice and contempt with which the whites are apt to regard the Africans. All I wish now to ask, i3, for what reason this distinction between boys of different colors is made Th? law does net require it Am I right in supposing that no one among the Mayor and Aldermen, the Directors of the House of Industry, those of the House of Re formation, and the Overseers of the Poor of Boston have ever thought it advisable to have a colored boy sent to the House cf Reformation? JUSTITIA. MORE BARBAHISMI fxGcorgia men-steal ers have never been guilty of a more flagrant and heaven-daring transgression of the laws- of humanity, than is disclosed in the following document Andrew T. Judson and his malignant associates bid fair to eclipse the infamy of Nero and Benedict Their villany will open the eyes of the American people, and kindle a flame of indignation throughout the land. The following is a copy of a handbill sent us by a friend.

lVho are now the Savages? The Indians, the Georgians, or the Persecutors of the noble minded Miss Prudence Crandall, of Canterbury, and her excellent, pupil Miss Eliza Ann Hammond, of Providence? Will Andrew T. Judson, for himself and his Canterbury associates, answer the interrogation? Community and posterity will answer it for them. Do they suppose that the letter of the law which they plead as authority for barbarism, would be the rule of judgment with men of sense, to exclude persons from other States in the Union, of good character, the privileges of education in this State, and who are able to pay for those privileges If so, the Civil Authority of Hartford may warn every Student from other States out of the city fine them and on their refusing to pay the nne or to leave the place, giye each at the whipping post ten lashes upon the naked body. and remove them to whence they came. The President ot each or our Colleges, and the Principals of every Boarding School in the State, can be fined for educating such per sons a doctrine so monstrous, that none but Fools and Knaves would attempt to enforce it The IMPERIAL ORDER of the Persecu tors of Miss Eliza Ann Hammond, a pupil of Miss Prudence Crandall, aged 17 years, not charged with the color of fault, of the city of Providence, in the State or Khodo Island, is here given for the inspection of all good citizens.

To the Slieriff of the County of ftlndham. his Deputy, or either cf. the Constables cf the Toion of Canterbury, Within said Comity, Br Authority of the State of Coskicti- cut, You are hereby commanded to summon ELIZA ANN HAMMOND, of Providence, in the County of l'rovidence. and fetate of Rhode Island, now residing in said town ol canterbury, to appear before George Middleton, Esq. Justice of the Peace for the County of Windham, residing- in the town of Plainfield ia said county of Windham, next adjoining the town of Can terbury, which is the riaintiu in this case, (there bein no Justice of the Peace iu said town of Canterbury, which is also the present place of the Defendant's abode, who can lawfully trv this rniwel at th duell ing house of Chauncy Bacon, in said town of Canter bury, on the second clay ol May, 1833, at one o'clock in the aAernoon, then and there to answer unto the town of Canterbury in said County, a public corpora action, by PETER JUORSE, ROSWELL ALLEN, tion oi soia I'Oiimv.

wno now sues nnn nrrwprnio tht tliKAK.CK SAINlir.K, As All EL BACON, and ANDREW T. JUDSON, Select Men of said town of I 1 1 1 1' rt i in ail flftinn hmimhl nn i ute Law of this State, entitled An Act for the admis sion and settlement of inhabitants in wherein, amon; oiner tiling's 11 is enaciea as follows to wit Section 7tli. i he Select Men of any town shall be. .1 1 1 1 anu mcy are nercny auinorizcu, euner rv liiemseives. or by warrant from a Justice of the I'eace in such town, directed to either Constable of such town, which warrant such Justice is hereby authorized to srive.

to warn any person not an inhabitant of this State, to depart such town, and the person so warned, shall forfeit and pay to the Treasurer of such town one dollar and sixtv-seven cents per week, for every week he or she P9 aforesaid, and when such person who shall be convicted of the breach of this pet, in refusing to depart on warning as aforesaid, hath no estate to satisfy the fine, such person shall be whipped on the naked bodii not ex nn rnririmif in turn mnn aiinr warnmtr munn ceeding (en stripes, unless he or she depart the town within ten days next after sentence is given and reside no more therein without leave of the Select and that in the Slh Section of the same act, among other tilings it is enacted as follows, viz Aud the Select Men in the respective towns are hereby empowered to prosecute all breaches of this and now the said town of Canterbury, by their said Select Men, further allege, that on the of April, 1833. one Eliza Ann Hammoxd, this defendant, who then was not, ana never since nam Deen, anu no is noi now, an inhabitant of this State, but then was, ever since hath been, and now is, an inhabitant of the State of Rhode Island, come to reside in said town of Canterbury, and on lhel3th of April, 1833, did by a warrant from 'Rums Adams, Esq. then and ever since a Justice of the Peace for Windham County in said Canterbury, directed to either Coustable of said Canterbury, the Select Men of said Canterbury did warn the said Eliza Ann Hammond, to depart Uie town of Canterbury aforesaid, and notwithstanding said warning duly and lawfully served upon the said Eliza Ann Hammond, on the said" 15th day of April, 1833, she the said Eliza Ann, against the provision ot said statute, and agauist the peace, did continue in said town of Canterbury from said 13th dav of April, the full period of one week, to wit including the 14th, 15lh, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th days of April, 1S33, by means whereof the said Eliza Ann Hammond hala torteitcd ami become liable to pay to the Treasurer of Canterbury aforesaid, for the use of the town of Canterbury aforesaid, the sum of one dollar and sixty-seven cents, and a right of action hath accrued to the plaintiff to recover the same for the aforesaid, and the defendant hath never paid the same thorgh often requested and demanded, and now to re cover the said sum ol lb 7, and cost of suit, this action is brought. Hereof fail not, but of this writ with doings hereon, lawful service and return the saaie. Dated at Canterbury, the 22d day of April.

1333. Signed, Kir La AUA31S, Justice of the I'eace. A writ has been served upon Miss Crandall for receiving Miss Hammond as her pupil. learn that this lady has just received six more pupils from New York city, and will probably have a full" school. Shame to the Persecutors! Burning shame to the gallant and noble Inflictors cf stripes vpon innocent and studious i emales Let them remember an old adage, and that a generous public know to whom it should be applied.

A whip for the horse, a bridle for tho ass, and a rod for the fyoVs Common Sense. Note The following illustrates the character of T. Judson A few days since Miss Crandall stepped across the street, in company with another lady, to band A. T. Judson a letter lirom Rev.

Mr. May, proffering to the Town of Canterbury, security against the scholars of Miss C. -becoming a town charge hen this gentleman, after receiving the lettersaid to Miss 'Will tou have a Negro to wait upon you homeT' and then, calling to a low drunken fellow, said, Here, this fellow will wait upon iO" It seems from the following paragraph, that the knavish persecutors of Miss Crandall are not content with reviving old blue laws, but are endeavoring to procure the passage of neto ones to aid them in carrying into effect their ungodly designs. Let the reader notice partioularly the allusion to the American Colonization Society 'At a town meeting legally warned and held at Canterbury, on the 1st day April, 1833, Asahet Moderator-Voted, That a petition in behalf of the town of Canterbury, to the next general assembly, be up in suitable language, deprecating the- evil consequences of bringing irom other towns, and other states, people of color for any purpose, and more especially for the purpose of disseminating tho principles and doctrines opposed to the benevolent colonization system, praying said assembly to pass and enact such laws, as iu their wisdom will prevent the evil aud that Andrew T. Judson.

Wm. Lester, Chester Lyon, Rufus Adams, Solomon Payne, Andrew T. Harris, Asahcl Bacon, Geo. S. Daniel Packer and Isaac Backus, be agents to do Uie ame.

Voted. That said aeents respectfully request the inhabitants of other towns to proffer similar petitions," for the same laudable object. The foregoing is a true copy of Record Examined by Andrew T. Jcdsos, Town Clerk. Jj We learn that several petitions have already been presented and referred, and that a bill is now be fore the Legislature of Connecticut, PROHIBIT ING SCHOOLS OTHER THAN DISTRICT SCHOOLS FOR PERSONS OF COLOR FROM ANY OTHER STATES We shall see whether Colonizationists approve or condemn these measures.

They have the power in their own hands in that State, and if the law is passed it will not be done with out tbeir consent. We shall watch them SLAVEH7 RECORD. For the Liberator. THE SLAVE TRADE AT RICHMOND. Nothing is more mischievous than the idea so often promulgated that the slave trade is abolished.

In 1808, there was wonderful boasting over the extinction of slave kidnap ping in Africa by the Americans and Britons i but the southern slave drivers made that deceitful noise only to blind the eyes of honest citizens and christians to the interior slave trade, which indescribably more criminal. The slave trade in all its unspeakable guiltiness is carried on between Baltimore, Rich- rnond-, and the southern States with equal reg ularity, as exchanges of cotton, flour, rice and sugar. 'Znktly wenches' are as openly sold by tlie pound in the scales, as any other commodity. Gangs of negroes as they are usually called, are driven in chains from one state to another, or transported in vessels, with no other difference from tho old African slave trade than the motley colored appearance of the people, their speaking the English language, their being native American citizens, the lesser size of the slaveholding vessel, the shorter duration of the voyage, and the ineffa bly more atrocious criminality of all the felons concerned in the piratical trade. By the law of the land, it is the highest felony to kidnap a native of Africa-on the borders of Liberia, and to land and sell him to Nero Lumpkin at Savannah and by a similar law, it is honorable and innocent to steal an American free born citizen in Baltimore, and export him to Nashville, and sell him to slave driver Jackson one is a gentleman dealing in slaves, and the other wickedly elevated to the highest office in the United States in other words, the sea pirate and the lesser criminal is sent to the penitentiary for life, or hanged for his foreign kidnapping while the land pirate and the more audacious felon receives the highest national honor, and 25000 dollars per annum for his home man stealing and this is what we falsely call American jus tice, rreedom and philanthropy.

Away with such lying and knavery and hypocrisy 1 his subject has been brought to view in plain exhibition by the following article which was extracted from the. New-York American of April SO. It is high time that all the periodical presses should speak out boldly upon this nefarious traffic but it will be a matter of comparatively trilling importance, how strongly the slave driving system is reprobated, until two practical principles are adopted and extensively put into actual operation. Slave drivers must not be acknowledged as Christians. The whole horde of men-stealers must be excluded at once from the christian churches.

Call the slaveholder bv what jtos- pel name you please, his profession of religion is insulting hypocrisy. He may be a R. R. Prelate of the Episcopal Church, or a Methodist Bishop, or a Presbyterian or Baptist D. D.

or a Roman Priest, Elder, Class-Leader, or a Jesuit, or any thing else, S. T. L. L. D.

President or Professor of a col- ege he may be the exact copy of JohnBun- it is all a merely deceptive vizor for his religion and Christianity are insufficient to actuate his obedience to the eighth commandment thou shalt not steal for he is a man-thief, a sinner of the first rank, and guilty of the highest kind of who is condemned to death by the law cf Moses, and unless he repents, with all other workers of iniquity, will have his part in the lake which burneth with fire and Vo man stealer can enter the kingdom of heaven. He would not be permitted to carry on the slave trade there. 4 Mark as the mcn-stealers' agent Danforth says. Kidnappers who steal Christians on earth to sell them to Collier, Woolfolk, and other 1 gentlemen deeding in. slaves' for unceasing stripes and toil and misery, until they die if they were in hecny-en and possessed the power, would also steal an gels and glonfed samls to sell them to the devil, upon the same principles, and with equally justifiable pretexts.

No! No! as one eyed Billy' the Methodist preacher used to say; they will not be admitted into heaven with a gang of slaves tied to their backs and therefore such audacious felons ought not to be acknowledged as members of the church below. slaveholder ought to hold any ptiblie office. Every man-stealer who takes 4he oath of office in the United States commits wflfiil and corrupt perjury and during the whole period of his continuance in office, he is living vith the guilt of habitual false swearing attached unto him. Every citizen ho votes' for a slaveholder for any public office under the U. S.

government is chargeable with subornation of perjury; and while the greatest of all thieves, for they are men stealers and pirates, are admitted to offices of honor and emolument, all attempts to" crush the demon-monster of slavery will be utterly unavailing. If we would destroy the slave trade at Richmond, Baltimore, Washington, and throughout the southern States, we must at once discard the wild and guilty that human beings are property. According to the following advertisement, free born Americans, without crime, are incarcerated in a jail for the reception of Thus it is publicly avowed that in the United States, in Richmond the capital of Virginia, a kidnapper owns a jail expressly for the safe keeping of any persons of color who may be brought unto him and sold. Look at this in practice A gentleman dealing in slaves what a fine title for an American citizen kidnapper meets a free colored young woman near Richmond seizes the human being, carries her to Collier's jail on Shockoe hill, violates her, then sells the 4 likely wench' to the jailor and probably the same night she is sent off with a gang to North Carolina by land, or to Georgia by water. This kidnapping of young free colored persons is a daily practice and these same jailors have persons in connection with them, whose sole employ it is thus to sleal the defenceless and unwary ichen it can be done with impunity.

The kidnappers and the jailors divide the price of blood. But we will-detain you no longer from the remarks of the N. Y. American, and the advertisement of Lewis A. Collier, who 4 yet continues in the slave trad(at Richmond, Va." only recommending this article to the editor of the Boston Recorder, and all his brother dough faced cditorhl white washers of hell born black slavery.

The Slave Trade at It is peril not an uncommon thins for the Richmond En quirer to publish such advertisements as that which follows, and which is taken, as will be seen by its date, from a 'recent number of that paper. It so happens, however, that our eve has not betore bocu causht by any such nor even now, but Tor the words at the head of tliis paragraph, which feem the pith of adver tisement, would it probably have attracted altcntion. But when all parties and all riht thinking individuals in this country, and the law of tho land, agree in considering the forcispi slave trade as felony of the worst sort, it docs startle one not a little, to runt, in the capital of Virginia a man thus advertising himself as carrying' on -a Slave Trade, not less objectionable on principle, and ostentatiously setting forth to" gentlemen the facilities, the accommodation, aud the comfort, (the 'jail attached' constituting, we presume, a part of tho comfort) with which he can carry on tlie nefarious traffic. Surely, public sentiment, iu such a civilized community as lticlimond, must be outraged by such an open display of tho evils incident to slavery, and which even those who profit by it must feel to be unfit, most unfit to be blazoned forth in thcaco of a free and christian community. Notice.

This is to inform my former acquaintances and the public generally, that I yet continue in the Slave Trade at Richmond, Virginia; and will et all times give a fair and market price for young Negroes. I live on Shockce Hill, near the Poor-house, where application is desired to be made. Persons in this State, Maryland or North Carolina wishing to sell lots of Negroes, are particularly requested to forward their wishes to me by mail at this place; and al.o, persons living near Richmond, having one or more for sale, will please inform me of tlie same, which will bo immediately attended to. Persons wishing to purchase lots of Negroes are requested to give me a call, as I keoi constantly on hand at this place a great many for sale, and have at this time, the use of one hundred likely young Negroes, consisting of boys, young men, and girls among which are several very valuable house servants of both sexes, ami I will sell at all times at a small advance on cost, in lots to suit purchasers. Persons from the southern states wanting to buy a choice lot of slaves, will do well to call on mc, as shall be able to furnish them at any time and gentlemen in the south or elsewhere, who may wish to communicate on this subject arc respectfully requested to forward their letters to me at Richmond, which will be duly attended to.

I have comfortable rooms, with a jail attached for the reception of Negroes; and persons cominj- to this place to Sell blavvs cuii be aceuuiuioddt-ed, and every attention necessary will be given to have them well attended to and when it may be desired, the reception of the company of gentlemen, dealing in-slaves, will conveniently and attentively be received. My situation is very healthy and suitable for the busi ness. Lewis A. Collies. April 19.

A Hard Case. Some time since, towards the close of the winter, or the beginning of spring, a gentleman of this country took a drove horses to the eastern market. As usual in such cases, several hands wera taken along to assist in driving. One of a free colored man, well known in this town and vicinity, named Noah Ratlif, went to Baltimore, and as soon as the lrove was disposed of, he procured a free pass from his employer and started homeward. He reached Hagers-town, Maryland, on his way, and here he was arrested and thrown into jail as a runaway slave He has been confined since the 24th of March, and w6 are informed, is kept in irons Papers have been forwarded to Hag-erstown to prove that he is a free man, and we suppose, as soon as they are received, he will be liberated.

It is certainly a cruel proceeding. He is a free man, has committed no.