hour it devolved upon a member of the Committee, for the safety of all parties, to find new and separate places of accommodation, especially for the six known to be pursued.  To be stored in other than private families would not answer.  Three or four such were visited at once; after learning of the danger much sympathy was expressed, but one after another made excuses and refused.  This was painful, for the parties had plenty of house room, were identified with the oppressed race, and on public meeting occasions made loud professions of devotion to the cause of the fugitive, &c.  The memory of the hour and circumstances is still fresh.

Accommodations were finally procured for a number of the fugitives with a widow woman, (Ann Laws) whose opportunities for succor were far less than at the places where refusals had been met with.  But Mrs. L. was kind-hearted, and nobly manifested a willingness to do all that she could for their safety.  Of course the Committee felt bound to bear whatever expense might necessarily be incurred.  Here some of the passengers were kept for several days, strictly private, long enough to give the slave-hunters full opportunity to tire themselves, and give up the chase in despair.  Some belonging to the former arrivals had also to be similarly kept for the same reasons.  Through careful management all were succored and cared for.  Whilst much interesting information was obtained from these several arrivals:  the incidents connected with their lives in Slavery, and when escaping were but briefly written out.  Of this fourth arrival, however, the following intelligence will doubtless be highly gratifying to the friends of freedom, wherever the labors of the Underground Rail Road may be appreciated.  The people round about Hagerstown, Maryland, may like to know how these “articles” got off so successfully, the circumstances of their escape having doubtless created some excitement in that region of the country.

Arrival No. 4.  Charles Bird, George Dorsey, Angeline Brown, Albert Brown, Charles Brown and Jane Scott.

Charles was twenty-four years of age, quite dark, of quick motion, and ready speech, and in every way appearing as though he could take care of himself.  He had occupied the condition of a farm laborer.  This calling he concluded to forsake, not because he disliked farming, but simply to get rid of David Clargart, who professed to own him, and compelled him to work without pay, “for nothing.”  While Charles spoke favorably of Clargart as a man, to the extent, at all events, of testifying that he was not what was called a hard man, nevertheless Charles was so decidedly opposed to Slavery that he felt compelled to look out for himself.  Serving another man on the no pay principle, at the same time liable to be flogged, and sold at the pleasure of another, Charles felt was worse than heathenish viewed in any light whatsoever.  He was prepared therefore, to leave without delay.  He had four sisters in the hands of Clargart, but what could he do for them but leave them to Providence.