NEW BEDFORD, Nov. 3, 1859.

DEAR SIR:—­i embrace this opertunity to inform you that i received your letter with pleasure, i am enjoying good health and hope that these few lines will find you enjoying the same blessing. i rejoise to hear from you i feel very much indetted to you for not writing before but i have been so bissy that is the cause, i rejoise to heare of the arrival of my wife, and hope she is not sick from the roling of the sea and if she is not, pleas to send her on here Monday with a six baral warlian and a rifall to gard her up to my residance i thank you kindly for the good that you have don for me.  Give my respects to Mrs. Still, tell her i want to see her very bad and you also i would come but i am afraid yet to venture, i received your letter the second, but about the first of spring i hope to pay you a visit or next summer. i am getting something to do every day. i will write on her arrivall and tell you more.  Mr. R. White sends his love to you and your famerly and says that he is very much indetted to you for his not writing and all so he desires to know wheather his cloths has arived yet or not, and if they are please to express them on to him or if at preasant by Mrs. Donar.  Not any more at preasent. i remain your affectionate brother,

    WILLIAM DONAR.

By the same arrival, and similarly secreted, Elizabeth Frances, alias Ellen Saunders, had the good luck to reach Philadelphia.  She was a single young woman, about twenty-two, with as pleasant a countenance as one would wish to see.  Her manners were equally agreeable.  Perhaps her joy over her achieved victory added somewhat to her personal appearance.  She had, however, belonged to the more favored class of slaves.  She had neither been over-worked nor badly abused.  Elizabeth was the property of a lady a few shades lighter than herself, (Elizabeth was a mulatto) by the name of Sarah Shephard, of Norfolk.  In order the more effectually to profit by Elizabeth’s labor, the mistress resorted to the plan of hiring her out for a given sum per month.  Against this usage Elizabeth urged no complaint.  Indeed the only very serious charge she brought was to the effect, that her mistress sold her mother away from her far South, when she was a child only ten years old.  She had also sold a brother and sister to a foreign southern market.  The reflections consequent upon the course that her mistress had thus pursued, awakened Elizabeth to much study relative to freedom, and by the time that she had reached womanhood she had very decided convictions touching her duty with regard to escaping.  Thus growing to hate slavery in every way and manner, she was prepared to make a desperate effort to be free.  Having saved thirty-five dollars by rigid economy, she was willing to give every cent of it (although it was all she possessed), to be aided from Norfolk to Philadelphia.  After reaching the city, having suffered severely while coming, she was invited to remain until somewhat recruited.  In the healthy air of freedom she was soon fully restored, and ready to take her departure for New Bedford, which place she reached without difficulty and was cordially welcomed.  The following letter, expressive of her obligations for aid received, was forwarded soon after her arrival in New Bedford: