the Niagara River.  My wife had better call on Dr. Perkins and perhaps he will let her have the money he had in charge for me but that I failed of receiving when I left Baltimore.  Please direct the letter for my wife to Mr. George Lister, in Hill street between Howard and Sharp.  My compliments to all enquiring friends.

    Very respectfully yours,

    SAMUEL MILES.

    P.S.  Please send the thread along as a token and my wife will
    understand that all is right.  S.M.

Arrival No. 7.  James Henson, alias David Caldwell.  James fled from Cecil Co., Md.  He claimed that he was entitled to his freedom according to law at the age of twenty-eight, but had been unjustly deprived of it.  Having waited in vain for his free papers for four years, he suspected that he was to be dealt with in a manner similar to many others, who had been willed free or who had bought their time, and had been shamefully cheated out of their freedom.  So in his judgment he felt that his only hope lay in making his escape on the Underground Rail Road.  He had no faith whatever in the man who held him in bondage, Jacob Johnson, but no other charges of ill treatment, &c., have been found against said Johnson on the books, save those alluded to above.

James was thirty-two years of age, stout and well proportioned, with more than average intelligence and resolution.  He left a wife and child, both free.

Arrival No. 8.  Laura Lewis.  Laura arrived from Louisville, Kentucky.  She had been owned by a widow woman named Lewis, but as lately as the previous March her mistress died, leaving her slaves and other property to be divided among her heirs.  As this would necessitate a sale of the slaves, Laura determined not to be on hand when the selling day came, so she took time by the forelock and left.  Her appearance indicated that she had been among the more favored class of slaves.  She was about twenty-five years of age, quite stout, of mixed blood, and intelligent, having traveled considerably with her mistress.  She had been North in this capacity.  She left her mother, one brother, and one sister in Louisville.

Arrival No. 9.  Elizabeth Banks, from near Easton, Maryland.  Her lot had been that of an ordinary slave.  Of her slave-life nothing of interest was recorded.  She had escaped from her owner two and a half years prior to coming into the hands of the Committee, and had been living in Pennsylvania pretty securely as she had supposed, but she had been awakened to a sense of her danger by well grounded reports that she was pursued by her claimant, and would be likely to be captured if she tarried short of Canada.  With such facts staring her in the face she was sent to the Committee for counsel and protection, and by them she was forwarded on in the usual way.  She was about twenty-five years of age, of a dark, and spare structure.

Arrival No. 10.  Simon Hill.  This fugitive had escaped from Virginia.  The usual examination was made, and needed help given him by the Committee who felt satisfied that he was a poor brother who had been shamefully wronged, and that he richly deserved sympathy.  He was aided and directed Canada-ward.  He was a very humble-looking specimen of the peculiar institution, about twenty-five years of age, medium size, and of a dark hue.