his nephew, whether he would “take such an insult from a d——­d nigger,” Gorsuch fired at the colored man, and was followed by his son and nephew, who both fired their revolvers.  The fire was returned by the blacks, who made a rush upon them at the same time.  Gorsuch and his son fell, the one dead the other wounded.  The rest of the party after firing their revolvers, fled precipitately through the corn and to the woods, pursued by some of the blacks.  One was wounded, the rest escaped unhurt.  Kline, the deputy marshal, who now boasts of his miraculous escape from a volley of musket-balls, had kept at a safe distance, though urged by young Gorsuch to stand by his father and protect him, when he refused to leave the ground.  He of course came off unscathed.  Several colored men were wounded, but none severely.  Some had their hats or their clothes perforated with bullets; others had flesh wounds.  They said that the Lord protected them, and they shook the bullets from their clothes.  One man found several shot in his boot, which seemed to have spent their force before reaching him, and did not even break the skin.  The slave-holders having fled, several neighbors, mostly Friends and anti-slavery men, gathered to succor the wounded and take charge of the dead.  We are told that Parker himself protected the wounded man from his excited comrades, and brought water and a bed from his own house for the invalid, thus showing that he was as magnanimous to his fallen enemy as he was brave in the defence of his own liberty.  The young man was then removed to a neighboring house, where the family received him with the tenderest kindness and paid him every attention, though they told him in Quaker phrase, that “they had no unity with his cruel business,” and were very sorry to see him engaged in it.  He was much affected by their kindness, and we are told, expressed his regret that he had been thus engaged, and his determination, if his life was spared, never again to make a similar attempt.  His wounds are very severe, and it is feared mortal.  All attempts to procure assistance to capture the fugitive slaves failed, the people in the neighborhood either not relishing the business of slave-catching, or at least, not choosing to risk their lives in it.  There was a very great reluctance felt to going even to remove the body and the wounded man, until several abolitionists and Friends had collected for that object, when others found courage to follow on.  The excitement caused by this most melancholy affair is very great among all classes.  The abolitionists, of course, mourn the occurrence, while they see in it a legitimate fruit of the Fugitive Slave Law, just such a harvest of blood as they had long feared that the law would produce, and which they had earnestly labored to prevent.  We believe that they alone, of all classes of the nation, are free from responsibility for its occurrence, having wisely foreseen the danger, and faithfully labored to avert it by