e system which was daily grinding the life out of him,
that caused him to suffer, and likewise escape. By trade Thomas was also
a blacksmith. He left a wife and three children.

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ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND.

HARRY WISE.

$100 REWARD.--Ran away, on the 11th inst., negro man, Harry
Wise. He is about 24 years of age, and 5 feet 4 inches high;
muscular, with broad shoulders, and black or deep copper color;
roundish, smooth face, and rather lively expression. He came
from Harford county, and is acquainted about Belair market,
Baltimore. I will pay $50 reward for him, if taken in this or
Prince George's county, or $100 if arrested elsewhere.

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ELLIOTT BURWELL,

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West River, Anne Arundel county.

Harry reached the station in Philadelphia, the latter part of August,
1857. His excuse for leaving and seeking a habitation in Canada, was as
follows:

"I was treated monstrous bad; my master was a very cross, crabbed man,
and his wife was as cross as he was. The day I left they had to tie me
to beat me, what about I could not tell; this is what made me leave. I
escaped right out of his hands the day he had me; he was going with me
to the barn to tie me across a hogshead, but I broke loose from him and
ran. He ran and got the gun to shoot me, but I soon got out of his
reach, and I have not seen him since."

Harry might never have found the Underground Rail Road, but for this
deadly onslaught upon him by his master. His mind was wrought up to a
very high state of earnestness, and he was deemed a very fitting subject
for Canada.

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ARRIVAL FROM NORFOLK, VA.

ABRAM WOODERS.

Although slave-holders had spared no pains to keep Abram in the dark and
to make him love his yoke, he proved by his actions, that he had no
faith in their doctrines. Nor did he want for language in which to state
the reasons for his actions. He was just in the prime of life,
thirty-five years of age, chestnut color, common size, with a scar over
the left eye, and another on the upper lip.

Like many others, he talked in a simple, earnest manner, and in answer
to queries as to how he had fared, the following is his statement:

"I was held as the property of the late Taylor Sewell, but when I
escaped I was in the service of W.C. Williams, a commission merchant. My
old mast