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I will give $200 for his recovery if taken out of the State, or
$150 if taken in the State, and secured that I can get him.

T.D. FENDALL.

jyl7-6t.

Such announcements never frightened the Underground Rail Road Committee;
indeed, the Committee rather preferred seeing the names of their
passengers in the papers, as, in that case, they could all the more
cautiously provide against Messrs. slave-hunters. Oscar was a "prime,
first-class article," worth $1800. The above description of him is
endorsed. His story ran thus:

"I have served under Miss Mary Dade, of Alexandria--Miss Dade was a very
clever mistress, she hired me out. When I left I was hired at the
school--High School of Virginia. With me times had been very well. No
privilege was allowed me to study books. I cannot say that I left for
any other cause than to get my freedom, as I believe I have been used as
well as any slave in the District. I left no relatives but two cousins;
my two brothers ran away, Brooks and Lawrence, but where they went I
can't tell, but would be pleased to know. Three brothers and one sister
have been sold South, can't tell where they are." Such was Oscar's brief
narrative; that he was truthful there was no room to doubt.

The next passenger was MOSES or "Mose," who looked as though he had been
exceedingly well-cared for, being plump, fat, and extra-smart. He
declared that General Briscoe, of Georgetown, D.C., had been defrauding
him out of thirteen dollars per month, this being the amount for which
he was hired, and, instead of being allowed to draw it for himself, the
general pocketed it. For this "kind treatment" he summed up what seemed
to be a true bill for ten years against the general. But he made another
charge of a still graver character: he said that the general professed
to own him. But as he (Moses) was thoroughly tired, and believed that
Slavery was no more justifiable than murder, he made up his mind to
leave and join the union party for Canada. He stated that the general
owned a large number of slaves, which he hired out principally. Moses
had no special fault to find with his master, except such as have been
alluded to, but as to mistress Briscoe, he said, that she was pretty
rough. Moses left four sisters in bondage.

David, the next member of this freedom-loving band, was an intelligent
man; his manners and movements were decidedly prepossessing. He was
about