ail Road, near Dover, in this state,
saying I must be on the look out for six brothers and two
sisters, they were decoyed and betrayed, he says by a colored
man named Thomas Otwell, who pretended to be their friend, and
sent a _white scamp_ ahead to wait for them at Dover till they
arrived; they were arrested and put in Jail there, with Tom's
assistance, and some officers. On third day morning about four
o'clock, they broke jail; six of them are secreted in the
neighborhood, and the writer has not known what became of the
other two. The six were to start last night for this place. I
hear that their owners have persons stationed at several places
on the road watching. I fear they will be taken. If they could
lay quiet for ten days or two weeks, they might then get up
safe. I shall have two men sent this evening some four or five
miles below to keep them away from this town, and send them (if
found to Chester County). Thee may show this to Still and McKim,
and oblige thy cousin,

THOMAS GARRETT.

Further light about this exciting contest, may be gathered from a
colored conductor on the Road, in Delaware, who wrote as follows to a
member of the Vigilance Committee at Philadelphia.

CAMDEN, DEL., March 23d, 1857.

DEAR SIR;--I tak my pen in hand to write to you, to inform you
what we have had to go throw for the last two weaks. Thir wir
six men and two woman was betraid on the tenth of this month,
thea had them in prison but thea got out was conveyed by a black
man, he told them he wood bring them to my hows, as he wos told,
he had ben ther Befor, he has com with Harrett, a woman that
stops at my hous when she pases tow and throw yau. You don't no
me I supos, the Rev. Thomas H. Kennard dos, or Peter Lowis. He
Road Camden Circuit, this man led them in dover prisin and left
them with a whit man; but tha tour out the winders and jump out,
so cum back to camden. We put them throug, we hav to carry them
19 mils and cum back the sam night wich maks 38 mils. It is tou
much for our littel horses. We must do the bes we can, ther is
much Bisness dun on this Road. We hay to go throw dover and
smerny, the two wors places this sid of mary land lin. If you
have herd or sean them ples let me no. I will Com to Phila be
for long and then I will call and se you. There is much to do
her. Ple