d money, power, friends, etc., and could defy the courts.
In the course of a few months, when the suit against Adams and the Rail
Road Company came up, the Rail Road Company proved in court, in defense,
that the prosecutor entered the cars in search of his runaway, and went
and spoke to the two young women in "mourning" the day they escaped,
looking expressly for the identical parties, for which he was seeking
damages before the court, and that he declared to the conductor, on
leaving the cars, that the said "two girls in mourning, were not the
ones he was looking after," or in other words, that "neither" belonged
to him. This positive testimony satisfied the jury, and the Rail Road
Company and poor James Adams escaped by the verdict not guilty. The
owner of the lost property had the costs to pay of course, but whether
he was made a wiser or better man by the operation was never
ascertained.

THIRD LETTER.

SENNETT, October 28th, 1856.

DEAR MR. STILL:--I am happy to tell you that I am well and
happy. I still live with Rev. Mr. Anderson in this place, I am
learning to read and write. I do not like to trouble you too
much, but I would like to know if you have heard anything more
about my friends in Baltimore who got into trouble on our
account. Do be pleased to write me if you can give me any
information about them. I feel bad that they should suffer for
me. I wish all my brethren and sisters in bondage, were as well
off as I am. The girl that came with me is in Canada, near the
Suspension Bridge. I was glad to see Green Murdock, a colored
young man, who stopped at your house about six weeks ago, he
knew my folks at the South. He has got into a good place to work
in this neighborhood. Give my love to Mrs Still, and believe me
your obliged friend,

HARRIET EGLIN.

P.S. I would like to know what became of Johnson,[A] the man
whose foot was smashed by jumping off the cars, he was at your
house when I was there.

[Footnote A: Johnson was an unfortunate young fugitive, who,
while escaping, beheld his master or pursuer in the cars, and
jumped therefrom, crushing his feet shockingly by the bold act.]

H.E.

FROM VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, DELAWARE, NORTH CAROLINA, WASHINGTON, D.C., AND
SOUTH CAROLINA.

JAMES BURRELL, DANIEL WIGGINS, WM. ROBINSON, EDWARD PEADEN, AND WIFE,
ALEX BOGGS, SAMUEL STATER, HARRISON BELL AND D