must decide that. Judge D. proposed to both
parties that the child should be put into his hands, and he
would provide a proper person for her care and education, but
the woman (Porter) would not consent to this. She evidently
designed to train up the child for a life of shame, and
perhaps of slavery also. The case was brought by a writ of
_habeas corpus_, before Judge Barculo, of the Supreme Court,
sitting at Brooklyn. The effort to serve the writ was at
first defeated by the notorious New York bully, Captain
Isaiah Rynders, acting, it was said, under the advice of
James T. Brady, counsel for Mrs. Porter. For this
interference with, the law, Rynders and some others were
arrested and taken before Judge Barculo, who let them off on
their making an apology! The second attempt to serve the writ
on the child was more successful. After hearing counsel,
Judge Barculo adjudged "that the said Charles Trainer is
entitled to the care and custody of said Jane Trainer, and
directing her to be delivered to him as her father," &c. In
giving his decision, Judge B. said, "It is not to be assumed
that a child under fourteen years of age is possessed of
sufficient discretion to choose her own guardian; a house of
ill-fame is not a suitable place, nor one of its inmates a
proper person for the education of such a child." Jane
Trainer's mother was afterwards bought from slavery in
Mobile, Alabama, and enabled to join her husband and child.

In 1854, Charles Trainer obtained a verdict in King's County
Court, New York, for $775 damages, against Rose Cooper.

[N.B. Though not strictly a case under the Fugitive Slave Law, this
is very properly inserted here, as the whole spirit of the woman, of
her counsel, and of the means he took to accomplish his base
designs, was clearly instigated by that Law, and by the malignant
influences it brought into action against the colored people, both
slave and free.]

BASIL WHITE, Philadelphia, was summarily surrendered into
slavery in Maryland, by United States Commissioner Ingraham,
June 1, 1853. He was betrayed into the clutches of the
kidnapper Alberti, by a colored man named John Dorsey.

_Two slaves_ of Sylvester Singleton, living near Burlington,
(Ky.?) escaped and reached Columbus, Ohio; were there
overtaken by their master, who secu