red them and took them
back with him.--_Cincinnati Enquirer_.

JOHN FREEMAN, a free colored man, seized in Indianapolis, and
claimed as the slave of Pleasant Ellington, a Methodist
church-member, (Summer, 1853,) of Missouri. Freeman pledged
himself to prove that he was not the person he was alleged to
be. The United States Marshal consented to his having time
for this, provided he would go to jail, and pay _three
dollars a day_ for a guard to keep him secure! Bonds to any
amount, to secure the marshal against loss, if Freeman could
go at large, were rejected. Freeman's counsel went to
Georgia, and "after many days returned with a venerable and
highly respectable gentleman from Georgia, Mr. Patillo,
(post-master of the place where he resides,) who had
voluntarily made the long journey for the sole purpose of
testifying to his knowledge of Freeman, and that he was well
known to be free!" But Freeman was still kept in jail. After
several days, Ellington brought witnessess to prove F. to be
his slave. The witnesses, and Liston (counsel for Ellington)
wished to have Freeman strip himself, to be examined naked.
By advise of his counsel he refused. The marshal took him to
his cell, and compelled him to strip. The witnesses then
swore that he was Ellington's property. Freeman's counsel
produced further evidence that he had been known as a free
man _twenty_ years. Ellington claimed that he had escaped
from him _sixteen_ years before. The man who did escape from
Ellington, just sixteen years before, was discovered to be
living near Malden, Canada. Two of the Kentucky witnesses
visited and recognized him. Freeman was then released, but
with a large debt upon him, $1,200, which had grown up by
the unusually heavy expenses of his defence and long
imprisonment, Freeman brought a suit against Ellington for
false imprisonment laying damages at $10,000. A verdict for
$2,000 was given in his favor, which was agreed to by
Ellington's counsel.--_Indiana Free Democrat_, May, 1854.

_Three slaves_, two men and a girl, fled from near Maysville,
Kentucky, into Ohio. Were pursued by their owners and
assistants, five men armed, and were overtaken, says the
Maysville _Weekly Express_, "at the bridge over Rattlesnake
Creek, on the Petersburg and Greenf