ield road, about ten
o'clock at night," the slaves being, armed, and accompanied
by a white man. Both parties fired, the negro girl was
wounded, but still fled; one of the negro men was also
wounded, and, says the Maysville paper, they "were tracked a
mile and a half by the blood." The other slave was secured
and taken back to Kentucky, "much bruised and cut in the
affray." "The white man," says the same paper, "was also
caught and beaten in a very severe manner with a club, and
strong hopes are entertained that he will die."--_Wilmington
(Ohio) Republican_, July, 22, 1853.

_A colored girl_, between four and five years old, suddenly
disappeared from Providence, R.I., July 13, 1853; at the same
time, a mulatto woman, who had been heard to make inquiries
about the child, was missing also. Believed to be a case of
kidnapping.

_A negro boy_, says the Memphis _Inquirer_, "left his owner
in this city," and went on board the steamboat Aurilla Wood,
bound for Cincinnati. By a telegraphic message he was
intercepted, taken from the boat at Cairo, Illinois, and
taken back to Memphis. (Summer, 1853.)

GEORGE W. MCQUERRY, _Cincinnati, Ohio_. A colored man, who
had resided three or four years in Ohio, and married a free
woman, by whom he had three children, was remanded to slavery
by Judge McLean (August, 1853.) The man was taken by the
United States Marshal, with a posse, across the river to
Covington, Kentucky, and there delivered to his _master_!

_Two men kidnapped_ from Chicago, and taken to St. Louis. See
_Chicago_ Tribune, quoted in _Standard_, Aug. 27, 1853.

_Three Slaves_ taken by _Habeas Corpus_, from steamboat
Tropic, and brought before Judge Flinn, at Cincinnati,
August, 1853. The woman Hannah expressed a wish to return to
her master in the boat. Judge Flinn ordered her into the
custody of the claimants without investigation. Judge F.
asked Hannah if she had the custody of the child Susan, to
which she answered that she had. Whereupon the Judge also
ordered her back into the custody of the claimants, without
examination. Mr. Jolliffe protested against ordering the
child back without examination. The Court said they would
take the responsibility. The examination then proceeded in
the case of the man Edward. It appea