Southern telegraph., 1837-04-25

aa.|I.Nn . .lU.a Ita H'H ..H .s...a t"ta
ha bnoa MMldl we.i nnl could n0t be
mistaken SIZE hlsa nnalisaF in faecan-
iro Of hof frgh0ad, caused by falling oil a
huminy mor,ms many years agn
The attorney Cor ihe claimant here oaor-
ed % pr1vc the confessions of Matilda since
hef arrest, which was objected Is by ihn
attorney fur the fugitive. The court over
ruled The objections, and the witness pro
Seeded,
That he never seen Matilda since she
eloped from the belt Gazelle, until Friday
morning he saw her come out Of Ar Biz
ney's house and knew her the mamcnt he
saw her. That She was then arrested by
hiessrs. Barks and Whaun, and broaIh-
beflfe Justice Dey. She did not see him
until she VAS ia the nag sate's ollicoi and
that soon as be e.nie in, She burst ont cry.
iuy lie went and sh ,ok hands with her
ani she asked afer her sister, aud slil She
wished 10 90 back to ndssa Llrkin; she
asked me &, 20 t1 MrBirney's and get her
clothes for her
Il. D. Brooks was called, and sworn.
lie les. .l6ed that on Fdiday morning last he
arrested Matilda, as she came out with a
picther to get milk from the house Of James
6. Biraey. Told her he hid a warrant
for her, & was going totake her 10 her ms
ters. She said she wanted The to 90 bucl; TO
hermster's, and would have went long ago,
it she had known were he lived. Sha sud
she had been rs much a slVo to Mr. Bir-
ney as she ever was to muster Larkin; that
Mr Brney had never paid her any thing,
aud did not know that he was going t..
She asked where | was going to take her?
and | told her IL Magistrates oil C.
She said she did not want to go, but would
rather 20 to her master without being taken
hcfjrc a Magistrate. She said she had
some good clothes, ana did not want to
leave lhem: he tod her she should have
them,
George Whaun called and sworn. Tes-
tlfed substantially to the sane al Mr.
Brooks with whom he was.
John w. Riley called and sworn. Held
power of Attorney from LartA Llwreuce
to arrest this girl, and convey her to him
Has hold il ever since last June, when the
girl was lost. Had caused her now to be ar
resici. She tod him that she was pcrsuad-
ed to abscohl from her master by white
man and black MIN, who tod her that her
master was going to sell her, or else she
would NOT have ran of.
Here the examination closed for the
claim1M
William Birney came forward and was
affirmed He said his fathers characor
had been impeached, but the source from
whence it came was hardly worth mnding.
He said this girl Matilda came to his faith
er's, James g. Birney's somo seven or eigh
months ago, and had been employed dnrinn
the greater part Of TINT time; she was absent
for month Or six weeks during the sumner,
ut Mrs. Cumncr'S, who lived a few milas in
in The country: That he knew afer she
had been ut his fathers short time, she
was a slave; and that she had went out to
Mrs, Cammer's to avoid detection. lie
had hecn absent part Of the time from home,
and did not know particularly a5oat the
matter, that bis father was now absent from
the city
The testimoney here closed, and Mr.
Mclean addressed the court, asking ih7t
certificate might be granted, and saidsayc
Mr., Ecls resisted the motion, on the
ground that the master of Matilda (whoso
slave she then was he admitted rs beyond a
lnull) hpd voluntarily brol5ht her within
The bounds OF u Tree State, and BY tlat very
lct had deprived himself OF the pawer of
lrresting her as fugitive from labor
He cited / Wash. b. b. Rep. 500, 4 do.
306.
MIR. Mclean closed the case, by show
ng that the cases cited did not apply to the
ease before the court, as in both these in
stances the slave had actually resided in
he State of Pennsylvania longer than sir
months ,citt tte master; and that the statue
1f Pennsylvania provided that such resi-
lence should prevent the claim Of the
in this case there bad
oeen no residence; that the claimant was
passing down public highway, (lhe Ohiol
'iver,) aud had been accidentally detained
or a day, &c &c.
Justico Dty decided, that he was led
rresistbly 70 the conclusion, though much
'gainst his will, as he should always con-
consider himself as an officer and a mln
,ound to bear oa the sile Of liberty, yet in
his case be shonld do the station he held
md the daty lie was bound to perform, an
injury, moi to say that he was satisfied from
hp evidence, that Matilda was the slave Of
4arkin Lawrence, and that he could not
blink the laws Of Ohio contemplated that
mere passage through the State by master
With bis slaves, should thereby make them
roe. He should award his certificate, and |
bat the said Matilda might be removed,
FEMALE EDUcATIoN IN AMERTcA.--An
American paper gives a pleasant descrip-
oaofthe marriage Of an honest farmer tal'
young lady Just graduated from. d, female