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BALrIMoas, January 27-5 p. m.
Another Maryland slave case of some import
ance. accompanied by resistance to the Law, has
occurred in Philadelphia, though the alleged cul-
prit ia still in possession of the authorities A
free negro named Richard Neal, was arrested on
Tuesday night at the stable Of his employer,
Townsend Sharpless, charged, on the oath of Com
modore Mayo and others, with enticing number
of slaves from Anne Arundel county, Maryland,
at various times. The accused was formerly a
slave in that county, and the husband of a favorte
slave of the Commodore, who, on Neal obtaining
his freedom, gave him farm close by his own
plantation, so that there should be no excuse for
enticing his wife and children away. Neal, bow
ever, moved to the North, and subsequently en-
tced his wife and family away. They were how
ever pursued, and being overtaken were sold, to
go to Tennessee, as punishment. 1t is now under
stood that his family were freed by purchase from
collections made in Philadelphia, and we're living
with him.
AT Philadelphia the charge is that Neal has Wis
tied his old neighborhood several times since and
enticed slaves away from their masters. The me-
cessary acquisitions and other documents having
been obtained, the prisoner, Immediately after his
arrest, was taken into court, but no judge being
there, the hearing was had before Alderman Ken
ney, who, finding the documents correct, well
as the evidence of bio identity, remanded the pris
oner in custody of officer Lamb, of Maryland.
The prisoner taken in vehicle to the Balti-
more depot, but the afternoon train had started,
and the officers went from thence on to Chester,
where they designed embarking on the night mail
train. Meanwhile a writ of habeas corpus had
been obtained from Judge Thompson, and ssthe
friends of the prisoner, accompanied by the
members of the Abolition Society, pursued
him to Chester. The officers in charge of the pr-
attempted to force him into the cars on their
arrival, but the friends of the prisoner and the
crowd of blacks that had assembled interfered.
The writ of habeas corpus was in charge of pc
lice officer from Philadelphia, and presented to
officer Lamb, but in the confusion of the struggle
was unheeded. The parties being notified by the
conductor that the train was about to start, officer
Lamb, to prevent loss of life which might result
from the struggle, gave up the attempt to force
the prisoner into the cars, and lodged him in the
lock up for the night. Another account sta ties
that the prisoner escaped from the officers but was
overtaken after being pursued two miles. A fresh
party of officers left the city of Philadelphia on
Wednesday morning for Chester, with writ of
habeas corpus from the supreme court; and finally
succeeded in bringing him back to the city, and
he was committed to Jail for further examination,
which was this morning postponed for the present.
The Washington Guards of this city are making
arrangements to visit Washington on the occasion
of the Inauguration of President Pierce.
The commissioners appointed by the Governor
of Maryland to investigate the charge against
Archibald Ridgey, police officer of this city, of
having killed a slave whom he was attempting
to arrest at Columbia, Pennsylvania, last summer,
have reported to the Governor that the shooting
was entirely accidental; and that they had sue
ceeded in convincing the Governor of Pennsylva.
mia that such was the
In the Baltimore market this morning there was
nothing done in flour, except the sales of few bar
refs City Mills at So II, holders being firm at
1926.