Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-11-14
ARamsrkabls Narrative.

A few nights since there passed through
this sity, on the railroad, bound for Canada,
. family of eight fugitive slaves. One Of
these-a leading spirit of the whole-was .
woman sixty years Of age, bold, oourng-
eous, prompt and energetic woman. Two
ye,rs ago Oh was living as slave in the
South. She Was the mother Of six chi .dren,
oil Of whom she had seen torn from her arms
when old enough to be useful, and sold away
from her. One dav she over heard her mas
ter bargaining with a soul-driver, who De.
sired to pnrcbnae, for the far SoutL, her
grandson, a boy Of some fifteen years old
Stung to the quick by this design of stripp-
ing her Of the last o. her kindred, she in
stantly resolved on flight.
The same night she started with her boy
for the North. Night after night the trav.
eled by the North star-the only guide the
haplcss fugitive knows 10 making for the
road of Freedom, and one that deceivcs him
not, since it 10 fixed in the heavens. After
long and painful wanderings they arrived in
Canada.
Here this heroic woman hired herself Mt
wages. Two m nths ago, with purse we'll
filled, she started back to the residence of
her oil master At the South. Her /, alone,
she concealed herself in woods and Tickets,
fugitive from Freedom cared for, howev.
er, by the fe trusty souls to whom she re-
vealed the dangerous secret of her presence
in the land of bondage. After remaining
there some two weeks, she collected seven Of
her children and grandchildren, and started
with them for the North. Long and slow
and anxious was their journey. The same
unerring star shone faithfully from above
upon their midnight pathway. By day they
lay by, concealed among the thickets Of the
country, through which they made . bee line
for the North. No toll di.csurng ed, no dan.
ger di.mayed this heroic woman. Many
times the party suffered to the verge of star
was their only ''guidc, their counselor aud
friend"
Worn down with the hardships Of this per.
ilous journey, with garments torn TO shreds
and Tutoring in the breeze; with shoes worn
into fragments, without hats or bonnets, this
heroine conducted her party to the house OF
. friend. Word was Immediately passed
around among some of tho good souls who
dwell there Is the salt Of the earth, that
eight fusitives were concealed in garret,
and destitute OF the means Of further pro-
gress. The word was followed by the deed.
All necessary means were instantly provided
for their safe transmission to the North, and
the train which passed through this city on
the same night, carried the whole party to-
ward the home of their leader, in Canada,
where they have BY this time undoubtedly ar.
rived.
We doubt il = similar instance Of devotion
TO friends and Kindred IL on record. II re-
quired DARING mind even to conceive the
idea Of going back to the scene Of bondage,
and encountering the hazard Of discovery in
the lions den. But nothing short Of that
heroism which under other circumstances has
made men Immortal, Was needed to put into
execution IN enterprise 30 full Of difficulty
and danger. Such spirits, If any. not only
deserve to be free, but are fitted 70 enjoy ID
largest liber.y.-Trentdn State Gas.
AXaa Isra = shrsds.
The western train from Buffalo Monday
night, when within short distance OF Dun
kirk. ran ever N lrishman, killing him in
stantiy. He bad been drunk in Dunkirk dur.
ing the day Yesterday, and started to walk
on the track to h,s home in Silver Greek. He
had probably fallen on the track in his in
toxicAsion. and be did not know enough to
get up again. It vac discovered that the
accident had taken place by the blood and
brains Oh the locomotive il the mor.ing.-
The night express 70 this place must also
have rua over hin.A party proceeded to the
place this morning and found fragments oi
the unfortunate man scattered for forty or
sfsy yards aloax The track. He was abse-
luteiy tcra b shreds. His rsmains were
collected together in wheel barrow, and q
ecrooef's inqaest held 90 them. A verdict