Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1859-02-26
item obtained, the aggregate fell short

item obtained, the aggregate fell short
5000 of the sum.
The attorney remarked that he had
not included all that could be spared.
81 have put down all l can dispense
WITH" replied the planter.
81 do not see Mary the housekeeper's
name in the list" replied the lawyer;
''She, if offered to the right person,
would make up the deficiency. Iwould
give that for her myself"
AT any other time, the planter would
have taken the suggestion as an insult;
but necessity is :. hard master, and be-
fore an hour the transaction was closed
It troubled him not little to disclose
the matter to her, but the fear of bank
ruptcy and ruin drove him to it. The
poor girls horror and distress may be
imagined. She had known nothing but
happiness, and now was to be plunged
into the deepest and most hopeless mis-
cry. She had been sold and was then
the property, body and soul, of one
who purchased her merely for the graf
ification Of his lusts. The idea was
too terrible and she swooned, remain
ling almost delirious for several days.
There was another upon whom the
intelligence came with a crushing
weight. A junior partner in a produce
house in Louisville had frequently visi-
ted the planters house On business,
and struck with the beauty and intelli-
gence of the supposed daughter, had
becomed enamored, and after persecu-
ting his suit proper time, had declar-
ed his passion, and unknown to the
father, the two had betrothed them
selves. AS soon as possible after her
father had told her her fate, she des-
patched messenger to him stating the
facts and imploring him to save her
from the doom that awaited her.
Though thunderstruck at the intelli-
gence that his affianced bride was a
slave, and had lust been sold to fate
worse than death, like true man he
determined to rescue her. That night
he saw her, and plan was formed for
flight.
The day she was transferred to the
possession of her purchaser, they fled,
and in due time arrived at Cincinnati,
where they were married. Our hero
obtained an interview with one of the
agents of the underground railroad, To-
Gated in that city, who Immediately tel
egraphed instructions to the different
agents along the line, to keep strict
watch and if woman catchers were on
the watch at any point, to telegraph
back, and give the fugitives timely no.
tice, that they might leave the train
Accordingly, they started, purchasing
tickets &c: icr Crestline:
In the meantime, the lawyer, as soon
as he discovered his loss, had COM
menced active measures to recover it.
He had no difficulty in tracing them to
Cincinnati, and none whatever in as
certaining that their destination was
Crestline. But having arrived several
hours after their departure, he was
obliged to content himself by telegraph
ing to Crestline to the proper officers
to arrest them at that place; but unfor-
tunately for his prospects, the intended
arrests got wind, and when the train
reached Gallon, two citizens of that
place stepped into the car, and con-
versation of few moments issued in
the lowest kind of whispers, at the close
of which the four left the car. A car
riage was in waiting, and in few
hours the fair fugitive and her husband
were domiciled in the house of one of
our wholesouled farmers, near Bucyrus,
who had long taken pleasure in assist
ing fugitives on their way to the Cana
dian Canaan.
When the train on which they en-
barked reached Crestline, the officials
were unutterably chagrined at not find
ing the fugitive, and more 80 when they
learned that she had been within four
miles of them.
After lapse Of two weeks they ven
tured move, and went to Detroit by
way Of Sandusky City, and without ac-
cident, reached the Canadian shore
They are now residing in Toronto
Bucyrus { Ohio Journal
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