The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-03-03

have taken the suggestion as an Insult,
but ne cessity is hard master, and he
grasped at the idea, and before an hour
the transaction was closed. 1t troubled
him not little to disclose the matter to
her, but the fear of bankruptcy and ruin
drove him to it.
The poor girls horror and distress may
be mag gined. She had known nothing
buthappiness, and now was to be plunged
into the deepest and most hopeless mis-
erya She had been sold, and was then
che property, soul and body, of one who
purchased her merely for the qualification
OF his beastly lusts. The idea was too
horrible, and she swooned, remaining al
most deliriousl for several days. s3
There was another upon whom the in
telligence came with crushing weight.
A junior partner in produce house in
Louisville, had frequently visited the
planters house on business, aud, struck
with the beauty and intelligence of the
supposed daughter, had become enam-
ored, and after prosecuting his suit a
.proper time. had declared his passion,
md, unknown TO the father, the two had
etrothed themselves. AS soon as pos
Isible, after her father had told her her
fate, she dispatched 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 slave,
and had just been sold to fate worse
than death, like true man he determin-
ed to rescue her. That night he saw
her, and a 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 located in that city, who imme-
diately telegraphed Instructions to the
different agents along the line, 10 keep
strict watch, and if women 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 for Crestlne.
In the meantime, the lawyer, as soon
as he discovered his loss, had commenced
active measures to recover it. He had
no difficulty in tracing them to Cincin-
natl, and none whatever in ascertaining
that their destination was Crestline. But
having arrived several hours after their
departure, he was obliged to content him
self with telegraphing to Crestlne to the
proper officers to arrest them at that
place. But unfortunately for his pros
poets, the intended arrest got wind, and
when the train reached Gallon, two citi-
zens of that place stepped into the car,
and conversation of few moments en-
sued, in the lowest kind Of whispers, at
the close of which the four left the car.
A carriage was in waiting. and in two
hours the fair fugitive and her husband
were domiciled in the house of one of
our whole souled farmers, near Bucyrus,
who has long taken pleasure in helping
fugitives on their way to the Canadian
Canaan. $685.
When the train on which they embark
ed reached Crestline, the officials were
Iunutterably chagrined at not finding the
fugitives, and more so when they learned
that they 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.