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Railroad would seem to be in excellent order; a company of 29 Slaves from Kentucky reached here on Monday evening last, and were safely conveyed to the Canada side the next morning; they were all hale young men and women, none of them over thirty-five years of age, for whose capture we hear liberal offers proclaimed. They travelled by wagons through Indiana (a Free State), and reached here in good condition.
The Detroit Christian Herald says, "The Under-ground Railroad is pre-eminently qualified and well adapted to do business for a long time, we hope as long as a Slave remains in his chains to weep, "Lord, Thou hast heard the desire of the humble, Thou wilt prepare their heart; Thou wilt cause thine ear to hear, to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the men of the earth may no more oppress." God prepares ways and means for the escape of the Slave to Canada. A Slave passing from New York State into Canada was put on board a ferry-boat at Blackrock, for Buffalo, by an Abolitionist; at this juncture the master came up and saw his Slave on board, bound for Canada; the boat was just receding from the shore; he drew his revolver, saying to the ferryman, "If you don't stop I will shoot you." The Abolitionist who put the Slave on board, and paid his way over to Canada, drew his revolver, and pointing
