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boats.

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ARRIVED FROM ALEXANDRIA, VA., 1857.

TOWNSEND DERRIX.

The above-named escaped from a "Dutchman" by the name of Gallipappick,
who was in the confectionery business. For the credit of our German
citizens, it may be said, that slave-holders within their ranks were
very few. This was a rare case. The Committee were a little curious to
know how the German branch of civilization conducted when given
unlimited control over human beings.

In answering the requisite questions, and in making his statement,
Townsend gave entire satisfaction. His German master he spoke of as
being a tolerably fair man, "considering his origin." At least he
(Townsend), had not suffered much from him; but he spoke of a woman,
about sixty, who had been used very badly under this Dutchman. He not
only worked her very hard, but, at the same time, he would beat her over
the head, and that in the most savage manner. His mistress was also
"Dutch," a "great swabby, fat woman," with a very ill disposition.
Master and mistress were both members of the Episcopal Church. "Mistress
drank, that was the reason she was so disagreeable."

Townsend had been a married man for about seven months only. In his
effort to obtain his own freedom he sought diligently to deliver his
young wife. They were united heart and hand in the one great purpose to
reach free land, but unfortunately the pursuers were on their track; the
wife was captured and carried back, but the husband escaped. It was
particularly with a view of saving his poor wife that Townsend was
induced to peril his life, for she (the wife) was not owned by the same
party who owned Townsend, and was on the eve of being taken by her
owners some fifty miles distant into the country, where the chances for
intercourse between husband and wife would no longer be favorable.
Rather than submit to such an outrage, Townsend and his wife made the
attempt aforementioned.

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ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, 1858.

EDWARD CARROLL.

Edward, a youthful passenger about twenty-one years of age, slow of
speech, with a stammering utterance, and apparently crushed in spirits,
claimed succor and aid of the Committee. At first the Committee felt a
little puzzled to understand, how one, apparently so deficient, could
succeed in surmounting the usual difficulties consequent upon traveling,
via the Underground Rail Roa