McCreary to be arrested in that State.

Thus terminated this terrible affair, which cost the State of
Pennsylvania nearly $3000, as well as a heavy expense to many
citizens of Baltimore, and those of this county who took an
active part, and whilst it is to be hoped that the principal
actor in this sad transaction fully atoned for his evil deeds,
whilst living, and his friends may have had a right to eulogize
him after death, they should not have gone out of their way to
traduce other parties, dead and alive, whose reputations were
known by living witnesses, to be beyond reproach.

JUSTICE.

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ARRIVAL FROM VIRGINIA, 1854.

TUCKER WHITE.

Tucker reported that he fled from Major Isaac Roney, of Dinwiddie
Court-House, Virginia, in the Christmas week prior to his arrival; that
he reached Petersburg and then encountered difficulties of the most
trying nature; he next stopped at City Point, and was equally
unfortunate there. From exposure in the cold he was severely
frost-bitten. While suffering from the frost he was kept in the
poor-house. After partial recovery he made his way to Baltimore and
thence to Philadelphia. Once or twice he was captured and carried back.
The Committee suspected that he was a cunning impostor who had learned
how to tell a tale of suffering simply to excite the sympathies of the
benevolent; yet, with the map of Virginia before them, he proved himself
familiar with localities adjacent to the neighborhood in which he was
raised. Although not satisfied with his statement, the Committee decided
to aid him.

Passmore Williamson, who had taken a deep interest in the examination of
his case, in order to ascertain the facts, addressed the following note
to Major Roney, using as his signature the name of his friend, Wm. J.
Canby:

PHILADELPHIA, June 24, 1854.

MAJOR ISAAC RONEY:

DEAR SIR:--Within a few days past a colored man has been
traversing the streets of this city, exciting the sympathies of
the benevolent by the recital of a tale of the hardships he has
lately passed through. He represents himself to be Tucker White,
your slave, a carpenter by trade, and that he escaped from your
service last Christmas. He is quite dark in complexion, rather
over the medium size, and a little lame; the latter, probably,
from the effects of frost on his feet, from whi