ate. At 9 o'clock the next morning the Keystone State left
with Davis secreted, as we have before stated. With his
imprisonment in Newcastle, after being pronounced free, our
readers are already familiar. We subjoin the documents on which
he was discharged from his imprisonment in Newcastle, and his
subsequent re-committal on the oath of Capt. Hardie.

COPY OF FIRST ORDER OF COMMITMENT.

New Castle county, ss., State of Delaware.--To Wm. R. Lynam,
Sheriff of said county. ---- Davis (Negro) is delivered to your
custody for further examination and hearing for traveling
without a pass, and supposed to be held a Slave to some person
in the State of Georgia.

[Seal]. Witness the hand and seal of John Bradford, one of the
Justices of the Peace for the county of Newcastle, the 17th day
of March, 1854.

JOHN BRADFORD, J.P.

COPY OF DISCHARGE.

To Wm. R. Lynam, Sheriff of Newcastle county: You will discharge
---- Davis from your custody, satisfactory proof having been
made before me that he is a free man. JOHN BRADFORD, J.P.

Witnesses--Joanna Diamond, John H. Brady, Martha C. Maguire.

COPY OF ORDER OF RE-COMMITMENT.

New Castle county, ss., the State of Delaware to Wm. R. Lynam,
and to the Sheriff or keeper of the Common Jail of said county,
Whereas ---- Davis hath this day been brought before me, the
subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace, in and for the
said county, charged upon the oath of Robert Hardie with being a
runaway slave, and also as a suspicious person, traveling
without a pass, these are therefore to command you, the said Wm.
R. Lynam, forthwith to convey and deliver into the custody of
the said Sheriff, or keeper of the said jail, the body of the
said Davis, and you the said Sheriff or receiver of the body of
the said Davis into your custody in the said jail, and him there
safely keep until he be thence delivered by due course of the
law.

Given under my hand and seal at New Castle this 21st day of
March, A.D., 1854.

JOHN BRADFORD, J.P.

On the fourth of April, the Marshal of Macon called at the jail in
Newcastle, and demanded him as a fugitive slave, but the Sheriff refused
to give him up until a fair hearing could be had according to the laws
of the State of Delaware. The Marshal has returned to Georgia, and will
probabl