knocked at the door of a colored family, and asked for a
light to enable them to mend their broken harness. The door
being opened for this purpose, the marshal's party rushed in,
and said they came to arrest a fugitive slave. Resistance was
made by the occupant of the house and others, and the
marshal's party finally driven off--the slave owner advising
that course, and saying, "Well, if this is a specimen of the
pluck of Pennsylvania negroes, I don't want my slaves back."
The master of the house was severely wounded in the arm by a
pistol shot; still he maintained his ground, declaring the
marshal's party should not pass except by first taking his
life.

_Marion, Williamson County, Ill., about December 10, 1850._
Mr. O'Havre, of the city police, Memphis, Tennessee, arrested
and took back to Memphis a fugitive slave, belonging to Dr.
Young. He did so, as the Memphis paper states, only "after
much difficulty and heavy expense, being strongly opposed by
the Free Soilers and Abolitionists, but was assisted by Mr.
W. Allen, member of Congress, and other gentlemen."

_Philadelphia, about January 10, 1851._ G.F. Alberti and
others seized, under the Fugitive Slave Law, a free colored
boy, named JOEL THOMPSON, alleging that he was a slave. The
boy was saved.

STEPHEN BENNETT, _Columbia, Penn._, arrested as the slave of
Edward B. Gallup, of Baltimore. Taken before Commissioner
Ingraham; thence, by _habeas corpus_, before Judge Kane. He
was saved only by his freedom being purchased by his friends.