Wilmington Journal

A Fugitive Slave.—Three or four weeks ago Mr. Garfield, the U. S. Marshal of N. Hampshire, while the Circuit Court was in session in Portsmouth, received a letter from Pensacola, Fla., informing him that a slave had escaped from that place, on board the brig Mary Farrow, bound for Portsmouth, and calling upon him to take proper measures for restoring the slave to his owner. They pretended, so says a New Hampshire paper, to think the matter a hoax, and not only took no measures to execute the law, but made public the fact that a slave was expected in the above named vessel. "The friends of liberty" were therefore on the alert. When the vessel arrived in the lower harbor certain abolitionists went down and endeavored to induce the captain to let the slave go ashore with them, but he refused to do so. The slave jumped into the boat, but was recaptured. The abolitionists then brought a writ against him for false imprisonment of the negro. The captain in the mean time took legal advice, and when the process was served on him he allowed the negro to go with his new friends, and he was taken ashore. The negro is about 21 years old, a blacksmith by trade, and was hired out by his master at one dollar a day to work on the dry dock at Pensacola. He was valued at $1,800. He secreted himself on board the Mary Farrow, and kept concealed until she had been three days at sea.—N. O. Pic.