from Columbus, Ohio, September 1, 1853, states that a very large number of fugitive slaves are continually passing through that State; that they are generally armed; and that they find increasing sympathy among the people on the road, and the boatmen on the lakes.]

A desperate fight between a party of four fugitives and about double the number of whites, took place in Carroll County, Maryland.  Four white men shot—­none dangerously.  Two of the slaves wounded, one severely.  They were captured.  (October, 1853.)—­Westminster (Md.) Democrat.

Washington, Indiana. In April, 1853, GEORGE, a negro man, was arrested and claimed by a Mr. Rice, of Kentucky, as his slave.  Judge Clemens ordered his surrender to Rice, who took him to Louisville, and there sold him to a slave-trader, who took him to Memphis, Tennessee.  Here a man from Mississippi claimed that George was his slave, obtained a writ of replevin, and took possession of him.

JOSHUA GLOVER, colored man, claimed as the slave of B.S.  Garland, of St. Louis County, Missouri, was arrested near Racine, Wisconsin, about the 10th of March, 1854.  Arrest made by five men, who burst suddenly into his shanty, put a pistol to his head, felled him to the ground, handcuffed him, and took him in a wagon to Milwaukee jail, a distance of twenty-five miles.  They swore that if he shouted or made the least noise, they would kill him instantly.  When visited, says the Milwaukee Sentinel, “We found him in his cell.  He was cut in two places on the head; the front of his shirt and vest were soaking and stiff with his own blood.”  A writ of habeas corpus was immediately issued; also a warrant for the arrest of the five men who assaulted and beat him in his shanty.  Thousands of people collected around the jail and court-house, “the excitement being intense.”  A vigilance committee of twenty-five persons was appointed to watch the jail at night and see that Glover was not secretly taken away.  The next day, at about five o’clock, P.M., a considerable accession of persons being made to the crowd, and it appearing that every attempt to save Glover by the laws of Wisconsin had been overruled by United States Judge Miller, a demand was made for the man.  This being refused, an attack was made upon the door with axes, planks, &c.  It was broken in, the inner door and wall broken through, and Glover taken from his keepers, brought out, placed in a wagon, and driven off at great speed.

S.M.  Booth, editor of the Milwaukee Free Democrat, Charles Clement, of the Racine Advocate, W.H.  Waterman, and George S. Wright were arrested for aiding and abetting the rescue of Glover.  Booth was subsequently discharged by the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, on the ground that the Fugitive Slave Law is unconstitutional.  He was, however, re-arrested, and held to answer in the United States Courts, on the same charge; the