the house of one Chapman, “three miles south of Selma, in Greene county.”  There Chapman and the other, (whose name was William McCord,) fell upon the colored man, struck him with a colt upon the head, so that he bled severely, and bound his hands behind him.  “Soon after the negro got loose and ran down the road; McCord ran after him, crying ’Catch the d——­d horse thief,’ &c., Chapman and his son following; negro picked up a stone, the man a club and struck him on the head, so that he did not throw the stone.  He was then tied, and helped by McCord and Chapman to walk to the buggy.  McCord asked Chapman, the son, to accompany him to Cincinnati with the colored man, promising to give him half the reward ($200) if he would.  They then started, driving very fast.”  “We had not gone over two or three miles,” said Chapman, “before the negro died, and after taking him two or three miles further, put him out, and left him as now discovered,”—­viz. in a thick wood, one mile south of Clifton.  The above facts are taken from the testimony given at the coroner’s inquest over the body.  “The jury gave in substance the following verdict:—­Deceased came to his death by blows from a colt and club in the hands of one William McCord, assisted by the two Chapmans.”  Chapman, the son, said that McCord made him a proposition to join and follow kidnapping for a business, stating that he knew where he could get four victims immediately.  McCord was taken and lodged in Xenia jail.  The Chapmans bound over to take their trial for kidnapping.—­Wilmington (Ohio) Herald of Freedom.

Columbus, Indiana. A Kentuckian endeavored to entice a little negro boy to go with him, and both were waiting to take the cars, when mischief was suspected, and a crowd of people proceeded to the depot, and made the kidnapper release his intended victim. (June, 1854.)—­Indiana Free Democrat.

——­ BROWN, a resident of Henderson, Kentucky, was arrested for aiding four female slaves to escape from Union County, Kentucky, to Canada.  United States Marshal Ward and Sheriff Gavitt, of Indiana, made the arrest.  He was lodged in Henderson jail.—­Evansville (Ind.) Journal, June 2, 1854.

     Several Kentucky planters, among them Archibald Dixon, raised
     $500 in order to secure Brown’s conviction and sentence to
     penitentiary.

     [Transcriber’s note:  The following note appears as a footnote
     to this section without specific reference to any of the
     cited cases.]

—­> The case of SOLOMON NORTHUP, though not under the Fugitive Law, is so striking an illustration of the power which created that law, and of the constant danger which impends over every colored citizen of the Northern States, fast threatening to include white citizens also, that it must not he passed over without mention.  He was kidnapped in 1841, from the State of New York, and kept in slavery twelve years.  Two