NIAGARA FALLS, June 5th, 1856.  MR. STILL:—­Sir—­I take my pen in hand to write you theas few lines to let you know that I am well at present and hope theas few lines may find you the same.  Sir my object in writing to you is that I expect a young Lady by the name of Miss Mariah Moore, from Norfolk, Virginia.  She will leave Norfolk on the 13th of this month in the Steamship Virginia for Philadelphia you will oblige me very much by seeing her safely on the train of cars that leaves Philadelphia for the Suspension Bridge Niagara Falls pleas to tell the Lady to telegraph to me what time she will leave Philadelphia so i may know what time to meet her at the Suspension Bridge my Brother Isaac Porman send his love also his family to you and your family they are all well at present pleas to give my respects to Mr. Harry Londay, also Miss Margaret Cunigan, no more at present.

    I remain your friend,

    JAMES H. FORMAN.

    When you telegraph to me direct to the International Hotel,
    Niagara Falls, N.Y.

    NIAGARA FALLS, July 24th, 1856.

DEAR SIR:—­I take this opportunity of writing these few lines to you hoping that they may find you enjoying good health as these few lines leave me at present.  I thank you for your kindness.  Miss Moore arrived here on the 30th of June and I was down to the cars to receive her.  I thought I would have written to you before, but I thought I would wait till I got married.  I got married on the 22d of July in the English Church Canada about 11 o’clock my wife sends all her love to you and your wife and all enquiring friends please to kiss your two children for her and she says she is done crying and I am glad to hear she enjoyed herself so well in Philadelphia give my respects to Miss Margaret Cuningham and I am glad to hear her sister arrived my father sends his respects to you no more at present but remain your friend,

    JAMES H. FORMAN.

    Direct your letter to the International Hotel, Niagara Falls.

Anthony was thirty-six years of age, and by blood, was quite as nearly related to the Anglo-Saxon as the Anglo-African.  He was nevertheless, physically a fine specimen of a man.  He was about six feet high, and bore evidence of having picked up a considerable amount of intelligence considering his opportunities.  He had been sold three times.  Anthony was decidedly opposed to having to pass through this ordeal a fourth time, therefore, the more he meditated over his condition, the more determined he became to seek out an Underground Rail Road agent, and make his way to Canada.

Concluding that Josiah Wells, who claimed him, had received a thousand times too much of his labor already, Anthony was in a fit state of mind to make a resolute effort to gain his freedom.  He had a wife, but no children.  His father, one sister, and two brothers were all dear to him, but all being slaves “one could not help the other,” Anthony reasoned, and wisely too.  So, at the command of the captain, he was ready to bear his part of the suffering consequent upon being concealed in the hold of a vessel, where but little air could penetrate.