brothers and sisters? inquired a member of the Committee.  “Yes, sir,” was the prompt reply.  Evan then gave their names thus:  “My father’s name was Sam Graff, my mother’s name was Becky.”  Ruth Ann Dorsey, Isaac Hanson (and two brothers of Evan), Grafton and Allen accompanied him in his flight.  James, Harriet, Charles Albert, Thomas Ephraim, Adeline Matilda, John Israel and Daniel Buchanan (brothers and sisters of Evan), were all left in Slavery.

Polly Pool was their mistress, rather had owned them up to within a short time before the flight of Evan and his comrades, but she had lately been unfortunate in business, which resulted in a thorough scattering of the entire family.  Some fell into the hands of the mistress’ children, and some into the hands of the grandchildren.  In Evan’s opinion she was a tolerable good mistress; his opportunities of judging, however, had not been very favorable, as he had not been in her hands a great while.

Luke Goines came from Harper’s Ferry, where he was owned by Mrs. Carroll.  Luke first made his way to Baltimore and afterwards to Philadelphia.

Henson Kelly was owned by Reason Hastell, of Baltimore.  Slavery did not agree with him, and he left to better his condition.

Stafford Smith fled from Westmoreland county, Virginia, where he was owned by Harriet Parker, a single woman, advanced in years, and the owner of many slaves “As a mistress, she was very hard.  I have been hired to first one and then another, bad man all along.  My mistress was a Methodist, but she seemed to know nothing about goodness.  She was not in the habit of allowing the slaves any chance at all.”

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ARRIVAL FROM VIRGINIA, 1860.

JENNY BUCHANAN.

A KIND MASTER; JENNY CHASTISED ONE OF HIS SONS FOR AN INSULT, AND AS A PUNISHMENT SHE WAS SOLD—­SEIZED FOR DEBT—­SOLD A SECOND TIME.

Jenny was about forty-five years of age, a dark mulatto, stature medium, manners modest and graceful; she had served only in high life; thus she had acquired a great deal of information.  She stated that she was born a slave, under John Bower, of Rockbridge, Virginia, and that he was the owner of a large plantation, with a great number of slaves.  He was considered to be a good man to his servants, and was generally beloved by them.  Suddenly, however, he was taken ill with paralysis, which confined him to his bed.  During this illness one of the sons, a young gentleman, offered an insult to Jenny, for which she felt justified in administering to him, a severe chastisement.  For this grave offence she was condemned to be sold to a trader by the name of William Watts, who owned a place in Mississippi.  The conditions of sale were that she was to be taken out of the state and never to be allowed to return.  It so happened, however, before she was removed that Watts, the trader,