Society of Friends.  Francis informed them he was well acquainted with Campbell, and he at once accompained them.  Campbell assured Friend Cochran that whilst he approved of Slavery and catching runaway slaves, he despised kidnapping and kidnappers; and on the arrival of McCreary, he ordered him to remove Rachel forthwith, which he proceeded to do.  Friend Cochran insisted on going with them, and saw the girl deposited in jail to await a legal investigation.  By this time it was evening, and the Chester county men all went home with Cochran, where they had their suppers; the excitement being great, Friend Cochran did not consider it safe for them to go to the depot direct; he procured their tickets and had them driven by a circuitous route to the depot, charging them to keep together, and take their seats in the cars at once.  Soon after they were seated and before the cars started, Miller stepped out on the platform to smoke, against the expostulations of his friends.  Jesse B. Kirk, his brother-in-law and Abner Richardson followed immediately, and although they were right at his heels, he was gone; they called him by name, and stepped down into the crowd, but soon became alarmed for their own safety, and returned to their seats.  A consultation was held, and it was agreed that Wiley, who was least known, and not directly identified with the affair, should pass through the train when it started, and see if Miller had not mistakenly got into another car.  At Stemen’s Run station, Wiley returned to the party with the sad tidings that Joseph C. Miller was not in that train.  On consultation, it was agreed that Jesse B. Kirk and Abner Richardson should return from Perryville in the next train, and prosecute further search for Miller.  They did so return, and McCreary also returned to Baltimore in the same car, he having left Baltimore in the car in the evening with the Chester county men; they arrived late in the night, and locked themselves up in a room in the first hotel they came to.  Their search was fruitless, and they were forced to return home with the sad tidings that Miller could not be found.  This intelligence aroused the whole neighborhood; public meetings were held to consult about what was best to be done.  The writer presided at one of those meetings, which was largely attended, and it was with difficulty that the people could be restrained from organizing an armed force to kidnap and lynch McCreary.  Better counsels, however, finally prevailed and it was resolved to send a party to Baltimore to prosecute further the search for Miller.  About twenty men volunteered for the service; I went to the house of Joseph C. Miller, the morning they were to start, but they had met at Lewis Mellrath’s, a brother-in-law of Miller.  I was there endeavoring to console the aged mother and distracted wife and children of Joseph C. Miller, when word came that he had been found hanging to a limb in the bushes near Stemen’s Run station, and such a scene of distress I hope may never again be my lot to