all grounds of hope founded on external appearance, have thus far signally failed and broken down under me.  Twenty years ago, Slavery did really seem to be rapidly hastening to its fall, but ten years ago, the Fugitive Slave Bill, and the efforts to enforce it, changed the whole appearance of the struggle.  Anti-slavery in an abolition sense, has been ever since battling against heavy odds, both in Church and State.  Nevertheless, God reigns, and we need not despair, and I for one do not.  I know, at any rate, no better work for me during the brief period I am to stay on the earth, than is found in pleading the cause of the down-trodden and the dumb.

“Since I reached home I have had the satisfaction of passing nearly a score on to Canada, only two women among them all.  The constant meeting with these whip-scarred brothers will not allow me to become forgetful of the four millions still in bonds.”

Our friends may, perhaps, remember that the cost of Frederick Douglass’ paper is but five shillings per annum (with the exception of a penny per month at the door for postage.) It is a very interesting publication, and amply repays the trifling outlay.  F.D. would be glad to increase the number of his British readers.  He also continues gratefully to receive any aid from this country for the assistance of the fugitives who are so often taking refuge under his roof.  Another letter of his remarks, when speaking of them:  “They usually tarry with us only during the night, and are forwarded to Canada by the morning train.  We give them supper, lodging, and breakfast; pay their expenses, and give them a half dollar over.”

    FUGITIVE SLAVES.—­We next turn to the communication of another
    warm friend to the fugitives in the State of ——.  The following
    is an extract from a recent letter of his: 

“We have had within the last week just nineteen Underground passengers.  Fifteen came last Saturday, between the hours of six in the morning and eleven at night.  Three only were females, wives of men in the parties, the rest were all able-bodied young men.  That they were all likely-looking it needed no southern eye to decide, and that their hearts burned within them for freedom was apparent in every look of their countenances.  But it is only of one arrival that my time will allow me to speak on the present occasion.

This consisted of two married couples, and two single young men.  They had been a week on the way.  To accomplish the desired object they could see no way so feasible as to cross the ——­ Bay.  By inquiry they gained instructions as to the direction they should steer to strike for the lighthouse on the opposite shore.  Consequently they invested six dollars in a little boat, and at once prepared themselves for this most fearful adventure.  To the water and their little bark they stealthily repaired, and off they