SAINT CATHARINE, April 16, 1855.

MR. WILLIAM STILL, DEAR SIR:—­Your letter of date April 7th I have just got, it had been opened before it came to me.  I have not received any other letter from you and can get no account of them in the Post Office in this place, I am well and have got a good situation in this city and intend staying here.  I should be very glad to hear from you as soon as convenient and also from all of my friends near you.  My Brother is also at work with me and doing well.

There is nothing here that would interest you in the way of news.  There is a Masonic Lodge of our people and two churches and societys here and some other institutions for our benefit.  Be kind enough to send a few lines to the Lady spoken of for that mocking bird and much oblige me.  Write me soon and believe me your obedient Serv’t

    Love & respects to Lady and daughter

    JOSEPH ROBINSON.

As well as writing to a member of the Committee, Joe and Bob had the assurance to write back to the trader and oyster-house keeper.  In their letter they stated that they had arrived safely in Canada, and were having good times,—­in the eating line had an abundance of the best,—­also had very choice wines and brandies, which they supposed that they (trader and oyster-house keeper) would give a great deal to have a “smack at.”  And then they gave them a very cordial invitation to make them a visit, and suggested that the quickest way they could come, would be by telegraph, which they admitted was slightly dangerous, and without first greasing themselves, and then hanging on very fast, the journey might not prove altogether advantageous to them.  This was wormwood and gall to the trader and oyster-house man.  A most remarkable coincidence was that, about the time this letter was received in Richmond, the captain who brought away the three passengers, made it his business for some reason or other, to call at the oyster-house kept by the owner of Joe, and while there, this letter was read and commented on in torrents of Billingsgate phrases; and the trader told the captain that he would give him “two thousand dollars if he would get them;” finally he told him he would “give every cent they would bring, which would be much over $2000,” as they were “so very likely.”  How far the captain talked approvingly, he did not exactly tell the Committee, but they guessed he talked strong Democratic doctrine to them under the frightful circumstances.  But he was good at concealing his feelings, and obviously managed to avoid suspicion.

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GEORGE SOLOMON, DANIEL NEALL, BENJAMIN R. FLETCHER AND MARIA DORSEY.

The above representatives of the unrequited laborers of the South fled directly from Washington, D.C.  Nothing remarkable was discovered in their stories of slave life; their narratives will therefore be brief.