while in this city.  To use Jane’s own language, he was “on her heels every minute,” fearing that some one might get to her ears the sweet music of freedom.  By the way, Jane had it deep in her heart before leaving the South, and was bent on succeeding in New York, if disappointed in Philadelphia.

At Bloodgood’s, after having been belated and left by the 2 o’clock train, while waiting for the 5 o’clock line, his appetite tempted her “master” to take a hasty dinner.  So after placing Jane where he thought she would be pretty secure from “evil communications” from the colored waiters, and after giving her a double counselling, he made his way to the table; remained but a little while, however, before leaving to look after Jane; finding her composed, looking over a bannister near where he left her, he returned to the table again and finished his meal.

But, alas, for the slave-holder!  Jane had her “top eye open,” and in that brief space had appealed to the sympathies of a person whom she ventured to trust, saying, “I and my children are slaves, and we want liberty!” I am not certain, but suppose that person, in the goodness of his heart, was the cause of the note being sent to the Anti-Slavery office, and hence the result.

As to her going on to New York to see her friends, and wishing to return to her three children in the South, and his going to free her, &c., Jane declared repeatedly and very positively, that there was not a particle of truth in what her master said on these points.  The truth is she had not the slightest hope of freedom through any act of his.  She had only left one boy in the South, who had been sold far away, where she scarcely ever heard from him, indeed never expected to see him any more.

In appearance Jane is tall and well formed, high and large forehead, of genteel manners, chestnut color, and seems to possess, naturally, uncommon good sense, though of course she has never been allowed to read.

    Thus I have given as truthful a report as I am capable of doing,
    of Jane and the circumstances connected with her deliverance.

    W. STILL.

P.S.—­Of the five colored porters who promptly appeared, with warm hearts throbbing in sympathy with the mother and her children, too much cannot be said in commendation.  In the present case they acted nobly, whatever may be said of their general character, of which I know nothing.  How human beings, who have ever tasted oppression, could have acted differently under the circumstances I cannot conceive.

The mystery alluded to, which the above letter did not contain, and which the court failed to make Mr. Williamson reveal, might have been truthfully explained in these words.  The carriage was procured at the wharf, while Col.  Wheeler and Mr. Williamson were debating the question relative to the action of the Committee, and at that instant, Jane and her two boys