_Marion, Williamson County, Ill., about December 10, 1850._
Mr. O'Havre, of the city police, Memphis, Tennessee, arrested
and took back to Memphis a fugitive slave, belonging to Dr.
Young. He did so, as the Memphis paper states, only "after
much difficulty and heavy expense, being strongly opposed by
the Free Soilers and Abolitionists, but was assisted by Mr.
W. Allen, member of Congress, and other gentlemen."
_Philadelphia, about January 10, 1851._ G.F. Alberti and
others seized, under the Fugitive Slave Law, a free colored
boy, named JOEL THOMPSON, alleging that he was a slave. The
boy was saved.
STEPHEN BENNETT, _Columbia, Penn._, arrested as the slave of
Edward B. Gallup, of Baltimore. Taken before Commissioner
Ingraham; thence, by _habeas corpus_, before Judge Kane. He
was saved only by his freedom being purchased by his friends.
_The Huntsville (Ala.) Advocate_, of January 1, 1851, said
that Messrs. Markwood & Chester had brought back "_seven of
their Slaves_" from Michigan.
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