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Special Justice P H E L P , who told her, she was then free. Her master, however, dissatisfied with the amount, appealed to the Governor, and refused to re ceive the money. She therefore obtained no acknow ledgment or "free paper," though she acted as her own mistress. Tired at length of a state of uncer tainty, she also appealed to tbe Governor, on which the Special Magistrate issued his warrant, after she had been free for a year, and committed her to the work house as a runaway apprentice. She was at the time in daily expectation of her confinement, and had been delivered two days before we saw her of her tenth child. The supervisor appeared to have done all he could to palliate, by kind treatment, the inhumanity of the ma gistrate. In the course of the morning we attended the Spe cial Magistrates' court. There were three present of the names of P H E L P , E M E R Y , and O L I V E R , of whom the first took the most prominent part in the pro ceedings. The first case was that of a runaway ap prentice complained of by his attorney, whose evidence was altogether hearsay, as he did not reside on the estate himself. It was supported by that of the head constable. The presiding magistrate, to remove all doubts, after first browbeating the prisoner, put leading questions to him, which made him criminate himself. He was then sentenced for one month to the house of correction. The same complainant next brought a charge against the head constable, for "disobedience of orders." He had been directed to bring to this court a woman, who had been a runaway from the estate for a year and a-half. The constable said he had never seen her, and did not know where she was. The attorney replied, that it was his duty to produce