Show A touch ot ideality and a bit of nom tuce it J 1 11 IL B S williams of hickory i springs ns fayette cott county lity tennessee tennesse e sent the following interesting corn mud I 1 cation to the memphis avalanche 0 on n the dinst on one of choso cold rainy nights i just passed a couple of sprightly and hardy looking little yankee boys barer bare j r footed badly clad and without budget about eleven and thirteen years of age calling all g themselves john irid and thomas landerson A aron brothers all the way from the north came to my residence zor in search athey as they said of tc a home and work aj and readily finding T both the they y are now with me the ha happiest apie sf little fell fellows you A ever e er saw 1 their stor is full of adventures asit t jf is is affecting they hall hail from the towns town 1 of patterson new jersey and sayd say they are factory boys and orphans and their father died a long time agnand ago and their mother nearly two years since leaving them m w ein in a a cotton factory 14 without friends or relations thereabouts having no brothers and an only sister martha who married one fredrick green of whom they have heard nothing for a lono long time and know not where 1 l they are that about two months month s s since ince being badly Irea treated ted they struck ck 60 out south without a cent of money andl worked their way along assisted by rail road bol conductors and steamboat captains until reaching memphis where they tarried but a little while starting rig out wi foot on the track of the alem memphis hisa ohio rail railroad road aich ahi h they follo followed to the wythe depot depol and meeting there ti a sr small n a 11 ll negro boy of mine who hearing their story politely and in the spirit of true southern hospitality m ignited cited them alonar with him to his bis masters house the a accounts those these little ft fellow illoN s gai e of themsia themselves elves I 1 believe to be true ani I 1 I 1 they are welcomed in the south to m my home shill shall sh ill have my protection and an open and aided future it has been suggested sted that they are runaway north eia era apprentices and by this I 1 ery af pf of their whereabouts a requisition or orr so something methin of the sort will be attempted to this I 1 will ta take oc cassion to declare decharo a in advance that in such an event event I 1 will resist at all hazards and the ae last castex extremity the fugitive slave law if sought to tola be enforced for the reclamation of the poor boor enslaved factory boys of the north who fled south for freedom freedona tind friends my afy little black slave lee who brought the fellows to my door will wili doubtless find acme some underground under ground rail i road for their escape esc ape should danger threaten |