A Mother Selling Her Child As A Slave

belore une oí the coiirts ol 13allimore on Satuiday lasl. A colored girl natned Sally Jeffïies, the daughter ofa white woman named Ann Coimut, fiiled a petition lor freedum, ngainst her mother, who had laken lite girl tu the house ofa sluve dealer in that city and oiïered tu dispose of her as a slave lor lifo. The mercenary mother pertinaciously claimed her daugh ter as her slave and said that the child wasj given her by its own father, not denying ihat he was herself the giil's mother. - The uüiirt desired her V acknowledge the freedom ol'hcrchild by filing a response lo the petilioü to thai eiTect, or givc bail fur her appearance toanswcr the charge of be ing the mother of ihe peliiioner. To ths decisión she attempttd to re spond by 8tiying she would acnuii:scn, "if the court would tnake the girl go home wi'h her and be her servan)," she was not pcniíitled to insult the court by adding more, and was ordered to be removed. Shortly afierwards she stated herwillingnesg tofile the acknowltdgment, and the girl va3 releasctl. tíhe refused her mother's proposal to a home wilh her and well she iñjght, 0