York, (Pa.,) May 9th, 1849.

Frederick Douglass:ーSirーIt is my purpose to record the death of an eminent citizen, a faithful advocate, and an ardent friend of the way-worn slave. The person to whom I allude is the venerable Samuel Mars, who closed account with all that's earthly on the 28th day of April last. Need it be asked who he was? Why, from the last passenger in the underground railroad down to the latest retired slave monger of Maryland, none are so unlearned as not to know; for, while the latch-string of his hovel hung free to invite the fugitive of the "Dismal Swamp," his heart was open and as free to hear their tales of oppression and woe. Nor was this all; had he a crust it was broken; had he health (of which he was happily seldom dispossessed) it was staked for the freedom of the slave. By a life partially spent in the service of a master, he was made to understand the system; and, in extent to its horror, so was his zeal for its abolition.

The end of eighty-nine summers found him somewhat debilitated in body, but in spirit the same invincible friend of liberty. M. C.Cupit, Merriman