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Indicted for obstructing the Fugitive Slave law.

--The Rev. George Gordon, Jas. Hammond, Asbury Parker, Calvin Rowland, Joseph T. Baldwin, E. D. Asbury, and Jonathan McLatew have been indicted by the Grand Jury of the United States Circuit Court of Northern Ohio for obstructing the United States Marshal and his deputies, at Ioeria Monroe county, on the 20th of September last, in their efforts to secure by legal process a fugitive slave. The same parties are also indicted for assaulting the owners of the negro and their assistants, with a view to prevent the reclamation of the slave, under the Fugitive Slave law.

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