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VOL 18.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. DECEMBER , IS58.
NO. 50.
Published by Theodore Schcch.'oaPtil revenge for hia neglect of me .to
'TERMS. Two dollars per annum in advance-Two find tu Vror deserted when he Came?
UoUursjunl n quarter, half yearly and if not paid be- J I went to the opera. We Were scarcely
lore me cnJ ot I lie year, Two ooiiars una a iiaii.
No papers discontinued unlil all arrearages arc paid,
"ffi8iK iess,:oS opposite. The blood rushed back
one or three insertions, $ I 00. -Each additional inser- to Ujy heart, and my pulse Stood Still as
g:-S --J'-"fi - -r- ! I recognized Ernest, my Ernest, my bus-
JOES PRfSTSSG. jbond, and leaning upon his arm one of
Having a general assortment of large, plain, and or ; the most beautiful VOUOg creatures my
StUuoTfypC' " arci,reiwrcd 10 cxcculc' cvcry de" eyes ever behold. This was my first im
2P.&5TO &M2mmma pression, for there quickly followed so
cards, circulars, Dili Heads, Notes Blank Receipts, deadly and jealous a hatred as made her
Justices. Legal and other Blanks., Pamphlets. -See, pi in- QOu nositivelv Uijlv I ouicklv drew
ted will, neatness and despatch, on joason.tble tcuns , 100k Pos'tlti ug'' quiOKiy urtyv
nthis office. down my veil that my husbaud might not
r.vrjMr1 ----- v -"J'frfr discover me, and from my concealment I
THE HANIAC'S COHIESSIOff. j watched the in with glaring eyes. I heard
A few years ago I visited au in.sano as- nothiug, saw nothing else; aud once when
ylutn. Tbo woman in charge conducted j rallied by my companions, I replied that
us through many apartments, giving u I was not well, and begged to be left by
all the information in regard to tho occu- j myself.
pants she was able and kiudly answering j "Then with the fierceness of a tiger
all the questions until we came to a room ,
where ouo of the patients had lately died, j
ami now lay awaiting tho disposal of her
friends, who had been appraised of her.
decease.
wo
entered.
aud gazed
rover-.
ently upon the face of tho sleeper. She
was a woman in the prime ot life aud sioually lift her eyes to his face. Then I
bore traces of great beauty. What great jsaw him smile (just as he had smiled u
fiorrow had bereft thii beautiful creature ,pon me a thousand times,) while he bent
of her reason? and by what relative, and still lower over her with renewed devo
for what motive, had she been incarcera-j tion.
ted in this liring tomb? were queries ( "Each movemont was like a red hot
which were in my mind as I gazed upon (dagger piercing my heart. I knew not
her lifeless remaius. Iwhat demon possessed me; I think I must
My eyes involuntarily wandered over . have been mad when I vowed a terrible
the apartment. A little table stood in, revenge. 'Twere better, I reasoned, that
the corner, beneath the grated window. hc should die while yet there existed
A Bible lay upou it, and as I took it up.jin his heart a spark of love for me, than
a paper slid from beneath the leaves and to see him little by little drawn away by
icl at my feet. 1 raised it. It was a:thesvreu till perhaps I should be utterly
closely written sheet, and a glance con-
vinccd me that it was a sort of revelation
which had been written there durinir the
last hours of the life that had fled.
"What is this?" I asked, holdin
the paper.
"Oh, that is probably some of Aggv
scribbling. She u-ed to call for a pen
and paper, aud she would write over sev-j
I i . . ..., I. . .1 MM. "
erai sueets, aim men uesiru iucui. auai
is probably one of them of uo conse
queuce, I presume," said the woman.
I asked if I ntiitt retsin it.'
"Why, ye$, if you wish to
re
plied.
I hid it awov in
inv bosom.
ind
eoon left the prco.i'-cs
"What could you possibly want of that
crazy woman's scribbling?'' my compan-
iou asked, as we left the building. ses, and into one I dropped the drug.
"I fancy there is something here worth All was dene with rapidity, lest my reao
preserving," I replied. "Let us examine j lulion should fail me.
it." 1 "When all was ready, I paced up and
As we rode homeward, I read it aloud j down the room, nursing tho fire which
to my friend. It was written in a trem-! raged within my bosom, by recounting to
bling had, and read as follows: myself the wrong I had suffered. I pio-
'I was the only and idolized daughter ! tured to myself my idolized husband ly
of wealthy parents. I possessed a hauh-jiug still aud cold before me, and I fell in
ty aud imperious temper, which was uev-'to a passionate fit of weeping. I saw
er subdued or restrained. My parents j him drawn from me, giving his love to
were not religious, and uo earo was taken J
to impress upon my mind religious truths, i
Consequently I gro- up uupnueiplea and j how much deeper would be my wrong, if
cxtrcm ly passionate. While ever' pains I spared him At that moment I heard
-was takcu with my education and accom-.his night key iu the latch, and be soon
plishmcnts, my heart was lefl to ruu wild j entered the room. I stood in the recess
overgrown and choked bv tbo briers and; of the window, where he did not at once
thorus of tyraun); yet I was j assionate
ly attached to my friends, and as long as
tliey did not cross my imperious will, 1
got on uicely with them.
"Thu- I grew to womanhood. Cnancc
threw me into tho society of a young law
yer of distinguished abilities, who had
begun what was predicted to be a bril
liaut career. I aoon learned to love him
with all the depth of mv passionate and.
impulsive nature; and was wild with joy,' He was in a heavy slumber, and already
when one day ho came to me, and in el-jhis breath came thicker and shorter, and
oqucnt language told mc how long aud
devotedly be had lored me and asked me
to be his wife.
We were married. If I occasionally
felt a twinge of disgust of my own quali-jback
locations for
wife. I soon silenced
it
with tho argument tiiat my love was
ut'rong enough to make up for all deficien
cicsi ',My husband was' all that was
with tho arcument
was
jtood, and noble, aud generous. I was
often passionate and unreasonable. But
he would take me to his bosom, and kiss
nuTso tenderly, and say so gently, "You
must subdue this uuhappy temper, Aggy.
It is making you miserable."
""Then when ho was gone, I would fly
to" my chamber, lock the door, and give
myself up to an uncontrollable fit of
weeping for very shame.
"Wo bad been married about a vear.
One. evening (would to God I could blot
from the record of time that fatal night:
but it lives like a hissing fiery serpant in
,n mpmorr. snd has doomed me to utter!
despair in this world, and I fear the next!); not too weary, I will take you both to
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my husband did not return at the usual
hour. I watched long at my accustomed
place, at the parlor window. His clip
light deepened iuto darkness, and Ibe
gan to grow uneasy, my seinsu leel
iags were roused, aud 1 felt myself sorely
grieved. An hour more yet he came not.
I'paced up and down the floor in a 'fit of
impatience. A ring at the door, I waited
toi hear, h)s step upon thetairs; but it was
slighter step than bis, accompunied by
tbo russliog of silk. Nellie 13 , an
intimate friend, bounded in. Sho was
dressed for the opera. She Baid their
carriage waited at tho door for mself and
Ernest. I told ;her Ernest had not re
turned from.. bis' ''office;, and t could not
wn-She looked dVonnoiuted. A eud-.
pcra and dressing gown were warming by
by the grate, aud everything was in read
iness' for him; but ho did not come. Twi-
den thought spized, nig.. ? Would it; not beted 'to -breathe:?
A , . i l L . j
seated in OUT box when a party
tearrul ot losing nts prey, l turned my
eyes towards my husband, and his guilty
'paramour.' She seemed to be enjoying
the performance intensely, but beseemed
to sec nothing hut her. His head was
bowed towards her, and hhc would occa-
deserted, and left with all my blind love
eating away my heart-strings like a con
suminji fare
"At my request we left the opera at an
upjearW hour, and with a terrible purpose I
eutered my home. But what was the
eutered my
s,uome now to
mo? The love that had
(brightened it was no longer mine. Some
demon furnished me with resolution to
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esucuiu ut- uuspuiuiu puipusu.
'It bad been our custom sometimes to
jdriuk a glass of sweet wiuo when we wero
j alone. I drew the table to the fire, pla
ced the decanter and glasses. Then with
j trembling hands I brought a .deadly opi-
wejate, tho nature ot which I well know.
The first effect it produces, was a deep
sleep, which in a fesv hours, terminated in
'the still sleep of death. 1 filled the glas-
another. I thought of all the
had suffered that night, and
agouy l
imagined
observo me. The wine first attracted his
attentiou, tho fatal glass. I saw him lift
it to his lips, drain its contents, and I fell
fainting to the floor.
I knew no more for several hours.
When I rallied, I was lying upon the so-
j fa; the lamp was burning dimly the ea
sy chair way wheeled to my side, and in
it I saw the form of my husband: I
sprang up. The drug wasdoinjiits work.
his pulse beat but faintly.
My anger had passed away, and all
tho wild worshiping love which I had
cherished toward my husband, rushed
upon my heart. I chafed his hands
L Ii:sted his hps, 1 strove to rouse him,
but all in vain. sixain I nacou up and
down the floor, but oh! what different e
motions possessed mc now.
"A little folded paper, which I bad not
before noticed, and lying upon the table
caught my eye. Scarcely knowing or
caring what I did, I took it op and open
ed it. I saw it was in the hand-writing
of my husband, and I eagerly read its
contents. Great God of Heaven! What
had I done? It was a noto that Ernest
had sent mo, and which did not arrive
until after I had gone out. It ran as
follows:
"Excuse me, Aggy, dear, from coming
home to tea. My sister of whom I spoke
to you this morning, has come home, and
"as sent for mo to come to her. Jf sho
the opera this evening, and will call for
you at eight o clock. Your loving
Husband."
"Now for the first time, I remembered
that he had told me in the morning, that
an only sister of bis, who had boon ab- j
tent several years, was expectod homo
that day. His parents resided in anoth
er part of the city. 'He would call for
me at eight.' I had gone out earlier, and
probably by somo carelessness of the car
rier, the note bad not arrived before tbo
time. I afterwards learned that he did
call for me, and being told that I had
gone to tbo opera with some friends, and
probably had uot receiyed bfs uojp, ho
proceeded to that place with his sister,
hoping to find me there.
"A wild hope that he might yet be
roused, seized ,mo; and Isprang to. his
side. But alas! too late! He, had ceas-
I "Oh! heaven of heavens! what evil
had my blind, passionate temper wrought
I mc and mine. Again I becamo insensi-
, blc
j "I opened my eyes. Loving, tear
; stained faces bent over me. A Boft hand
was gently stroking my temples, and I
gazed into tho face of that gentle sister,
whom 1 had never seen save upon mac
fatal night. She kissed me and whisper
ed. (Dear Aggy, you arothe greatest suf
ferer of us all."
"I was told that I was found in the
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: morning Dy a servant, lying upon me
floor, iusensible and my husband roclin-
. ing in his chair, dead!
I "It seemed that suspicion had not rest-
; od upon myself. The coroner was called,
and hiB verdict, 'Died by the visitation of
j God.'
I "Heaven only knows how I loathed
J and heated mysolf. I longed to confess
tho truth, but for tho sake of others, fore
boro to reveal what would have brought
J upon the family deep disgrace and addi
tional grief. A long illness followed,
and my reason reeled. I was oarried
back to my paronta. I could not remain
in the house whioh had been the scene of
my &in and punishment.
"Years passed; 1 grew no better, bat
was still trembling upon the verge of in
sanity, yet retaiuing sufficient reason to
distinctly remember my sorrow, and to
understand what was passing around me.
What was perhaps strange I was con
scious of my mental condition.
"Years passed, and my parents both
died. I was placed in tho care of an un
cle who was my natural guardian. From
him I had inherited the selfish passion,
which had been my ruin.
"For a time I lived in his house, but
he found me too great a trouble, and un
der pretence of solicitude for my recove
ry", he placed me in the insane asylum.
I knew that it was only to get me out of
his way, that he might have no hindrance
in possessing himself of my large fortune.
But I did not object. I felt that I de
served it all.
"Twelve years I hove spent in this re
treat. Every one has been extremely
kind to me. During that time I have
never seen my uncle. It is almost over.
I feel that I shall soon follow to that dark
bourne where in my frenzy, I sent my
husband twenty years ago. I have read
the Bible I have tried to pray."
A few months since, I visited K,
Cemetery. I found their graves. A
costly monument marks tho spot. The
uncle is living in possession of his niece's
wealth, and is seemingly prosperous. I
have never made known to any one the
existence of the paper in my possession.
I have learned that the family of Ernest
aro all dead.
The dear friends who sharred with mo
the knowledge of Aggy's confession also
lies "beneath the sod of the valley."
Doping that it may serve as a warning
to some who may read it, I give this his
tory to the world.
The Scattered Nation.
At this peculiar crisis it may not be
uninteresting to publish that the Jewish
nation, dispersed in almost every part of
the globe, without forming anywhere an
independent nation, amounted in number
in 1858 to 4,658,000 individual, not
comprising 30,000 Samaritans, and 1200
Ishmaelitcs, which would make a total of
4,690,000 persons. The total number of
Jews in Europe is stated at 2,451,179,
making tbo one hundred and tenth part
of the whole population of Europe at tho
last census.
Soap.
The wife of an American agricultural
ist has been experimenting in soaps, and
finds that the addition of three quarters
of a pound of borax to a pound of soap
melted without boiling, makes a saving of
one half in the cost of soap, and of three
fourths in the labor of washing, improv
ing the whiteness of the fabrics; besides
ihe usual cauwtio effect is thus removed,
and the bands are left with a peculiar,
soft 'and silky feeling, leaving nothing
more to be desired by tho most ambitious
washwoman.
Eapid Increase.
A Utah letter in a St. Louis paper, da
ted tho 18th of October, mentions "a
current rumor that brother Heber Kini-
j ball has been presented by his various
' wives with eleven babies during the pre
ceding twenty-four hours."
A dish for epicures was presented at a
dinner table in N. Y. city a few days
i since eggs fried in butter with tho shells
on. Tho dish was invented by a young
lady from Ireland, who said she could
"do that and a dalo besides."
j The Comet,
j The appearance of tho late comet ere
j ated an immense sensation in Egypt; for
I several days all business and labor were
i at a stand still, the inhabitants believing
that it foreboded somo great calamity.
"Are thoso apples fit for a hog to eat?"
asked a snob of a huckster. "Try them
and see," was the rather oaustie reply.
The great beauty of a' wife is, that if
she-abusos ypu;hersclf, she wontsletj any
one else abuse you.
A Story of the TTndjrground Railroad.
The following interesting and thrilling
narrative appears in the N. Y. Tribune,
under the head of "Letters from the Peo
ple," and tbo facts therein related are a
verred by the writer to be literally true :
Some months ago, it matters uot how
many, there was living somewhere in Vir
ginia a negro woman some' fifty years of
ago named Katy. She had been married
according to the religious code of the
South, by a ceremony which pledged the
twain to each other "during their lives,
unless otherwise unavoidable separated."
Katy was a virtuous woman, and so long
as her husband lived, was faithful to bcr
marriage vow, notwithstanding that sore
temptations to violate it, held out by her
master, were many times set before her.
These temptations increased in fierceness
as time rolled on, until resistance impli
cated her unhappy husband. He was
goaded to madness by the taunts, and
jibes, and threats of his licentious master.
But resistance seemed hopeless. Punish
ment be knew would follow, yet he did
not resist, and forbid his cowardly owner
to touch his wife. The wretch struck bis
poor chattel with a club, and the chattel
instantly felled him to the earth. Pre
venting the rape of bis wife, according to
the plantation decalogue, was "insolence,"
but the most awful retribution must fol
low thii energetic assertion of his man
hood. Ho was taken in front of his own
cabin, there his hands and feet were tied
to four stakes driven into the ground for
tho purpose, and his naked body exposed
to the lash. Fast and heavy the bloody
thongs descended with remorseless ener
gy upon his quivering back. His wife
and two children shrieking with horror
from the spectacle of a husband and fath
er tortured thus barberously at his own
door, fled weeping from the cabin. But
the plantation despot drove them back,
and compelled them to remain within
hearing. There they listened to the wild
shrieks of an awful agony they were pow
erless to mitigate, until nature gave way.
Tho strong man was crushed. Shrieks
gave way to groans his body ceased to
quiver its upper half was nothing but a
mass of bleeding rawness, cut iuto awful
slashes, and most horrible to look at.
His hands and feet were loosened, but he
made no sign the poor creature had been
beaten insensible. He was flung, like a
dead hog, into his little cabin no bed,
no couch, only the dirt on the floor to lie
on. There, without physician, medicine,
or nurse, he was left alone with his wife.
But nursing, or medicine, or physician,
availed nothing now. Ho died before
daybreak literally whipped to death.
Though this was years and years ago, yet
Katy even now wheeps like a child when
repeating the details of this fiendish out
rage. The poor lacerated body was ta
ken out and buried like a dog. Nothing
was said on the plantation or in the nigb
borhood about the infernal deed none
but blacks had witnessed it, and they dare
not remonstrate. If the neighboring plan
ters beard of it they prudently made no
inquiry. Nogroes were insolent, and must
be punished, and a like accident might
possibly occur with them, when they
should need the same forbearance they
now praoticcd.
This murder left Katy a widow with
two ohildren both girls, of ten and twelve
yeers old. It also raised up in her deter
mined resolution to break away and bo
froo, and hereupon the latent energy of
her nature oame into powerful action.
She knew that money was indispensable,
so she worked, and toiled between tasks
that her virtuous resistanco caused her
master to increase in severity, and by
traffiokicing with the negroes around ac
cumulated a small sum. But it took
twenty years to do so ! During this long
night of darkness she bad no human sym
dathy but her own unshaken determina
tion to be freo. Meanwhile her two girls
grown large enough to bo profitable as
breeders, had been married to fellow
slaves on the same plantation. Each had
now three children. Katy saw with grief
these new impediments to liberty spring
ing up around her, but without tho pow
er to prevent it. She felt that sho could
easily provide for her own safety in flight,
but was resolved to leave neither child
nor grandchild in bondage. She saw,
too, that theso incumbrances were increas
ing iu number, that her master was be
coming embarrassed in bis finances, and
that some of them must be sold to relieve
him. It might be her own offspring that
would thus be taken. While they were
united was therefore tho time for them to
fly. Tho flight agreed upon, preparation
was made and a night selected. They
knew that dogs might be put upon their
trail. To prevent their feet depositining
a scent which the dogs would recognize
and follow, they filled their shoes with a
preparation which effectually throws them
off. What this preparation is, it is un
necessary to name. It is hard for a plan
tation slave to obtain it, not because of
its cost, but because his insolation shuts
him out from intercourse with the civili
zation whero only it abounds. A knowl
edge of its virtues is part of tho freema
sonry of tho plantation. I havo token
tho degrees and oannot violate my obli
gation. Of this family of two daughters,
their husbands and Bis children, Katy a
lono possessed a dollar. Tbo rest wore
penniless, and if monoy were to bo need
ed, her scanty savings wore" their sole de
pendence. Preparations being all made,
and the hour of departure almost ' come;
one of Katy's daogbters'sudilonly gave
out. She had always been fearful of fail
ure, and now her courage gave way. She
refused to go. In this unexpected dilerna
the heroic mother was calm and resolute,
and allowed no derangement in her plans'.
Her mind bad evidently come to some
unexplained conclusion. An hour before
midnight, tho wholo party, one daughter
alone excepted, took up their dangerous
march.
I cannot undertake to give a tithe of
the particulars of this perilous journey
thus bepun. But its innirlnnts
o . .
painful and exciting, while at times they
wcro sadly discouraging. Tbere
were
six young children to provide for some
to carry, somo even to nurse, and all to
be prevented from crying or complaining
aloud. Then food must be provided, for
tho stock they started with was soon ex
hausted. By day-light they concealed
themselves iu swamps or thickets, some
times lying a whole day in the water.
By night they traveled slowly, because
they must move silently and with extreme
caution. Twice they heard the distant
baying of dogs, but not their master's
though they were evidently in chase of
other runaways. Once, when but indif
ferently coucealed within a swamp, ren
dered nearly dry by a long drouth, they
could distinctly hear tho tramping of
horsemen and their shouts to each other.
These, so far as they knew, were all the
perils they encountered. They may have
been surrounded by dangers, but were
unconscious of thorn. As they shunned
the public roads, even in the darkest
nights, it may be supposed their clothes
were soon vorn to tatters by the thickets
of briers through which their straihtfor-
ward journey kd them. The north star
was their only guide. Wherever that
stood they hurried onward, for they bad
always heard that beneath it there was
no Slavery. The six children were terrible
clogs to their progress. But their fath
ers were strong men, with singularly pa
tient dispositions. The heroine of this
expedition never faltered for a moineut.
Once clear from bcr master's plantation,
her courage rose iuto assurance of suc
cess, and she performed prodigios of en
durance. She forded crooks with a hea
vy child on her shoulder, and swam broad
rivers, sunnortinrr with ono hand tho la
borious burden. Her mind was so intense- tickets must be issued, no foolish poster
ly excited that she slept but little, and ate ituck UP at lc corners,
even less. Every faculty was strung to All the following day the fugities lay
its highest tension. As sho was leader ' snuu in the havaiosv. Tho women and:
of the troop into the wilderness, so she
was the life and soul of it through all its
torturous wanderings.
How long they starved and shivered
on this journey Katy is unable to tell.
She thinks it must have been four weeks.
At the end of that period, as near as can
be judged, and somo three hours after
nightfall, while quietly tramping over a
plowed field, they wore bro't suddenly to
a halt by a high and substantially built
fence. While examining bow it was to
bo got over, the figure of a man unespec-
tedly revealed itself to them. He had
been
standing
asainst
the fence wheu
they oame up had heard and seen them. , state. But God favored the fugitives, and
Fear took possession of them for the mo- they entered Philadelphia. Here, thoufr
ruent, and they huddled round poor Katy. their progress encountered no interrup
Tbe young children, also, began to cry. . tion, yet mine is sadly impeded. Though
No wonder; it was the first white man ; to them tho future was aud still is all
they had seen since they had fled from ' brightness, yet io the patient reader it
theirmaster. "Who areyou?" the old man
shouted. But the fugitives made no re
ply. One of them, dropping a chid from
his shoulders, and passing over to his
wife, put himself in a posture for defence,
with a short, heavy club, which he drew
from the belt by which it was suspeuded
behind htm. The stranger acain called
out: "Aro you looking for friends ?" f place and set off on her return to Virgin
To this Katy quickly answered : "Oh 1 ! ja determined to save that daughter
yes, master, for God's sake help us?" , whose sudden timidity had caused her to
Instantly ho opened the door of a dark 1 refuse joining iu the geueral flight. This
lantern which be carried in his hand, aud 1 Uold woman had formed this very detcr
tho full flash from a brilliant burner fell roiuation when she first discovered her
directly on'the fugitives. Dazzled by the daughter's intention to remain on the
glaro, tbey covered their eyes, and while plantation. Her mind came to the con-
thus half blinded by the sudden lllumina- elusion iustontly, that if they all succeed
tion,.hocame up to them. He compre- ed jn getting off, she would return to tho
bended tho case in au instant. "Be qui
ot and don't be afraid," ho said "you aro
now among friends come, and I will take
caro of you. Come with mc."
The fugitives were in Pennsylvania!
Tboy had struck the first station on the
Undorground llailroad, and this man
was resident agent !
Ho closed his lantern ond led the way
toward a light which for tbo fint time
tboy saw gleaming over tho fields a milo
ahead. It was the agent's residence.
When they reached it be led them to a
'barn noar by, unlocked the door and di-
reeled them to lie dowu on a wide spread
haymow, whero tlio hoy had evidently
bceu prepared mo.ro for sleeping purpo
ses than of feeding cattle. Here ho a-ked
them in the kindest mauner if any of them
were hungry. Katy tells me now that
the soft, kind and pittying voice of this
good man fell upon her heart with an o
verwhelming touilerness that melted her
iuto tears. All doubts of her having got
among friends instead of enemies, were
now removed, aud she gave way to a burst
of thankfulness, and of weepieg, confess
ing that none but the children of the par
ty had eaten anything for two days 1 purpose, Katy resolved to be off imuiedi
'Their protector told them to remaiu per- atcly. The negroes brought the daugh
i fectly quiet, not to answer any person but , ter to her the same night, No reproaeh
1 himself, ehould they be spoken to. from ' es passed from mother to childthe pat
'tho outside, and he would bhortly return the had forgotten everything to her.was
Iwith provision for them. Oh, what a in the future. As tbere was nothing a
! contrast it was! the first kind words from bout which to debate, and as the ward
'a white man any of them had board for robe of a slave is always on hisback.they
yoars 1 He passed out of the door, lock- were ready to start on the itistaut. Long
'cd it behind 'hi rtf, a'tid in half an hour re- before midriilft tliey bcan their? flitt
turned, bearing a large bucket of hot
milk, with bread, meat and warm pottv
toe His wife came with warm wafer
iu which to wash the children's feet, which
she knew by former experience would be
found toru and blistered by hard travel,
aud oitittm-nt in which to wrap them uj
for the niht. These famished creaturCH
i devoured thu providential supply of food
J with eager thankfnluess. How little can
j 'e w ho hear this narrative realize their
: true condition two days without caiiug!
I The erateful meal over, vho.v thmtr t?mrn-
j a J ........
selves down to sleep tired, sore nnd ema-
ciaten ana, tor the tir.-t time in many
nights, were able to dimts- all fear of
either bloodhound or of men.
This agent of the Underground had
sons and daughter., grown-up men nnd
women. It miht possibly interest you
to know how many. You might even
like to know their age., or even whether
his house was built of wood, of brick, or
of stone. Others would undoubtedly like
to know his name, and exactly where his
farm was located. I doubt not that all
their names have bcen'written by the re
cording anel in a volume iuto whose im
mortal pages no human eyo will ever pen
etrate. There let them be hidden until
the Angel of the It'isunection read.- them
out through that awful trun;p, whose c
lectrifying tones shall wake up the dead
of all nations from their long forotton,
graves. Let his farm, his Louse, aud his
location remain in the same holy and
peaceful security that encompassed them
when the torn and jaded fugitives first
heard his hailing sign on the midnight
air. Iam shut out from names, and date?,
and places. Oh! that I dare eniargc-on
incidents that send tho blood r'ushint-
i through my pulses as I write, which would
kindle up sympathetic hearts under whose
notice this mcdger narrative may chance
to fall, emotions of grief, enthusiasm and
detestation, akin to the DivJn-' essence
which is measurably implanted in the
heart of every inn. But where eloquence
would be natural and inevitable, it would0
be n'holl3 out of place. No finger post
on this great highway to ca aueipation
must be set up. It is already hemmed
in by perils,many in number and hazard
ous in the extreme. No obstruction must
be thrown across the rails, uo cratuit'oun
children were literally in rags. Sose
J had cuts on their feet, and grievous brui-
scs and scratches on their limts. But
in
all these particulars the agent had
not
been taken by surprise. Hi.- daughters
clothed tbeOi anew, and disposed of their
plantation ras so effectually tha"t they
will never be heard of arain. The oil?
and wiue of the good Samaritan flowed
freely and gratciully. So much for the
good deeds o: the wife aud daughters.
That ni-rht the sous, with fleet horses..
j performed their part in this
romance of
met with
, freedom. What relays they
when, how or where it matters not to
' must be ail darkness. 1 have taken tho
i degrees and cannot disclose the counter-
SlgD.
But the remarkable incident of this
story remains to be told. Tho widowed
Katy was fatuous as a cook. She imme-
'diately hired out in a hotel, and when she
l,ar saved threo month wa.ms nnir. hPr
liou's den and rescue her child. Iter
mind being thus made up on the spot,tbo
subject became au outside issue, and oc
casioned no embarrassuueut to the origin
al j lan. On this return journey she trav
elod alone. Having no children to em
barrass her, and but a single eare upon
her thoughts, she pushed forward with e
lastio heart and flop, and after numerous
hardships and dangers, found herself iu a
deuso thicket on her master's plantation.
Here she quickly revealed her presence
to her fellow-slaves. Tbey were confoun
ded by her hardihood, and listened with
eager altentiou to the story of her dan
gers, her successes, aud her explanation
of what she had to view. They related
to her how exasperated her master lt3d
been on discovering that ten of his chat
tels had gone off in a body; tbut when
pursuit had been found unavailing, her
poor timid daughter had been subjected
to repeated torture to compel a disclosure
of tlie plot; that from this Cruelty she was
even then scarcely recovered; that in the
interval tho master had died, and that
his negroes were all soon to be sold at
auctiou. With her usual quickness of