"A .11 1: it I caa."
TlOltllft or AIVI,UTIMn,
One fquiiro of 12 llnim, 'A limes, I PO
Every milwcu'irnt insertion, 2
Olio (-qti.-ire, Stuoullir, 3 no
Kix tinnitus, 5 00
Otic year, ft n
Busiiin V&rAt of 8 llnps. rt anViiim, a uO
Merrhnnr mid nthcri. mlverfisiiiK by llio ynir,
v illi I ho privilege ul lusorliug dilkriul ml
vcrtising weekly, o fffl
JJtisim-ss nntlut'ii lii'prlpii in Hi" I,ne.u, Cni.t mv.oC
bffnre Marriiigin nml 1chI!i, HVli CLVl'S l'LH
I. (Mi fur enoli i11.-t riir.11.
tjj-' Lnrg.-r Ailvcrtii-e'iienh nf per agreement.
JOB PRINTING.
We hnvc r'nipctii with nur cftaMr. ti'iie'i' 111 ll
."olecteft tOU Ul'I-'Vi, which will cniiMo ux ft
execntp, iu (ho ucict't style, uvcry variety f
l'r'i'i'ur
FiNii.E Ft nscnirnoN :
Two 1,u.i. tn per minum, In hp pnhl hiilf-yeiirly
inlviinec. Aw Hijicr discmitiiiucil until nil nr
tugvt nro jmiil.
to ri.rm s
r,i cnpies to one mMrcw, f. fl If
,. ' ,1.. lo inwi
ren 1 l" , 2"
iv.i Pnllar.-.. in inlvHiire. will ), .V fur llirrp years'
tcriptinn I" 'I"1 AmnicrH.
lull suWripHnnii mint hp tlifnVmlily Jwiil 111 ml1
cp, nml wnt t "hp mMrf
jMihscrilier. nejrlect or rcl'nse In Inke their nr!f
cik from tlie nlli'-e tn wliii-li they lire ihretleil, lliey
rcinmsiblp milil tlipy hnva BcUlial the hills nml
reil llicin iliwnntimu-d
latinntrra i ill pleao act ntir Agent, find
k li'ilers contiiinitiK mihscriptinn ninney. They
erinittet to ih lliis uiiiT Our lwl Office haw.
PUBLISHED EVERY
SATURDAY MORNING, BY II. B. MASSER, SUNBURY, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.
NEW SERIES, VOL. 10, NO. 17.
SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 18, 18(53. OLD SERIES, VOL. 23, NO. 43.
i' Tin:
SUNBURY
AMERICAN
BALTIMORE
LOCK HOSPITAL.
,i:i.ishi:d as a iikitci: fhom qvack-
K1IV.
oxr.r rr.Acn wnunv. a cr;
VAX HI! OISTMXKIK
I!. ,HIIXSTlX l"i! .li'cnvrreil the most Tprtnin.
l-'pceilv mi.l mil v Kffcctnnl ltenieily in the
il fur 11II riiviilcliisensci. Wenkii. "f llip Um k
nnhs-. Stiii-tnrcs. Allcctim-.. of tin' Ivi'liuys nml
1I1 r. Invnlnntiiry 1 i-i-iui rrf. Tmpntciicy. i!piio
1 1 ilitv Nervnii'-iu'ss-. l'yspi 1 y. 1 .1111 jrn r. bow
ls, ('niifnsinti hI'Mpii". l'lilpitntimi il tin' Henri.
liiv.Tri'iiililiii'. l'iinni' i'f Sij-'lit nr (ii.l.limw.
.'i-'i.f tin' lli'inl. Tlirmit. X"yp nr skin. Allei'timi
it. I.iin. Stnniiu li nr llnwi'ln t !..-. 'IVri i
'iMirilpri" iirisin I'min tlic Snlltnry llnliitK nf
1 iliunr fwrv nml wilitnry iriu'ti--s umrc liitnl
ir vii'tim? tlmn tin- irniiir nl' fyrnii In tlip Mn-
nf l l v-wi'i". 1.1 i jrlit iti ir tln ir nmst In iUiiiiit lmH'H
tii'iiiniii'iis, ri'inli'riiiy: imiriiitp. Ac, iinKi!hi
inlly, lin linve bei-nnip tlin vii tini" nf Snlilnrv
Ihit ilri'iiillnl nml ilc.-tiurtivp linbit wliiili
II v m-pp In 1111 untimely pmvp llinnyiiinlf nl
; Mm nf tlip most cxnlleil tnleiit.i nml I'l illinnt
el. wlm tni'.Oit ntlirrwipinvp eiitmnei il listen
u.iles itli tlie tlmmlers nf vliuiieiiet' nr unWeil
iiiy tlie liiii lyre, wiry enll itli full enn-
.TI.tKltlA4jl'..
ried l'erii:f, pr Vnnntf Men e"iiteni'lntina
tp leiiiif niTiirp nl jiliysieni weiikiie---. nrnnie
y. tlrtniiniiies. Ai'.. speeilily enieil.
nlm I'lneeii liiluself liniler tlieeiMP nfllr. J.
li-.'ii ii-ly eniifnle in lii.s bmmriis 11 reiitlrnmn.
iiliilcntly rely nnn bis skill ns 11 l'hysieiiiti.
occi;Ai' Mi:i!i.iN
linlely Cineil. nml 1'nll Viirnr lteslnrnl.
I'iy!Veiiiu AlVeetinn which remlers T.ife
l-le mi1! ninrriii'ie iinniible is the pi-nnlly
, die ietinis nf iiiipmper tnlnlt;etiee. Ynnii
; lire tun lipt In commit excesses frnltl lint
iwiic nf the iliemltiil ennsenncnci'S tluit mny
New. ulm that niiili.-rstiinils the sitliect will
1 In deny Hint the pner nf prncreni inn is Inst
by tlttw f.illin illtn imprnper hilhils 1I11111 by
'lent llesi.les beilnj ilcpriveil the plensiirrs
lliy ntV.-piiti' the lie's! scrinlis inul ileslrilctive
m In hnth hixly lllil lnilel urise. The system
ii'-runiriil. the I'hysienl niel Mcliltil l-'unc-
1 likctie.l. I,n-S nf I'fiHTenlive 1'itWIT. NerVnll5
liiv. 1 iyspi' ssii. I'lilpilnlinn nf the llenrt
i"li. I'Mlislilnli'imil llehility. n 'ii.-tin nf
inc. Cmili. Cunsuiiipl inn. liceny mnl lientli.
.. 7 SiiiIi lVi'lori-l Slr''
J ,-iil. 1 ruin fmin linllimnrp street, n few
'in i-i'iner. l-'nil imtlo nb-erve inline
1.!.. r.
vs mnt be pniil tni-l c"iit:iin 11 stump. The
- l'iilniniis h.-ni in hisiilVicc.
Hr. UAEIIMM I'II l '1'UO
Ens.
.X) ."T nnifttr -V. fsfniii )...
arse. .ioias o.
of the l!iy;t Collcp i.f Suri'oiii:. l.othlon.
tl niu ntit' nf tin' tilit i'lllilHMlt Collr- in
Sliitos. Mini t lie jrriMiliT V'rt of wlto-f U
pi'iit in tin In-iitii1s nt ,l.nln. )nri.
hia inul i'1-rulifri. Iim. I'Ui'i-ltti nuv of
a nr"! tlutt wiri i-vrr ktmwn ;
tul'lcil w itli riiiin in (In w:n nml vtiti
It i-ji, rv.ti ini iiuim':, ln-iii'j nlnt niril nt
inu l.-, liti.-lifnlnr.. with t'rrfHi'Hl Unfiling.
M-nM-'iint- uttlt ilrrniii'iiii-ut of mlihl, wore
lilt'ltJltl-lv.
liMn i-s nil tliot liti linvo injnn-il lln'in
iinj'i'oiior iiilul'iiro nml enlifm v luilitts.
in K'.ili. I.ii tv nihl tn i . iititittin; tlit in for
-inr.-v. yfn ly. nwii'ty or innrriti.i.
an' wiiio oft Iu .!! I mul nirlmtt'liolv oflVot?
1 hy riuly Iniliil of y.uith. vi.: Woakiio of
mil I l.iinl'S. Tniiis in (ho llfjnl. IhuiiuMS of
; of Mn.-.'iilnr l'tiwi-r. I'Mlpilntion ofllio'
y-ji. j.-y. Wrvoii!.' Irriraliility. I rr;iiii niriit
't -iivf I-'iim-liuii''. (ii'iirral 1-l.iliiy. S vn
tiituiiijtioii. W f
1 Tin frm ful I'dc-ton tlio intn.l urn
u ilr.-'ot. it t' of .Mfiiiory. Cimfiioii of (
iir--iou ot Spirit-. il-l;iir-lM'li!i'--. Avor--.K-i.-ty.
Il-I'itrnt. I.oo of Solitude,
Ac tin- .-oinottf the rvils iiut'ia).
M ol ' pvr-Mtis f nil jii run nmv juli
i- i-.-Mi-i' of I in ir ilrclinin Iioalth. o-ina
I-. J iff: ih ill Wc;ik. ilU. IIITVt'U.4 lllfl
j.l:ttii 11 jul.ir iii'tirmu(-iiKoiit the
ill iillil -H I'tntr,-nf (nuiMiiitioli.
4H in .aa;
hiinrcl tliiii1"
ii h li I 'li.-.
Ci!l.IUliiIIS. I
'Ivi'j l.y 11 I'i rtaiii r!Ktit o
li.iltit fit-ounitlv ti iiini'l
or lit seliuol. tin- oflWt of .
1-vi n nl.on jislri o. tnl if nut
liuhMv ti H.
i.ilir-1 iiiiiri'::i''' iinio--iilitr. iiul il-troy.-i
;!hl hn.ly. .-I.oiiM f1 V i III 111 . I lilt fly .
.ity tli;it 11 yniiti'4 man. tin lmjto t hi?
iliii l'it:; ot !.i- -!iri-nt. -li'i'iM Itc 1111 1 ilnl
! :n-il i-iijtiyint'iit of life, hy tlm
it- of li iattni from tlio juith of nature '
,iii in a cet tain t rr't lialit. ueii peri-oii :
1 - f'itfni:ililiLr I
M . It HI in V.m
it 11 MMiti'l iiiiinl anl Ko.ly nro l)io tuot
r'ii;i-it' to ioiinti eonnuhiiil !::i ('in'--,
i net tlirx'. thf jni.rm-y tliioiih lite ln
w -'Miy 1 Hirriuiiijre ; the .rti-n-rt hourly
the vii'w: itio miii'l hri-unns !-huhtt e
liraiid Iiilt-1 with thf mt'laiii-lioly ri-th-i:v
lui 1 iio of ; t IhT 1m-couh hlhteil
:a: oi1 isiBei au:4 b j
he mi-rrih"l tiul iinjint'li-iit votary of
t ls thai he Inii imliM-J the Mei-l- of tlii.
mm, it tou nt'h'ii hapi'cn- that an ill-iiitu-il :
iiiu . nr iln-ii'l ol iliriivery. ih ti-n him
vin to th't- win 1, from rilut:itin mi l
tiv. enn alniii' lu'lrit'inl him. del'ivim; til)
iiiioiwil ''ijil-tius of tin horrid ili-ute
ir iiiteai.in-e. mt-U a.- uh-eratcil wa?
:i-c I 110. c. i.ot turi.Jtl .iiii-ill the h'Hl ,
dinnn- of.-i;;lu. iriifue.. ittwlt on the ,
iti.d uriiif. I'htlfh"- vu tin hi'ad. f:ne und
. .p iri--- W, with flight Till rjq'ilily. till (
I'.tliiii' o (in mouth or the hnnei if tho I
11. in.! H e 11 1 in of tin nwtiil ilifeaM)
hoi 1 itl ol.ji ri nf coiiinii ration, till di'iith
. -1 t.. l.i tlli-iidliil .-uHt'i in'f. hy i-endin
it l ii 'ii-i-uvin d Country from whence im
'1!I l.."1
:..,,,hnhj '.'it that IhoUfiindu full victim
J. I" di a.-e, oin-tiithe uii"kiMfutne of
't luU r. who. hy l hr of that Prmfif I
luiiilhu eoii-titutiuii und make
of ini-oraldo. 1
s i 4;i:iC!i i
i vour livo-, or ht alih. to the eHrooflhe
niio d and U'orthhn I'leteiidm. ilvf-titnte
1c. mime nr clniraeliT. wh ci.y l'r.
inlvertiM inrntH. or Hylo tlieniM Ivi'n. in
ai-irs. reulurly Kdueated rii.VKU-iuim.
I fining, thci'ketn you tntliDK inotith
i t;ikin tln ir filthy "nml M.inu com
r Ion. llu'Mi.Mllot fi ecitii he yhtaint-d.
uiir. I : i e you with iiiiio-tl IivuItIi In xijli
.illiii'li-Hi'l-'ininunt.
t..n the only l'hyKinn mlvorlifiiij?.
i,i i.il or di'!onnif Hlwuy liHiitf ill hi otheo.
i!,.-..r ti iit-n tut Hit- unknown to nil
.j.nd from a life njH'iil in the rent h
r )..', it r tir-l iu the ciiotry and iimro
uftt i'n-itt" I linii tmy other rhy.-iciHii
I,
in; t on m: iici:n
ihou-mid eurl t thi im-litulioii ymv
uid the iiimoioui ini-rliit urnn-til
.. i I. i mid hy l'r Joliitnlmi. wiiiud hy
, . ..t the '."on" ' Clipper. nml lum.v
iiti. H ol whnh limw 'tire. nt-niu
t-t n- th' pihlie lu tndiliC fM
,n 1. 1 i hum- t r tto l reiU3ihihty, u a
m n.M o to the ultiu'Utl.
i itii .Hi Hn i imi v
4 I Id i.
uiiinu' i-lti.iihl U iMtriii'iilnr U direciiui
.! hi. Ih.ntuli' M Iu ll lolh' M'lC tMnrf
I,-,, ..it 1.44 k lltr.itl littltmioi M l
Jl.l.l- l
vi iii mi: tirn:
li k inn: V 1 ll.k V'l U AIM MS
. lh. -f iiv f . Imne. I will td
t I I N'.i ' CAM', i't V l.-J U
I ! lurOui' lll.r.
t p.i i -e ..ml
.1
iil.ll lir.l (lui F lwi
ik. .all Hid .iii l ttbll
, ,1 (.11 .1 in .l-il.lu 111.
,.l i ti H.I.J HI.AI ItOl.Vlllf
i , ,i ,. pl.t n..
. i ... itit4 t.f 1 t'ruU
J..IIS I'UMl
i .-. .-in w m . rini-Mi ti
I -'
MISCHI.LANKOUa
what i saw Ti:.-.i:,s!m:i:!t.
11V 1II)M-N1 KI1SKK.
Author of "Ainoti the Tine". "
Xcnr tlic forwnrd tlmir wrrc n luilnlii r nf
rilizi ns, vlm, itilitcly clisiilminr sinnc y'wvn
ol'liifrfxii-ri., invitnl the Colonel unci invsclf
to siti.-ir otll-silvns intOM'itts I iy tho 'siik'
of two fat lm-ii iu Secession prsiy, who turned
out to he phinters IVoln WcstiTii Tennessee.
They were of n party of neinhhors. w ho Inul
heeii to Louisville tonjeiher, und were re
turniuir to their homes.
As the train moved oil" from the stution,
one of them snid to inc :
"You're from the North, Sir "
"Yes, Sir."
"Thinns ure rather disturbed with ye
jest now nnen 't they? That Viilhindiphnin
alViiir is erealiiifr some tronlile (''
"Not inueh. Sir the hest ale will loam ;
it is only a little froth on the surface."'
"It seems to tne it's more than froth,"
said my riht-hand neih'nor. "I reckon
your people are tihout tired of the war. If
the Democrats were in power, thev'd stop
"How would thev stoii it i"
''!!y letting the South po, I'm n I'nion j
man. Sir hut I've had enoitnh of the war i
I want peace. You people sit the North
know nothing aliotit it. We're roliheil hy
hoth sides; we can't stir out of our houses
in safely; I never waUc in the liiorninj: l't ,
I fear the (lay will lie my lat." j
"It is a sad state of thiuirs. no doulit ;
hut I fear it will continue till the South
sulnnits."' I
"Then it will last forever," cclaiined j
another planter, who sat facini; me. "The I
South will never siilunit, Sir! It will never '
come hack! Every Southern man will die
first.'' . "
"Allow me to ask if you're not a slave
holder ;" saiil the Colonel, leaniii!; forward,, j
and smiliiiu'ly addressinj; the hist speaker. i
"Yes, Sir, 1 own some twenty negroes." j
"1 thought so. I never heard u man i
with less than that nitnilier express s'.ieh
sentiiiients."
"lint I own more, and I'm not of that i
opinion," said the (pliet ncntlclnaii lieside i
tin- Colonel. "I would he glad to see the 1
South hack now."' i
"You're not a native. Sir." !
"No. Sir; hut I've done husiness here for '
'.10 years, My friend, the doctor here," j
pointing to another pi-ntlcuiau, sitting op-
jiosite to mi , "is a native, and a slaveholder, 1
and as ranid on the I'nion as I am."
"And how many slaves have you, doctor," !
asked the Colonel, with another pleasant j
smile. i
"Only two quarters of one. Sir, nn old
nan and a woman w ho were playmates of .'
my mo! her;" answered the medicai man.
"1 thouirlit so," said the Colonel quietly. '
"Come ni iitlemen," I exclaimed, latihinjr, i
"as the Colonel thinksthe numlierof darkies
a sort of political tiarometer, Ictus take a !
census at once.'"
They all received my remark jrnod-naturcd- i
ly. and, in live minutes, I had the statistics.
The corpulent planter, who expected each
day would he his last, had seventy odd;
the Northern horn merchant hail'7;tlic
doctor had 'J. and the others had respective
ly lt!, H3. S4 ainKM; the latter ntinoier
represent inn the interest t hat the hcllinerent
planter had in the peculiar institution. A
half hour's desultory conversation followed,
and durini; it every one of them, except my
ripht hand neiyhhor, and the "No sub
mission" man, i-.xpie.-sed a w illingness to
sacriliee his chattle.- to save the I'nion.
"Ah, Colonel," 1 exclaimed, as 1 ot ut
the sentiments of the w hole of the parly,
"you are floored vour theorv won't Maiid
tire."
'',. (y.x it won't," he replied, dryly.
Mure extended observation subsequently
convinced me that his views are fully sup
ported by pi ueral facts.
As the planter of Secession proclivities
was rather warmly combat I inp my views on j
the Emancipation Proclamation, it singular- j
ly self-possessed, pent Icmanly-lookinp man :
of about fifty, approached us, and leaninp j
apaiu.-t thearm ot the opposite seat, accosted
me as follow s :
"And when the South is subdued, and !
the war is over, w hat w ill you do with four
millions of emancipated bhieks
"Set them at work, and pay them."
"And would you, a white man, consent
to live w here every second citizen is a black,
and your political and social equal"
Freedom of itself, Sir, will not make
the black inv equal. At the North he is
not politically or socially on a par w ith the
white, and there he has had fifty years of
freedom.''
"lint your black is inferior to juirs. The
nepro is of a tropical race; he comes to
perfection only under a warm sini.''
"It that bit true, it proves that your liu
proes are tit for freedom, for our blacks are
ik orderly, industrious, and quiclly disposed
as tiny class we have.''
Tliu new-comer was about to reply, when
the doctor, turninp to him, said : "Colonel,
you consider our whites superior to our
blacks ; do you not C
"Certainly I do."
'Then pivo the blacks freedom ; subject
them to free competition with the poor
w hites, und you'll soon he rid of them, for
they'll mit. The Indian is naturally
superior to the nepro ; but two centuries of
contact with the white man the Indian
beiupy'v has reduced the rare from six
teen millions to two millions, K t the black
free, h ave him lo himself and Ins fate w ill
lie the same." ,
"Then slaw ry keeps the race alive anion-'
us V
"Of cour-e it docs; lor, while the hUi k
labors for us, wo feed, und clothe, und HiIhL
for him; und beshles nnd this is the
principal rciison -we ure constantly infiisinp
lieli while blood into his Veins. That
w ould not In- if he were five ; for the bl.uk
docs not siik the white, but the white the
I. hick."
"You have slated the slroiii,r,..l urpiimeiit
for Sluvcry that I rw-r heard. You y it
will.uxelhe bl.uk, wl, while you dinit
thai freedom Mould destroy hint, Jolt Would
set hint flic !"
"I Would - t.) iw lh Idles, Thn social
and poliiiial corruption Hhiih uhstilut
I I. nil".. I of him Im. Iri-d mu.nip us, U di
.In.) inp us. It has iuum.1 I lie prvstut
lain ol thilips, mid liml i. u.ilip this itr -
lli ii li it i 1 of our mi i iq. lion-Ik purity u.,
lie hits vtiiitcii on ihu Mull - sny umii tatit
nitd it - "l4W ijr U duomi-tl !'
"1 cuiiiii'l hu.i il, ii.I I do not Ih lli u a
pool and ju litid Hit (hints lliu tli-diiu
lion of his I lislun. "
"II I. lit' II'. I di .Ho, id lthe Ml. II."
vs i l by p.iiiial Iih., Kiel out i I llm
I I tint I . I 111.. Ui i , Ih il the in .k li ill
pi re way to the utronp tho inferior rare
to the superior. There is no hardship in
this. Every man submits cheerfully to it
(he old pivc up their places to the young
the father dies and the son succeeds htm,
and nobody pruinbles. Vic have abstmctcd
the operation of this law on the black race,
and now, in tears nml blood, we mo payinp
the penalty."
"You bookisli men can spin fine theories,
but we have to deal w ith facts, and hard
facts at that."
"I have formed my theory on facts.
Colonel, hard nml black fads, too," replied
the doctor, lauphilip.
"l!nt you never loved thn slaves as I do
never hail them love you, and look to you as
mine do to me. Whin lirant's army was nl
Memphis I told them they would be free if
they went to it, und not one of them left
me."
"That only proves, what everybody knows
that you are a kind master; anil that your
ncprofs would work cheerfully for you, if
the) wi le free."
"Well, there's no use Inikinp to you;
you're an incorriuible Abolitionist; '.tut
come. Squire," addressinp my ripht hand
lieiphbor, "exehaiipe seats with me. I want
to ialk with this Northern pvntleman, mid
I can't stand this any lonpi-r." The cars
wore jolt hip considerably, and his position
was not an easy one. The fat planter rose
mid the other seated himself besides me. As
he did so, I said to him :
"1 never discuss Slavery, Sir; it's a waste
of w ord'.''
"I don't wish to discuss it. Sir; I want to
ask you the tea! stale of public feeling at
the North. Where do you live. Sir!"'
This was spoken in a tone which showed
he was accustomed ton pood deal more de
ference than is yielded to the ordinary run
of planters. 1 quietly pave him my name
and residence, and asked him for his.
"(ieorpe W. II , of II Springs,
near Clarksville, Tennessee."
"You name is familiar to me. Sir : 1 form-
ly knew (Jen. II of South Carolina he
whose son couunanils the II I.epion."
"J h: was a near kinsman of mine. We're
all of the old Virginia family."
The (Tai k-ville gentleman then w ent on
to a-k me a multitude ot questions about
the condition of tilings at the North. I ans
wered frankly, and he listened attentively,
but made no comment w hen I expressed the
opinion that the mass of our people would
never consent to the re establishment of Sla
very. We were entering a beautiful region,
where the. thick grass was waving in the
meadows, the early (lowers were blooming
by the road sides, and the Spring birds wore
singing in the great old trees; but where
the rich, red soil lay unturned by the plow ;
the stalks of the Autumn corn stood rotting
on the ground, and ruin and desolation
stared at us from evert thitiLT. liroken fences,
wasted fields, deserted plantations, disinant- i
led dwellings, and, now and then, a burned i
w oods, or charred chiinneV. standinn a lone-
ly sentinel over a weedy garden, or amid a I
blackened prove, toldthat the demon of war
had passed that way. and left only ravage 1
and devastation in hi- path. A ragged wo-
man, looking out from a wretched hovel ; a
solitary man, lingering around a heal) of
ashes and crumbling bricks that might once
have been his home, or group of hall clad
nepro children, gamboling on the porch, or ,
lolling laily on the lawn of some descried ,
homestead, (hat still looked down in faded
grandeur on the mill around it, were the
only indications.. f human existence, and the
only remnants of a once peaceful and happy :
population. It w as one of the mo.-t lovely:
regions of the earth, naked, but beautiful I
even in its nakedness. I called the atten
tion of my new acquaintance to its apparent i
fertility, and remarked: "No portion of this
w ide country has so line a climate, or so rich -and
fertile a soil as this, lh-forc we reached j
Eli.abellitown, we passed through what is .
called the -bed of the Ohio' it white clay I
region, heavily timbered, but deficient in j
iron ami lime, and mainly devoted lo gray.- t
ing. Now, we are ascending an elevated
plateau of red clay, rich in even thing except j
ammonia, ami proilueing, almost spontane
ously, enormous crops of wheat, rye, corn,
hemp, blue grass and tobacco. At Howling
Crccn this plateau is broken by irregular
rnlges that spring out trom tlie I umlu-iiaml ,
mountains and sink into the lower lands
boidering the Mississippi. They give a more .
beautiful diversity to tlie surl.ice, but the I
character of the soil continues the same, ay, I
indeed, it does over nearly the w hole of this '
State (Kentucky) and Tennessee. Any- j
where in Ihis region the subsoil, turned up
by the plow, and exposed a short time to I
the action of the air, becomes tt manure ul- I
most as valuable as guano. 1 hese tw o Slates
Sir, were meant by nature to be the garden
ot this continent. Adam when he tirst woke
in Eden, did not look upon a more beauti
ful landscape, or a more luxuriant Vegeta
tion, than is everywhere spread around you;
but now, see what wur has done; A curse
has fallen on these once luqipy homes the
abomination of desolation sits in these plea
sant places !"
"Hut the day will soon come, Sir, when
free labor, free schools, and free mi n w ill
people this region, and make it in it-ality,
the paradise w hich (Jod designed it should
l''e cannot foresee the end. Sir, but my
heart sickens when 1 think of what it may
Ik'-these old homesteads disinant led, these
ricti plantations cut into little plats of it half
dor.eu acres, and ditided among the negroes
or squatted on by u vulgar herd of Irish and
lierinalis. I hope I may not live to see it
Sir; but let urn that come rather t tin n dis
union and the perpetual 'W ar tlotl would
follow."
"And you tire it I'nion man Sir!" I ex
claimed, in ph aseil surprise. "1 leali d from
what yoll said of Slaverv, that wU were
mil."
"I'nion, Sir! rny I'nioni.Mi Iota been tried ;
it has stood the P si it cry lest but death;
und I m ready to meet even lli.il for il. I
believe in Slavery ; I think it the normal
condition of the black nu n ; know my in -griM-s
uru h.ippn r than Ihey would be in free
dom ; und -1 love litem, Sir. Hat I hive
my children belter. I do not wul lo hvc
them licritnn,!- of tudlos wur; und, tin re
tort', I nm willing I hut Slavery should U'
uUili.he.l, if Ihu I liioil cuutit'l I SMVed
without il "
'You uiu-t Into stil' -rctl'H-Hily, Sir, liv
ing its )m do ill It sttioit Vl lit I u the Mil.
siou t h infill 1. ... strong "
"I hull'. M) pUi Ulimi has bull I nt .i;-.. I
in y lite lot U tu thitaltiittl - tttry rthmtu
I Gitvti in llm woi Id, bi.l my "Mit tbil.liiii,
loss turned uk lin.l lot1. A loliuiotin. w uiu d
oil llir. jusl Ul.ilt; tl.u Junu 1 1 Kill I I In I loll,
Ulid Inld Inn lli.il litly li.pts Mile tt -nl In
h in,; ton II th l i,., n i.o U.y I l4-.ll t4lk,
Kit I loir I In .1 ,11 ,U lit Lt I V lilt I ti t.
my negroes, nrnied to the teeth. I went to
the polls nnd defied them. I voted 'No Sep
ntion,' They then dragged inc. and Judge
Catron before tho Military Commission at
Nashville. They questioned us, and order
ed us to leave tlie State. The Judge con
sented, but I charged them with sending us
nway bectiUFO they had changed, while we
had not, nnd 1 told them to their faces that
1 would not go that I would die first. One
of my near kinsmen was on the Commission,
nml In re used him of being recreant to every
principle of our ancestors, lie only answer
ed, 'I'd not argue that question with you,
AVe may be wrong, but we're embarked in
this thing; our lives arc at stake, nnd self-
preservation, w lncli makes a man saerallce
his dearest friend to save himself, impels us
logo on. AVe cannot look back.' Itislhnt
feeling which now holds them together.
After that, my wife entreated me, and 1 am
ashamed to say it. I became less out-spoken,
lint 1 was a marked man ; they nunoyed
tne und plundered me in every way. At one
time they quartered a whole regiment upon
me. I wont out and told them: 'You ure
my neighbors; I love you, ami will not kill
you, but 1 curse you. I curse you for- the
ruin you ate bringing on your country.' Cod
heard me. Sir. nnd"tbnt curse rested on them.
Out of the fifteen hundred that went to
Hichmond, only two hundred were left when
(rant took Memphis I The rest had ans
wered the mutter-roll in eternity ! Then
every man felt justified in taking my life. 1
walked every day arm-in-arm with death. 1
was plundereil, waylaid, shot at, my well
was poisoned. How I escaped, the I'rovi
denee that guarded tne only knows. When
tlie soldiers left, society became reduced to
a state of anan hy a struggle for self-preservation,
lirolhers turned against brothers,
parents against children, children against
parents. No man w as safe. Even my friend
Shackelford, law partner of liustavus A.
Henry, member of the Confederate Senate,
was threatened with dentil. At the outset
he had gone with the current, and his only
son had volunteered ; but w hen he saw ruin
which Secession w as bringing on his section
he applied Ul lenry for the young man's
release. An order was at once issued for
his arrest, and he only escaped by having
the Stflte. No words can picture, to you.
Sir, the state of things that existed. 'All
that Pante and Milton lmvu told us of hell,
falls short of w hat we experienced.''
"And through ail this you st 1 true to
the I'nion! I honor you, Sir, from the bot
tom of my soul, I honor you."
"You need not. for 1 knew their plans. 1
knew that nil their talk-about the extension
and perpetuation of Slavery was n mere
sham, to cover their real designs, which are
to subvert republican institutions, and found
a bastard monarchy on the ruins of their
country ! I loved Slave: y, Sir, 1 love it still;
but even to save it 1 could not aid in over
throwing the (iovernnient founded by my
fathers. I could not lift my puny arm in
opposition to the manifest designs of (Sod,
which are that all men shall be free and
equal."
1 did not ask him why the blacks had
been over looked in the designs of I leity ; I
merely remarked: "And are you satisfied
that such are the intentions of the Ilebel lea
ders ! 1 know that Spratt, and other South
ern theorists, advocate monarchy as the only
government compatible with Slavery; but 1
have not supposed your practical stateMucn
had adopted such views."
"They have. These ideas are the main
spring of the liebellion. Hut for them it
would never have been undertaken. I know
it. The w hole plan was opened to inc. If
it had not been 1 should have gone with
them. I (oiild not otherw ise have stemmed
the current. The English and French Cov
crunieuts know it, and that is the reason
the Itebels have had so much sympathy from
them. They have kept the desipn carefully
out of sight ; only the ringleaders have been
iu the secret, for they knew that if the mas
ses discovered it before they had them
bound hail. I and foot by military despotism
the whole jig was up."
lie pausdd, for just then the engine-whis
tle sounded shrilly through the trees the
train broke up, every man iu the car sprang
to his fret, and a do.en voices called out:
"The guerrilla are upon us !''
"Are you armed, Sir ;" said the colonel
tome, as coolly as if we were at his dinner
table. "No, Sir, I am not."
"Tuke this ; it may be useful."
Cocking the revolver, and giving one
thought to these I had left at home, I seat
ed myself, and hreathlcs-ly awaited the ex
pected a.-sault.
i. h i: o tiii: si: v ii.ams or
sT.4IC4;iA.
THE SLAVES AND T1IEIII MASTEES.
'I'll. WiiiiiiiWliit-r. ol' lite
Soul Ii.
' The obscure village of Ihiricn, in C.corgiit
has recently gained a place in history by
reason of a visit made to it by the black
I nion soldiers of Colonel Mongomery. Near
it re-ided for some mouths in 18'-(H l$;!t)
Mrs Kemble, on her husband's plantations,
oirscvcral ot the neighl.orinp Sea Islands.
An English woman and u lady ot culture,
the life hid for her much novelty, and of
the incidents of this life she sent n record to
n friend in Massachusetts. This journal, in
the form of letters, is printed iu a book, just
publi-hed by Messrs. Harper il; Hi others,
under the title of ".louriud of a lioideuce
on a (icorgia'i Plantation iu lfi-'H-'tl.
lt is tin ubsorbing volume. The slavesys
teiu os the southern slates has never before
been (h -criU-d. Mrs. Stone's I tide Tom's
Cabin was novel. True it w in, undoubted
ly; but this journal of Mrs. Kimble's is
line in a ditleieiil sense. It is a record of
actual iM t-uiaiice s ; and it is, us it ought to
be, it plain story, v itli no varnish, written
d.iwn from day lo day, of llm sorrow s uud
suH't-ring of the 'piopiu," und the uljjar
crime, of the masters und their agent.
The author has litly taken her motto flout
.Mr. Stephen's celebrated sint-t II :
"Till, slouc ('l.twrtt, which Was rejected
by the first . nil, h i., is become the t hief
stone of he crniu r in our new clirti t."
What I lii. (oiner stone i .he tells us
lure; und Mhitituml.es of I lie in. u and
women who lmvu In do with il, cither us
siihjctu or lulei, or neither subf-iis ion
lulu., Iml simply n look. ison the lion
.l.lii hoi. Iliijj while of I hi; Mouth, name
ly. Itli. "I'tM'U W III I 1."
Of Ihtsv lul .lie saw ImtiiV samples, und
liu in m nbi s tin II ih r ... l.i t nut. III. ir It's,
ol ll.lllt, 1 1.4 ir Mnlihi.1 . nil) und 4iJe
Ho I sll. e, a. tin ) 1.41 u lt II ollt II tit I ilt I
Iii4lti ul k.ti 1. us. ut I...4JH l'i .I.UN iu
I : i,J l, , 4 (,. Ik... I.t.lle Nl. I il
li.lfl.-.ll .t. V' . 1'O.l'X ('' I"'
before, Utit hnw- could thn poor whites be
othei wise ? The slaveholders will not pivo
them work they whoso health, in a free
s(nte, would pivo support to the whole po
pulation, and by the union of capital with
labor make the country rich and enterpris
ing. These masters deprive the non-slave-holding
w hites of their very melius of liveli
hood. They mnke their slaves artisans, nnd
Ihnsstarvc their poor white neighbors, or
toreu them to remove to tht free states.
On Die prent cstateoll which Mrs. Kemble
lived no! a single white, man was employed,
except the overseer.
"There nru here ft gang (for that is the
honorable term) of cooper's, of blacksmiths,
of brick-layers, of carpenters, all well ac
quainted wi'h their peculiar trades. The
latter constructed the wash-hand stands,
clothes-presses, sofas, tables, etc., with which
our house is furnished, and they are very
neat pieces of workmanship neither veneer
ed or polished, indeed, nor very costly ma
terials, but of the white pine wood planed
as smooth ns marble.
"I passed the blacksmith's nnd cooper's
shops. At the first all the common iron
implements of husbandry or household use
for tin; estate nre made, nnd at the latter nil
the rice barrels necessary for the crop, be
sides tubs nnd buckets, large and small, for
the Use of (he people, nnd cedar tubs, of
noble dimensions and exceedingly neat
workmanship, for our own household pur
poses.'' It is for the aristocrats who thus deprive
the industrious poor white man and his fam
ily of their means of living, and force them
to live in poverty, nnd wretchedness on the
"barn us," that these nre fight ing now. It
was well for (he slaveholders that the poor
whites were kept iu ignorance. No wonder
the planters opposed free schools,
It is easy to see that Mrs. Kemble was a
troublesome visitor. She liked cleanliness,
ami the overseers pave no attention to that.
She was humane, and humanity was simply
a "brother. "J She listened to the complaint's
of the poor slave woman, and interceded for
them, till she found that the over.-eer (logg
ed them for complaining. She listened
longer, in spite of .Mr. 's angry excla
mations of, "Why do you listen 'to such
stuff?" or, "Why do you" believe such trash i
Don't you know- the niggers are all d d
liars ?" etc., "till one day he desired me to
bring him no more complaints or requests
of any sort, ns the people had hitherto had
no such advocate, ami had done very well
without, and 1 was only kept in an inces
sant state of excitement with all the- false
hoods they "found thev could make mc be
lieve." From this we learn that the southern
gentlemen can use profane language to their
wives.
TI1K NKIiltl) r.MtlNS.
Here is the way the "happiest peasantry
in the world" are lodged by their humane
masters and it is said that this plantation
was thought to be Well managed :
"These cabins consist of one room, about
twelve feet by fifteen, with a couple of closets
smaller and closer than the state-rooms of a
ship, divided off from the main loom and
each other by rough wooden partitions, iu
which the inhabitants sleep. They have al
most all of theni a rude lie.l-tend.'with the
gray moss of the forest for mattress, and
filthy, pestilential-looking blankets for cov
ering. Two families (sometimes eight and
ten in number) reside iu one of these huts,
w hich are mere wooden frames, pinned, as
it were, to the earth by a brick chimney out
side, w hose enormous aperture w ithin pours
dow n a flood of air, but little counteracted
by the miserable spark of fire, which hardly
rends an attenuated thread of lingering
smoke up its huge throat. A wide ditch
runs immediately runs at the back of these
dwellings, w hich is filled and emptied daily
by the tide. Attached to each hovel is it
small scrap of ground for a garden, which,
however, is for the most part tmteiulcd and
uncultivated. Such of these dwellings ns I
visited to-day were filthy and wretched iu
the extreme.
"In the hospital wi re several sick babies,
whose mot hers were permitted to suspend
their field labor in order to nurse theni.
I' pon addressing some rein oust ranees to one
of these, who, besides having n sick child,
was ill herself, about the horrible dirty con
dition of her baby, sin; assured me that it
was impossible for them to keep their chil
dren clean ; that they went out to work at
daybreak, and did not get their tasks done
till evening, and that then they were too
tired and w orn out to do anything but throw
themselves down and sleep."
It is not well to "annoy" the overseer.
Mrs. Kemble told the overseer what the wo
man said. He "appeared extremely annoy
ed," and the next morning he took' pains to
prevent the recurrence of the annovunce by
Hogging the woman, who w as found in tears
by the lady of the manor when she paid the
next morning's vi.-it.
"This morning I paid my second visit to
the iulinuan, and found there had been
some faint attempt nt sweeping nnd clean
ing, in compliance with my entreaties. The
poor woman Harriet, how ever, w hose state
ment with regard to the impossibility of
Ithtir itltending properly to their children
I had been so vehemently denied by the over
! seer, -.vas crying bitterly. 1 asked her what
ailed her, when, more by signs and dum'i
, show than words, she and old l!o-e inform-
i id mu that Mr. O . had (logged her
that morning for hat ing told me that the
women had not time to keep their children
( clean, lt is part of the regular duty of
1 every overseer lo visit the infirmary at least
i once a day, w hich he generally doe.- in the
' morning, 'and Mr. O 's visit had pre
ceded mine but a short time only, or I might
have been edified by seeing a man hoise
vt hip it woman,"
Ib'w the slaves im it go.1,1 plaM.dioii live
is told here :
1 "Ui turning to the hoii-e, I pa-sed up the
'street.' It was between eleven o'clock and
noon, nnd the people were taking their first
mud in the d.,y. l:v ihe by, E , In W
1 do wni tliinW lliikshiie county farmers
vt itiild n lish I. ilnuing hard all day upontM.i
meals of Indian i nin or hniuint f Such is
Ihe regulation on I hi- plantation, however,
j Ulid I Ug ou In bear ill 111 I ll . I that the lle-
pri.es tut Mr. 'sn.'.i.'c ure pcmiullv
considered well on. Tin y go lo the Ih Id.
ut lUvl.ivuk, t.nrjitig with them their ul
liiMuiitu id ....,l ..r the. il iy, whii h, lowuid
noon, und in. I llll IIn-ii, t y , ,,t 4 . hiking it
OVeru llrt-, whi, , l.y kili.lle u. bt.l ih. y
140, win it- tin f inn Hi. king '(hi II .it olid
ill I he il.t) . nt night.ullii I lit ir labor im
I'Vtr, liatiuif Moiked, Hi I he lit) It a I , l t
li. nil. w II It. ml llileiinls.-ii.il 1. 1 t. I m t In. I,
lilt III .I nt III, l tioolldil) llll .ll IplnlHll)
so i ul It'tl, lor ll I. on ul, und iioll.ln tU i."
nn I ill. i. nih si tvl'. MoVIt
In onu r q.ti t ilu, will, i's I'ltii.ilus i f
l.i oiUU'.ii hie .i4 ,1. i.b.nt iii buidtuit'
Mil! M. HMOIntu 4, ,l,,, till, 111 ..III
1 1. I.,; M llil ti.4i, t - J 4II1 l' il lul-i.l
strong enough nnd active enough to exam
ino closely, nnd able to describe what she
saw. Her sex brought her specially in con
tact w itli the slave iromrn ; a man, unless ho
had been a physician, would have known
nothing of the most of the sorrow s nnd suf
ferings which were confided to her without
scruple. As wo rend wo wonder how tho
women of the South could endure a system
which brought Bitch shanio nnd such pain,
and worse than pnin, on so many of their
sisters ; we wonder how the wi-'es of slave
holders could bear to see and to know w hat
was passing about them or by whnt nrt
they managed to shut eyes nnd cars nnd
heart. Slavery never appeared so hateful,
nor slaveholders so vulgar nnd brutal, as in
these pnges, where a woman tells the world
w hiit the black women of Ihe, South have so
long endured.
They arc w orked in the fields, side by side
with the men. Yet they bear children, too,
It was nlwtiys thought that the slaves, by
reason of their frugal life, were at least the
healthiest if not the happiest people of this
country. Hut physicians who have follow
ed our nrmy to Port lloyal found, to their
surprise, that the slaves of South Carolina
were not by no means the strong, hardy peo
ple they were commonly supposed. And
now the writer from whom we arc quoting
reveals to us the dreadful pliys'cnl sull'erings
of women sufferings caused by the greedy
inhumanity ol the musters, w hich make the
blood boil to read of.
The slave woman work and breed. They
work in the fields till a child is born ; nnd
w hat period nn indulgent master allow ed for
rest after the child's birth may be gathered
front this :
"The women who visited me yesterday
evening were all in tho family-way, and
came to cut rent of me to have the sentence
(what else can I call it 0 modified which
which condemns them to resume their labor
of hoeing in the fields three weeks after then
confinement. They knew, of course, that I
cannot interfere w ith their appointed labor,
and therefore their sole entreaty w as that 1
would use my influence with Mr. to
obtain for theni 11 month's respite from labor
in the field after ehildbearing. The princi
pal spokeswoman, a woman with 11 bright
sweet, face, called Mary, and a very sweet
voice, which is by no means an uncommon
excellence among them, appealed to my own
experience; and while she spoke of my
babies, and my carefully tended, delicately
nursed and tenderly watched coufmeuient
and convalescence, und implored me to have
a kind of labor given to thorn lei exhaust
ing during the month after their confine
ment, I held the table before mo so hard in
order not to cry that 1 think my finger
ought to have left a mark on it."
They are encouraged to breed like swine :
"The relation, indeed, resembles, as far a
circumstances can possibly make it do so,
the short-lived connection between the ani
mal and its young. In the first place, every
woman w ho is pregnant, as soon ns she
chooses to make the fact known to the over
seer, is relieved of a certain portion of her
work in the field, w hich lightening of labor
continues, of course, as long as she is so bur
dened. On tlm birth of a child certain nd
ditionsof clothingand .".it additional weekly
ration arc bestowed on tho family; ulid
these matters, small as they may seem, net
as powcrfuj inducements to creatures who
have none of the restraining influence actu
ating theni which belong to the parental
relation among all other people, whether
civilized or savage. Moreover, they have
nil of them u most distinct and perfect
knowledge of (heir value to their owners as
property; and a woman thinks, and not
much nmiss, that the more frequently she
adds to the number of her master's live
stock by bringing new slaves into the world,
the more claims she will have upon his con
sideration and good-will. This was per
fectly evident to me from the meritorious
air with which the women always made
haste to inform me of the number of children
Ihey had borne, and the frequent occasions
on which the older slaves would direct my
attention to their children, exclaiming 'Look
missis ! little niggers for you nnd inassn ;
plenty littleniggers for you uud little missis!'
A very ngreeablu apostrophe to mo indeed,
us you w ill believe."
At another time "an old crone, a hideous,
withered, wrinkled piece of womanhood,
said that she had worked as long ns her
strength had lasted, and that then had she
had still been worth her keep, for, said she,
Missus, tho' we 110 r.ble to work, we make
little niggers for niassa."'
Such is the delightful and elevating con
versation to which the southern gentleman's
wife is forced to listen to which her chil
dren's ears must become accustomed. Such
is chivalry !
MOUTAI.ITV Of SI.AVK t lUMlIlKX.
One AVoiihl think that, at any rate, the
master's desire for profit would induce him
to make thn mother nnd their children com
fortable, and thus reduce the mortality ; but
even on so wi ll-managed a plantation ns
this we read constantly of the deaths of
ihildren.
,"lu one miserable hut I heard that the
baby w as just dead ; it was one of thirteen
many of whom had been, like itself, merci
fully removed from the life of degradation
and misery to which their berth appointed
them; and whether it w as the frequent re
petition of similar losses, or 11 it Instinctive
consciousness licit death was indeed better
than life for such ihildren as theirs, I know
not, but the father und mother, and old
Kose, the nurse, who was their little baby's
grandmother, all scenic. I apathetic, and ap
parently iudiil'i-reiit to the event. I he mo
ther merely repeated over and over again,
'I've lost 11 many ; ihey all goo m ;' ami the
father, without word or comment, Weill out
to his enforced labor.
"Fanny has had six children ; all dead
but one. She t ame to beg to have Iter w 01 k
ill the field lightened. Nanny has had three
1 hit. Inn; two of tin 111 are dead. Sh raiim
to implore that the rule of sending tin 111
into the field thi'et! weeks utter their eoliline
meat lui 'lit be alttl-.l. I.euh, C, car's wife
has had sit ihildieli; three ure dead,
Iilil, l.ewl.'s wile, lame In beg fur .oliie old
men Sun is nl, 1 in. ( ft uifully : has had
It 11 ( liil lu u ; live of them uru d. id. 't he
pi ilu ipal lav or she a Aid w a. a pin f of lie at
W III" ll I g ive her."
Siith ale u ft W nf the 1 utile. Ill the Jour
li.ll.
"On my iiliiui home I wn mil by il.it I
las .he ... int. I 1. 1 im 1, cm 1 0"U ab.tbv.iti
M ho.t Li half she U'ge-I me I"! soim; 1 lol he.
On making si.iiit' im pill, I vtu, uni.t., .1 In
Ibid lh.il (he tlul.l w is htioMii; khu ...I I
.hews. Iii.iilie.l, uli I fotnliill Jul. old,
he I.., .kid Iiiui ll jounpi I 1 w 11 tli.01 U14I,
poor lit .ilitli Ibl In. ll" I, wh.i t.iuii tip
nhllnltt.it Ulkln t U.I, -ild .lie del
It.. I lui -II' kU'.x ll.e pill ,;e , ),-
ll. llil'l) l llill It II all did ., III. I In slilu '
A M.'IIMII MS HI Ho Id. pit .1 4 llll ' lit. "
I Ut .1 Sl"l tlltitil l.J Jl'l.l Mis III, III Ivl
nervous disorder, bronwht an by frequent,
childbcar'ng. This wuttian if. young, f
suppose ut the outside not tidily, nnd lwr
sister informed 1110 that she had had tell
children.
"1 have had ait itntntcrt tipted stream of
womnn nnd children fidwinp in the whole
morning to fay 'Ha do, missis ?' Antoilg
others, a poor womnn railed Mile, who could
hardly stand fbr pain und Dwelling in. her
limbs ; she had had fifteen children and Iw 6
misciuriagft ; nine of her cllildrrtt had
died ; for the last three years bile had
bcct!mo nltiVost a cripple with chronic
rheumatism, yet sho Is driven every day to
work in the field.
"Another of my visitors had a still more
dismal story to tell. Her name was Die;
Mie had had sixteen children, fourteen of
whom were .dead ; sho hud had four mis
carriages : one had been caused with falling;
down with it vci'y heavy buidtuoii her head
nml one from having her arms strained up
to be lashed. I asked her w hnt she meant
by having her nrms tied up, She said their
hands were first tied together, sometimes by
the wrists, nndsometimes, which wiis worse,
by the thumbs, and they W'Jtc then drawn
up to it tree or post, ao ns to idmost swing
them off the ground, and then their clothes
foiled round their waist, nnd a man with a
cowhide stands end strikes them. I give
you the woman's wonc-,. Wie did not speak
of this ns of anything strange, unusual, or
especially horrid and abominable ; and vv hen
I said, 'Did they do that to you when von
were with t!.c t-hlld?' die simply replied,
'Yt.', missis.' "
These "wonicn-whippers, these southern
gentlemen, nre they who now fmd favor in
England for their bloody attempt to ex
tend nnd perpetuate the system of whose
cruelties und indecencies w e have here a few
glimpses. Christian England does right to
sneer nt the war ns "useless," which is waged
by a free people to keep within bounds this
monstrous system I Chrir.tinn England
should interfere, by nil means, nnd save
these slaveholders and their accursed system
from the just fate which awaits them."
Eut let it pot be paid th'it tlu.se men who
flog pregnant women, nnd whose cvrry-day
life is almost too indecent to tell, tire irre
ligious. Oh. 110 ! They go to church ; they
rend the liible; they have even a deep
solicitude lor the eternal welfare of their
victims !
"The ccmmvniWy I now speak of--the
white population of Hnrien should be a
religious one, to judge by the number of
churches it maintains. Mr. and his
brother linve been called upon ut various
times to subscribe to them nil ; and I saw
this morning a most fervent appeal, extreme
ly ill-spelled, from a gentleman living iu the
neighborhood of the town, nnd whose slaves
are notoriously ill-treated, reminding Mr.
of the precious souls of his hlttuaii
cattle, nnd requesting a further donation for
the Church, of which most of the people
here nre members. Now this man is known
to be a hard master; his negro houses nru
sheds not fit to stable beasts iu ; his slave.-;
are ragged, half naked und miserable ; yet
he is urgent for their religious comforts, and
writes to Mr. about 'their souls their
precious souls.' "
A 0.iiiiK-r in iIm Al.lie riKli(.
I t'orrcqioiuU-iicts of tlio X. Y. Evening IW
AVashinoton-, June 20, laOu.
The company General Kilpatrick was en
gaging the rebels at Aldic was overborne by
their superior mass, nnd he wtts left a pri
soner in their hands. Captain Nicholas
Halleek Munti, of Milti.n, Ulster county,
New York, was in command of a squadron
of cavalry, composed of the two companies,
nnd was a witness of this iiiidfortunc. His
squadron itself hesitated, wavered, and was
giving way before the terrific sweep of tho
enemy's horse. Ho galloped to the rear, and
by great exertion succeeded in stopping
their back ward movement, and in restoring
order to their ranks. A jtain he was nt their
head, lacing the foe; nnd waving his sword
over his head, ho shqutcd "Men, nre you
heroes or are you cowards? Follow me
charge!" Without waiting to look whether
n single man would obey the order, he spur
red his horse to an instant gallop and plun
ged alone upon the rebel ranks. His blade
Hashed right nnd left ns he dashed forward.
The squadron could not hesitated at such it
brave sight, but with one impulse shouted
nnd followed their leader too late to savo
him, for his ardor had given him a consider
able start ; but they broke through, rode
over, und cut down the rebels nuiks with an
irresistible plunge. , General Kilpatrick was
released. 1 he aitillery Came up with a rush
nnd poured in the canister and grape. Flight
was established on one side, and pursuit on
tho other. To use the expression of one of
the soldiers : "Those who escaped the artil
lery we hazed down with the sabre." One
man, a short and slender Frenchman, named
Pinot, or pronounced with that spelling,
killed live with his own hand, nnd then fell
himself. He was said to be a recent emi
grant from his own country. The slaughter
111 this charge was two rebels to one Union
soldier.
Captain Maun had leen struck by a snl.ro
and unhorsed. At the eame moment his
horse was killed. He lay on the ground
helpless, but this did not prevent the rebels
shouting him, us he fell completely within
their rank-". A pistol ball was shot through
Pi- bat k under Ihe left bouldcr-bladc, mak
ing the circuit of his libs inside, und lodg
ing between two ribs in front, near the nip
ple, whence k wns skilfully extracted by the
surgeon several days utter." That it escaped
his heart is scarcely less than it miracle. He
now lies in the Emory hospital, a mile or
more front Washington, und has in h Use of
his arms as to indicate, with the luullhy
suppuration of the wound, it spce.lv recovery
liiilei'd, he is already thinking of hi .addle
and . us he will be in it again ill a tew
wctk. The cut 011 hi fu'e extends front
the check lume under his right t-vi to tho
must le of Ihe mi k in ros tin- iiiiie ol the
jaw. It Is ubeildv ill nil utlviuited ht.iling
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