The Lehigh register. (Allentown, Pa.) 1846-1912, May 04, 1870, Image 1

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ADVERTISING RATES.
31. I,mo. 3 tn.. 0;01on.
1.00 1.75 3.30. 0.30 1200
3.(0 3.50 0.50 0.00 a). on
4. pp 5.21 9.011 17.00 25.00
11.30 17.00 • 2.1.30 41400
13.110 21.00 40.(0 UO.OO
211.00 40.00 10.00 110.00
30.0) 00.00 110.1731 1.1X1.00
3ne Square
rwo Square&
Three Squares
Six Squares, .
Quarter Column
Hair Column .
One Columni
Professional Cards 61.00 per line per year.
Adminintrator'S and Auditor'■ Notice., law.
City Notices, 20 cents per line let Insertion, II cent. per
Ins each subsequent insertion.
Ten lines agate constitute a square.
ROBERT IREDELL, Jn., Punusumn,
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Coal nub Lumber.
FROW, JACOBS it CO.,
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ROUGH & WORKED LUMBER,
SASH DOORS AND BLINDS,
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/fir Odors from lho trade nollolled
• FILB6RT. B.OTTO. H. N. OTTO. O. W. MILLIS
F ILBERT, OTTO dc. MILLER,
MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN
LUMBER,
WILLIAMSPORT, PA
MILL ON CANAL, WEST
THE MIL OF MAYNARD STREET,
OFFICE AT L
W. F. CRANE, Aonra.
R EMOVALS
SMITH & OSMUN'S
COAL AND WOOD YARD I
The above Coal and Wood Yard haa been rentoyed to the
float end ether Jordan Brldae. HOUTII BIM where will
constantly kept a fine and fell supply of
Egg, Stove Nut and Chestnut Coal,
' , elected (tem the beet mines In the conntry.
OUR COAL
untleteorer—and It In to the Intorent of every •n to
purchase
DRY AND SCREENED COAL
ail-A large mock of all kludo of gond Wood cOnalantly
on hood. and dollyered to all parte of the city at the lowest
m Arlinra eY . AßD.—Abrnnch yard to kept at the Lehigh
Volley pepot, known as the former yard of Lentz and
Ilerker.
IS TIIIIPEOPLE:IICOAL
Onr Coal la nelocted from the boot mines to the Lehigd
region and knowing thin to ho the feet nod that it will give
perfect getinfeetion, there in no nue in offering to remit,
ho money. All we ask in a trial. Orders taken at Dash,
r'■ hatin..ro.
PRANK Lift SMITH, WILLIAM OSNIUN
July It
COAL CONSUMERS,
LOOS TO YOUR INTEREST!
STELTZ & HEEBNER
Hereby Informs the eltleoas of Allentown, and the nob
Ile In fennel, that ke le prepered to franlals all kinds of
C Or A L
from hie well stocked Yard, formerly It. Oath & Co.'s, at
the Lehigh Basin, In the City of Allentown, where he will
constantly keep on hand a full supply of all kinds of Coal,
at the veryloweet market prices. Ills coal Is nice and
clean, from the very best mines, and in quality superior
o any offered in Allentown:
Ile will sell Coal by the CAR LOAD, at very email pro
fits, as be Intends to do boelnoe• spon the principle of
"Quick Esles'end Small Drente." Oise him a call, and
neon comparing prices you can judge for yourselves.
Ile will deliver Coal upon call to any part of the City
upon orders being left ■t the Yard, or Weinshelmer's store
STELTZ & HEEBNER.
REMOVAL.
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TREXLER & BROTHERS,
LTIMBER,
Hereby announce to their Mende 'and patron. that they
have just removed from their old stand to their
NEW YARD
near die corner of Tenth nod liamiltoWatreeta, formerly
°erupted by Bran. 8 Miller, an a Lumber Yard, where
they will counantly keep on hand a large nod aeaeoued
atonic of
LUMBER,
ouch as All klrdo of
PINK, HEMLOCK, CHESTNUT, POPLAR, SHINGLES
PICKETS, LATHS, Ac.
In fact everything tumidly kept by the trade.
kind. of lumber cot to order
our
Ana notico.
Thankful for past favors, we trunt our friends' an well
as the public in general, willsive um a rail nt our New
Yard where we will use our bent endenvorn to render nat•
%faction both as regards quality and prices. Coct 2:1'69.tt
TO E LIONTRACTORN AND DIUILD—
The undersigned to prepared to contract for furniehing
SASH,. BLINDS, WINDOW FRAMES,
DOOR FRAMES: SHUTTERS.
And all kinds of building lumber Agent for
MOPE SLATE qOSIPANDB LEHIGH SLATE.
Wholesale and retail dealer In the
CELEBRATED CUCUMBER PUMP
Orders left et the EAGLE HOTEL will receive prompt
nitration. Post °Mee address,
We, H. BERLIN, P
Quakertown, Duck• Co., a.
sup 22.1 y
MEM
R EVIVAL I S
The eubncrlbere horlea , loomed the "Old !lope Cool
Toed," would reepecifully announce to the clilzene of
Allentown and the public In geuerol, that they hove joet
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COAL
Con.l.tinq of Btorn_, Eac, Cheatuut and Nut from tuo
BUCK MOL NTAIN MINES.
Order. left with A. A. Hob,. Hiraer & lltten.lrin, at
the Eagle 11010. Hope or the YarJ, will he
mill...led In In a
BUSINESS
Tike manner.
Orders for Coal by the ear filled at short notice and at
the lowest price..
Alapv 1.1 baud n large Atock of
BALED HAY'
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L. W. KOONS & CO
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H•ndlton Street, comer of Lehigh Valley Itollrued
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L. W. Knolls
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Alccilanico
CONSHOHOCKEN
BOILER AND COIL WORKS
JOHN WOOD. JR.,
TI7IftE, .'I.111; AND UYI,INDER BOILERS, BATH
AND STEAM CIRCULATING BOILERS.
All kind. of Wrought Iron epilog. Toyer. for Dint Fur
nace, Oanometers, Smoke Starke, lllast Pipee,lron Wheel
barrows, and everything in tin Boiler and Sheet iron line..
Also, all klnda of Iron And uteri Forging.. and Illockamith
work, Miners' TOlliN of oil kinds, much us Whein Buckets,
Picks, Drills ' Moneta, Sledges, &c.
Hoeing a litenin Hommel' nod sot of tonic of all kinds,
and skilled workmen, I getter myself that I ran turn out
w ick with prompt:teen nod
dispatch, all of which will bo
arrante to be first-class.
Patching Boiler., and repairing generally, etrictly at
tended to. apr ••17
'SCHOLARS. ATTENTION !
PUPILS, PARENTS AND ALL OTHERS
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BOOKS OR STATIONERY
Aro In•tted to .11 at No. 3.5 West Ilsmlllos Street, (Walk
er'. old eland, four door, below ghth Street, where yos
will Sod • large and complete stock of all klmln or
School Books
used In thls county, at the lowest cash prices,
A full line of LATIN, (MEEK, GERMAN and FRENCH .
hooks for Colleges,. Academies and Schools, always on
hand. at the lowest rotes.
A full assortment of Stationery, Blank Boaks, Memo.
mlt:ins, Pocket Books, C0m1.., Albums, Pictures, titer
ooscopes and Views, Window Pones. Am. sold at the very
lowest cash prices.
English and Berman pocket and family, Bibles, Prayer
Books nod Brno Books,
A large and splendid stock of Miscellaneous' hooks of
Prose and Poetry, and Sunday School Books All the re
quisites for Sunday Schools alwaynon baud at l'hiladel
phla Prices.
Wa Are ctusinlout our stuck of WALL PAPER al cont.
Agent for the nide of
BRADBURY'S CELEBRATED PIANOS
Please ere me a call when you Wish to purchase.
E. MOSS,
Hamilton Bt.. below Illighth, Alleutowo, Pa.
VOL. XXIV
Minbotplatio
MIEMZ!
Sow. S. WORRELL.
UEOROR POTTER
THOMAS POTTER, NON 41:
MANCWArTCRERK OP
OIL CLOTHS AND WINDOW SHADES,
Floor WI. CI1T118; En: mulled Mum Dun, Millwood
Table OIL CLOTHS; Mahogany, Ito•o•trood Oak and
Marble fill. CLOTHS; Stair MI cloths and .v,lrriaa,
Carpels.
Plain SHADES stud Shading, Plain Rad Fancy GILT
SHADES sod Curds, Twine& nod FIXTURES of all kinds.
418 ARCH SI., below FIFTH; PIIILA'DA.
roar 9-3,11,
n 15-ly
H. A. STEEL.
UPHOLSTERING,
WINDOW SHADE A; BEDDING STORE,
No. 46 North Ninth Street,
4, Aug 14) 17
WINDOW SHADES,
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SHADES OF ANY STYLR AND COLOR MADE TO OR
DER.
STORE SHADES MADE AND LETTERED
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ALL KINDS OF WINDOW' DRAPERY
PATENT MOSQUITO CANOPIES
GILT, ROSEWOOD AND WALNUT CORNICES.
CURTAIN BANDS, TASSELS, CORD, &e.
FURNITURE STRIPS CUT AND MADE.
STAIR AND VESTIBULE RODS.
FURNITURE RE•UPHOLSTERED AND VARNISHED.
Carpoln nod Mattlairo.l j n
and tim, !nude, altered and
put
UPHOLSTERERS' MATERIALS OF EVERY
_DESCRIPTION AT WHOLESALE
A NEW THING.
SILK FINISHED WINDOW SHADES.
not 13.1 y
1.,. E. WALRAVEN.
MASONIC HALL,
NO. 719 CHESTNUT STREET,
In now recolvlng bin Poll Importntlonx, connlntlng In
part of
CURTAIN MATERIALS,
In Silk. Mohair, WorAted4 Linen and Cotton, mnbraelng
many nnvelttnn.
Lace Curtains
of Parisian, St. Gallen and Nottingham make
CORNICES AND DECORATIONS
of unw and original doxignx.
WINDOW SHADES,
by the thonmand or Anglo ono of nrannfactnrens' prico,l
MUSQUITO CANOPIES,
Chlslug out at reduced pricer.
MOM
earprts MO Oil etotb.
FLOOR OIL CLOTH,
4.4. 8.4 and 8.4 In New and Elegant De,litoK still Lower
MEM
RICA AND ELEGANT
CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, Sc
S. C. FO ULK
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CARPET BUSINESS
AT 19 8. SECOND ST., PHILADELPHIA,
(Between Market and Cheetnut Ets.,)
With a full annurtment of VELVET, BRUSSELS, THREE
PLY, INORAIN uud VENETIAN CARPETS, OH Chub
Window tihudex, &e., at reduced prlceK. sepl6.ly
ARCH ST. CARPET WAREHOUSE.
832 ARCII STREET,
BELOW NINTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
THE OLD ESTABLISHED STAND,
IterPl ring for thn Spring Tradr a large ntock rf the
A'r c Slutra of
CARPETINGS,
pnrchatonl at the 1,,,nal 001.1) RATES, and will he cold
at rr print rulurtion !ruin turd 1108011' 8 ',Uri,.
ENI.II.ISIII3IWSSELS at 4,1 NI. and all other good , ' In
Prorortlon. JOSEI'II RI,A('EWUOII
Into 21.3 in t 312 Arch Street, MI:,
NEW CARPETINGS
W. are now 01 , 011171 g IL lOU lino of
FOREIGN AND DoMESTIC CARPETS,
OIL (I L( 1*
AND
- I . IATTINGS
of , ALL filiADEq,
nglifin,l"'"6"l" at
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"-d!'" prim*" "''n
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LEEOOM. SHAW & STEWART,
635 MARKET ST., PRILAWA.
inn laolin
TillE GREAT (ALO'. OF
311SEItY.
Jug Published In n A'rei fed Erker lope. rote, Beta.
A la:croak On TIIa Norma.:, 7'IO:AT/41:NJ ANII
cure of Setulual Weak nem, or Spernialorrhina, Ind aro
by. Self•Abum, Involuntary Euilaviono. Impotency. Nor
your Debility, told Impedimenta to Marriage generally;
Coneutoption, Epilepmy and Menial and Physical
ci ty ,lncapa r. Illy J. 31. D.,
author e " Book.'
The world, enow tied author, in 'lila admirable lecture,
clearly Proven (rota his n experienre that the awftti
consequence. of aelf•abime may be effectually removed
without medicine, and without dangerous surgical opera
tion', bongo's, inatrumenta. rings Or eordial.e., Pointing
out a mode of cure Montt, certain and effectual, by WHICH
every mutterer, no mutter what hit condition may in, inny
cure bimsell clo'ap II ly ‘ rivitioly numb radically. THIMI,EE•
TURK WILL PRO% A 'BOON 'l' 0 THOUSANDS AND
'THOUSANDS.
bent under anal, in a plain envelope, to any addrme,
on receipt of elk riot., ur two povtisse aiatitl's, by ad
dressing the publishers.
Also, Dr. Culverwell'a " Marriage 0111d0" Price2l
Address the Publishers, CHAS. J. C. KLINE& Co.
yll.iy 127 Bowery, Now York. P. O. Box, 4 Nlt.
B. S. DOEIrrillET
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FOVVLING PIECEN.
At reducedprleee. Revolver., Powder Horns. Shot Bag,
l'eresAmin rse.. Welled:. No. Si Post
Mustier. Street •erSIA- ly
T3I[4IFESSION A I. NOTICE.
3'111". ondereigned having tottered hlllk It ro-n..rtnoi
lilp for the twarticii , of MEIIICI E. toil MI
eTETRICS. lug ready at all ti 111.• (tiny mad night) to at
lend to all calla for their profroodenitl aeryiren.
Any one preferriug tho sery ICON either of the under
higurd lie accommodated.
l'ittieut. will Ite treated Alloplintleally Ilioneovathl
et.lly um may lie deemed Ill Ont expediout
Oficeee, trout
an heretofore. hy Or Romig:
JOHN ROMIth,
WM II MIMEO, M. I/.
GEO. M. ROMIG, M.
N, 11. —ln accordance with the above itrrannements new
cnunta will hays to be opened. Or• John Romig would
respectfully inform his old patrons 11101 he will, as fast na
the Mlle will permit, make out their unsettled accounts
and hare them forwatt dell or presented, requesting also
those who bare demands auttood him to present them,
so that settlement Inay be made unite earliest convenience.
Ile would respttully request, 10.0 , mill those who tiny°
anr et his WOKS ee or INSTltl'fitEN'r •In their possession
to please return the same as soon R. possible -
NOTiCE
OFFICE jr TIM CITY TlOl/.1,11111,
ALI.P./ITOWN, March 30.
Notice la hereby given that the Duplicate for the collec•
Dun of Woter Kenos for the ensuing year has been placed
In the heads of the enderelau ed. In necordance with the
provielons of the water n inth
1111 Ordinance regulating
the dletrlbutiou of water e City of Allentown, as fol
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low,
SEe. IL That all rents for the urn of the water el.all he
payable In advance to the next day of April next after the
ontract. nod unnuelly In advent, from flint tiny, to the
City To
ten at Imm unto or his plane of Illumines, and
to all rents remaining unpaid on the:Mth day of raid mouth
of April theme shell be added 5 per rent., and to rents re
maining unpaid ou the And day of Tune following there
shall be added leper cent., 10111 ID All nulls remaiing un•
paid on the nest dry ufJely thereafter there shell 1.0 added
20 per cent.. which /allOlllll shall be collected with the
said rent, and oil delloquente at that date. The Treusu
rer forthwith to give the person owning the premiere II
writtennote of Fold delinquenclen, etoting the amount of
rent Including the amount of per centaur for non-ayment
In fllll .1.! date, and mum the failure of the deli p nquents
to make the notuired payment telthin ten de ys after dale
thereof. It shall he the duty of Dom Water fiemisilltee ford,
with to catiee the ferrules of sorb delinquents to be de
tached (mom the pipe of conduit, and reuse anise to ho In•
ntituted fur the recovery of the rent. and per restage eu
due, as well as for all expo Committee.
eme Incurred In detaching the
ferrule," By order of the
JONATHAN REICH/OHL
City Treamirer.
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$2,0011 A YEAR .AND EXEEN.
SES to Agouti. to .011 the celebrate.
WILSON SEWINO MACHINES. The boot mnchtnelo
the world. itch alike on both Wee. Oe MAIIIIISIS
WITIIOCT )10 0 00. For farther partlcalars, a n
ddress:3N.
Nth St. ,Fhllad'a • Pa.
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Bs, lAMISON °zC Co. I
BAN K ERS,
N. W. COIL THIRD & CHESTNUT sTs..
P.H. [LAD:EL] '1 1 tA. .
Bovine.a entrtinied to our corn "hall have prompt i..
Ronal attention.
Depovits received and intorettt ullowed. Check,. on Phil
adelphia, Baltimore nod New York credited op whin.,
charge.
Will bay on margin for revpont.ible pervonx.
Stocks, (told. (lovernment Stvoritio+,
Enquirtee, idc., by letter wilt receive immediate ellen
lion.
marmode on all arcettelhlo pelotx.
mar 2-3 m 11. K. JAMIHON .4 Co.
MILLERSTOWN SAVING BAN K,
1111LLERBTOWN, LEIIIOII COUNTY.
Thlm In tlhillott will heopeued 011 or before the lot day
of April. Money will be taken ott deptimit ot all Ihtmg and
in no; mums from one dollar upward, for which
SIX PER CENT. INTEREST
per annum will bepald.
Depomlta too bo withdrawn at any time. Alma, 111013 tty
butted out on favorable tern..
JAVES WEILKIL Presidio,.
8111)11qt, Cashier.
J. F. N. Hhilfert, George Ludwig,
Frederick C. Tobmt. Chrititian K. lienningor,
David Domani; ill tutu
10000 Orlobol, Dldeon F. Elinor.
Horatio T. liertmog, Benjamin J. Sub.:toyer.
JIM., Slug inamter. mar Pl.tlin
MZUREZI=I
Hamll6a, bet wepn 7th and Fill Start.
.1 L hEN IVN, PA.
Money lakou on dep,olt at all tilllns and In any •opov
from one dollar upward, for which
SIX l'E It CENT. I N'rElt E` Tr
seta be mild
Devoelts may be withdrawn ninny time. Persona do.
ain'tnn or mending looney to ally part of the roiled State.
or Ctitindnn, have Moir matter. promptly Moulded
to, nod w about any risk on their pat'.
Gold, Sliver, Coupon., Go o d. itud other seentillex
honpbl.rlT ENWA I.I.NEIt " 1140
PreS s i tt ". .l ,.
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FRANKLIN SAVINGS BANII,
Located at the cdriter of Ilatolltott Hireot and Chnreit
Alloy, In Lion Roll. aocottil .hay, oppoalte the (lemon
Reformed Chord, in the (lny of Allentown. I, organi•ed
nod toady tar loodneaa. If miff pon ••ilg p.r t•rtif. hs
terrid t,rt •/•! deroviivororid 61r vi lop ,its. for rail
1, , riot! of tor bo r, tr fro., tho , 11"1 , of ;I • pomit.
1101,11, tie , Triode. , of the inatitiittda have
flied In the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh Comity,
nod, the direction of Cow, a WWI In Ow sum of
Twenty-tiveTitonsand Dollar+, ...ditto,...) for the f o ith.
fol keeping and appropriation of all atoll snots of money
as .11.11 ho placed Its charge of *aid FRANKLIN SAVINGS
RANK. whether nit delta. ii., or shares of stork. tr itch
bond may be enlarged hy the Colirt whenever It may ho
deemed nen...nary.
lo addition to this. the Art of I two, poration make' , the
Stock holders p,souttl ly liable to the rt. pox Pont In don.
hie the ,1111011 of of tile thirittli Stook of Bank. which
Is fitly 1i1.14111111 dOilltr, with liberty to Increase It to 0110
and fifty thoo•and dollar•.
Those provimions will motto It a very doalrablettild safe
PlaCO °ldol - mull •
Resides, it may be ',miler to state that the deposlta will
Ito kept In one of ti,. stkle.vt et ad best prof • reed errs fee itt
thiv
Arrangements will be made to fornlah draft , in the rill,
of NeW York awl Philadelphia.
S. A. Bill En, free
.1. W. tV 11,, OS. I' ire Pres telt ot .
J. Li. ZI3I3IERM.%N. Coshisr.
Troafs,
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S. .%. Bridge.,
.1. M' s Wllim i
.1. L. Zimmer,.
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Daniel 11. NIIIIvr
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KUTZTOWN SAVINGS BAN w
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MONEY RECEIVED oN DEPOSIT, and 0 per rent 10-
evert will be elbowed. For shorter periods special rust u s
will be paid.
Also, ninuey,lonned out on FAVORABLE TERMS. Said
Bunk Is located In the Keystone House in the borounli of
Kutztown. JOHN 11. Fi/Grzs rtlddeub.
iiriMARU HOTTNNATEIN, M. D. Cashier.
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F. J. Slough M. D., J. D. W141111..1 . , E+ , l.,
DilV Id ' , inter. 11. 11. Sehuvartr, Hug
W. B. Fogel, Daniel elouler
Ruchurd J. liner Jeuttuu Muller
m712 - If Join n 11. Fogel. E.g.
A R. ROVD. TREASURER, IN AC
IA. • couNT WITH BOROUGH Or UATASAUQUA.
BOROUGH ACCOUNT, 180.
DR.
To (In.ll on hand
• from lioullt)• Food.
•• looms
Solo of I.ock .up Lot
•• (lailoolotion nook..
•• Mot ket
••Clttaxmoont Bond .
• • Tax Po
By Cashsiild
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all ...
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It. 311 . 1iit)... I."I
Street tlornml....loner..
l'atnsamplit
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F.ltntlry II anti.
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111 )I , :iTY UM) ACeoll
Tip emt on Hand
Cm4ll from Tax,
By rallll transferred hs 11,00211 Fund... 4 500 0/
By Cash imhl Loan 120 01
.• I.oorest MIS NI
• • orders ' 71 00
By Cush 00 Hand 2112 44
-- €. 0 020 21
'rot Atottout llottoty Loon 4.15.1011 00
Total Antonia llortot gh Ludt. 1n.t.A.1 110
Wt. the undor+lgnott Autittor, have 1•XIIi11111 , 11 :orr,punt+.
of A. It. It Trttatott or of the Borough. and gad the
atone rot 1 . 1• C t ..
IL A. II MITE,
A I,lty 1:11.11EIZT. • Auditdrv.
dit , llßA I' NT, 1
Apr.l Apr 27.
THE ADVANTAGES WE ENJOY
as the result of a long established
and successful business, enables us to
offer Mducements that makes this an
nouncement worthy of
ATTENTION.
Importing cur foreign goods direct,
controlling many leading styles of
American fabrics, employing the best
artistic talent in the production of our
goods: and "constant progress" our
motto, we claim to lead the market in
READY-MADE CLOTHING,
of which we keep full lines of all
grades, for Men and Boys.
CUSTOM WORK
our producis arc unsurpassed for qual
ity, workmanship and elegance.
GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS
our stock is constantly large and se,a•
sonable. We are the sole manufac
turers of the
Which we supply both readymttde and
to order.
Prices uniformly low.
Gentlemen visiting New-York are re
quested to call and have •their meas
ures recorded upon our books,
System of Self-Measurement, and
other information promptly furnished
when desired.
Address Box 2256, New-York P 0.
DEVLIN & CO.
W• J. EVERETT'S NEW PATENT
SCAPULAR SHOULDER. BRACE AND
STRAP SUPPORTER
No .trnps ender the num , . Perfectly coin forth I.le olls•
tornicully made, nod hlighly heurtlelnl. 50 North 7th
below Arch, Philadelphia. Trusses, Supporters, Elnstle
Stock DES, Crutches, Sze., lowest prices In the city. Lady
ntlendant. icy 17
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‘I,I4ENTOWN, PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING,..MAY 4 1870
far tly Lac
LOOK! LOOK ! I LOOK I! I
AT POSTER'S NEW YORK STORE
THE BEST MACHINES IN Tll/ wolehn
( - IRO V El', 11A K ER'S
1511 . 1:6VED IIIGIIF:ST 1.1;F:3111'M SEWING 3IACIIINE
Awarded the highest promlion. • The (Ire.. of the be.
glop of Honer," Al the Pare , po•Illa. MACHINE
N Kral LES. lIFIA II nui hi Ll\ TW con.tantly
Tho Peoplo of Allentown And ‘irloity ore cortlially
Invited to roll of oor
164110[111,er the plat, oppo•lte the 17eilnan Hoforniell
Church.
N. II —Fall luelrnellous KIN OA ill nay
It g Ablehlnee. All Alachitlem wArrente.l to give Aatinieet
S. M. Agvnt,
No V/ V.A.t Ilainllton St.. Allentown.Pn
MS
WIIE ELI: It at ILSO 'Pi
SEW INI; 11.1C111NES
ARE THE CHEAPEST AND a Esl
v,ft 411 L s ,
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12 Lk% &to.. Ng. 31o.00dy's Patent
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ro quality. All tailor gooood. Prooltoortioonall , rot
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GREAT RUSH AT THE 01,0
ALLENTOWN CHINA A)IIF
Low Prices Talking People by Storm.
RETAILING. AT WHOM:SAIL: PRICES
xow I 3 'I'IIE TIME to buy Cheap it the
wealthy slaveholder another, and' almost
Old All,aaoaat china lint gla.,ovar, 371:AsT ilor hitter it servitude, lie.llta expatiates upon
li c l o r,ccd 1 the qualities of the wife of his linty employer :
Church. lieW mistress proved to lie all she lip
geared when I 14.4 Met tier at the door —a
Tar: LA nak:s T AND CHEAPEST ScC
TE , i • ' •
• woman of the kindest heart and finest feelings.
ch , ". e'rl' l.hl 'u" .re I ' l. ' l ' "" " j " ln. She had never had a slave tinder her control
hur countiro. previously to myself, and prior to her mar.
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Now retailing al Ole following arks
flood In coat PLATES al
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BOWLS
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~,,,„ tinge she had beert.dependent upon her own
t0,.....e. industry for It living. She was by trade a
r ''''"" , weaver; and by constant application to her
1.1,.a. ,
tu cease
ce , business, she 1110 been ill a good degree pre
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ti rent, . served trout the blighting' and dehumanizing
.
•:j... . . .1 renle ' vir,ets or Shivery, I was utterly astonished at
to moos a,...a• • her 1 ,
to 'll'3llll.lllS . 6,,,,,, g0t1t WPM, I scarcely knew how to be
t.) 10 e.at. ' have towards her. She was entirety. unlike
Fief, tl . l e l , l , , , V s . i V s 7s . ]rr lilt/ .. or 15 rent+ Onell
5011`11tX ' any other white woman I had ever seen. I
Every variety Of Quren•traro and 01004waro rheum, : could not approach her ith 1 WIIS Seen:Horned
then the chrere.l. Me.. WZtere, Looking (thiesee. 'to approach other white ladies. • My. early in-
Coe., Mink, Brlttanlaware and Tattle CulierY, heelth , a struction was all out of place. The crouching
great varlety of lawful and (anti. artlclee too uumeroon to I servility, usually so acceptable:a quality in a
aa.atiou. isauagiag 1.. a lirst•class China :Store. All title slave, did not answer when manifested to
ecto from 65.14l.upwaid• Ileinetaller the place. 37 EAST ti i wards see
I her favor was not gained by it ;
HAMILTON STREET, nearly oppoAlle the German lie• 1
she tF , eented to be disturbed by it. She did
formed Church. T. C. KERNAIIEN.
;not ' deem it impudent or unmannerly for a
420 eT.—THE FOLSOM ER PROVED 1 slave to look her in the face. The meanest
ede... Twenty•Eive Huth , Family Sewing Machine. ' slave was put folly at ease in her presence,
The rhea) •et firm Chi+, MOCIOUO In
, illO Mel tog. Age to
For
in -r•rp Thioa. Liberal I.oastaleelon allowed .. and none left without feeling better f..r having
Foe loons 'ld elreuler udders. A.SLIAMILTON, Honernl
Agent, No.lllClietannt lil•• Intliao• Ca. fartr%.4)-am 1 Leen her. 11cr face was made of heavenly
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Life of Fred Douglass
WRITTEN lIY HIMSELF
In resuming the narrative of Frederick
Douglass it is necessary tor us, in order to
show the brutality of the system of slavery, to I
hay before our readers a few of the opinions
and anecdotes of one, who having been a
slave himself, is thereby well enabled to de
pict in its proper colours all the horrors of
that laborious condition. As a proof of the
fear in which negroes stand of their masters,
Douglass thus speaks or the blacks :
•"fliey suppress the troth rather than take
the consequences of telling it, and in so doing
prove theniselve's a part or t h e human family.
If they have anything to say of their masters,•
it is generally in their master'stower, Vspecially
when speaking to an untried man. I have
been frequently asked, urinal a slave, if 1 had
a kind master, and do nut remember ever to
have given a negative answer; nor did I, in
pursuing this course, consider myself as utter
ing what was absolutely', filial!: for I always
measured the kindness of my master by the
standard set up among slaveholders around
us, Moreover, slaves are like other people,
awl imbibe prejudices quite common to others.
They think their own better than that of others.
Many, under the influence or this . prejudice.
think their own masters are better than the
Masters of other slaves ; and this, too, in some
eases when the very reverse Is true. Indeed,
it is not uneoinintiit Gtr slaves even to fall out
and quarrel among themselves about the rela
tive goodness of their masters, each CO Men p
ing or the superior goodness of his own over
that of the others. Al the very same time,
they mutually execrate their masters when
viewed separately. It was so on our planta
tion. When Colonel .I.loyd's slaves met the
slaves or Jacob irp,oo, they seldom parted
without a quarrel about their masters; Colonel
Lloyd's slaves contending that he was th e
richest, and Mr. Jepson's slaves that he tarns
the smartest. and most of a limn. Colonel
Lloyd's slaves would boast his ability to buy
and sell Jacob Jepson. Mr. Jepson's slaves
would boast his ability to whip COlOnel
These quarrels would almost always end m a !
light between the parties, and those that
whipped were suppose,' to have gained the
point at iSSIIO. They Seemed to lhiak that the
greatness a their masters was transferable to
thetn , elves. It WaS considered as being bad
enough to be a slave ; but to be a poor man's !.
slave was deemed a disgrace indeed.
Mr. Gore, Colonel Lloyd's overseer, was
proud, ambitions, and persevering. Ile was
artful, cruel, and obdurate. Ile was just the
man for such a place, and it was just the place
tar such a 110111. It afforded scope for the full
exercise of all his pourers, and he seemed to be
perfectly at home in it. He was due of those
who could torture the slightest look, word. or
gesture, on the part or the slave, into Mum
dence, and would treat it accordingly. There
must be no answering back to him ; no expia
tion was allowed a slave, showing himself' to
have been wroughilly accused' -- Mr:Ah7il ,.
acted bully up 0, the maxim hid .larva by
slaveholders,—" It is better that a dozen slaves .
salter under the lash. than that the overseer
should he convicted, in the presence of the
slaves, of having been at fault' . No matter
hour innocent a slave might be—it availed him
nothing. when necused by .Mr. Gore of any
misrlemeanor. To he accused Was to be con
victed, and to be convicted was to be pun
ished ; the one always following the other
ith immutable certainty. To escape punish.
.meta was to escape:wefts:alma ; and few slaves
had the fortune to do either, under the over
' seership of mr. (lore.
His savage barbarity Was equalled only by
the consummate coolness with which he cons.
milted the grossest and most savage deeds
upon the slaves under his charge. ' Mr. Gore
once undertook to whip rote of Colonel Lloyd's
slaves, by the MUM . of Demhy. He had given
Demhy but a few stripes, wh e n, to get rid of
the scourging, he ran :0111 plunged himsellinto
a creek, and stood there at the depth
of his shoulders, refusing to come out.
;me told him that he would 'give him
three calls. and that if he did not come out at
the third call he would shoot hint. The lirsl
call Wll , given. made no response,
but stood his ground. The second and third
w , re! - Iven with the , Ititte result. Mr.
Got,. Men. wittomt consultation or delibera•
tutu n nib any 0110. not ecru Demby an
additional 01111, raised his musket In hits 110.12
1111ti111.! 111,1111 y 111111 to his standing victim,
and in an instant poor Demby was no more ;
his mangled body sank out ofsight, and blood
nail brains marked the water where lie had
stood.
")(r. Thomas Lammas, of Sr. Michael's
killed two , laves, one of whom lie-killed with
3 11100110, by knocking his brains out. He
u , (l to boast ti the commission of the awful
and bloody deed. 1 have heard him do so
laughingly, guying among other things that he'
was the only benefactor ()I' his country in the
company, and that when others would . (1.) ns
much as Its 111111 (10111., Wl' should he relieved
of the " d—d nigger:T. —
)) The wilt' of )Ir. Giles-Dicks, living but '
short distance Gout where I used to live, Inn) ,
dere,' my ife's 'cousin, a. young g ill LHAVV,n
tutu n and sixteen years of age. man g. ling her
person in the most horrible 111101111.1', breaking
her nose and breastbone with a stick, so that •
the pair girl expired a few hours afterwards.
Th.• (0r, 1 1,,, ter which this girl %% ass thus nmr
tiered was this :—She had been ,-et that nigld
to mind Mrs. Hick's baby and (luring the
Mght she tell asleep..atid the baby cried. She
having lost her rest for several nights previ•
nos, did not hear the crying. They were
both in the room with Mrs. Hicks. Mrs.
Ilicks, finding the girl slow to move, jumped
trout her bed, seized tin tusk stick of weed by
the tire place, and with it broke• the girl's nose
and breastbone, and thus ended her life. '
"Colonel Lloyd's slaves %rile in the habit
or mwadiag a part of their nights and Sonilayti
in fishil , for oysters, and in this way made
up the treliciency of their scanty allowance.
An old mah belonging to Colonel Lloyd,
while thus engaged. happened to get beyond
the limits of Colonel Lloyd's, and on the
premises of Beal Blowfly. At tint trespass,
Mr. Blowfly took offence, and with his mus
ket came down to the shore, and blew its
deadly contents into the poor old man.
"Mr. Bluntly ()Attie over to see Colonel
Lloyd the next day. whether to pay hint for
his pi operty, or to justify himself in what he
had done, I know not. At any rate, this
•Will/11 fiendish transaction was soon hushed
•up. There was very little said about it at all,
1111(1 nothing done. It was a .7ommon saying.•
even among little white boys, that it was
worth a hull' cent to kill it " nigger," and a
half-cent to bury one."
When Douglass left, as our readers may re
member, the service of Colonel Lloyd, or
rather exchaneed his condition under that
smiles, and her voice of tranquil music. master's wiit, ~.
lint, alas I this kind heart hail but a short wit h a many stripes."
time to remain such. 'rite fatal poison or ir-
Master w(mld keep this lacerated y
responsible power was already in her hands, oung
and gradually commenced Its internal work. woman tied up in this horrid situation four or
Thus is slavery the enemy of both the slave five hours at a time. I have known him to
and slaveholder. tie her up in the morning, and whip her before
It is due however, to my. mistress to say or breakfast, ; leave her, go to his store, return
her, that she (lid tint adopt this curse of treat- at dinner, and whip her again, cutting her in
anent immediately. She, at first lacked the Places already made raw with his cruel lash.
d e pravity indispensable to shutting me up in My master found me unsuitable to his mir
mental darkness. It teas at least necessary pose. Illy city life, he said, had had a very
Mr her to have some training, in the exercise I pernicious effect upon me. It had almost
of irresponsible power, to snake her equal to ruined toe for every good purpose, and fitted
the task of treating me 'as though I were a me for everything which was bad. One or
brute. • . my greatest faults was that or letting his horse
My mistress was, as I have said, a kind tool run away, and ge down to his father-in-law's
tenderhearted woman ; and in the simplicity oars, which w"" about live mil es from Si t
or her soul She commenced, when I first went. ' l %. ll clater lt • , / ".""Id akin love to go after it.
to live with her, to treat me as she simposed i My
care reason f
w or this kinu relessness, or
one human being ought to treat another. In fulness, as, that I could al of ca ways get some
entering upon the ditties of slaveholder, she thing to rat When I went there. Master Wit
did not seem to perceive that I sustained to liana Hamilton, my master's fatherdndaw,
her the relation of a mere chattel, and that for always gave his slaves enough to eat. I tiever
her to treat me as a human being wa s not le
there hungry, no matter how great the
only wrong, but dangerously so. Slavery I need or my speedy return. Master 'flu - nil:ls
proved as injurious to her as it did to me. at length said he would stand it no linger. I
When I went there, she was a pious, warm ,l had lived with him nine months, duringwhieh
told tender-hearted There was no
time he ha I given me a number of severe
sorrow or sufferi woman.
ng for which she hall t all Lo nu good purpose. Ile re
pot a tear. She had bread for the bun- solved to put meout, as he said, to he broken ;
goy, clothes for the naked, and comfort Mr and for this purpose, he let me for one year to
every mourner plat came within her reach. a man named Edward Covey.
Slavery soon proved its ability to divest. hero, I left Mm'. Thomas's house, and went to
these heavenly qualities. Under its influence, live with Mr. Covey on the Ist of January,
'llle tender heart became liard, and the lamb. 18:13. i was 110 W fur the first time in my life
like disposition gave way to one of tiger-like n field hund. In my new employment, I
fi er ceness. The first s t e p i n h er d ownwar d found myself even more awk wad than a
course WIN in her ceasing to instruct me. She country boy appeared 1(1 be in a large city.
now commenced to practice her husband's I h a d been at my neW loan! Inn one week,
precepts. She finally ! we a n' , ' , ea more tin. before .Ir. Covey gave men very severe
lent in her opposition than her 'instant,' him. whipping.
and any back, can ' th , l ,g t , he 1 : 1°° ` 1
self. . She teas not satistijd with simply doing to ran, raising ralges on my ...sous targe
as we ll as lie h a d e „ ifiman d e d ; she seemed as the little linger. The details of tliis affair
anxious to it, better. Nothing seemed to are as follows: Mr. Covey sent nle, '%' IT
make her more angry than to set me' with a early in the morning 01 . ,ill.` a 0111 . cold. ,L
newspaper. She seemed to think that here days in the month or JalloarY, to the weeds
lay the danger. I have had her rush at me to get a load or wood. the U'ille me a team of
w ith a titer ma d e a ll up o r rut„, and snithd , unbroken oxen. Ile told me which WIN the
from me a newspaper, in a manner that fully in-hand ox, and which the off-hand one. Ile
revealed her apprehension. She was mi apt then tied the end 01 a large rope :mould the
woman : and a little experience soon demon, horns of the indent(' ox, itul gave me the
strated, to her satisfaction, that edecvdion and other end of it, and told me, if the osen started
slavery were incompatattle with each other." to ran, that I must Mild on upon the rope.
The manner in which Douglass, w h et' a i ro , I had never driven OXell 110 . 011`, and of course
availed himself 1)r every opportunity to pursue , 1 was fiery awkward. 1, however, succeeded
his studies (ti learning how t o rea d . , i s r u n o r in getting to the edge of the woods wult little
the deepest interest. 'lle says— difficulty ;'but I had "mot a very few 1 1 / 1 1,1 into
.• When V wns sent or errands, I always the woods, when the 'I/Nell took fright, and
took my book with me, and by going owr started lull tilt, carrying the cart te s ;ainst its„
part or toy errand quickly, I limn(' time to get ' and ov(r stumps, in the most trigitthil Inall•
IL lessonberOre my ret u rn. 1 used also to . net% i l•NIII (lea every moment that my brains
c a rry b rea d w ith me , enough o f wh i ch was weals be dashed out against the trees. After
always in the house, and t o w hi p ', I ~,,,,, al. running thus fig' a COlNillel'alli , • distance, they
Wily: , W , lNillle ; for I was notch 111.111. r off in finally upset the cart, dashing IL W nil ~. r :it
this regard than many of the poor white cols , Lureagaitist a tree, and threw the m> , • t,•
Oren in the neighborhood. This bread I used into a dense thicket. i low I escaped death, I
hungry" e urc hi ns, w
to bestow on the hu littlhiho, • '1" n u t lam e . There I was. ettlirelY
•. a 1.,"
.. . . . .. . My
in return, would give me the more %:ilitaltle
bread of knowledge. lam strongly tempted
to giVe the names 01' two ot• three of those
little boys, as a ti'tiaontial of the gratitude
and atteetion I bear them ; hut prudence for
bids: not that it would injure me, but it
might rinharass them ; for it is almost an int •
pardonable offence to tench slaves to i.ead in
this Christian country. It is enough to say of
the dear little fellow's, that they lived in Phil
pot Street, very near Durgin and liailey's
ship-yard. 1 used to talk this matter of
slavery over With them. I would sometimes
say to them, I wished I could be as tree as
they would be whin they got to be torte.
You will be tree lie soon as you are twenty
one, but lam a :dare ir+• life. Have not I
as good a right toile free as you have?' These
words used to trouble them ; they would ex
press for me the liveliest sympathy, and con
sole me with the hope that something would
occur by which I might be tree.
I Ara! , now about twelve years old, and
the thought 0)f bong a Blare fn• file began to
hear beal•ily upon my heart. .111,-t about this
time, I gut !Will of a hook entitled ' The l'o
,lnottlian Orator.' Every opportunity I got,
I need to read this hook. Among 'touch of
other interesting mtter, I found in it a dia
logue between a master and his slave. The
sl,•tve wits represented ❑s having run away
from his ina,ter three times. The dialogue
represented fin' outN'eNation which took place
lit'lNV( . ll 111(111, whet the shave was retaken
the third time. in this elialogme, the whole
' argument in behalf •of slavery was. brought
foward by the master, all of which was tlis•
pos.:d of by- the slave. The slave made to
to sty some very smart as well ns impressive
thinge in reply to his master—things which
haul the desired though unexpected effect ; fur
the conversation resulted In the voluntary
t i emancipation of the stone on the part of the
master.
''lo the saute book. I met With One Of She
ridan's mighty speeches on and in behalf or
CatMille emancipation. were .choice
documents to ow. I road them over and over
again with unabated interest. They 'gave
tongue' to interesting thoughts of my own
soul, which had rro goontly flashed through
toy till 11,1, and died away f()l'' want ()I• utter
ance. The moral which I gained from the
dialogue 10110 the power of truth over the con
science of even a slave-holder. What I got
Front Sheridan wa.. , it bold denunciation of sla
very,and a powerful vindivation of human
rko,ts. The reading of these dncuntento 111.-
10/lea utu to utter nv thoughts, and to meet
the argument brotiglit fon ant to sustain sla
very, hut while they relieved me or one air
[lenity. t h ey brought on another even more
painful than the .mt. of which I was relieved.
The more I read, the more I teas led 1..1 abhor
and detest my enslaver. I could regard them
in no other light than :1 band of sucees-ful
robbers, who hat tell their homes. and golly
to Africa, and stolen ns one home... and
in a strange land reduced us to slavery. I
loathed them as being the meanest as well as
the most wicked if men. As I read and con
templated t h e subject, behold, that very dis
contentment Which Master !high had pre
dicted would follow my learning to read had
already come, to torment and sting my soul
to unuterable anguish. As I writhed under
it, I would at times feel that learning to 11 ad
had In en it curse rather than a blessing. It
had given nu' a view of toy wretched condi
tion without the remedy. It opened my eyes
to the horrible pit, but to no ladder upon
which to get out. In moments of agony, I
envied my fellow• Slaves for their stupidity.
I have Mom wished myselt a beast, 1 pre
ferred the condition of the meanest reptile to
my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get
rid of thinking! It was this everlasting
thinking of my condition that tormented uw.
There wll,lllO getting.rid (d . it. It was press
ed upon me by every object within sight of
hearing, animate or inanimate. The silver
room of freedom had roused my soul to eter
nal wakefulness.. Freedom now appeared, to
disappear no more forever. It was heard in
every sound, an d seen in every thing. It was
ever present to torment Ito with a sense of
my wretched condition. I saw' nothing with
out,} Itearim , it, and felt nothing without see•
ing it. It Cooked fruit every star, it smiled in
every calm, breathed 'in every wind, and
moved In every storm..
I often found myself regretting . my own ex
istence, and wished myself dead ; and bin for
the hope of being free, I have no doubt lan
that I should have killed myself, or done
something for which 1 should have been
!silted. While in this state of mind, I WIN
eager to hear any one speak of slavery. I
tills a ready listener.
I left Baltimore, and went to live with
}taster Thomas Auld, at St. Michael's, in
March. IN3:. 'there were four slaves ()I' us in
the kitchen—my sister Eliza, my aunt Pris
cilla, Henry, and myself; and we were al
lowed less than half (of It bushel or cornmwal
per week, and very little else, either in the
shape or Illent or vegetables. It. WllO not
enough for 110 to subsist upon. We were
tlwrefore reduced to the wretched necessity of
liVing at the expense of our neighbors. 'This
we did by In in , and stealing, Whichever
came handy in the time ofneed, the one being
considered as legitimate as Ow other. A great
many tittles Jam. we, poor creatures, been
nearly peiishing hunger, when food, 111
lay mouldering in the sale and
smoke-house, and- our pious mistress was
aware of the fact ; mud yet that mistress and
her husband would kneel every morning, and
pray that God would bless them in basket and
store !
While I lived with my master in St. Mich•
eel's, there was a white young man, it Mr.
Wilson, who proposed to keep a Sabbath
school for the instruction of such slaves as
might be disposed lit learn to read the New
Testament. We met MU three times, when
\I r. West and 3lr. both 'ChM.
leallerS, With many others, came upon us with
sticks and other missiles, drove us off, and for
bade us to meet again. Thus ended our little
Sabbath-school in the pious town of SC.
Michael's.
I have said my master found religious
sanction for his cruelty. As an example, I
will state one of many facts going to prove
the charge. I have seen him tie up a Inure
young woman, and whip. her with tt heavy
cowskin upon her naked shoulders, causing
the warm red blood te (hip ; and In justifica
tion of the bloody deed, he would quote this
Massage of Scripture—" Ho that knoweth his
and (tooth It not, shall be beaten
in a thick wood, in a place new to me.
cart was upset and shattered, my oxen were
entangled among the young trees, and there
was none to help me. Alter a 1011!.; spell 01
etilort, 1 succeeded in getting my cart righted,
toy oxen disentangled, and azaln yoked to the
earl. I 1101 V proceeded with may train to the
pace where 1 Mel the day before been chop
ping wood, 1111,1 loaded my cart pretty- heavi
ly. thinking in this way to tame my oxen.
then proceeded on my way Inane. 1 11114
now consumed one hall (it' the day. I got out
of the woods safely, :Ind now telt out of dan
ger. I stopped my oxen to open the gale;
and just as I did so, before I could get hold of
my ox-rope, the oxen again started, rushed
through the gale, catching it between the
wheel and the body of the cart, tearing it to
pieces, and coining within a few inches •of
crushing me against the gate•post. Thus
twice, in one snort day, I escaped death by
the merest chance, Ou my return, I told Mr.
Covey what had happened. Ile ordered me
to return to the woods again immediately.
did no, and he hollowed on after me. Just as
1 got into the woods, lie came up and told me
to stop my cart, and that he would teach me
how to trifle away my time, and break gates.
Ile then went to a large gum-tree, anti with
Ids axe cut three large switches, and, lifter
trimming them up neatly with his pocket•
knite, Ile ordered me to take off my clothes.
made hint 110 answer, tau slued will Illy
clothes on. Ile repeateol -his order. I still
made him no answer, nor did .I nanny to strip
myself'. Upon this lie rushed at me with the
fierceness of a tiger, tore off my Clothes, and
lashed me till lie had worn out • his
switches, culling me so weasel}, , B t o
leave the minks visible Inc a long time
alter. This whipping was the lit st of a num
ber just like it, and for similar offences.
I lived with Mr. Covey 11 1 0 year. During
the first six months of thgt year, tearer a Week
1/11,111, without his whipping tile. I teas set•
done free from a sore hack. My awkwardness
was almost always Ids excuse I . ol' Whipping me.
We were worked fully tip to the point of en
durance. Long before day we were up, our
horses fed, and by the first approach or day
we were oil to the field with our hoes and
ploughing-teams. Mr. Covey gave us enough
to eat, but scarce time to eat it. We were
often less than live minutes taking OW'
NVe were often in the field from the first ap
proach of (lay till its last lingering ray had left'
us; and at saving toolder•thm. mi,lnighl often
caught us hi the held binding blades.
Covey woola be Hittwith in. The way he
ti-ed to Amid it Min 111;: ,, . llr would :Tend the
mod i ; .f his atteromous in bed. Ile W.llllll thin
0111 onto 111 the evening, ready to urge
us on with his word, UN:1111;11e. ILII,I trequently
w hit the whip; Mr. Covey w as one of the
few shiveholders tcho could mid did work with
leis It:tools. Ile was a hard-working Mall. Ile
Isuety by himself just what a man Or a boy
condo' do. There was nn deceiving him. Ili,
Iyol'li %Neill 011111'111A 1111W1lee nluwst as Well
;is ill his presence ; anti he ilea the faculty
of making . IN feel that he was ever 11reSellt
With HS 'This he did by surprising as. Ile
seldom approached the spot where we were
at Work openly, it' lie could do it secretly.
Ile always aimed at taking in by
Sneh tons lilt Cllllllillg, that We used too call
hint antmfg "life sllfike••• Vi hen
we were at work 'in the corn-field, be would
sometimes crawl (on Iris hands and knees to
avoid detection, snot all at once he would rise
nearly in our midst, and scream out " lla,
hu ! COML., come Dash uu, 1111:111 011
This l eillg lilt 111011 e or motet:, it man never
Hlll . ll to stop It single minute.- His coon
ings were like a thief in the night. Ile
appeared to us as being ever at hand. Ile
was under every tree, behind every stump. in
every bush, mid at every window on the
'dant:dhoti, Ile would sometimes motion his
horse, as if' hound to St. Michael's, a distance
of scvea miles, and in half an hoottr afterwards
you would suer him coiled up in the corner lit
the wood fence, witching every 111011011 of the
slaves. lle would, hor this purpose, leave his
horse tied up in the woods. Again, he would
sometimes walk up to its, and give its orders,
as though he was WI the 1/01111. 1/1 . starting for
a long journey, Viorti his hack upon, tin, mend
make as though he was going to the house to
get ready ; and before he would get half way
thither, he would turn short, find crawl into a
Fence-cornier, or behind some corner, and there
watch its until the going down of the sun.
" Mr. Covey's fort consisted in his power
to deceive. His life was devoted to planning
and perpetrating the grossest deceptions.
„Everythihg Le possessed in the shape ot learn
ing or religion he made conform' to his dispo
sition to deceive. Ile seemed to think him
self equal to der- lying the Almighty."
ll' at any one time of my lite 1110 re than Ml
other, I was made to drink the bitterest dregs
if shivery, that time 1\ as (luring, the first six
months of my slay with Mr. Covey. We
were worked in all weathers. It WIN never
too hot or too cold ; it could never rain, blow,
hail, or snow too bard for us to work In the
field. Work, work, work was scarcely more'
the order of the day than of the night. The
longest days were too short flor him, and the
shortest nights too long for hint. I was some
what unmanageable when I first went there,
hut a few months of this discipline tamed me.
Mr. Covey succeeded in breaking me. I was
broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural
elast:cdy was crushed,my intellect languished,
the disposition to read departed, the cheerful
spark that lingered about Illy eye died ; the
dark night of slavery closed in upon me ; and
behold a man transforined into ft brute. -
Sunday was my only leisure time. I spent
this in ft sort of beast•lllot stupor, let wren
sleep and awake, Under some large tree. At
tinitsl would rise tip, a flash of energetic .
Fll.l'llolll would dash through Illy SOlll, Ileeolll.
1111111e11With a !hint gleam or hope, that flick
ered for it nuoment, 111141 then vanished. I
sank down again, mourning over my wretch
ed condition. I wits sometimes prompted to
take my life, and that of Covey, but AVOS
prevented by a combination of hope and fear.
My sufferings on this plantation seem now
like a`dremn rather than stern reality.
Our house stood within ft few roils of the
Chesapeake bay, whose broad bosom was ever
white with sails from every quarter of the
habitable globe. Those beautiful vessels
That cheerful eye, under the influence of.
slavery, eventually became red with rage ;
that voice, made all of sweet accord, changed
to one harsh and horrid discord and that
angelic face gave place to that of a demon.
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robed in purest white, so delightful to the eye
of freemen, were to me so many shrouded;
ghosts, to terrify and torment me with thoughts
of my wretched condition. I have often - hi
the sleep stillness of a summer's Sabbath, stood
all alone upon the lofty banks of that noble
bay, and traced, with saddened heart and
tearful eye, the. countless number of Balls
moving off to the mighty ocean. The Bight of
these always' affected me powerfully. My
thoughts would compel utterance ; and there,
with no audlence but the Almighty, I would
pour out my soul's complaint, in my rude
way, with an apostrophe to the moving multi
tude of skips
You are loosed from your moorings, .and
lire free ; I am fast in my chains, and airc a
shave ! You move merrily before the gentle
gale, and I sadly before the bloody whip 1 .
You are freedom's swift-winged angels,.that
fly round the world ; I am confined in bands
of iron ! p that I were free 1 0, that I were
on one of your gallant decks, arid under your
protecting wing I Alas I betwixt mound yOu
the turbid waters roll. Go on, go on. 0
that I could also go ! Could I but swim 1 It
I could fly I 0, why was I born a man,:Of
:w hom to make a brute 1 The glad ship is gone;
She Mika in the dim distance. lam lens in the
hottest hell of unending slavery. 0 God,save
me I God, deliver me ! Let me be free. Is
there any God I Why am I a slave? 'I will
run away. I will not stand it. Get caught or
get clear, I'll try it. I had as well die with
ague as lever. I have only one life to lose. I
had as well be killed running as die standing.
Only think of it ; one hundred miles straight
north, and I am free. Try it? Yes l'God
helping me, I will. It cannot be that I shall
live and die a slave. I will take to the water.
This very bay shall yet bear me into freedom.
The steamboats steered in a north-east course
from North Point. I will do the same; and
when I go to the head of the bay, I will turn
any canoe adrift, and walk strait through Del
aware into Pennsylvania. When I get there,
I shall not be required to have a pass t . I can
travel without being disturbed. Let but the
the first opportunity offer, and come what will
1 sun off. Meanwhile, I will try to bear up
under the yoke. lam not the only slave in
the world. Why should I fret ? I can bear
as much as any of Mein. Besides lam but a
boy, and all boys are bound to some one. It •
may be that my misery in slavery will only
i tic rease my happiness when I get free. There
is a better slay coming."
Thes I used to think, and thus, I used to
speak to myself ; goaded almost to madness at
sem moment, and the next reconciling myself
to my wretched lot.
I have already intinutted that my condition
was much worse during the first six months of
my stay at Mr. Covey's than in the last six.
Toe circumstances leading to the change in
r. Covey's course towards me form an epoch
in my humble history. You have seen how a
man was made a slave ; you shall see how a
slave was made a man. On one of the hottest
slays of the month of August, 1833, Bill Smith,
William Hughes, a slave named Eli, and my
self, were engaged in fanning wheat. Hughes
was clearing the fanned wheat from before the
tan. The work was simple, requiring strength
rather than intellect ; yet, to one entirely un
used to such work, It cattle very hard. About
three o'clock of that 'day, I broke down ; my
strength failed me; I was seized with a vio
lent aching of the head, attended with extreme
dizziness ; I trembled in every limb. . Finding
what Was coming, I nerved myself up, feeling
it would never do to stop work. I stood as ,
long as I could stagger to the hopper with
grain. When I could stand no longer, I fell,
and felt as if 'held down by some immense
weight.. The fan of course stopped; every
one had his own work to do ; and no one
could do the work of the other, and have his
own go on at the same time.
Mr. Covey was at the house, about one hun
dred yards from the treading-yard *here we
were homing. On hearing the fan stop, he
lett immediately, and came to the spot where
we were. Ile hastily inquired what the mat
ter was. 13111 answered that I was sick, and
there was no sine to bring wheat to the fan.
I had by this time crawled away under the
side of the post and rail:fence by which the
yard was enclosed, hoping to find relief by
getting out of the sun. He then asked where
I was. lie was told by one of the hands. He
came to the spot, and after looking at mo
awhile, asked mute what was the matter. I told
him as well as I could, for I scarce had strength
to speak. Ile then gave me a savage kick In.
the side, and told me to get up. I tried to do
so, lint fell Mick in the attempt. He gave me
another Idea, and again told mo to rise.
again tried, and succeeded-in gaining my feet ;
ell, stooping to get the tub with which I was
bill, stooping
the lan, I again staggered and fell.'
While down in this situation, Mr. Covey took
up the hickory slat with which Hughes had
been striking off the half-bushel measure, and
with it gave me a heavy blow upon the head,
making a large wound, and the blood ran
freely ; and 'with this, again told me to get up.
made no effort to comply, having now made
up my mind to let him do his worst. In a
short time after receiving this blow, my head
grew better. Mr. Covey had now left me to
my tide. At this momentll resolved, for the
first time, to go to my master, enter a com
plaint, and ask his protection. In order to do
this, I must that afternoon walk seven miles ;
and this, under the circumstances, was truly a
severe undertaking. I was exceedingly feeble ;
made so as much by the kicks and blows
which I received, as by the severe fit of sick.
mess to had been subjected. I, how.
ever, watched my chance, while Covey was
is ss s king in an opposite direction, and started for
St... Michael's. 1 succeeded in getting a consid
erable distance on my way to the woods, when
Covey discovered me, and called after ins to
(antic back, threatening what he would do if I
lid o u t come. I disregarded boils his calls and
Isis threats, and made my way to the woods
ss fast sits my feeble state would allow ; and
thinking I might be overhauled by him if I.
kept the road, I walked through the woods,
keeping far enough from the road to avoid de
tection., and near enough to prevent losing
my way. I had not gone far, befors my lit
tle strength again failed me. I could go no
bather. I fell down, and lay for a considera
ble time. The blood was yet• oozing from
the wound on my head. For a time I thought
1 should bleed to death ' and think now that
I should have done Sr., b utt that the blood so
matted my hair as to top the wound. Atter
lying there abssut three-quarters of an hour,
nerved myself up again, and started on my
way. through bogs and briers, barefooted and
bareheaded, tearing my feet sometimes at
nearly every step ; and after a journey of
about seven miles, occupying some five hours
to perform it, I arrived at my master's store.
Men presented at appearance enough to of-.
feet any but an heart of iron. From the
crown of my head to any feet,l was covered
with blood. My hair was all clotted with
slitst and Mood ; my shirt was stiff with
blood. My legs mnd feet were torn in sun
hey with briers and thorns, and Were
also covered with blood. I suppose I looked
like a man who had escaped a den of wild
beasts and barely escaped them. In thisatate
I appeared before my master, humbly en-•
treating hint to interpose his authority for my
protection. I told him all the circumstances
as well as I could, and It seemed, as I spoke,
at times to affect him. He would then walk
the floor, and seek to justify Covey by saying
he expected 1 deserved it. He asked me what
I wanted. I told him to let me get a new '
home; that as sure as I lived with Mr. Covey
again, I should live with butt to die with him;
that Covey would surely kill mes--. 110 was in
a fair way for it. Master Thomas ridiculed
the idea that there was any•desiugr;f elf- Mr.
Covey's killing me, end aaid that he know
Mr. Covey; that ho was a good man :and
that he could not think of taking ma ' from
him ; that should he do so, he would lcise the
Miele year's wages ; that I belonged to Mr:
Covey for one year, and that I must go back
to him, come what might; and • that I must
not trouble him with any more stones, or that
he would himself get hold of me. Altai
threatening the thus, lie gave me-a very' large
dose of salts, telling me that I might remain
in St. Michael's that night, (it being .quite,
late.) but that I must be off back to Mr. Co
vey'a early in the morning ; and that if I did
not, he would get hold of me, which meant
that lie would whip me. I remained all night
and according to, his orders, ,I started off to
Covey's in the morning, (Saturday morning)
worried in body and broken in spirit. I got
no supper that night, or breakfast that morn
ing. I reached Covey's about nine o'clock:
and just as I was getting overthe fence that
divided Mrs. Kemp's fields from ours, out ran
Covey with his cowskin, to give me another
whipping. Before he could reach me, I Bee.
eeeded in getting to the cornfield ; and as the.
corn was very high, it afforded mo the means
of hiding. Ile seemed very angry, and
searched for me a long time. My behavior
was altogether unaccountable. He finally
gave up the chase, thinking as I suppose, that
as I meat come home for something to eat; he
would give himself no farther,tmuble in look
ing tier me. I spent that day mostly In the'
woods, having the alternative before me,s—to
go home and be whipped to death, - or stay In..
the woods and bp starved to death.
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