The Arkansas banner., 1843-10-07


 of them as there's picters of in the shops. man and brother, you know, sir" said Mr Iapley, favoring his master with signif- cant indication of the figure so often repre- sented in tracts and cheap prints.
 " A slave p' cried Martin in a whisper
 "Ah p' said Mark, in the same tone " No thing else. A slave. Why, when that there man was young-don't look at him while Pm telling it-he was shot in the leg gashed Tn the arm; scored iii his live limbs, like pork ; beaten out of shape {; had his neck galled with an iron collar, and wore iron rings upon his wrists and ancles. The marks are on him to this day. When Twas having my dinner just now, he stripped off his coat, and took away my appetite.''
 " Is this true ," asked Martin of his friend, who stood beside them.
 "l have no reason to doubt it. he answered, looking down and shaking his head. i" It very often is.''
 < Bless you,o said Mark, 's know 1t is, from hearing his whole story. ss That master died; so did his second master from having his head cut open with hatchet by another slave, who, when he'd done it, went and drowned himself: then he got better one . in years and years he saved up little money, and bought his freedom, which he got pretty cheap at last, on account of his strength be- ing nearly gone, and he being i'll. Then he come here. And now he's saving up to treat himself afore he dies to one small pur- chase-lps nothing to speak of ], only his own daughter; that's all '' cried Mr. Tap ley, becoming excited. ssLiberty forever Hurrah r'
 "Hush p' cried Martin, clapping his hand upon his mouth ''and don't be an idiot- What is he doing there ?''
 Waiting to take our luggage off upon a truck, said Mark. {. He'd have come for 1t by-and-by, but l engaged him for a very reasonable charge-out of my own pocket to sit along with me and make me jolly :; and amjolly and if was rich enough to contract with him to wait upon me once a day, to be looked at, I'd never be any thing else''
 The fact may cause a solemn impeachment of Marks veracity, but it must be admitted nevertheless, that there was that in his face and manner at the moment, which initiated strongly against this emphatic declaration of his state of mind
 7'' Lord love you, sr,'' heeadded, "!hey're so fond of Liberty in this part of the globe, that they buy her and sell her, and carry her to market with lem. They've such pas sion for Liberty, that they can't help taking liberties with her. That's what it's owing to.o "Very well," said Martin, wishing to change the theme. s'Having come to that conclu- sion, Mark, perhaps you'll attend to me- The place to which the luggage has to go, Is printed on this card Mrs. Hawkins board ing houseo :" Mrs. Pawkins's boarding house," re- peated Mark sNow. Ciceroo
 C Is that his name ?n asked Martin
 "That's his name, sir" rejoined Mark. And the negro grinning assent from under leathem portmanteau,s than which his own face was many shades deeper, hobbled down stairs with his portion of their worldly goods :; Mark Tapley having already gone before with his share.
 Martin and his friend followed them to the door below, and were about to pursue their walk, when the latter stopped, and asked, with some hesitation, whether that young man was to be trusted.
 "Mark! Oh certainly with anything"
 ss You don't understand mel think he had better go with us. He is an honest fel- low, and speaks his mind so very plainlyn
 sWhy, the fact is" said Martin, smiling, ss that being unaccustomed to free republic, he is used to do so."
 C think he had better go with us," re- turned the other. EsIIe may get into some trouble otherwise This is not slave State but 1 am ashamed to say that the spirit oi Tolerance is not so common anywhere in these attitudes as the form. We are not re- markable for behaving very temperately to each other when we differ; but to strangers no, really think he had better go with us'
 Martin called to him immediately to be oi their party so Cicero and the truck went one way and they three went another
 They walked about the city for two or three hours seeing it from the best points of view, and pausing in the principal streets and before such public buildings as Mir. Be van pointed out. Night then coming or apace, Martin proposed that they should ad- journ to Mrs. Pawkins's establishment fol coffee but in this he was overruled by his new acquaintance, who seemed to have se his heart on carrying him, though it were only for an hour, to the house of friend O his who lived hard by. Feeling (howevel disinclined he was, being weary,) that i would be in bad taste, and not very gracious to object that he was unintroduced, when thi. open-hearted gentleman was so ready to bt his sponsor, Martin-fcr once in his life, a all events-sacrifced his own will and plea sure to the wishes of another, and consented with fair grace. So travelling had don' him that much good, already.
 MT. Bevan knocked at the door of very neat house of moderate size, from the parlo windows of which, lights were shining brighly into the now dark street. It wa quickly opened by man with such thor oughly Irish. face, that it seemed as if h ought, as matter of right and principle, t be in rags, and could have no sort of busi ness to be choking cheerfully at any bod out of whole suit of clothes.
 Commenting Mark to the care of this phe nomenon-for such he may be said to hay