The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-04-20
RAyENNA. WEDNESDAY APRIL 20. 1853.

quantity of incendiary publications in my trunk to
assist me. You'd better take some precautions.'' -
OF course Uncle Walter only patted her rosy
cheek, and called her whimsical little mipx, re-
peating that she was welcome to every shining
faced African on the place, when she could per-
suade him leave it; while Emily laughed one of her
sweetest of laughs, and Phil asked her if it was
his handsome groom Alphouse, she was going to
run away with
Yes" answered Frankie demurely and sure
enough SO it proved for not many days after that
Aphonse, with his best suit of clothes, and a small
sum of money which his young master had given
him at various times, morning unaccount-
ably missing. In his room was found note hand
somely worded, though the chirography somewhat
suggested the absence of the school master-sta-
ting that he had long felt most intense desire for
freedom, but had been met with such kind remon-
strances when he had alluded to the subject, and
moreover he had been treated SO much better than
he deserved, that he felt guilty for what he do
ing; but that the unconquerable desire for liberty
would not be quenched; and ended by asking his
masters both TO forgive him, and assurance that
if he was prospered, they should hear from him
again.
Wonderful was the comm oton that ensued at
the Hall after the unprecedented catastrophe
discovered. The negroes hither and thiiher,
apparently with sort of intention except to in
crease the confusion; grinning and ehattering and
debating with various degrees of zeal the probnbil-
ity of Alphs final arrival in the Nora and
what he would deign to occupy himself with in
that far country.
He'll wish his self back in tree week from
dis yer" said Adam, the old pioneer negro of the
plantation who had belonged to it befre it became
Col. Marstons, and who shared the latter's holy
horror of cold. i" rs been to dem Nor ern states,
yers ago; an wouldn't live thar to belong to Gin
er'l Washington his self. My sakes didn't see
a pone O. corn bread fit for gentleman's servant
to eat all the time staiG but ye'd better b'lieve
the curousest thing the 'strornary big wood
piles the farmers gifts up to keep 'em warm in the
winter. Farmers is them as answers to our plan
ters. Lord! If I didn't think nothing but de
gineral confagration ebber sumo all dem ar heaps
O. wood
" Dat ar fool serves bangin' fur runnn away
from SIGH family, an sich amas'r as the Kurnel I"
said Daphne, pretty mulatto girl Fact
reilly kinder feel as if all disgraced by dat
ar low-bred fellow. But Massr'Il invertise him,
and he'll bs took up. Dar ant no room for
'spicon about dat NJ Mebbe he'll find some folks not
quite readyto 'sociate with him they has byen
Ard Daphne to ssed her head in iinmeasurable
dsdain, at the want of breeding manifested by her
former faverite.
/ A great confusion there was, to be sure in par
lor as well as kitchen. Is it possible - Il
wouldn't have believed t!' ssThe fellow will
get sick enough of liberty in four days. and be back
hurried exclumations; and amidst it ALL frankie.
like silly child as she was, and not bit of he
roine, ran off to her room and had a hearty
fit ofcrying. Not that she was sorry the slave had
escaped oh no frankie never could have said
that, though whole council of Union had
doomed her to be burnt at the stake in default,
thereof. But, somehow. she feared she had viola
not the rights of property but the rites Of hos
pitality and for full fifteen minutes Frankie's mer-
ry face looked if it never would smile again.
But there was cause, for grief, after ALL
Good Uncle Walter himself came into her room
in search of her, and laughed himself nearly into
fits at her long face said the scamp had been dis
eased for some time, and the only wonder was, it
hadn't broken out sooner; and now he might go
and be hanged he shouldn't go after him.
AS for Phil he gave frankie cousiny kiss,
and declared in the most fluent and positive man.
ner, that IS if he had once supposed the Ounce Sc
riously and inteiligenly desired his freedom, he
would have given him new coat, (the other be-
ing six months old,) he would have presented him
with check for hundred dollars and might pos
sibly have added the black pony that Alph might
ride away like gentleman
Emily was of opinion that Alphs departure
would be decided benefit to PhiI as he was al
ways getting up some folly with the horses, and
she had ached many time lest Phil should be
killed in of the impronptu displays of eques-
trianism which the groom equently thought fit to
institute, and Phil was only too ready to Join in
So frankie took long breath, and wiped her
rosy cheeks till the frightened dmples ventured to
peep out again, and the blue of her eyes ran clear
and sunny as ever; and explained all she knew of
the elopenaent; and so the matter ended in sheer
merriment though cannot deny that Fraakie s
cheek occasionally crmsoned os she thought that
it was thousand dollars out Of Uncle Walters
pocket: But then, e dared me so-nnd besides
the poor fe How had right to himself"
For the benefit of those who did not hear F rank
les recital we will here say that the simple truth
of the case was this. As his master hnd stated.
Alphonse had been for year manifesting symp-
toms of discomfort. Whether he had been trent
ed go much like man that he began at last to
fancy himself one, mistake that glance in the
mirror might not have tended to correct, for Alrh
was in form and bearing decidedly one of the
upper en,'-we know not but it was probably
the name, more than his present condition of sla-
very that chafed him. AT all events, he con-
ming the attempt to steal himself, one day,
with newspaper in his hand, when frankie, OBJ
serving him, inquired in friendly tone if he could
read; and on his answering in the affirmative. she
went to her trunk and brought him the Life Of
Frederick Douglass, and two three papers con-
timing some information that she thought might
be useful to him.
And this, positively, the 'head and front
of frankie Maitlands offending ngain,t the vener-