Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-08-18
Eug1.tve s.ave scene IN Pennsy!xan1a.

The Baltimore Patriot says: We have already
announced by telegraphc despatch: that a slave wo
man belonging TO gentleman of Mississippi
visit to his relatives in Erie, Pa had been brought
up by habeas corpus, before Judge of that place,
for the purpose of securing for her the splendid mis-
efv OF Freedom" but which she had the good sense
to decline After grave trial. and the hurting
of many shaft of sarcasm at each other, by the
counsel on either side, the Judge told the woman
what he had predetermined to tell her, that she
Free and could go where she pleased whereupon the
poor, down -trodden, and inhumanIy treated"
ture rose up in the court room and said IS Well,
Boss,"" jist tell yer what am | list want to
go back to Mississippi and OATS all Is got to say"
That was plump and plain and the court SO under
stood it, and ad journed The spectators, however,
excepted to the decision of the Judge-they were
not willing that the woman should go where she
pleased as will be seen by the concluding graph
of the Erie Observers account of the affair." as fol-
lows:
The master then took her by the arm, when the
colored gentlemen presen, made rush at him,
and there came very near being an abolition riot
Bowie knives and pistols few from their hiding places
while the uninteresed spectators, not liking the looks
of such instruments, came flying through the court
house windows into the street. Among the latter,
the junior of the Constitution the that has been
born three times, made most excellent time. Close
upon his heels, like section of hose unwinding from
cart, came his senior Just as he landed, he clap
ped his hand behind him, very much as though some
lellO" Hdu beeH applying piece vi sOle W
his person; wag in the crowd, however who vii
messed the performance, and who, perhaps, might
have been little dry, very dryly inquired if he had
hroken his flask, Our contemporary didn't have
time to reply, for ust then two colored ladiesS
foamng at the mouth with rage, landed plump at his
side through the same hole, and he left like quarter
horse, at the rate of 2.40.
GERALD MAssEY.-This young is acquiring
considerable reputation in England as poel. His
works have been published in London, and are soon
to be brought out in this country by Ticknor & Co.
of Boston. Massey, it is said, was born in 1929 oil
very humble parentage his father being laborer on
a canal His means of obtaining education mus
have been very limited, from the fact of his having
been put work in the factory at the tender age
eight years, In speaking OF his early youth he says
! Having TO earn my own dear bread by the eterna
cheapening of flesh and blood thus early, | never
| knew what childhood meant. | had childhood
Ever since remember, have had the aching
fear of want throbbng in my heart and brow
His prospects Frightened little however. He was
taught 10 read the Bible, and having procured "P
grim's Progress" Robinson Crusoe,' and some Yves
leyan tracts he read them with the greatest avidty
particularly the works of Bunyan. He afterwards
came TO London and there fell in love- Previous tc
this, Massey seemed 10 manifest very little taste fol-
poetry, but the same arrow that pierced his hear
opened in his brain a fountain from which he's gush
ed not the sckly illusions of cupid but the genun,
and deaihless streams of poetry. The Methodist Pro
testant, in biogra phical notice of Massey, (trou
which we gathered the substance of this notice. ven
lures the assertion, that "If there is now in court OF
palace any young man in England, whose genius has
more of promise to show all things considered thar
his, we should like to know who he is and what he
has done"