Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1854-11-24
From the New York Evening Mirror.
FURTIVE CHANCES by Al LADY.

Mrs. X. Y. Y. Sampson, is lady of mammoth
proportions. She stands six feet In her slippers,
and her circumference is not to be computed by
inches She wears any quantity Of founces, and
sports crimson velvet talma She makes speeches
at temperance meetings; is a fearful abolitionst
writes political articles for periodicals, and argues
with every one who approaches her. She Is fire.,
quently seen in exhibition rooms or picture galleries
emphasizing her remarks, with the catalogue. and
pointing out the beauties of art to group Of admi
ring gentlemen who surround her, and from the
midst Of whom she rises aloft like a tower Of
extraordinary altitude. Mr.. Sampson "a rarely
seen at these times; he is little man, with very
small head and no eyelashes, and an astonishcd
expression permanently fixed on his features
He has been seen early in the morning sweeping
the doorsteps, in very shrunken dressng-gown;
and often, during Mrs. SIMPSONS "reunions"a d
shri quaver is heard from the back attic which the
neighbors say Mr. Sampson singing to the baby"
ihat unfortunate gentleman never appears abroad
with his wife, excepting when II rans and some one
is wanted to carry the umbrella. He splits pine
wood to kindle the fire, in the back garden, and
takes the milk at the area gate; and once an in
quisitive old lady observed him stopping some dngy
article up and down in a bucket Of dirty water; and
from the fact that Mr.. SIMPSONS shoulders were
enveoped in plaid shawl, and his arms uncovered,
she sagacously conjectured that Mr.. S. was "get-
ting up his linen"
Mrs Sampson devotes herself principally to abo-
litionisin. She informs her friends that were she
again girl, "color" would be no objection to the
man Other choice. She once collected a contribu-
ton amounting to several hundred dollars for an
Intelligent negro, who represented himself as a
runaway slave, but who was afterwards discovered
to have been peaccable resident of New York
from his natal hour and to have supported himself
for many years by "whitewashing and wall color
ing, and who had furthermore added an nyolun
tary contribution from Mrs S. in the shape of her
watch and teaspoons. Mrs Simpson frequently
clectrfcs her audience by descriptions Of the fear.
ful cruelty of southern planter, who for the most
trivial offences murders his slaves and subsequent
y banquets upon them and the maternal portion
the aforesaid audience have been affected even
to tears by the facts beiug mentioned that .hashed
piccaninyD is f,yoIte dish throughout the south
ern States.
Mrs. Sampson reported to have horsewhipped
three editors for mentioning her as a female in
paragraph which went the rounds of the pa.
pers; and Mr.. Smith, of the "Pumpkinville Ga
zctte,n tremblcs for his life ever since he decately
limited that " he did not approve of women speak
ing in public"
IL you are not acquainted with Mrs Sampson.
you wilrccognise her by an excessively loud voice:
by her always being attended during her prone
nades by some halfdozcn gentlemen, each vicing
with the other for the honor of carrying her fan or
parasol and by an indescribable futter and rustic
Of satin and velvet, which says plainly, Behold.
ye, no common person approaches room for Mrs
X. Y a. Sampson! ~