Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-06-20
From the Quincy Herald
81 Missouri Lady In Eurone

n 0lSSOur1 Lady In Europe
A lady in our neighboring State, who is ma
king a tour through some of the counties of Eu-
rope, and who is also the owner of number of
slaves in Missouri, has recently written letter
from Vienna to of her negroes. The follow
ing extract viii be found interesting and truth
full
q never see one of your color where am,
and have rarely met with colored person since
| left the shores of America but have witness
ed misery and distress such as you know nothing
of. In England, where so much concern has
been expressed for the colored people OF our
country, there is much human suffering pass
ed through large manufacturing towns where the
houses seemed almost piled upon each other,
crowded in dark lanes and alleys, half under
ground ike so many dungeons, with no pure air,
the light OF heavens shut out Of their damp
fortress dwellings. compared in my own mind.
these wTetched dwellings with tie cottages which
are furnished on the plantations for the homes
Of servants, and the thought arose how much
better off are the colored people Of America than
those poor families with whom il is all work,
work, little children and all, with no hope Of any
improvement in their condition. no kind word
from master or mistress; II they are SICK and
unable to be in their places, to commit any fault,
they are liable to be turned of, then they may
starve for no man will employ workman who
has been turned away by another master. There
more workmen than places TO FIJI. In the
mining and coal districts, the condition of the
facturing towns; here children born under
ground pass their lives, and die in old age, with
out ever having seen the glorious sun moon
which the good God made for his creatures.
s~In France, Switzerland, and in Austria
have seen the fields covered with women plough
ing getting ont sprez ling manure, digging or
ditching. working on railroads, and Carrying
loads of dirt manure their heads in bags or
baskets. They are sun-burnt as often to he
blacker than many colored persons. wrinkled and
~. III
time, and had never happy feeling. The mis-
cradle novels usually surrounded with mud
and filth, with pig COW before the door,
the barn and hoTse mostly together, scarcely
slight partition dividing them When the poor
women have finished their hard day's work land
this / observed prolonged till dark they
pick up their children and go their comfortless
homes. These people do not own the land they
work upon, and may be turned away when
new master comes
Sc In witnessing the poverty and wretchedness
of these lands, 7 think of our own country, and
the many comforts enjoyed by all Even the
poorest are not as miserable they might he. "
A PREDEcrIoN OF THE Present WAR--The-
Rev John Cumming, d. d., of the Scotch Church,
Ionion, in lecture delivered in Exeter Hall. in
the year 1S47, pronounced, among other matters,
the prophetic words written below. Tiey are
copied from his Apocalyptic Sketches' Have
ing explained the pouring out If tie sixth prece-
seventh-his text is Rev. xvi. IL 10 II. The
seventh vial is ready to be poured out, or if not
already pouring ont we arg upon the very verge
of its being so. 1t trembles n the hands Of tie
angel. we may expect that daring the action 'f
this VIAL the mountaineer in hrs fastnesses-the
miner In his sgibtcTranean csycs-the vnyager nl,-
on the oceans bosom-the Arab in his desert
the MosIen in his nlsqne-.he Cossack in his
Steppes-the King upon his throne---the mother
in her household-the babe in the cradie-ali
will feel its vibrations, receive the taint Of its
influence and respond in a thousand echoes TO
the voice from above. 1T is done There viii he
rocking thrones there VIII be subverted dynasties;
there viii be disloeated systems; there viii ie
! nations scattered and shaken as by whirivind;
and the Hearts of the great and the mean. the rich
and the poor. trembling for fear OF the things
coming earth
:. Now you will notice that under tie seventh
VIAL the tes-kingdorn form is I, niger to bc the
| distinctive characteristic of the Rsmish nations;
| they are to assume new shape-they Will lie dl-
vided INTO tripartite shape; three great
wiz be TIE ultimate form into which all the nations
of Europe and Christendom viii be divided
soon as yeu three great leading powers coming
into collision. with bread EuroIe for tie battle
field, and the evening Of the woil for the hour
of the conflict, You may expect that the downfall
of Babylon and the advent of Christ, and the
dawn of the millennium near. II is probable
that this triparttc division viii consist q France
leading its hosts upon the one-sicie, the great
partisan of the Papacy; the Autocrat Of all the
Russians, who has more than once playei cruel
game may lead the second part; and have
some idea that this old England Of ours, so Illus
trous by its sainted sufferers, its noble armv of
martyrs, its devoted Christians, its preached Gs-
pei, its spreading Christianity, its circulated BIZ
bles. will be also the third part and when the
conflict comes, il viii be as of old England
against the world, the truth of God against the
apostacy of Satan and the inhdelity of man. "