The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-08-27
FAMILY RELICS FROM REVOLUTIONARY
TIMES


The second annual meeting of the Old Settlers of
Indiana was held in kingstown Springs, on the 18th
OF August Large numbers were present, many OF
the pioneers bringing baskets for picnic dinner
in the grove. Among the veterans who conquered
the Western forests and Indians, the patriarch
Jacob Parkhurst Mr.. p is in his nineteth year,
and in the enjoyment of excellent health. He served
in General llarmcr's army, in 1890, and shared IN
all the difficulties and dangers of that unfortunate
Indian campaign.
Mr.. Harmony Iaughn, of Rushville, exhibited
Dutch Bible and a Bible Dictionary, printed in Am
sterdam in IT'S The text in large tvpc-clear
and distinct-thc annotatons in small letter, and
equally as egible the text The Bible cost SIS or
SO. In it was record of one of Mr.. Laughlins
ancestral families.
Mr. Laughlin also exhibited a very large sized
linen vest, worn by his grandfather over hundred
years ago, who was man weighing $40 pounds. In
a pocket of the vest a roll Of Continental mo-
nev, amounting to S2400. 1t had been given to
Mr. Laughlin's grandfather for services in the Rev
olutionary War; This money was regarded as
curiosity-many persons on the ground had never
seen Continental bill or its fac simHe.
The same gentleman showed some relies which
had been in the families of his ancestors
one hundred years. Among them were willow
baskct-thc first, perhaps, ever brought into
lndana-some table cloths, and linen goods
made in New York when it a colony, and some
crimson window and bed curtains. furnished
with brass rings as to slide on string, which
had been used in New York over hundred years
ago. The linen of domestic manufacture
made by the simple means known and used in Amer
lea before modern inventions wrought the great
improvements we see throughout the country for
the production of fabrics of all kinds. Spoons, with
bowls quite small and thin, and variety of other
articles were exhibited by Mr.. Laughlin.
Mr.. Peter Louny, of Noble township, Rush coun-
ty, produced powder horn S5 years Old; and a
small axe which used in Wayncs army, in 1894
in clearing a passage for the baggage wagons
through the wilderness. The had been'preserv-
ed in his family memcnto of old times. The
powder horn had been used on many occasions for
ala lna and Than abt
G. P. R. JAMES ON SOUTHERN SLAVERY.
G. z. r. James, the well known and popular
English Novelist, who has been resident of Vir-
ginia for several years past, contributes to the
kaicEerjocker Magazine, a very interesting article
on Life in Virginia. - and as the views expressed
are so entirely at variance with those of all former
British writers on the subject give brief ex-
tract on 'tthe Negro Life of Virginia. which, SAYS
Mr.. James, differs very little, | believe from the
negro life all through the South. In return for
food, clothing, house room, medical attendance and
support i'll old age, about third of the labor
which is required Of the white in most coun-
tries is demanded of the black. He performs it
badly, and would not perform it at all if he werenOt
compelled.
The rest of the time is spent in singing, dancing,
chattering and bringing up pigs and chickens. That
negroes are the worst servants in the world, every
man. | believe, but thoroughbred Southern man
will admit; but the Southcrner has been reared
amongst them from his childhood, and in gencralhas
a tenderness and affection for them of which North
crn men can have no conception. Great is
tax en- by the law to guard them against oppression
and wrong and after six years residence in the State
can safely say, never saw more than one instance
of cruelty toward negro, and that perpetrated
by foreigner That there may still be evils in the sys
tenn which might be removed by law, and that there
may be individual instances Of oppression and even
bad treatment, do not deny but those instances
are not so frequent those Of cruelty to a wife or
child in Northern lands as displayed every dav by
the newspapers; and in point Of general happiness,
it would not be amss to alter old adagc and say:
''As merry as a negro slave" 81 must not pursue
this branch of the subject farther, for pretend
to great love for DR. Livngstone's friends, the
Makoloos There are, beyond all doubt, some very
excellent people among them but, as a race, the
more see of them the less do think them capable
of civilization, even fitted to take of them
selves"