The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-16

to behold, and are ouly to be tolsrated, in
point Of looks, when they Gear colored tur-
bans. When ! see one adorned in q bonnet
at the back Of her head, With profusion ia
side, of the brightest artificial flowers, a
bright vulgar shawl and dress, and an
enormous hooplwith very narrow pettieoats,
! always wish to rush home, light large
bonfire, and throw into the flames every ar
ticle OF ornamental dress that l possess. But
to turn 10 dear Topsy. ---------
+. We asked her il she were o slave, feel
ing very backward to put so trying Q cues
ton TO her, but she answered with the ut
most simplicity that she was, just a. u we
had asked her l she were RON France or
Germany. In reply to our questions she
said that her father and mother were both
slaves; that she had several younger broth
ers and sisters; thar Miss d. is very rich.
'Spect she has above hundred Slaves v
aud that she 10 very kind to them all
!" Can you read ~" No; Miss d. has often
tried to teach me, but never could learn-
'Spect I'm too old to learn now" We lee
tured her about this, and gave her Sir Ed
ward Pcrry's favorits advice, to "try
again" then asked her If she ever went
to church. "No, never.n-a Does Miss Ma
~ mighty seldom Do you know
who made you 7'--"Yes, God" =" Do you
ever pray -" No, never; used to, long
ago; but, with most sanctifed draw, ~
feel such burden like, when try to kneel
down, that cant" This was such a gra-
taitous imitation Of what she must have
heard the goody niggers say, that ! felt sore
ly disposed to give her young black ears a
sound boxing, tor supposing such piece Of
acting could impose upon US. However,
leaving the dark ears alone, | urged the du-
ty of prayer upon her, as strongly and SIM
ply as conld, and made her promise to
kneel down every night and morning and
pray. She had heard of Christ, and repeat
ed some text (aga;n quotation, no doubt,
from the gOody niggers) about his death;
but she did not know, on further examina-
tion, who He is, nor what death He died.
She said Miss D. read to them all, every
Sunday, but probably not in very instruct
i've manner. She said her name was Almira.
gave her Miss Marsh's "Light of the
Line" which happened to be the only book
had by me which was at oil suitable,
and told her to get it read to her, land
that was sorry that had nothing else to
give her; but | shall try this morning to
get her an alphabet, in order to encourage
her to another attempt to learn TO read. AT
parting last night, / spoke as solemnly as
could to her, and told her that we would
probably never meet again in this world,
but that we would be sure to meet hereafter,
at thejudgment seat Of God, and entreated
her to remember the advice bad given her.
As we do not know Miss. D., who is a very
deaf old lady, staying here, like ourselves,
for day or two, our conferences with young
Topsy have been necessarily very short, and
constantly interrupted by Miss DIS coming
past us, and wanting her; but we should
like very much to buy Aln,ira, and bring
her home TO make u nlrsery.maid OF her
and teach her all she ought 20 know, and
"spect after all she Is not "too iirge to
learn, poor young slavei u was pleasant,
in our Last colloQuy of the kind, to talk to
such an innocent specimen Of slave. !
mean innocent. as respects her ignorance OF
the horrors ofs.avery, Of which she evidently
bad not the faintest idea. asked her " hat
she did for Miss d. HDresses her, does her
room, and dres her up sltogether. 9 p -