Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19
Correspondence Of the N. Y. Tribune.
. From Egypt.
Prospects of Douglas in H.
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KENDALLsv1LLE, June ls, 1860.

KENDALLsvILLE, June ls, 1860.
A few days since, | had occasion 10 Wis
it Fulton Co.. Illinois, and person whom
wished TO see living twenty miles from
the railroad, | lelft the road at E., procured
horse and buggy, and drove over beau
tiful prairie, on which were many finely
cultivated farms, with good fences, or
chards, convenient arm-buildiDgs, and
tasteful dwellings. Upon inquiry | found
that this vic.nage was settled by people
from New England, who had brought with
them their native enterprise and thrift, and
had, in comparatively few years, subdued
and improved this "raw prairie" and made
il one of the most beautiful localities in
the State. dotiing it well with country
scheolhouses, which continually remind the
traveller that education is peculiar insti-
tuition of the North, always cherished and
protected by the New-England emigrant.
As l proceeded, inland" the change in the
Improvements gave undoubted evidence of
change in the inhabitants, and l found
Egypt" settled and inhabited by en-
igrants from the sunny South. The
roads, farms, buildings, all semed intima-
tely related TO their Egyptian possessors
with whom Democracy is the prevail
ing denomination, and rife-whiskey the
spirit of the party, and the peculiar insti-
tuition of the country" With some little
difficulty l found the residence of the man
l sought, and found his dwelling to be Of
Egyptian" architecture, about sixteen feet
square, containing two apartments, one
above the other, connected by rough lad
der by which tie inmates assembled and de-
cended as the occasion required. The hus-
band and father of the family was absent,
but the wife and mother was sitting in the
lower room, the only furniture of which
was table, three chairs, bed, corner
cupboard, and cannon stove. The moth
er was giving nurse to one-half of pair of
twins, sixteen months old, and was herself
nursing the short ratan-stem of huge
earthen tobacco pipe, filling the room with
such an offensive odor, as only dirty old
pipe and strong tobacco can do. She was
evidently a representative woman of the
Egyptian type, "ferocious," and forty, with
a face having more breadth than length,
spotted with russell colored moles, from
which issued a crisp growth of black hair.
Her eye brows were heavy, black. and brist-
lv, aud formed continuous line like an
Usage orange hedge unframed and untrim-
ed, from one temple to the other, and the
brief space between this line and the hair
of her head was distinctly marked by three
wrinkles, which care or carlessress had
written there. Her bosom, where the
child was luxuriating, was sample and un-
confined" displaying lacteal capacity far
beyond what Solomon, in all his wisdom,
could have asked for his unfortunate sister,
of whom he so pathetically speaks-Can-
ticles viii, 8. Her dress was calico, once
indigo blue, now greatly changed by wear
and tear, and, and, according to the doc
triue of coincidence, well adapted to the
tastes and habits of its possessor 1t was
open in front, describing halfcircle from
one shoulder, dropping to the waist and
thence rising to the other, leaving the nur-
sery free of access to the twins whenever
inclination and the will of the mother per-
mitted them. The other half of the pair
of twins was sitting at the mothers feet,
tugging at her dress. Near the stove, seat
ed on the floor, were two girls from four
teen to sixteen years of age, who, from |
their dress, form, and features, were evil
IDENTIFY ofshoots from the parent stock, in
heriting the mothers manners, intelligence,
and beauty. l inquired for Mr.. =.
"My Bob, l suppose you mean." said the
wife. "Wal, Bob has gone to London to
frame building for Jim Powers the black
smith," Scan you direct me so l can find
l asked. "Then you are not acquain-
ted in these parts?" was the reply. "Wal,
20 right on here past Gilmon's and old |
Jenny Moore's and keep on till you go
past Carter's aud old-man Miller's and on
BY Sam Millar's and then take the London
'oad and 90 right there" Can you de-
scribe Sam Mller's so that l will know
where t, leave this road" l inquired
Go till you cross the bridge" said voice
rom above. Looking upward to the cham
Der floor | saw large knot-hole, through
which nose protruded and an eye was
ooking down on me. "Come down here,
-ou hussy, and put this young'un to bed,"
aid the mother, with an upward glance at
he occupant of the knot-hole. Then turn
no to me, said: ayes, go on till you
ross the bridge, then turn to the right and
'ou can't miss the way. The girl from
bove came down the ladder and took the
'ursing child, which was now asleep and
aid it on the bed. Then the mother took
Ip the other, and turning to me, and said:
Stranger, this is a 'cap'en.' You know
ny Bob is right pert pollytisher and has
amed this'un Douglas, and you'd better
'lieve he's one on'em. Old Square Lock-
y says he looks just like him, an if he {
as any chance he'll make as smarta man {
S he is, See if you think he looks like .
i'm" said she, at the same time attempt s
1g to raise his head from her BOSOM :
'ut Dug not wishing TO be thus disturbed {
cid on with his sharp teeth, which fairly
aised the old woman from her seat to the 9
liddle of the room, and another twitch of a
he chld's head severed the connection be- I
Seen them. "Oh! take the brat, Sal. o
ee how the cuss has bit me-" said the S
lother. Sal took the screaming Douglas S
nd ran out of doors with him. The moth Y