New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-05-30
Mise Niles heni Rich"ond-Miik msidr
with Majors Comnnissiens-Peek's bri-
xade hes tiae Pos, Of Danger, ns well as Of
Hcuer-Rr nsaiiSing Effects Of Slavery
On the Girls Even.


Cenespopdence Of The n. Y. Tribune.
EsBsY's -Housy. May "a. 1862.
mine miles from Richmond by de Swamp Road
Gineral %
The bonse is Erbey's-and the owner has fed
and in bis stead, deaf and dumb man points to his
yoiceless mouth, and with pantomime, publishes his
nisfortune 10 cur soldiers and invokes their mercy
for himself and the property that mute for the first
time in the history Of war, has been hired to guard
Who but Vilginian has in equal parts the cunning
and the meanness necessary to the conception and
accomplishment OF such a dodge And EIbey had
kine-and tie Kline had tuneiul bells about their
ihroais-and il the mute, perhaps. that was en-
ploved TO hide the kline, and unconscious OF the tell
Tell character Of tie swinging brass that his charge
was adorned with, the deaf man drove them way of
from ,be Erbey mansion into wood where slaves,
long since eInancipated by the great Abolonis,
Death. once cultivated tobacco, but where large
n;rAs stand thickly now, and cure gioomly the
farming that robs the land. He drove them through
his wood OF silent but thrilling imprecation, way
into green circle, where few immense and Teluc-
sntIv diving old apple trees amazed us with picture
~ an orchard. SJOu cut of the heaped inequality Of
the ground could bc diScerned the remains Of square
bewn timber Of great size, and here on the siGe OF
planers house. and liz the center Of the elegance and
cotnfOr, that once surrounded bis family, the deaf
man LETT the precious COVE. Gen. Peck chooses his
p,cket- ground and places himself and the regiments
of bis brigade And i'll riding through the woods
and following out all the roads tracesbe through the
piues the coW-belis were heard and the deaf man =
labor was lost, The eagerness with which that ex-
celent Brgade-Sigeoh, -, changed himself
into a niknaid and clutched my drinkng-cup, and
sd from his horse, and began series Of iusidi0us
approaches 10 each and every COW oil the herd, his
arm outsiretehed sud his mouth overlooking with
every vocal abandonment known to the milking
ward from 70 bos' in molasses, 10 cush !
cn.h /" in honey. Twas III yain Those cows
must be corraled. said the doctor mounting again.
And they were coiraled The sweet bells lingl ai
night in the Erbey Iosey-yard, ma aiIheas, honey
suckies, and ro:es-sOldiers, WIN DayonetS, mind
yon, keeping them from mischief.
Within the house we found a chuin, in which the
butter had half come; found tive or six guns some
loaded heavily; found, oh, no precious four ttIaw
beds; and variety OF triiilng properly, among
which was slate, used by a child, seemingly girl
10 compose q letter. to be copied OIL paper IL Ii 30
strictly characteristic that i must publish 1t. by
Characteristic" 1 mean Southern and barbaious.
MIR H1Emsos: my self to write you few Inns 10
lei YOU hesI from me sn well present hope this may
IND sou The received your letter 1t give me m.cn
Pssse, TO hear that You had BIN 70 rohmon wish haa Of
nn their but expected the yankees 70 burn down the
town 70 thort would come bone with my Parfons you
wJos son NJ. Ta that you ho yG YANKEE %'n 1s
GIVE my respects TO Dir DeDg also TO all OF my acgusin
snes ard ten them wish could Zee them all once more in
Now, consider tha, it is a child and a girl, that
writes this eIstle upon the cheerful theme Of muir
deIing Yankees, and WHO, unconsciously, is giving
ali order to Harrison for al assortment Of Massa
chusctts, Maine, and Vermont scalps But it ia char
acterisic. The Efbey girl is ia.t product of the
system Of Slavery. IL brutalizes the character, even
IN infancy, and coTups women far more profoundly
than il does Now, is i, not about time that the
politicians who have undertaken to deal with this fact
Of American Slavery saw s real character; for ~ au
element in housekeeping, aud in a business copart-
nersh'p, II poaesses merits which the dry nurses and
wet nurses III Washington bad better look 10 steadily
and sirsigh,way. We Northern men, with muskes
IN our bands, say that can't Ire ruth tie daraned
Mtng, and U0nt Ice ruth II. And we further
more cay that We sick nearly 10 vomiting Of the
constitutional snutiing and whining The rights
shd HnsiortaDes 0, system which bayonete our
Toonded, mqtllatts our desd, poisons our drink,
p'an'r to'leoocs under ow paih, and inspires with