New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-30
/" It's a CITY at the North.

@ les, Ina1anl, II Ia.
"Du tell ! 'Taint 70 large as Cbarles'n, ist'
Yes, twenty times larger than Charleston
" Lord o'massy How does all the folks i've
thar -
Live quite as well as they do here"
" Ye don't have 10 niggers thar, does We y
Yes but none that are slaves
"Haye Ablisberners thar, don't ye7 them people
that 60 agin the South?''
Yes some of Them
What do they 90 agin the South for"
"Tbey 60 Tor freeing the slaves. Some Of them
think black man as good as white one.
"Quar, that; yer an Absherner, arni yer
ono; IN an old-iasbioned Wing"
"What : that? Never heerd Cd them afore.
"An old-fastioned Wing, madam, is a an whose
political principles are perfect and who Is as perfect
as his principles"
evidently did not understand One-haii OF INC seh-
tence. =.
Right sort of folks, them" she said, in half
inquiring tone.
. Yes, put they're all dead now."
"Ye., dead beyond the hope of resurrection"
Give beern all the dead war to be resurrected
Didn't We say We war one on EN-? IL amt dead
vet" said the woman chuckling at having cornered
me.
'But FIN more than half dead just now"
"Ab," replied the woman, still laughing, Eyer q
chicken"
"a chicken! what s that?'
"a thing that goes on tn legs, and karkles," was
the ready reply.
"Ah, nv dear madam. you can out.talk me-
"Ias, reckon | kin outrun We, tu. 10 arn'
over rugged" Then, after pause, she added
- What dye 'lect that darby: Lnkum, President
tori"
II didn't elect him. Ivoted for Douglas. But
Lincoln is not darby"
Gle 'sa mullater, then; I've beern he war;" she
replied o ..,;,,.,~
Raii-spltter ? THEN he's nigger, shore.
"No, madam white men at the North split rails"
can white wimmin tu pIaps,' said the woman,
with coutemptuCus toss OF The head"
"No, they do nt," replied, "hot white women
sork there 49,,
White wimrin work thar ?" chimed in the hith-
erto speeches. beauty showing set OF teeth oil the
exact color Of her skin-yaltor. What du the
du Z"
Some of them attend in stores some Get type some
teach school, and some work In factories"
"Du tell Dress nice, and make money!
eyes" ] replied, "they make money. and dress
like fine ladies' in fact. are fine ladies. Know one
voang woman, of about your age that had TO get
her own education, who earns thousand dollars a
wear by teaching, and l We heard Of many factory
girls who support their parents and lay by great
deal OF money, by working 10 the mills
"Wal!" replied the young woman with a con-
temptuous curl Of her matchless upper lip; "sehule-
marms arnt fine ladies'; fine ladies' don't work
only ngeers works hGr. / reckon l d ruther be
'spectable than work for "a livin'.'
/ could but think how magnifcently the lips Of
OF our glorious Yankee girls would have curied
had they have beard that remark and have seen the
Door girl that made it, with her torn, worn, greasy
dress her bare, dirty legs and feet, and her arms,
neck, and face thickly encrusied with layer OF
clayey mud that there danger Of hydrophobla If
che went near a wash-tub. Restraining my lh'oinh-
tsry disgust, replied:
a We at the North think work il respectable. We
do not look down on man or woman for earning
their daily bread. We all work."
"Yss and tina; e the why ye're all seeh cow
ards said the old woman.
"Cowards" / said; "who tells you that p
"My old man; he says one on our boys can lick
five of your Yankee men"
"Perbaps co. j. your husband away from home"
Vas him and our Cal. ar down 10 Charles H..
"Cal. ID your son. il he II
"Yas, be 3 my oldest, and likely lad he ar tn
be g twenty-one, and his name are ions CAL OuS
MILLS. He 8 gsae g troopin' it with bis fader.'
What, both gone and left you ladies here alone T.
"Yas the Cunnel sed every Orter 60, and
they warn't to be shnd the rest. The Cunnel-
Cunnel J.-looks after us while they is away
" But should think the Colonel looked after you
poorly-giving you nothing to eat."
Oh! it's ben sech a storm to-day, the gals
could MT 80 for the vitles, though 'taint q great
way. We'r on bis plantation this mouse Is bis H."
This last was agreeable news, snd 1t occurred 10
me that if we were 20 near the Colonels we might
push on in spite of the storm, and get there that
night; so said
"lndeed / IN going TO the Colonels. How far
i. bis bOuse from here y
a right smart six mile il g at the Cross roads.
Ye know the CuDnel, du yer
"Oh, yes, know hm well. If his house is not
more than Fix miles off, think we had better 90 on
tonight. What do YOU say, Sept"
al reckon we better gwo, massa," replied the
darky, who had spread my travelng-shawl IN the
chimney corner, and was seated on it, drying his
clothes.
Yed better not" said the woman; eyed better
STAY har thar Is night smart twixt har and the
Cunneis and faint safe TO cross arter dark"
4" IL that IL 40 we better stay, Sep; dont you
think 20 7" / ssd 10 the'darky.
"Jess as you say, nassa. We got fru wild de
oder one, and reckon faint no wuss nor dat"
"The bridge ar carried away and ye' II bev to
swim STARE" said the woman. :" Yed better stay"
"Thank YOU, madam / think we wall" re-
piled, after a moments thought; "our horse has
swum one Of your creeks tonight and dare not try
another
Having taken off nv coat had been standing,
during the greater part of this conversation in my
shirt-sleeves before the fire, turning round OCCASION
ally TO facilitate the drying process and taking every
now and then ZIP from the Rourd containing our
brandy and water; aided in the latter exercise by
the old woman and the eldest glrl, who INDUCED
quite ar freely as did
{" Mighty good brandy shat at last said the wo-
man. "Ye like brandy, mt yer
"Not very much, madam. l take it tonight be
cause I've been exposed to the storm, and il stmu-
la,es the circulation But Scp here do MT like spr-
its. He II get the rheumatism because be don't"
"Don't like dem sort OF sperits, massa; but ru-
mates net trouble me-"
"But I've got it mighty bad said the woman,
sand / take EN- tohenecer Kan get Them"
rather thought she did, but l "reckoned" her
principal beverage was whisky.
You have the rheumatism madam, because your
house is 80 OPEN draft of air is always unhealthy"
81 alters reckoned 'twar heahhy," she replied.
aye Yankee folks have quar- notions"
i looked at my watch, and found it was nearly ten
O'clock and feeling very tired, said to the hostess
Whore Do YOU mean we shhl sleepW