New-York daily tribune., 1863-07-06

crs,tnds. 1 can. II T. true, supply, and words and
looks of pity, and counsel Of patience, and such In
s,ruction In womsnly habits OF decency and clsan-
ness az msy enable them 10 better, in some degree,
their own hard lot; but to the entreaty, "Oh, mis-
sis, You speak to massa for as Oh mifsis you beg
rnasss for US Oh, missis, you tell masss for we,
he sure do as YOU fayi' / cannot now answer Ms
formerly, and turn away choking and with eyes
full Of tears from the poor creatures not even daring
TO promise any more the faithful Transmission Of
their prayers.
The women who visited me yesterday evening
were sll in the family.way and came to entrest Of
me to have the sentence what else can / call
n modified which condemns them TO re-
sume their labor OF hoeing In the fields three
weeks after their confinement. They knew, OF
course. that cannot interfere with their appointed
labor, and therefore their sole entresty was that
would use my influence with Mr.. - to obtain for
them a months respite from labor in the field after
childbearing. Their principal spokeswoman, Q
woman with bright sweet face, called Mary, and
q very sweet voice. which is by no mems an un-
common excellence among them, appealed 10 my
own experience; and while abe spoke Of my babies,
and nv carefully tended, delicately nursed and ten.
derly watched confinement and convalescence, and
impored me to have a kind Of labor given to them
less exhaustDg during the month after their couhne-
ment held the table before me 30 hard III order not
TO cry that l think my fingers ought to have ieft
mark on it, At length / told them that Mr. -
had forbidden me to bring him any moro complaints
from them for that he thought the ease with which
received and believed their storles only tended TO
make them discontented, aud that, therefore, L
feared could not promise to take tbeir petitions 10
him; but that he would be coming down to . the
Point soon and thstltney had better conc there
some time when I was wi b Lin, and say what they
had just been saying to me- and with this, and va
rous small bounties, l was forced, with heavy
heart, to dismiss them; and when they were gone,
with many exciamstoas Of "Oh yea. missis, you
will, YOU will sIeak TO Uassa for WEI dod bless
YOU, misss, we surs You Will l had my cry ont
ior them, for myself for Us. All these women had
lsrss families, AID al Of them had Lost bali their
children. aud several Of them bad ost more. How
DO ponder upon tie strange fate which has brought
me here, from so far away, from surroundings %
cu5iously dlleient-how my own people IN tna'
blessed England Of my birth would marvel II ihey
could suddenly have a vision Of ne 40 Ell here ana
how sorry some OF them would b. for me
Nor this.
have had an uninterrupted stream Of women end
children flowing 10 the whole morning 70 say Ha
de- msrsw Among others, poor woman called
Mile, who could barely stand for pain and swelling
In ler limbs; che had bad hfieen children ana TWO
miscaGrisg,s nine Of her ciliien had dltd; ior ue
is,t three wears she had become almost cripple
with chronic fheumaism, vet che IL driven every
day 10 work IN tue Grld. She held NY hsnds, and
,trnked them in the most appealing way while ,he
exclaimed, "Oh my uis,isl my mssi-l me nebsr
.lesp til day for de pain" ard with The day her Ia
bor must again be resumed. / gave her rannei and
sa volatile to rub her POOR sweled hints WITH rest
could not give her-rest from Ter labor and her
pain-ihis mother Of fifteen children.
Another Of nv visitors Lad siill more dpmai
story 10 tell her was Die; she aad bad sixteen
children, fourteen of whom were dead rhe had hsd
four miscarriages: one had been oaussd with falling
down with q very heavy burden on her hssd, nnd
one from havrg her arms strained up 10 be lAshed,
| asked her what she meant by having her arms tied
up. She sad their hsnds were hrst uei together.
sometimes by tie wrIss, and sometne', whleh was
worse, by the thumbs, and hey were then drawn
up 20 tree OF poet go almost TO swing them OH
the ground and then their clothes rolled round their
waisi, end man with a cowliie siauds aud stripes
them | give you the woman. words. Sho did mol
speak of tui. Of any thing strange, nnu.ua or e,-
pecially horrid and hbouInable; aud when SAID
&" D.d they do thsi 10 YOU when YOU were WIN
child I" shs ,iuply replied. "Ye- mis,i..' A,d 70
al this | ls,eu-l an Erglish woman, to wiio OF
the nau who owns these wretohss, AID i cat no,
cav That thing shtll no, lie done AGAIN lhN crnel
shsme aid villairy shali never be known here
ag.ln." gave tie woman mcti and hanGeli when
were what .te csmo 60 ast for. and remained ohot
ing .ith ndignsiion and eri~i long after th"y hzi
ell lett me u my uosi bitter ihon.his
Here ia one Of the many horrible picture'
with which the volume sbound'.
have been long promising poor old Hou'e Molly
.
yettsrday | walked round the settlement 10 hsi
dwelling aud "A mort wre.ohod ho.el found H.
She Las otsn told me o. tie tpecisl directions lel'
by her old master Tor tho comfort and wslbeing OF
her old sgo, aud certainly hs charge has been bu!
little lesded by bic heirs for tho poor faithful old
tlaye !. most uiierhbly Of in her inhm yea1. She
made 10 complaint, however, bu, seoned ovs1oyed
Al nv comibg zee bcr. She took 10 the hui OF
her brother, old Jacob, where lle ssme wreIehtd
absence of every dsceney aud every comfort pro-
vailed; but neither of them seemed 70 think tie
C. udltion that APPEARED 30 wrctchoi to me ore o'
pocu iar hardshp--tLou Molly's former re'!deneo
m her master house gbt reasonably have made
her di.conseGied With the lot Of absolute pnyaiion
10 which she was now turned Oyer-but, for tie
moment, my Wait seemed to comp,ntAte for all sub
lanary toTfows ana site and poor old Jacob kept W
duet Of rejoicing 1t nay advent, aud tbas bad
brought do httis missis among um people hors
they die"
Ienying them wont on 10 tho house of Jsoob's
daughter Hannah vita whom Psyche, the heroine OF
tse rice leland story, aud vale Of At son Joe, ves
fouud their cabin as tidy and comfortable as IL
could lie ade and their children as usual neat and
clean; they AIe capital women, both OF them, with
au innate love Of cesnlinefs and order most uucom
man among ,lepe people. On my way home / over.
;Ook two Of my dsily supIlapls, who were goins
to tho house IN search of mo- aud meat; flannel rice
and sugar, hs the chse might be- they We're both old
and iniirm-oosiDg women and one OF Them called
ocyla, Was extremely lhlho, Whlon hno accounted
fof By an accl1ent che had net with while carrying
a heavy weight of rice on her hesd she had fallen
on a sharp stake or snag. Ne she called 1t, and had
never recovered ths injury shs had received. Sh,
CON planned also Of falling Of the womb. Her com
panion (ssho was not Cbarybdis, however, bu,
Phebe) was u CHEEKY ,oul who complained Of
nothing bat begged for flannel. 1 a,ked her about
her family and children; she had no Children left,
nothing bat grandchildren she had had nine chill
dren, and seven Of them cied quite Young the only
two who grew up left her to join the British when
they invaded Georgia in tho last war, and theiI
children, whom they left behind, were oil hor family
now.
In tho afternoon made my first visit 10 the ho,-
pital OF tho estate, and found IT, NJ indeed l find