The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-04-07
A Subject Tor Harper's Weekly.

OF all the political newspapers at
the North, Harper's Weekly is doing
more to keep up the unhappy strife
between the two sections than any
other. Processing to be ga journal
of civilization" it has presented to
its readers, in its wood cuts, lying
representations of acts of barbarism
alleged to have been committed at
the South, which its pious proprie-
tors knew to be false, when their
artists brought in their abominable
caricatures. Now, here is n subject
for the pencil of the artist who leads
in this branch of illustration. It is
taken from the New York Herald:
On Prince street, New York, there
is an asylum for orphans and desti-
tute children, under the care of the
Sisters of Charity, where girls are
maintained from childhood till they
are able to fulfil q situation in life
and edo for themselves" One little
girl, named Mary Ann Farrell, thir-
teen years old, was taken from this
house, on the 9th of May last, by q
Mr.. Vanderbilt, residing in Pleasant
vile, about six miles from Hacken-
sack, to perform general house-work.
Some months after, the new home
began to prove uncomfortable for the
girl, and she received very bad treat
ment, which she could not disclose to
any one, being locked up, if she de-
sired to go out. Tho poor creature
was at times stripped naked, tied up
by the wrists, and in this manner, she
states positively, was lashed with o
whip by Mr.. Vanderbilt till her ten
der flesh was completely mangled.
Horrible as this may seem, the tor
ments to which she was subjected
afterwards were more acute. Mrs.
Vanderbilt, who had been calm
spectator of the bloody process, ap-
piled, according to the girls state
ment, what she understood to be a
pickle dipped in salt to the bleeding
wounds, which inflicted the most in
tense agony. Last Wednesday, the
girl expected to be placed, as usual,
on the rack; and watching an oppor-
tunity, providentially vouchsafed to
her, she made her escape, and took
refuge for the night under the shade
of some trees, where she was picked
up In PROSTATE and fainting condi-
ton. She then related the horrible
details of the cruelties inflicted on
her, which SO aroused the Indignation
of the hearers that q resolution was
formed to proceed to Vanderbilt's
and lynch him forthwith, "unshrived
and unshrouded, but the execution
of the plan was frustrated by the
Roman Catholic pastor of Hacken-
sack, who threatened to denounce the
individuals connected with it. The
girls statement is borne out to the
letter by the revolving appearance she
presented. Her head is covered with
small Jumps, her teeth displaced, the
white of the eyes hardly discernible,
the face swollen and deformed, the
lips split, and the remainder of her
body one mass of scars. Her under
clothing, which had not been changed
for long time, was thoroughly satu-
rated with blood and purulent mat
ter. She is now under medical treat
mcnt, but her condition is likely to be
hopeless. She was handsome and
interesting, and bore an excellent
character in the asylum, where she
had been for eight years. Vanderbilt
and his wife were arrested by order
of Justice Breckel, and the case will
come before the grand jury, at Hack
| ensack, this morning.
The FREEDMEN IN VIRG1NIA.-A