Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-07

and died just such death as was repre-
 sented in the novel, I think Mrs. Stowe
 also drew somewhat from the life of one
 Colwel1 Campbell, of Madison county, il
 describing MT. St. Clair"
 "'Was there ali Evas' ''Yes, several ot | them; or rather several little southern girls helped to make up the character. One ot
 these is now dead, and with another | dined few years ago at her home ill l Stamford, Kentucky. But there WAS 6 ] child ill the St. Clair mily-Susan St. | Clair-who furnished most of the character l of Eva. She was @ sweet, affectionate l God Hearing little girl, and used to read
 and sing to Uncle Si. She fell into the
 water, also, and WAS rescued just told l in the book. Uncle Si and another slave | were rowing her across Blackford's creek ill
 a small canoe to her father, who stood on 1 the other shore. The canoe rocked, she 1 became nervous and then fell over into the l water. Si jumped in after her and saved l her."
 | ''Who was your wife Eliza:" 'She was 1 my sister. Here is a sleeve which she
 wore on the auction block. It was carded l by her, spun by my mother and woven by my father, and afterwards when she could not communicate with me by letter, she 1 sent this to ma to tell where she was. | This incident and one or two others, such as EliZa's throwing her scarf into the river 1 to lead her pursuers to think she had per | lshed, do not appear in Uncle Toms Cab in. Aunt Chloe, the faithful wife of Un- cle Tom, Charlotte, the patient wife of Si; but instead of crying, she does in the story because Tom wouldn't run away, she wept when he announced his intention of doing so George Shelby, Uncle Tom's
 great friend, was in reality Amos Riley,
 ir., and he it was that took Si to New Or
 leans to sell him. While there he was
 stricken with fever, taken to old Kentuck
 and nursed back to life by Mr Henson,
 who shortly afterwards made up his mind
 that the Lord helps those who help them selves, took his wife and four children, and made his successful break for the free dom for which he had once paid five hun dred dollars. He picked up a few provi- sions, slung @ bag over his shoulder con taining two little pickaninnies and started, his wife leading the two other children. A man rowed them across the river and they trudged afoot through the swamp and on to liberty"
 '-Is your own escape described literally" Not literally, of course. I started for the North in my twenty-sixth year, taking with me body-slave named Isaac. But Isaac's timidity caused us both to return, and my escape was not really effected until two years later. 1 then promised Isaac to return for him at the end of Q year! I fulfilled this promise, but Isaac was dead. The meeting at the tavern is fairly portrayed. At Cincinnati 1 disposed of my horse and went to Portsmouth on the Ohio river steamer Sylph. From Ports mouth I proceeded to Cleveland by canal boat, arriving at the latter place in 1S41. Then I wandered up and down the beach for several hours looking for Port Stanley. I supposed Lake Erie was no wider than the Ohio river and wondered why l could not see the Canadian shore. Only drift wood then lay where the Union depot and Lake View Park now extend. At length l secured passage in a sailing vessel and ar rived at the Canadian port in safety.
 Lewis Clark is not the only modern at traction of this historical village. Here still lives Sabram Cox, who as little col bred boy was at work for MT. Lovejoy at the time of the famous infamous assas- sination of the latter ill Alden, near St. Louis. He was then the only one who dared haul from the river in express wagon the sunken printing press upon which MT. Love joy had printed his anti-slavery paper. Only his extreme youth then saved him from the fury of the jeering mob
 Here in the cemetery west of town is an monument of clouded marble about eight feet in height, bearing the fol lowing inscription: