While  this  scene  was  going  on  in  the  men's  sleeping-room,
die  reader  may  be  curious  to  take  a  peep  at  the  corresponding
apartment  allotted  to  the  women.  Stretched  out  in  various  at-
titudes over  the  floor,  he  may  see  numberless  sleeping  forms  of
every  shade  of  complexionj  from  the  purest  ebony  to  white,  and
of  all  years,  from  childhood  to  old  age,  lying  now  asleep.  Here
is  a  fine  bright  girl,  of  ten  years,  whose  mother  was  sold  out
yesterday,  and  who  to-night  cried  herself  to  sleep  when  nobody
was  looking  at  her.  Here,  a  worn  old  negress,  whose  thin  anna
and  callous  fingers  tell  of  hard  toil,  waiting  to  be  sold  to-mor-
row, as  a  cast-ofE  article,  for  what  can  be  got  for  her  ;  and  some
forty  or  fifty  others,  with  heads  variously  enveloped  in  blankets
or  articles  of  clothing,  lie  stretched  around  them.  But,  in  a  cor-
ner, sitting  apart  from  the  rest,  are  two  females  of  a  more  inter-
esting appearance  than  common.  One  of  these  is  a  respectably
dressed  mulatto  woman  between  forty  and  fifty,  vidth  soft  eyes
and  a  gentle  and  pleasing  physiognomy.  She  has  on  her  head
a  high-raised  turban,  made  of  a  gay  red  Madras  handkerchief,
of  the  first  quality,  and  her  dress  is  neatly  fitted,  and  of  good
material,  showing  that  she  has  been  provided  for  with  a  careful
hand.  By  her  side,  and  nestling  closely  to  her,  is  a  young  girl
of  fifteen, —her  daughter.  She  is  a  quadroon,  as  may  be  seen
from  her  fairer  complexion,  though  her  likeness  to  her  mother
is  quite  discernible.  She  has  the  same  soft,  dark  eye,  with
longer  lashes,  and  her  curling  hair  is  of  a  luxuriant  brown.  She
also  is  dressed  with  great  neatness,  and  her  white,  delicate  handir
betray  very  little  acquaintance  with  servile  toil.  These  two  are
to  be  sold  to-morrow,  in  the  same  lot  with  the  St.  Clare  servants;
end  the  gentleman  to  whom  they  belong,  and  to  whom  th?
money  for  their  sale  is  to  be  transmitted,  is  a  member  of  a
Christian  church  in  New  York,  who  will  receive  the  money,  and
go  thereafter  to  the  sacrament  of  his  Lord  and  theirs,  and  tMnb
no  more  of  it.
