Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1859 — The Story Contirmed—Statement of an Eye-witness—The Girl's History. [ARTICLE]

The Story Contirmed —Statement of an Eye-witness—The Girl's History.

Brooklyn, Jun»> 1, 1859. A correspondent writes as follows to the New York Post: In your notice of a double-headed girl on exhibition in Georgia you expressed doubts '«* to the truth of the statement contained in the notice you published. One year ago this month I saw this child in S'. Louis. Mo. She is a slave, born in North Carolina. While an infant she was sold for SI,OOO. At the age of six or seven years she was sold again for #5,000. The ownei took the child to England and exhibited it to hundreds of thousands in the old world. The present owner bought its mother, went to England, and instituted legal proceedings in the name of the mother for the custody of the child. The resemblance which the child bore to the mother was so strongYhat the presiding judge directed it to be jgiven up to the mother, which was dune. The late owner then offered to deposit in court $50,000 to the ] of the mother if .she would commit the | child to him again, and remain with it her-] sell; for, by the laws of England, she and her ; child were free, but the offer was declined. “What should I do with so much money!”! said she; “I wish to rejurn with my child to North Carolina,” which she did by the way of New York. Her owner then asked the mother, in what manner she wished to live, and he would; conform to it. She asked for a little cottage ; and a patch of ground where she could raise her own chickens. There, says her master, she lives with her husjband and five other children which he has purchased. Two others were sold whjle-youjng, to a negro trader; and notwithstanding tliit the master of this valuable property has offered SSOO to know who the present ownef is of these two, no trace can be found of their whereabouts. 1 I never saw a more sprightly chill of Usage than this wonderful) twin child, which in ; fact is two children in everything but the! hotly. A little below \ the shoulder blade! there is but one spinal column; there are two heads and necks, two hearts and sets of lungs four arms and four legs—in short the child is as much two as one. The two heads converse w ith each other as do the Siamese' 1 Twins. They caff sing together or separately Fund can talk will different at the same time. Tfiis double creature can run ami dance, and appears perfectly happy. It was dressed when I siw it. in white, with a -crown on each head, with long flowing curling hair. The coiniilexion is a dark copper color, with bright fil 11 eyes, noticing all that takes glace in their presence. But furfear of emancipation the child would be taken North. Nearly #)00 a day were race.iveii whjie it was ii H.% L Li-. V* . T. U.