Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 21, 1874, Page 3

NEW. ORLEANS. Lotisiofit-the Tishst Amiétloan -of: AL this' Btoted, ’ a7 5 s b i o tho Grostent cily —Frotitll oivit hiid Atnotleht Totiit, Bescription of ine Leadiiz " Ciasses ~. of the KForeign. Elements -+ 3k Th s 163; the Dajos, tnd ored Crooles: tie Cols’ Visepid s duls s Only 40,000 Afiglo-St%ons in & Popue W T bt of 200,000, - 5. {n Which Sedfe Parishi Bt English Is Bpoken: - Afch &Y iad besh aild ! trefd dtd plidiel of ihg phokiro At 6 thod afe, hobii & hiavd ofionpioll tho gondial obiervhtion. Whatdver niny bd thorflit, at A2 bludli; 6f tlid haedition, théré itk Lon comparatively fitalo), in fiict, 6o prokontbil th the publié; that Bils hooh givei fiod olllick &n ih- volligant atafidpoint o lii b bojiof it of fuir- gratti; All, or fear1y afl, by bebn; at i, dofipatative Blinnpam of patadt ' Tlia tio Liiew fltils o noblitug of 16 otlick fliist nobobsarily od verutoti of Amatra, PEY, bogy B prédent BHE A or afoti ¢ ; Lodiatdns, in hit poiticdt ‘orghtizdtion, of all hidr eloforBatéd of this Soull, s pbthaps the least dndatsloodl. , Partaidliig, to sodis extont, of tho pédiltaritied thit glve {0 thd peopls of the Soutl: ' fedoghlzad sbetiokial ehdrhicicr, 61 pro- , i tlib edmo tim, in marfiéa aistinetion; & fldcutiar ritorkoit idnd. Toulsiahik} of dll ths Statcé in ¢h8 Fodoral Uhlow, fiy bd snfd t6 b5, o, o DilE LEAST A A Spanjgh dnd Yioneh dofo i, 1690 to ¢5id fatd 8¢ fea pitizehlds 2rol in 1503, £5BA_dubdbdiiontly diliiitod bl o 1812, {6 has fétathed, 14 & marksa degrhc, tib iaraotbrls h ; f, fo- dy, fatfier thé Appadtinco of a forelgr Princl- pality thad thiot ‘of o Awdéfioln Stdts. Tiie eriginal colonists, the rank and filo, i wo afa to £ ohot, It premén toy Erowd at best, Qecldedly thixod ds t] politicicna fiive mads the polftie to-day. ~ Tiiking the Clty of 'Néw- Oilé inataned, dd' s samplé 6f thd génsial ‘minlic-up of th6 body politlé, ind whaf db wa find fd a popa= lation of goms 200,000' fould? Takinz tho city proper, and, 83 lobwoon tho npper sui Jowor' halves, we havo Canal étréot as s dividing line, That portion below Canal streot s usitally de- nominated Fronch Tditn, Tifab flortion aboye Canal gtroidt, &3ilw, 18 classed, by thofo ot flio other side, a8 Amorican Town, FRESCIL TOWN d ahd Thifd Districtsj and comprises tho Se colleckivoly ‘Gobtaini Hob fax ffoi 80,000 &obls, Boginping it thé ditiGiiig 10iwor liihtis, tho Third District oxtonds to what is livoivn'aa Esplanads by far tho most atiractive. strect in tho foroign - portion of the elty. ' Tho ' Third District iy b6 mild {6 - codtain ot for from 40,000 fnhabitaits, | And f’ tits neoplo, cattainly not fo oxcbed 1,006, or fortieth phrt, 18 of Anglo-Snxon doscont. The* Bocond Distriet, nzuin; éxtondd from Eaplanado to Canal, &nd cofitzine, alc, 40,000 sould, Whils thers id hafo; perhips, 4 slight fheredss of Lo American elemont, there caonot be; in the whole district, ot & liberal éstimato, of Anglo-Saxon DLlood; to exceed 2.000, all told. Y Haro, then; i *French.Town, ot of a populn- tion of soma 80,000 souls; not over 8,000 ean, u* any sense; 8avo.in tho mutter of birth and exers:, cigo of tho right of citizonship; bo classod as Americans. Il pbint of nationality; 'in faot, tabing the nxisdos of pooplo ad:they ran, it ‘would puzzla s Darwin bnnself to give them ; ANY OLASSIFIOATION AT ALL, Hero ato ¢ French and 8panisl, Dutel and Dan- ish," ' Itnlianis;" Portugese, antl blaclk; wih a smattoring 62 tho Indiai, snd the Lord only knows what olso - bosida . throwd in way of . a variety, making . ‘confuslon worso confounded,” i a gorieral cross of blodd; : natlonalitios, }anguages; nod tongues. As mora immediatély clnaxifylng tlio compouont parts of tho compound, wo have the Creoles ; thio Dagos, tno - colored Oreoles, and tho'blacks. Wo flud thom gradually ‘merging from the ono into the other, in_adekr 6 mavter that exactly whero to begiu or léava off, in drawing tha diverging ling; i8 & mateer of hio lttio difliculty, Wo musc take themy at bést, in thair vopresontativo chiaractors, s .. ' THR OREOLES; a claimed by thoir would-bd moro aristocratio rbpregeptatives; iro the linenl desoendants of tho: French and Spanish colonists, and immi: grants of.d Iater ora, ‘Phoy aro divided into gev- etal distinctive social, d,-rnfluu,—'nll moving, os it wore, in n litild world of their bwn, aid oxolu- seive to tho last dbgros; 'Thosé claiming to be of the upper; of moro exclusive sirats, agaln bave a:lino, of ‘domarkation, rigid and unylcldingy; as _botweoh . tliowe of Frénch ond Bpavish descont:© Tho deecondants of La Bolle Franoo allect n superiovity ovor thoso df the Knighis of Soville. ‘Tho latier, In tuny; though i 4 decidod .minority, evince an ill-con- cesled donterpt for the boasted lindago and gen- eral pretetisions of the furmor, They form, nono the loss, in general charzuieristies, in tho jimited vircle af £ scarcoly -less liwitod world of their own, what masy. be torized the upper ton amoug- tho Crooles: iy Coutipgratively fow %h inmbers; liowaver; ng woll as far lbes obtfusiva in their pretansions, they aro s enm;mmlilely overlooked in ilio gens eral estimats b B THE CREOLE ARIATOCRAQY:. ' The lntiet, ni generally underatood; iglimited to ceitam well-deflued social linea among thoso bonsting i Fronch descont, lts mombers, with .| cxa tbe, ope, an G| War,” td J6if In 8 rotolut 80 lnclk of préteusions; fnd somo show of moalth,~genorally, - howovor, far maro illusory than reaki—form & distinative class,—tho oreme: l¢ie-oieme of & tliclo tho more oxclusiv m o that. it hew littlo. savo pride snd brotonsions upon - whick to build, ‘L'hey aro French in huguzgo =Fionel in focliug—Ironch In everything: " Thoy aro fio more American to- fay iu aught savo tle more miatcor of residonco, $hau when the bountry was a colony of Franca, Loulslaus, fron theif nbhndrblnt, isa heritage ot thelr bwn, Gonquered by their ancéstors from Juo Indiahb, und ceded by Franoo; thio mothors tountry, 88 ths pormanont biomo of tha colontsta ind their Crenle desoaudanty; - - Your Grendn proper, ns s .consadnenco,<=tho more espocully the ‘wonld-bo aristocratie r pro< sontatives of thoss of Fronoh doscent,=hag tittlo .of fellowslup, or aught ssva n bigoted ox-" vlusivoners, for euol as, wot to tho mauner boru,: araloaked -upon as, ab best; .but inters lopers upon his owa exelusive rights, DPoliticul- iy, ho hyy soarce an ldes, kave as contored in bis mative Loulsiana, and At tinb, Dumr«f'lhl«‘: \‘;"::-l.o ‘.‘,‘3"'7'?\2: tho mosb . bixoted ' of Ml bigated Knows Nothlisgw, BInco tho War, hio . lias boo {inobod Sslnal a1l Northspuborn Napsiiiams Au demopstratod in tha Xebellion, too, in the mattor of his citizonahip, whou put'to tho tost Lio hns little hesitation In forayoaring the Ameri~ cun._ for itio Ironch, Hig allogianco, at most, sy be sald to be conftucd to Louisinua, = TILE DAGOS, . here répredented fo tho humlior of mevarsl tousand, are an olemont such as it puoy bo taken for granted tho avorage Amoil- ¢an hne novor even droamed _ of, The 6xprossion, of itsolf, is at Lest dearoely to bu classed us eithor clogant or polite. , It Is used, I faot, among the lower classos of Bioilians, o biio of epprobrinm aud {usuilt. Its geneoral ap- Dlication bere in Now Orleans, Liowevor, while rexhnpu xpreseive of much the samo moaning, b at logst too extonded to bo peréonal, Tho ona fn unz in common use as apphcablo to a largo and distinctive olemant of the hmly politio, nowl“am olsa to bo found iu Amarica, ,.Toke tho yarjous lower orders, or classes, a8 ound awong the Speniuide, th ITtahaue, the THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY;. Porttigtiess; And tho Latin racos.in genoral, Mix tiiom.up ptomisauously for-sovornl gonera tons, with no lnconsiderable smattoring of voth Ihdisns and nngmns Asn Bplco to the mixturs: Thiagind tho' dorcondants, if yon can, psen sbrt of - gonoral crows 'among tho wholo, Add to tho picture; a8 & necossnry nglng-lu by way of & background, a cross of the habits, man. neis, aud Bustomd of each of tho origmal parts that go to mako up tho compound, Give, 8a o finnl exrmninn. & pandemonium of tongucs, ntoro or loss diatinctivo, yot ronnded oft and pole Inhed, to a cortnin bilont, by an nocont nud do- livory that must bo accopted ns Tronch. Tho reault, while porliaps not a flnttoring, Ia at lonst bit 4 fair, pleturo of thy Dagos of xfiw Orlonus, . Whatover may bo snid of tha ‘pcuulll\r merita f this element of tho body polltic, it can aoarcos iy bo_ clhesed b, Americhn. In polnt of fact, thore is not a singlo semblayte of tho Américan iu its composition, Compnratively fow can even spealt the Englieh Janguogo in A manner that would bo lnlulll?blo 1o 8 stranger, The only common dinloct I » misorablo jurgom, that i _fhootiously donorminated f O aUMYO FRENOH, o which a Pariginn wonld csteorm it an insult to bo chlled upon to intorpret. _ . Taldng thio missta na they tun, from an Amare fean standpoint, at lenat, thoy aro pbout as mis- erablo nnd worthlesa n set of jubabitants an can woll bo imagined, Thero ara feattires presented it tho connection, too; that aro particulnrly ro- voltiug ta tho nverage Amorican, . Searce an ob- jectionablo trait, ns known to tho lower ordors, or clneses, of the Latin taces in Enrope, bub lioto s duly ropresonted,” Asn mattor of noto- rlety,. moat, . if “iot all, .of , tho mecvot orders, and.. .organizations . of Thugs, and ‘liko kindred sociclios, . that from thne. immemorial have .disgraced cortaln lo- cnlitiod In Europe; have thoir ramifications horo, Of Iato years, and moro particularly sinco the Var, thioir operations have become, 80. restricted 0, to be comparrtively uhnoticed. Time wns whon thoy wore the terror,of peaceablp, woll- dispoeed oitizens. Their well-kaown loaders to- doy oven; s secon lounging nbout, tho Atréot- corndrs at times, ara pointed out to the strangor a8 obijacts of entioslty, T ' ‘Tho:Dagos, lika mont of the Creoles in gen- dral; nt beart havo littlo wsa for any saye such na ro nntlve.to the soll of Loulsiann, 'Thoy aro n8 bigoted nnd proseriptive, in fact, as can well e Imaginad. 4 IN RKOW-ROTHING TIMEY, it wag to_tuo Dagos, in their intenso and im- rlncublo l)né(ul of forolgnera, thit" tho party, throngl fiindpuration of o petfoct refai of tor- ok, owed Itd kticcesa av tho polls, In the elec- tidn of Mayor, 14 1858, & notorions Know-Noth= ing wan roturicd fs dily otected, with_ronfeoly dtiy opposition, on o tatal vbid of but little over one-third of tho legal voters of thd city. The Statd Aredunl was forclly seized, barrieades ot efected, and entinort plarited in tho stronts, t wig thio Dagos, fu the main, that manned the barrichdoe, and reefatéd irith their knives In dis- omborwolilig tho Ivish, by sixed and sevons, upoh the * streéts, Tho result wad quite a8 effcctivd & demonbtiation of the will of tho l’Peonlq ng tho someswlat imilnr slioy 6t thd 14th of ‘Boptember lnst. Lilo tho cinaillo of Patis, it fsbut necessary to 8tir up their projudicen of casto to light tho fires ?r rovolution. Clannish to the lagt extremo, hey cai ecatce bo gald to havo a political ides, Bave 08 embniting from tho recokuized lendars of hightr cnsts., In dlden times, thoy wers Demcgriis, Whigs, and Kriow-Nothings, by turn, hecording s8 theit leadivg spinis trdceived r division “of tho spoils,” Thoir !n-ojudlcns urned againat tho negroes and Republicans in feneral, ns o result of. tha War, and they woro Feady, 18 }n tho terrible riots of 1868, to massa- - of, 8 in the notorious * Carter on fof L1i5 ovektiirow of ths Qovernment of the'othor, Always on the popular sldd, in cantrol of thelr rocomnized lead- ers, thoy aroof (16 atdfincliost of thio Démocracy, § - . . A1k COLOMED CIEOLES, . 1iko tho Dagos, would seem to belong to Louisi: ona atung. , Thoy aro at onco a distinctive au péculine people.” A crogd bebwean the oridinal Ciote aud Mg Elace, {hoy belong prapetly to noither, Thoy diffor from thé d(':llnm;y mulatto, na kooivu in other Biates, in that, of forelgn ox- trnci‘on.nn tho fatlor's sido, they._pre decidedly foroign in their gencral malke-up and character. Thoy oceupy, to make tho best of it, » scijowhat aflomilous position. Thoy aro not rocogmizid na whites. Tho ptide Inlicrited from their fathors | farbids. much nesociations with They form, in the main, a8 a_consequenco, an isolafed community b} theinsolves. Doscond- itig, ot tho father's 8140, from the vatious soclal fgmdua in'Creolo lif6, and inlieriting, to- mora or less oxtent, tho pride, protensiohs; and. proju- dices of birth and epste, hoy have prospryed, in o marked dogreo, the seemivgly-indeliblo im- pregsions of all, Tlioto of tlit tho blacks, genoral organization,—batring; porchance, an additional shado .of color,~na their fathers, Drothiers, snd_sisters, of n bigher social grado, indebd, the) hat, in point of _intellectual trainiag, fairly, eclipso rolatives of the gonorally-admittod hlgghr . A wealthy, merchant or plantor. of tho ofden time, bag a tnvorito mistress in the person of o slaye, 88 white, porchanco, as himself, The gon or duughter; 28 tho caso may be,~though gou~ orully tha b favored,—is sout to Parig to, rocaivo an educn- tion, Tho result is oftontimes . . . . ... AN EDUCATED, POLISHED FOREIGNER, . of Creole and African extraction. The merchant or planter, dyiug in tho courso of . time, lenves o sliare—peghaps the wholo—uf a large estate to the mistreas and childron, R Tho elave-child, thus educated abrond, falis in~ to posscesion of tho estate, perchuuco the busis uges, and, to no littlo exteut, tho position g well, of tho Ciools fathor, _ilo takes an inferior Enmuon only.in that thorois o recognized social atricr which ho may not cross, in tho way of an aceopted taint of bipod. . Ho is recognized on 'Chango, or .in_any Dusinoss-pursnit, ns his means of eapacily moy of right demand. So- ciully, hosever, Lo is 89 one of the Pariahs of Indis. Ho becomes, naturally enough; ono of o circlo of Kindred spirits, of liko questionablo birtn. . 'Tho ostracim snd projudices exiendod to himsolf he oxtonds, in turn, to such a8, of un- quostionablo African degcent, aro less favored or cursed, u8 the caso may be, with patrician blood. 1o ig of tho upper or patriown caste of tho col- ored Creoles. AT ; ; Otnars, sgain, less favored in the matter of an education; nnd consequont polisbed . address, linye gtill nberited moro of Sess mo)]wm&'. both real and personnl, from their Creolo fathors. ‘Lhoy, too, in turn, form a scarcely loss oxclu- givo, though inferior, caste among themselvos. ‘Wo hinvo thus; 08 tracenblo 10 1ho one dividing 1ing or tho other, several distinct grades or castes making up 88 a wholo tho colored Creolos of ‘Louigrann, 8ave m certain cirelos of ropresont. ativo individuals, howover, taking the masses, as thoy rum, thero are faw distinctive featuros to boseen. Asn class they aro at best an .. JGNORANT, INDOLENT; MONGREL RACE. Owning fh all, a0 o fair ostimato, o realty of prubnblZ 3,000,000 ot ed.oug,nuo, tuey bave nvailed thomeolves but listle. ol thia advantnges tobo derived therefrom. Tholr property, like thomeolves, hns ' cohstantly dotoriorated” from year to year: Buch a thing as improvemont i, in Tact, setmingly nover thoupht of, In ita stoad is tho gonoral appearance ot deeny nnd inercas- hui’soulnl degradution, ‘Che clewent hds little, at best, to commeud 1tself to tho avorago Awerl- can. An ita goneral characteristics and appearance, Aavo .in e immiedlate approuch to tho blacks, it is aa decidodly foroign a8 is the Greole slemont in_ gencral; Tha leadera—racher; as it wonld soem, thruni:h a gort of insano longing atter somothing like socinl rocogmition; than a proper | approciation of its principies—aro found work- ing n necord with the lending whitos of tho Re- {mbllcnn pirty, At tho samae_time, 28 botweon hemsclves aud - tho recognizod loading wpirite smong tho mulattoes proper, and the blacks in oucral, thora is little of sympathy in common. oscending tho social and intellectual acale, the lower giades are found gradually moyged among the. blacks, ©'he langusge or dinlect, as com- won fo the olom viufxruflunled by tha scilo of caste. Dopinning with the Freiich language moto of less puro, According to the educntion of thoso of the patricinu cis , it descends to (ho comumon_ ‘ Gumboe Fronoh,” or Jargon of (he madsos in goneral, THE BLACKS, A constifuting, as they do, 1o inconsidorable elo- meut, arc distinctive from those in other locali- ties only in that they disploy, to moro or Joss ox- tent, tuo foreign charnoteristics of the alomonts by whieh they are surrounded, 8nd spenl; in tho muin, the ssme miserablo French {nmon. Fronch Town, a8 thus constitutod Ls; to all intents and purposes, as much a foreign city .as though on tho other eido of the Atlsutio. Provious to the introduction of public chools, in 1845, nono of tho inlablianty upoko Ly lisl, Aw 1t 18, oven botyoen the {ohabitants thowrolves it i but lit- tlo lionrd, Tho moment you leavo Canal _strect, in fuct, you Joavo Americs bohind you. You en- ter a foreign city 1n au Amcrican Blato, Croguing Canal gtroot us tho dividing line, you aro at ouce, g ib were, in nuothor world, ' You have loft in o great measure the Croolos, the Dogos, nnd_tho colored Creoles, beinnd. You flnd yourseir etill, howovor, to o preat exteut, sowToundod by a foreixu slement, It is diversis ficd with & very respectubloclussof Gormany aud Lnglish, Tt {8 mixed uyp, too,—~ou, what ojty iy not,—with the Irropressible Celt. 'The Croolos, nu{u;gh 10 longor ovorshadowing all othors, wtill it dn mn apposyance in Javge wnmbora, The ) of £lib uppot cligkén, nt ledat, ard AR | folly Cicole; in all that goew to makdup thib oys scem o hove Leen tho_ miost, Dagos, and tho colored Orooles, Loo, aro nat to bo fim sight of, whild tlio bldolts nro ovorywhero. AMERICAN TOWN, or that portion of Now Orleans above Cannl slroot, conlains, in all, not far from 120,000 Abuls, Cusutihgy tlm_.fnm(l].mm-u, otlior than, Snglish, with tho varloua Urnolo olements, ani tho blacka b A bollf, Hhid wo fitid them aa yir- tually comprising, the whole, Adding tho En- glish'to the American, and wo find tha two, ns united nnd ropresonting tho Anglo-Saxon race, arg slill o comparatively small elenlont of the body politic. : o Taling tho Clty of Nov Orloarn, i fact, na & wholo, and, out of o total population of, say, 200,000 aouls, it Ia safo to eay that -not to oxcocd 20 por cout, ar 40,000, all told, ean bo bo clasuod a9 of Anglo-Sagont deseontic Tho bity 14 nmpl}at— ienlly forofgn, in evory rospect, Nor s this for- elgn oloment, by any mehos, confinod to Now Orloans: Thero aro whols parishen in Loniginna to-dny in which salmost tho entve population, counting out the bincks, is of forelgn axtraction, There ara wliole, parishes, too, iy whichi tho Eii= el langiingo 1o compiitivbly tnknown, In tho Parishes of Terrobonne, Lafoitrelid, 8t, Mdr- tin's, Bt. Alnry's, Linfayotte; and ' Yormitlion, for ihstayce, - tho, almost, univorsal lang Pm{u ia Fronah." n thi Parishos of 10orn, B, 'me e, n, Lafiyoltd, Knd poktloha of BE, Lan- in bxeluaively nettled by ACADIANS, g Oripinally from Nova Hootis,—as the genoral reader. of hislory is ?uflmpn woll nware,—thoy wara forelbly doported by the Emflinh Uavoin- shaiit 1 1765 Fot rofusing tb_ thito thia oAth of 41~ leginnco and boat 8. Expelled from thefe otipital - honies, thoy foiind thelk way in laige riumbers to tho thonFroneh colonyof Loulsinun, ‘Tuolr doscondnute are found occupying to-day, in Jarge, humborg, tho praitic laads of tlo porishel Thavs nimed, A {mqlnml, inofforislva paobbla, thoy hhva tofatticd thé natural simplic- nsn ng woll a8 Janfutago, mannors; and oustoms, of, wiich we rend as poguliar to them in tho olden thme, Thoy a gaino to-dax,—snva thal they niiat, aterially degenorated,—its tholi, * A moro slinple, ignbrdnt peoplo bnoconld dedred imnglido; I‘t wotld be eafo tosay that not onoih ten can read o fvord 1n any Ianguage, Vory fow, indeed, can undersisud a word of En- glisb, mugh leas' lalk it, Dolitically, thoy have nab hini? tho genersl lntolligenco found among tho bldeks by twhom thoy hro durfonndéd. Do fore the War thoy wore noted a8 o mary cattle Dy tho lnrga lauded proprivtors in thelr fmmedis a{n neighborhood, . ‘Co-day they form no 1ucon- siderablo.portion of ¥ the peopls” whom tho pa- para world live ub kiblevs ro B fntotested m tho futtito of Loulihhn a# doptndent oi Demo- cratle ritle. Ad with the parlshes in queation; go, too, wilh others. Thero aro wholo pnrished in Which tho Creolo eloment, heiotofore shown a8 Fibiich in overy respect, deeidellly prédomitintes, © 'Cherb pro localities, tod, in verious portionkof the Btatg, {d whiclt thio samo may ba seid of the.col- ored Creoles and the Dagos, -Tho foreign clo- inent is almost oyorywhore in the ascondency. Louisioua, In fact, 48 ., Aroltax coistinirre, , As in Franco all Is cohtorsd in Patis; 6o in Louis- {ana ol {8 centered in Now Ofloans. Now Qrleaus 13 virtually tho Stato of Louisiann, A foreign community, siich.od {a reprosented in Now.Or- lannk, is uanally found hb niorg or Idss ravolis tiongry, A foruIFu commumty, of such oxtries tion, cannbt woll iio Republican, Rexo. MEXICAN FARMING: iow Agriculturc v Conductod in Our . Netghbor ttopublics S . The estato (snys o Mexican goriéapondont, of tho Louisvillo "Cotti-ier-Journal, . dusoribing,.a vislt to n Mezieat hn’blundn} {8 totw tha propofte of Mr." lokmijillo, ot Mexico, dnd {s about 33 miles in longth &nd 13 or 10 In' breadth. Of thiy lafgo tract. howaver, oaly o vory small part is pndor eultivation, tho yemainder being too illy, brokon, and barren €0 ontitlo It ovan to & fonce. Tho extondiva bulldings of the hacionda aro situatdd about 6 miles from. toyhn, .and, ba- Iug bll Stdne and strrotnded by & high wall, rédeinblo sombiyhdt oo old English monastery. ey wore brectod. more than s hundred yoars npd, and coirist of alt jmmonas resldence, sugar- houses, stables, and chapel, all of the plainost ossiblg destn; Lut bf preatBolidity aiid strongth. ylm‘(ug otered the single largd, gatoway with which tho wall ja pierced, and which is always ‘closely Unrbed atid pusarded dt night, o wore tost courteously recoived by Bignor. Arena, who conducted "us ' up tho stono stairway dry, tlio codntry into_the houeo, snd, having given'us a cap’ of coffeo, procecded to show .ue .ovor tho wholo estnblishmont; Tho ' _buildings are rahiged around & largo court-yhrd, or patio, and, being separated from each othior by very narrow intervals, aro not-casily nccossible, but com- lotoly uudor tho obseryation of tho administin- ory whoso. desk and chalr oconpy onc erd ot thio opon pallory - of the: sughr<hotse: . ‘fho miachiitory fot drashing tho eano is ko that in eneral use in Louisians, .with tho oxceptlon hnt it s oporated by wator-power, applied toa hirgo overehot whedl; and the bollers aro mwosk conveniently nrrnugod for roceiving tha juifco ag it flowa from tho mill. As the sngar made liera, howaver, id all cldrified by clay, o groat number of eéarthen pots or molds aro To- quited, 'which nccessarily occuny a vory largo paré of the {mmenga building, Tho stablea axs upon an equally grand scalo, and one of them, ed only for reating tho mules and horses dur- ing cortain hours of tha day, is constructed so ns to admit ‘a8 littlo light ns practicable in order to provent tho nnnoyanco of flies, which &t Bomo Heagons of the yoar afe vory numerous aud ahunoying, Back of the stablea is a large resetvolr, throngh which o stream of water is continually flowing; and in which the horses ard treated to o bath regularly evory day. Leaving the inclosuro, wo walked into tho old ¢ embracing GO0 or 800 acres, which is irrigated by n stréam of wator, 8 nr 4 foet wido, Ipaesing alougsido, and distributed overthe entire stirface bv meatis of #mallor channsls commyni- cating with it at proper intervals.. In this way tho avil s kopt constantly quite wet, but, being of a vory light, porons chamcter, permita tho water to pasa throngh 80 rapidly that no.accunmu- lation of the lntter over takea placo. Tho cave is plantod ovory eeventh yoar, .in Angust and September; {8 cnt onco.a your, beginuing the following year, In November, aud yields upon an average from 2,000 ta 8,000 pouuds.per nere. ‘The sugar usually commands about 6 cents por pouud, and,whon the 0ason {8 fayorablo and tho ' arbitrary taxation to which it ig linblo is not ox- cegsive; tho cost of its production is nearly cov- | oréd by the receipts-from tho eala of the mo- Ingses. Tlero aro employed npon the haciendn from 200 to 800 poous, or Indihus, who receiva each 874§ conts er dny, and livoat thewrown ox- ponso insho littlo village of Temisco, just out- sido tuo walls, where their familios cullivato small patches of mnizo and frijoles, and raiso a . fow chickons and tatkoys. Tiwo huudred tho Bame number of oxen, and fitteen or twenty horses aro alao kopt in use—the mules for truns- porting the sugar to Moxico, ench ono carrying about 820 pounds ; the oxou for plowiag, and tho horses for riding. T Aftor brenkfast, which was sorved at 2 p, m,, aod sn_bour's rest, we took horses sud rodo nbout 6 miles to another large hacionda; called Snn Vinconto, also tho proporty of SBenor Dormi- jillo; Horo wo woro khown s most extonsive und compheated contrifugal apparatus for ex- tracting sugar, brought from Franco threo or four yoars ago; and erectod ac a total cost of not less than $100,000, ow it was over transported front Vera Cruz—the railrond to Moxico belug unfinished at tho time—is & mystory to those of us who are acquainted only with the stopn, rocky roads of tho country; and the great difllonitiea which travelers encounter in gotting from ono town to another, Wo are told, however, that soma of the picces of machinery soig placed 1ipon earts; aud somotimen required tho traction of forty or fitty mules, and tho blows aud vo- oiforations of & npearly oqual number of arrioros, or mleteers, to mova thom. T'he worst part of tho whole businoss, however, to the proprictors, was the fact thas- tho epparatus, whon set to work, was fouud to answor no batter purpose than that ordiuurily employed. Tho manufnc- turors guarantoad & yiold of 11 per cont of sugar ‘froun the game juico, but up to tho presont {nno only 4 per cont has been obtained, whick is no wore than is produced by the common process, On ouy way back to Lomiscu, we had an oppor- tunity of observing more clesoly thau . diligonca or ruilrond ean permit the procosn of plowing, as commonly practiced in this country. Tho plow itsolf In nlmost & fua similo of the pattern used by the Egyptians in tho.timo of Abraliaw, and certeinly commouds Itsolf to all agriculturists an acconnt of its grent simplcily and cheapuces, It cousiuts of a woodon shaft,” about 4 fuot long and 4 inghes thick, armed at Its lowor oxtromity with an iron point, slightly flsttened, and some- timos presenting o foeblo forward curve, Tho other ond is provided with & rouud stivk passod through a holo, to sofvo us a hiaudle. The polo, consisting of tho stom of & wmall tree from whiels the bark has beei peoled, is 15 feet long, and atiached to {ho shaft by means of inortico aud pufl. The implemont, thuy constituted, iy fautoned nt tho oxiromity of tho polo Lo tho mid. dlo of & very light woodoh yoke, about 7 feot long, whicli'toatu immedintoly behind tho horng of a pair of oxon, and is fastcued {hore by thongy of rawhide passed around the roots of tho horus, Not less thun fifly suohk contiivances wera erawl- ing af a snail's paco over the fleld which wo stop- pad tonotice, seratching up tho grouud to a dopth of 2 oryd iuches, cerlatuly to us & vory novel wight, Tt 1 due, howayer, to Dr. Bormijilfotosay (Lnz o §4 b ndvanco of tho oustoms ot his conn- trymeh in huving porsuaded sume of hia lnhororn to ke Amneinas Tl deaiy e mulos, mulos,’ NOVEMBER , 21, 1874 GOSSIP FROM THE CAPITAL - What o Rebol @enoral -Says ‘of Progitlent Grant, Gen, Rawline and His Statue: A Talk with Gharles Jaimes Faulk- tonen . g From Our Own Corvespondent. =, . Wasixazon, Nov. 16, 1671, Thérs ave no movemonts; oxcopt of the Appro phistiobs Coitimitlos, Whiclt - in @dlly bedaiott dlvidlng thiis work tp, goob forwdtd as ubdal, WADI" 6ald Bordlold to-day, “wg ‘havo - do .miuclt to do that wo must work in tho rocess. Cofigrosa will 11698 ohly n dozed wooks of nes< slon;—tao HEt16 thino tb conbldor thid grant eta- logia of ltents Widigested” | Tho party at ilio sontro may liava brokoer down undor the immaese pilo of work pat on it by tho' constitiiouoled, Baid I-to - Mullott,” thié arehi- toct: ' p “\What do you suggest, O axchitéel; of ihoti’ it might bo satds ; 44 Lio hosvy oni him, turf; for ho i W Tald maty & hoavy wolflt on theo?' ™ * Isay this,” said BMallett,” it won't Go forn gredt Agoncy tlint otnploys men, - liks thie Gov- otumdint; 0 dudidon Its constriictlohd {d & biffis of panlo, TUdt will add panid to panle, Ifiué dovernmont ruae, wiat will stand up 27 Bafd Edward Olark, archituot of the Capitol: “ Evbry great Govorntiint ‘his td prchiito & rofitmont every fifteen or twonty yoars, Primsiti 18 doiog that now., Bd 18 Nnssln, The United ‘Btates is salling its iron-ciadd and flontiug bats’ tbriea for thte price of old iron, and doing notit-, g ¢ witilo thid old @nd dtablo Governmorits are orddring riot vesaeld 1df thelr nfividh tow, wlillo thoy can biilld themor gbod nitterial, eloitly dnid cheaply,” 3 % g ,Itia not yot known whether the noxt Con- gress will trim 4t choodo:fidrintd of work on with confidonce, Nor i diiy advico givbd it 6n 2 THE PREGIDENL'S INTENTIONS, * - . Tho New York Daily Republic spoke, the other day; with that confidont assuimptiodd of exjress- ing thio Profidont's viows on finahce, witeki oniy the fréédom of long shierootiras coiild have war- rantod, Tho Now York Tribuhe forthwith: at-' tackéd -tho Presidest, 1fo mbantimo had elther knowladge of the attlelo nor agréomont wiiltit. It Was probibly o atoolijobblag " opiora- tion, pué with forcs to affoct socuritlée, and s 'raud upon & supposititious rolationship botweon the Ohief-Magistrats and o dlstant journdl. ' But dnything for & kiek at tho old llon. Tho aeyid ipt to kick oftoncat. It may striks Gomo paople, fenioved from tho morals of financial-nrtisfo- writing in Now York, thiat to cbonoot the inind of thio Ohidf-Magistrato with évety blundetbres who gambles in Lis fikmo, 18 to contioct thb pitd af dovas in ¢hé Tomplo with tho doctfings of Wor- #lup t6 whioh it was dedicatod. ¥ A REDEL OX GRANT: ¢ , Aptopos 6f thib Piosidébt; Jot mo dquolé i Rérsliaw oh Goti, Gfaib, a8 Lo Gpold i6 hid o fortnight afo, KofshawW is the Conservalive londor in South Oarolins & i ' Aftor tho conviction of the Ku-Klnx,” anid orahiat, * I wont to Lonj Driheh, with & for, othor patons, £6 dolicit pirdod for_thiose mou, 4nd nolably for one of them, a vary 6ld man,who, had roally joinod the organization to provent ite bxebract, W6 weto Epprohonsive of our troats mént; bit it was both pollts and Presidontii 4T did not lnow tHaEthe Praldont was hoquainted wilhi onr affaivs, but found L had vory cloar idod of protty much évoryehing in the Btato, and o knowlodgo of dotalls, too. Yot ho hand nover boon there. Aftorwards I was told that thig intimato knowledaa of localities wasnot. unusunl with him. He satd to us at ouce, aftes pntllui; 18 at ease, aud Eiflug 18 oigars ¢ ** All thiesd men will bo. patdoned; gontlemen,. whoso misdeeds did not Involvo destruction af life; Xcanhot pardon thesa; bat, in tho end,”| thoy will all be pardonod. .Tho utmost lohdth of tlio cohfinerment of ;any will ba moasured by tho behavior of tho community for which théss men nro hostages:: Now; s to tho patticular perdon you seak to aid, I will have his. caso redpened; and examinod iu the light . of what you tdll me: DBut thora is eapeciel complaint against him, I will writo fo the Attortoy-Goeneral, tolling him. what to do.” 't eatd Korshaty, “I woa ablé to find afterward, Grant did to the letter na.ho said, Deeause. Willisma sliowed s Grants lotter of instructions ; and he nlso shawed tha lsttor of complaint againat our tan, Brown; thongh wo conld.not seq the signature. A i . *Tho President_mado an imprassion upon ug all; which is not effaccd, of knowledge antl good intontfons, 1f therois to bo a Republican at ihe hond of tho Gavernment; ho would suit us botter than any wo know.” . 2 Just at this timo, when every- turn-tail ja finding ronsous for his persondl discomfiture in o Prestdout whoso habit clianges not from ela- tion to dopression,.but takes all things with :\’:‘Jmoly philosophy, it is well to stato thoao 1ngs. - i Tha first Nor Dbronzo w this Capital.was tho Chiof of Staff of Gon, Qrant, Rawins of Galena. Thero was no coremany on tha oceasion ; the event was plain and subordinate as his_lifo ; for he lacked that self-unsortion. and dratatio chiaractor to tako tha first place. . 'The plow-field oy maks xood sols diers ; the Military Academy makes tha officor. It raises in the man tho Becondary parts which manago natusal force, and forcos medicerity up to the seuso of commang, : : . Ttawling was a vory,usefiil and sotind soldier , but, whilo ba and 'tho. Presidont wore vory {riendly, the latter grow in mystory, and main- tained an uncondcious advanco, which flually had all tho width botween Prosidont and citizon. Tho Jato Gen. iTillver used to Fly: e * Rawhius and I were both politicians { we never knew hat Grant.wis, bub in everything ho was suprome, He liked Doth of us a8 well ag nu{‘body'lm know, but we could lead no diversion In his careor, We niovar captured him for our politioal eido ; both of ua sere Domoorats, Al- thouigh his original ata-ofticors, ho’ naver took us into o edterio, like McClellan and other Gon- orula. ‘Therefore, while overybody thought; aa we did, that our porsonal rolation to tho hero of the ago would mako our fortunes, it probably was tho {llusion of our lives 5 Gy Any simple quostion of this kind is sarronnd« od with disputanis, Thero are peopla who thiule Grant was comprised {n Rawling, and that ho aught to hava made Rawlius powerful. Theso 8ao paople, in tho noxt breath, accuss Grant of nakiug friendship the touure of tho great oficos, _But tho faino of groat fiiccoss is not &0 be diminished by a thousaud yoars of eritiolam, ‘Fho Chiof of Btait s atill the Chiof of Stall; tlio Goyeraligthofame. . .. , . . . ... . . Washington Irving felates, in ouo of his minoy ekotcliey, that Iwhon, amongst o cottain band of Dohomians, ho fall inta praise of aby colebratad. current author; thoe band oried, " Pool! pooli! Iy was, Jones who gave him Al liis idoas for that" Butb Jonea Aly, Irving had nover lienrd of, Io therefore inforred that tho purlions of. authoralip had thelr own horoes; aud this is the cago in tho purlious of crivtelam, Presidont Grant continued in olvil lifo the grade Rawling onjoyed in militaiy lifo; Clief 0f Hiall bocamo Secrotiry of War. At big doath, & sum of inonoy nearly aqual to what Mre, Slun- ton and fawmily rccaived was conforred on M, Rawlina, Stanton s without a statiio, Iaiwling 16 tha firat Unlon Ganeral ta racelve u itatus at WeGaial, o It stands i Rawline equate, & pioo of gratind, near the Potomao, nnd closo by tho now State Dopartment, which lifts its smirt Ronalssance facada inta the slght of tho timborlesa hilld of Yirginia, Thoro, Arllhgilun louse, kurroundod with all its doad, pomty this figuvo of the Culef of Staft, omblomatic of the Northiseatern men who fought and ovoreama tho dofection of tho Lood and Washingtons, sud taol possoxsiou of the (feuoral Capifal, 5 Tho statuo js by ona Luilho, of Philadaiphia; aud is prosontablo without belng oither elegant or a lkouoss, Iawling was a hollowsbreasted man, of lurgo muecular fibro, with very appargut vilal wéakness, o fnco Characterlstio of Wostorn tilala and fortitude, and an dasy portratt for & man of gonius Lo cateh, in ita Joug, dry halr and beurd, look of doom, hono, and werlk. ; Ihstead of thig, wo hava u helug padded snd nniformed, with squaro shouldurd all buckrammed up, flosl onongh for Ilorse-Guard, and tho vrect carringo of au netar, flo is stunding on his 10f6 foot, with tho rieht edvanced. “The vight band iy domg tho unimposing work of holding o vory big Neld-glass, ‘Tho left i resting on tho head of the pabre. ITo has tha big legglogs of that el preatnie inen, e fiens withank any 15 columiiad portico to |\ bnt pliotograniio vitalky, point in tho battla-flgld; "La eny auythlug moié of this Atatuo than that it ina 110 preguancy, nor suliclency for oxiating, wonld bo unjust, It in something like Tawlivg ; it I quito an objeck, and 1t is brand-now, A vigs orous and apprévintive mind woirld 1iave hutnfd 8 alightfy” (arn {lneamants, ‘to Lol tho -‘mdlmhhlonlty ofitho deneral's ehiof relinneo In his cltfzon staf-oil- .cer, porsocutod with LEMofhagodnid patn, yrent- of than,outerdangor, . o . Lo 0 Tho -Presilont stvives il ith odfgiddt btae, Sinco !ImIlin and Bowors, tha most nsuldious of thom all lind Hoén Babeoek. *hd pred of his'da- yotion hna beon more abuso than generally falls t0 tha lot of young mon, A utatue of. Abralinm Lincoln, lioroja pizo, is to bo pintad in this &Ly riéxt epring: Tt is binlt of tho surplas funds of tho Sauitaty Gommisaioh, OlMARLES JAMEA FAULRNER, Tho only man of tho old' Pierca and Buchauan Adminlatrations, with o National roputation, to reach Congress, is Mr, Faulkner, of Martina- hmfir. -vx-Mialstor. 6 Frdnco; who'was faysterl- ously arrostod by Simon Cameron on his return, -and thrown' ivto:Tort Wetron, “Y,hnrc:ho. niessod - With Mason and Blidoll,; It is since proved, (hat I8 firront was.fof no_Lotrayal of fila fruat, biit if Didus and fioslanoship for thid_édptivo Ilarey McGrthi, d friotd of Canoron, 88nb out.of thy Hnos, Fautkrior baosmo Ohlof of Staf? for Stono- wall Jagkeon, and wroto noarly tho whole,of his -battlo-roports., After tho, \Var he threw himsolf §iits dotiyo 1175, devoloped Hia Towi of Marting Linkg, rosmed ks practioe, aud tequirod dhothor fortuhd,” 4 T6ddy he' cdlléd on fo,—A tinh of 70" Tywd renorations ago no addresued the Legislatura of Virginin_in favor. of .voluntary emancipation, 'Ho was In Congress o?om the Iarper's Fori Disirict 6, (HS, thiné of tho Jolin Brow rail. Yot lils batr {6 darkt, hid oyes brigit, end his Am- bitloh and fadastry etfual to 4 Ind's. “Iam {he ofily one of my sot that hias got up through the reyolution,” higaid; * Bob Huntor, Bacodk, Wi Botelor, and tho fést, huvo 10 Deoin b8 to break thitougli the now ctist, Bt I alwnys beiioted that, whilo théro iwas life; theta win ogoi" ¢ - s Mr. Fanlkner, sald that the Civil Rlights bill and dissatiatootion with the porsonuel of tho dfceholders dofeatéd tho )’mrt‘y. £ ot g g Third-Totm éntored fnto tho contest, a180;" Ho'sdid ; ¢ but I don’t thinic it wis radont- mont at Gradt, 66 much.ag at tho.rosult andcon- tinuanco of his oMoeholders, The rogimo, tho dopstabulary, had becomo separated from tho affcotions of tho poople, The usd ol trdops, tod, in tho South, W48 not dpproved by the He- publicaud,” - . . Tho eandidates ror tho Unitad States Bonato in West Vicginia will be Camden, Into mFulnr Don- ocratic candidate for Governor ; Walker, éditor of tha orzan af Ofidrlédtdn; Falllner, and linlf- flpfllfzon ottiord, nono of whom finve tie judustry hod éxfetionco of this old gentlemah, whois Bacodk's fathor-in-law. g 3 Trom what I hoar, tho Democratio party will ¢ attack tho Iinfialml-flnnl: syitem, and advo- eat 4 gybiém of baoka of doposils, secured in Trendury-notes: iz : : *The enrrdnoy question vas a. minor ode in our Btate,” eald ; Faulknor. . * Thero aro o fow mon thoro hotly for. moro cusrenoy, who. go sboubnll diy prosolytizhig for it. Butéha bulk of pdopld ocom to think that we have omotgh mohdy, ¢ it would only como out. The moncy has -rotréntod from tho poople, not front oxist- ence. In Masgachuaelts, whoro thoy havo 810, 000,000 moro than their aliare, it is hoarded up, as with is, In O1d Virginid thio Statd does nol rif Intereat on its debt: I know that; ns o bond- Ea dée. -Why not ?- Bacauso tlio peoplo will not pay their tnxes. ‘Thoy can pay thom woll enough and, if the Stato would collect tho taxes and {;ny off the bondliolders, oredit must expand in Vir- inid, Bit tho pebpld ' dolnca themsilved with lto téflectlon that thoy logb thoir’siaves, ara oory anit not avie o pay the Commonwealth, Pluucn nogligento malos punic worse.” i - : AT, R KAt FIDLD: fHér Draninile Debiit, . 't From Hig Neb York Trivune, Nov, 10, Miss Kate I'iold made. bor firsb nppearance iipon tho satage on Saturdsy eveniug at Booth's ‘Thostro in the oharactor of Peg Wofflngton: T loyror part of thio_liousd s crowded, and tho nesomblago of spectators was numerous, . 1t was hlso, in an unusual dogroo, distinguished. Men aud women of tho flrst rauk in literaturs, art, und ocléty, thronged With ona dccord to view tlifs courafooud dffort of n brilliant and wortlitly pmbitions conirade ; aud tuo welcome Accorded to Misa Iiold was “exceedingly tordial, At the oud of tlie firat act sho .was called beforo tho burtain ; st o later poriod in the performanco she waa mm}a tha reciplont af many floral tributes § nud at tho cloga of tho represontation sho was ratrardad with emphntio applause, ‘Lhe audienco, o briof, did all that it could, and with the bearti- st good will, .to make this.cndeavor a Auccess, ‘No novico has dppsared ou tho Now York stape undor bottorauspices, and nono has nccomplished moro, at thio outsot; to sntiely the anticipntions of frloni.lshié:, it not to moct tha requirementy of dramatie ark: 5 ‘'ho stago is mot populous with women of Drains, and.the arvival npon it of & woman of tried und provad lntollectunl character and ac- complishmonts will atways bo accopted with pro- fouund satisfaction. 'The hope, in Such a cane, in goneral and slncore that tho nspirant will prove to bo an actress, and will win_her way to fumo nitd foftune: ~Tho succoss of such & person 18 benefloial both to tho stags and to society, Tho Ittclination evon of eritical commentators is to Joan vory much in the favor of such a beginnor. Ixpericiico, howover, has shown tlat, to o per- son who lacks tho faoulty for acting—which fs u special, wovorn talent; and no moro to bo ag- nircd thou the color of tho eyes is to be changed,~~intollect,and culturo aro of little use upon tho mtago, If Mies Tield posscasea tho faculty for acting, .and possibly, ehe does, for she is desconded from ‘an sncestry of .pln{.— ers; sho did . not _larpely. display ib ‘upon this oceamion. It i4 difieult juaily to deseribo this porformance. It might, por- ‘haps, be eaid that Miss Field made Loth a suce cess and o failare. Ulie one was of the woman; tho other was of the notross, Strong characler, bright and keen intolligonco, tasto, rofincment, nnd Bensibility shone through hor couduct, avd strongly aud plonsingly denoted tho. indiyidual- iam within, “It was vory casy, by thess meaus, to koo tho earnest soul and the ‘mngluufivn mitid. It the power to form an ideal wero nl3o the pow- erto g{’vu it in oxocption, Aiss Field wonld bo an .nctress at once. Ilven with lior obvious limita- tions sho will surpass -in achiovoment and in morit the callow cluts, nnd doli-facod prattlors who aro just now so n\momusly‘mna?:omdiug in public’ as dramotio, artists, That is nob tho point: When a clover and maturo woman,— ‘gout und brillinnt writor,—comes beforo tho pub- lio in one of tho mgst prominent theatres in Awmorica, and in one of tho most difficult and ox- neting phrts In modorn comody, more is {mfln- ided,. aud moro is oxpected, than competition, howover prosperous, with wax figures and whito muslin, . ., . A g ‘To choose Peg Wafflugton for a first apponr~ anco wag, in ono Aouss, to evince more audacity than discrotion, Tho part is ono thateven n born notress can only play well alter long ex- perlonco. ‘Whon it i8 ‘constdercd, though, that, 1n our fast nge, people aro impationt of watch- ing growth, and have no eyes oxcept for salient dneds and positivo achlevements, it will be seen that, in angthor eonso, tlie cholco was judicious, —sinoo; at loast, it could nok fall to attrace at- tontion. Miss Lield, possibly, did not assume or anticipato that she . could act Pey Waffingion, +Blie mwust iave known thab the pars requires; in its roprdsoutative, oxuboraut spirits, aud por~ fect - proflcloncy’ na & sparkling; dashing comedy notress; oud shb musc alsy - bave known that -sho doeB not . possess those «qualitications. . 16 would bo uatural, thougly for ,hor to roason that, in this lording. part; she might at onco win the publio notico, and- impart . deoialyo- indications of lier quality. For thoso ‘indication, at any rate, tho mora critieal of hor auditors=wdll awaro that no novico can pos- :nibly mot this part—wore enger and watehfuls nnd it 14 with those, such 15 thoy were; .thaf 'critieal thought must bo cohcerned, .. Judgment muy be mformod mnd rectificd by future roprosentations; but at the presant we have ouly to sny that. theso indicationd moant nothing ot roal moment in dramatio art; - Migs Field's per- : #ondl acsomplishments Wwere, indeed, shown to tho grontast ndvantago. Bho spoke Lronoh with au ungommonly pure acocut,, . Sho sang a Frouck gong and an Lnglieh ope inn brlliant voico, b singular aud dolightfnl finenees of oxo- Hho doucod-tho Irish jig, i Triplet's garret, with benutiful ouso ,and unegpeoted wpirit, She spoke . the text' with ace curncy and purity, and sho was apt in tho stago Dusiness; Bhio manoged . pratty well with the old-fashioned high comody laugbter ~-a tinle-honored but diutrorsful soutd, which procoeds from tho throat aud not from tho heurt, Bho oxprogdod with stroug offect the uction of rosentment and angor ; and tLis was tho highont polut of emotion that elio roached, Love, sho did nob exprens at all; and in tho puskagea of brilliant Taillory sha was tume, Margarot Wofe sington was a Jeughing Ivish brunotte, whih dark, volvaty oyes ; and us sho I8 not photographed in the comady, and not Idunlized—at least physical- ly—sho ought to ba dopicted according “to tho lifo. Musy Yield Is a slight, fragilo, gray-oyod Now Engtand woman, and of au [ntellectunl and 1ok & senenons aspost ; and, though khe seomed to underaland wall enoush what Peg Woflinglon or furrowed gomo, losson into thoas end, wild | | that strénmi to Lake Clismplatn, ) t\{gm\ ke had .o paper-cance constructed by I, onght o be, eho dould riot, for ¥éry chvlons rongond, Asttume this idéntity. . Buch an ndtrosa a8 Alea, Litdor, wlio, porsonally; ia Just s une like tho boautifn! origindl,” possesdes, novertho- Jauy, the simmlative nrt nnd the tralned skill to nialé fior auditord forgol’ th dincrepaney. Misy T'ickd bis got to' dévelop tle one and to acquite tho vibier, = S rive MONTHS 1N A CANOE. Eroni Philnaetphi fri {0 XCoy West In K uper Cunng, - Plittudtelplita (Nov, 9) Corresponaenicé of the New York ¢ T T 5 This mornitii 5 6 o'clock o' Bapor canos prit off from onb of tht whatvés oty me Delawnco, afid wont off down thé river at n rapid rato, pro- vbiléd by a doubla-bladed piddle in tha unud‘; of ity singlo accupant. -Tlie voyager wis Nathanial I‘l. Dishop, of Iaunaliawksn, N.J,, author of ** A Thotuand Milos® Walk Across South Ameri- b 10l dbsthiation vas tho Gull of Moxico, Lhé abject,of his aingular undertaking was not 49 galivvolorioty or win tho ipplansc of sporting cirelés, but to afford an opportiinity fof & eareful sdiontifla obsprvation of tho syatem ot nounds, riuors, aud baya that Jio along thoe Atlan. tic Conbt, aud form almost n coitinuoua land- lacked waler course from Bandy Hook fo the Bowthors port 6t Fiorida, brofien i some places by long reeches of the sea inlaud, liko the Chenn- penke, ond iu others, by jutting lieadinnds, Mr,. Bigliop gensoncd bimnolf for bfs fatiguing taul by & pull it an nfi]m; boat last sammer from Quo- boe to Philadelplila, Ifo laft Quebee iu Juno in f cador hoat largo enough t6 hold twe men, 1o \fi:l zflm hiin & E&nnfit gm\lmah a8 dnmklnnt. The tivo ¥owep 0 Bt. Lawrenco 145 mi Aha inbuth of ump Tichelion or mlles o inlotd, Laed River, up il aud from tho Jdko reagbed Albaniy by way of tho cana, travel. ing, {n 1L 421 mites, Mr, Uishop coneluded that tho holp of Liis assistant did nob compensnto fur his woight, aud that of his blankots and. provige fons, and that wora ripid progross could bo wada without him, 1t was thon August, and he decid- ed not to continuo the voyago tntil the frost had killad tho mafaria along tho coast, Iu tho menn iiters & Son, of ‘Liay, N, Y., in which to pro otito {he moto adventurous part of his novol un- dertaking, 'I'hls canoeis of what is kuown dé thé . Noutilus pateot, designod by the Itoy, Baden Towell; of England, snd {8 an improvement on tho well-kuowu Rob Roy type. ‘The body is made of linen Jenet sbout ouc-sixth of an inclh thiclk, moulded whilo soft upon a sulid woad form, and_dftorsards Ingbly polished and yar- nighod. ‘This material {e light, tough, and swater. tight, Inslde of tho shell ia o light framawark to whichi tho seat iu attached, The diimonsious of the canoe aro: longth, 14 fect; width, 28 fellcFled woro tolorably well peopled; 6o tht the” . widoly kuown a8 o aparkling lecturer snd a pun-. thehed; depth nmidships, B! inches; hight ab atorn from o horizontal ling, 20 fncues; ab bow, 29 jughes, It Is iot decked over liko an ordinary cauo, but it is fitted. with a cauves cover bit- tonéd to the. sldes, which kebps tho water ot sehicn @ fough goa is_ ruvning, aid Rérves asa 33;1&: to tud sleaping, occupant ot night, The uight of érafc and itd oquipmeént I8 s fol~ lows: ¢anoc, 58 pounds: ot pair of onrs for iisa in sl water; 17 feot 8 inchos long, 03¢ pounds; one paddls with doublo blade, 215 pounds ; mast, gpric, sad boom, 0 poiinas, Total, 78 pounds, For copking, Mr. Bishop carries & stove that can bu packed o about tho spaco occiipied by o paclk of cards, & small coffeo-pot and a tin pan, Iy Inider cousiéts of coridonsed provislons; his bed i his Loat, and his bodding a Y\\'ir ot blankets. Ha carrioa only the suit of. clothes wlitch be woars, In this canoo Mr. Dishop loft Albany about & fortnight sinco, and fowed and paddied to Philadelphin by way of the Hudson Rivér, the Kill von Kull Strait, tho Rtaiitau River, the catial Irom Now Bruaswick to. Jlordentown, dnd the Dolayaro from the lattor point to thia city, Tha distanes {8 300 miles, hnid b accomplished it in feyenty-four houra of actual rowing time, [r, Dishop's plan for his loug vosige from horo to tho Uulf iy carefully made, atid ko hay Atudied liie courso in advatico by tho ald of the Coast Burvey maps, Ho will first go down tho Delryiaro river aud an to Lowus, whers be will haul s catiog five miles overland to Rehobotl Bound, At'tho oi:diuf this sound ho will haul ovar four miles to_tha Indian River,awhich will fako him luto the Clilicotcaguo syslew of water coursos, whicki ho will follow to Caps Charles, Croaging tho mouth of the ClicBapeake ho will enter. Hampton Roads, paddle up fo Norfollk, wnd’ by way of t0¢ Albenarls aid Currituek Cannl, Tonch in fnceession Cirrittick, Albomatle, Pamlico, Coro, Btuifip, and Boguo Bouuds, which will bring him to ‘l'opeail Inlet, near Capo Foar, N.O. Hero dccordivg ta the Cuast Survey maps, o must tako tho opon séa. for 40 miled to reaclt Bmithville, at thie'month of the Capo Fear Iilver, Hpg hopes, howover, to bo able to work his canoe through ditches Ygt_of the way. Froin Smith- ville to Georgelown, B. ., 80miles, he will cartadoly. hova to trust his papor boat to the ocean, 1o oxpects to ‘créop along tho coast when tho wind is-off slore, and takg to tho land yhonever it blows from soaward, All tho way from Goorgotown to the St. Jolins River in Tor- ild hig wilt find_land-locked watera behind the Sea Islands, Rowiug up tho Bt Johiws 210 mlleis to Salt Lakoe, near the Iverglades, hoe will malke & poriage of 7 milcs to roneli tho Indian Rivor, a salt-water bavou extending along tho castern coast of Florida, and soparated fromtho wcean by & narrow M.zlg of beach, The river will tike him to Jupiter. Intet, from Whence ho will row ag far aa kuy Diseayiite cortaifly, and, if posiible, will go ‘from key to koy untilho rnnchl;.'s Koy Woat, whero ho cxpects to arrivo in Aarel, e g iy A MUSSUL)\MN TRADITION. Upon a ceftain day Moltammied walked, ’ With All, bis soul's male, and whilo they talked, Weaving teep words as only wise folk cim, Sydden athwat their converao broke o man, Whio, i with rins and, srathy, cssayod forthright o gird at All fur imugined slight, Belching maliclous jibes, Tho reverend sago, ‘Awhilo unfrotted, bore the othors rage ; But gually, Lls péatlo sullorauce ulling, Ttopaid tho Iwolent ralling for rafiing. Wherent Mohamined passed, bh best they conld Leaving tho psir to settle up their fend, Next titna tho frionds mot grumblod All -Laftest thou me to givo that churl the lio Unsoconded 2" *Birother,” Mohainmed satd, + Whila slander spat ita venom ou ihy head Aud thon wert sileut saw I sngols fon, AWith wiami ashleld fonding it back, Dit whien Thou it that noble Foticence put off, Roturning thy tormentor scoff for Beoff, “Lhcn gaa by on sy thase angels flew And when the last had left thee I went too,” —Jiaclied Pomeroy in the Independent. The Stanton Suicide Story. i From the Washigton Capital, . Tho infamous falsali which enys the late Edwin fi Stautou conimitted suicide Is again on its trayels through our exclianges. Tho Boston Lerald this timo rovives tho story, and gives It aathenticity by asseiting thaet # onco or twico in hig contributions to poriodical ITitornturo withn lnto yoary, the Ion, Joromiah 8, Black Las hint~ ed mystoriously that the death of tho Secratary of War was ot wholly attributed to the uatural coured of disenso.” . "Thoro i not a word of truth in this. Judge Black not ouly nover binted at -anything of the sort, but has nssured rhe writor of tlis, on more than ono occasion, that Mr. Stanton died rrom exhiaustion, after leaving .tho overworlt of bis department, and that tho atory of the suicide was' without fouuds- tlon, Mrs, Iarrigon, an estimable Jady, tho common friond of Mr. Slanton and Judge Black, was ab the Louse of the Sce- retary whon ho died, dud nsuisted tho family in propuring tho Lody fo it Jst ropose. ilor teatimony s evidenco that caunat be im- peached.” Tho oruol report ariginntod in the over-sonsitivenoes of thelato Slus, Stanton, ITnv- ing been ongo terribly shacked, on outering the death chambor of a dear child, to soo the rough Dandliug of tho boloved body by the undertaler, sho avowed nover again to pormit ono noar to her to be approacliod by strangors after deatl, And 8o tho family, nesisted by Surgeon Gun, Barues, the clergzman, and Ms. arrisou, alone came noar tho body of thd cront War Secrotary. pre ous to its intorment. Wo bad tho honor of Mr. Stautou’s friendahip, and saw him froquonily attor hia rotired from ollice ; and ho was ko ill, ko ovidontly dying, that st avy timo Lig doathneht have baen aungunced, as it was at Inst, without axetting other fooliug in us than one of gorrow, Lying upou o sofu orin bed, ho breathed with difficulty and spoke iu whispors, Tondeily ut- tached to his friends and fawily, bo clung to lifo with that tenacity of Will and high courago for whicl ho was so fanous, oo o O nmprovement of the Hlinois. #rom the Alton Telcaraph. Capt. . 8. Brown, of the firm of Johnson & Qo,, (lovernmont vontractors, was in town lust ovening, and from him wo learned somo partion- Iare in regurd to the Improvoments he is now ]7\‘()!00“!“!],‘. under contract, noar Harding, Cal« houn Couuty, on the Illinois River, French's bar atthat pinca bas long beon a serions obsta- ole to navigution, boing inloiv water impassablo oxcopt by tho lighteat draught steamots, T'ho work at this point conslsta in catelng a channol throngh Froneh's bar, and building n'dyke st tho hoad of Frenel's Island, on tiia fatho plan asthe onn ucrobs Alton Slongh., Tho channel being out {8 ono milo long, 104 feet widv, and 4 foob deap at law wator, 'Fo dradge out thiy ohannel roquirad tho removal of 50,000 cubiu yurds of ourtl, ''ho dam'at tho head of the lsland shuts off tho water running buoic thoreof, and forcos the whalo volume into the now chaunel. T'ho work hing been in progress for sovoral nionths, nnd will be vomploted in nhout three wooks. 1t will provo of gront banotii to the intorosts of nnviation an the Tlinoif, THE NEW YORK PUBLISHERS. ‘Works About to Be Brought Out by Tlem, Books by Chnrles Kordlioff, Horhert Spen- ¢er, Di, Draper, Jolw Stuart “Mill, and Oihors. Literary Miscellanea. Spectal Correspondence of Thé Chieard Tribithe, New Yonx, Nov, 12, 1874, The stagnation of busincss naturally includos books, book-makers, and publishors. Thero Ii really vory little doing, and not o great desl promising, in the literary and publishing, cor- fainly not in the artistio, world, The subscripe ton-baok trads seama to bo tho only one which holde itsown, Bovoralof tholargorhouses, na tho Harpora and Applotons, have vory important de- puctmants grown up out of ¢his business. Tho Mossrs, Harper aro about to publish, as thoir standard subseription-book, Charles Nordhoff's COMMUNISTIO BOCIETIES OF TUE UNITED BTATES, in wlioh that sttrctivo littoratour tolls, from porsonnl obsorvation and closo atudy, tho work- inga of thio soveral exporiments now in exiatencs ih thls Ropublic. In his hoxt edition ho will be ablo to ndd tho Russian Mennonites to thosoin | tho vohimo; which now includes tho Onoida Per- Tectionists, tho Economiste in Ponnsylvaniu, tho - Zoarites, Bhnkers, tho Amana in Tows, tho Tcari- ans ot Nauvoo, Aurors, Bothel, and others that ara iu oxistorico. Noarly all theso have a ro- Hglous as well as n soclal and economie bias for their organization, Mr. NordhofCs lucld stylo nnd fils jonrnnlistio training—giving, ne it does, yowor of observation and eapacity of statement— will mnko this work of great value. Tho closing chaptorisgaid to bo quito notable in its prosonta- tion of tho remson for tho material euccess of Q:eao socioties. The Communiol prineiple has gomewhore a place among mon, and any cloarin~ diention of tho “*why and whereforo " ia ugeful, . Tho book will not ba ready bofors, Janinry. Tho Harpers have alio nearly ready fbother * bools of Nordboft's,—+ Politics for Youltg Atnofi- . cons,"—q capital élemettary work, fill of facts; usoful s roferonce, as woll oa Jucid prosentation . of principles and systoms., They. aro also pub- Habing tho. st book of Tisablest o+ Fesioemtatis cal History,” for collogn and schiool pirposes. Tlio Rov, Dr. Taylor, Dr. Thomplion's sucessor in th Broadway Tabornacle, hag in_their prosa “ David; King of_Jernol,"—n brilliant book of 1ts clows, The. only holiday-books of tonl note thoy havo on hand are “ The Remaine of Lost Lmpires,” by P. V.M. Myors, and h charmiig littlo fai 4 Tho Clopk." x b ‘The Applotons’ most important works dre from. . DRAPER AND BPENCER. The Tattor's * Part 111, Dedcriptive Sociology.” will bo ready on the 26th jnst, 'Ihia in all tho anvouncement to tho large American contitu- bioy which greets the great author of the ¢ Cose mio Phil Conflict Betveen Religion and Beienca ™ 'is to bo ingsuod onthe 1atprox, asoneof thoInternational Bories. Though in size one of the smollest, it in by no means the loast valuable of its authar's works, It lds boen in proparntion fur some years, but has been pressed to completion ow- ng to the intorest aroused on the sitbject by tha book by Mlss Muloch, ttlo Lame Princo and Ilis Troveling- . logophy.” . Dr. Draper's * History of the . rocont address of Prot. Tyndall, and tho contio- . vorsy it ins provoked, Among other vahwbla works from tho Apple« tons' press i3 ** A Driof History of Calture,”” by dobn 8. Hittell, which will appear Nov. 213 whilo *The Theology of tho British Poets,” by the Rtev. Stafford A Brooke, will Lo }\uhlielmd on tho 28th inst, *‘The Natural History ot Man,” by Prof, Quartrefages, will_ho acces~ niblo. on” the 1at of Deccembor, Miss You- mans_ ia _tho translator. No pun g intendod. It will bo intoresting without doubt, especislly Dy way of rollof from that Unnatural History of which we daily got such large install- ments, *'The Chapters on Political Economy, by Albort 8. Bollea; tho * Lifoof Bamuel Lover,” by Boyle Bornard ; and *‘The Native Races ot tho Pacifio Const of North Amorics," are allin E;nis. and will provo valuablo and interesting ok, TIE RURYORTPTION-BOORS pletons aro worthy a goutlsman’s li- brary, ‘A'he following books will "be iesued on Buturday noxt: #The Lifo of Samuel F. B. Morso,” by 8. Ironwus Primo, 8. T, D.; and * Personal Reminisconces, Anmiotnu. and Let« ters of Gen. Rtobort B, Les,” h{’ tho Rov, J. ‘William Joney, D, D., publishied by authority of the Lioe family and of tha TFaculty of Lee & Wasbington Univorsity, This last book is n nieo picce of bookmaking, and the portraits aro vory floe. * Picturesqua Fu- rope"—a companion to ‘* Picturesque Ameris ea”—will hegin in Jauuary, 08 wi the Appletans® edition of the Art Journal, Thin periodical i8 to be an {ntornntional thereafter. Of thoe threo steel engravings erch number con- toins, ono at least s to bio of ra American Aic- turo; besides which, mich of the letterprest aud mauy of the engravings will bo devated to Amoericau matters and scenes. The plates witl bo sent here, and the Appletons will add and condonse as may bo necessary for this markot. Tio threo essays, rolating to religious views, loft by : JOIIN BTUANT MILT, which are now orenting wach discigsion in Ene gland, aro about Leing republished by Henry Holt, bound_with n Reviow of Bishop Berke= loy's Lifo and Writings not horetofore published iu this country. 'Tho enmo publishor has on cle- ant cdition of Pracd's poems in prees, which, light and witty ns they are, will mako v seasonn- Dble bools, The Seribners are busy with thg Drie-a-Bracs, A now volumoe is noarly ready, and the Now Year will begin with one mado up from . IR GREVILLE'S MEOIRY, the piqiant gossip of which oxcitos #o mueh no. tico In Evgland at this time. Groville wns at- tached to tho Courts of Georgo tho Fourth aud William, the latter of whom waa as stupid as hig brother was sonaual and conrso. Blr, Stoddard’s seleotions will certainly not offend taste, ns sa miuch of the momoirs does. Georgo tho Fourth i8 even redeomed Dy the intense commonplacce ness of his stupid brother. Grevillo tells cf King Willizm's parsimony, and of his labit of yawning when tired,—turning to hia guests, it wuy woro present, with, “Ium sleepy. Comwe, Qucon, lot's go to bod 1 Similar things to tin naro geattored all throngh the memoiry, which ne garrulous and truo uuuuih to hold a place with Popvs, Evolyn, or Doswell, Thure s not much promised from pens new oz known. Tho workiug editor of Seribuer’s Month- 1y, whoso of the AK‘ OLD CADINET 3 and sonnots aro one of th charms of that Magpa, has, it is roported, in proparation an ideal work, partly prose,—n framework to tie exquisite Aon- nots which hie fushions so well.~which will, it ia megerted, bo n rovolation to those, if auy there are, who still query if thore bo any Armerican writers or books worth reading. It s suro to be ndelight to sll lovers of pootie genius, delicats fanoy, spiritunl {nsight,—such & delight as Daute's New Lifo {a to this hour, USCELLANEODS, A bonutiful tribute to William Cullen Bryant ia said to bo on tho tapis, Its form and charue- ter aro as veb a socrot, Tdward Xggleston, the novolist, hos just rca turned from o lox:ix jauut somowhore, to his Brooklyn home, nud got to work on & uow story of Western village-life, which will be, the authos 8038, in & difforent vein from his Drocoding works, 1t will not bo published for a yoear to coma, Thore is an on dit oireulating, that Theodore Tiltou ia ot work oun_new booki—not in any way rolating to his personal matters, or in tle alyloof *Tompont-Toesod.” 'hownas W, Xuox, who has jusb returned frrm n twenty monthe' tour in Enropo aud Asin, addition to his lecturo on the Iumory of ol, ot work on o sories of articles for Jaryer's Monthly. Heury O. Wllnrd( well known a8 a former corrospondent of ik Circago THIDUNE, is in tho civy, having just arvived, with Lis wife, ficm their hiomo in Switzerland, Mra., Villard (s a dsughtor of William Lloyd Garrison, Trof. A. L. Rawson, of the Oriental Toyc- graplieal Jorps, has just yoturnod from n veven monghe' tour in’ Cyprus, Lgypt, Palestine, and Moab, Mo brings’sovoral itaportant incripticny dating from threo to fifteon conturies B. ¢, il coulirming Old-Teatamons records, A goologie- al survey bogun by him on s former oxpeditiou, Lins boon comiploted, aud arrangoments mndo fc ¢ a oollection ot tho nntural history of Byria, 1l portfolio is_ filled with waler-coior drawinga of porsous and places, and topographical sketehes au Jino and color, R.J, 1L ——— —A husband of Washington County, Towa, ap- plied for a divorco frons his wite un tha grouud that alio I8 an {nyalid,