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The Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting ages, to which is added the Author's recipe of a preventive Lotion. THE SOUTHERN STATES. k From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) NATCHEZ, MISSISSIPPI, JUNE 14. On the morning of the 3d of June I left New Orleans in one of the steamers proceeding up the Mississippi, along that fertile but uninteresting region of reclaimed swamp lands, called " the Coast," which extends along both banks for 120 miles above the city. It is so called from the name given to it, " La Cote," by the early French settlers. Here is the favoured land—alas ! it is a fever-land too !—of sugar-cane and Indian corn. To those who have very magnificent conceptions of the Missis sippi, founded on mere arithmetical computations of leagues or vague geographical data, it may be astonishing, but it is nevertheless true, the Mis sissippi is artificial for many hundreds of miles. Nature has, of course, poured out the waters, but man has made the banks. By a vast system of raised embankments, called levees, the river is constrained to abstain from overflowing the swamps, now drained and green with wealth-pro ducing crops. At the present moment the surface of the river is several feet higher than the land at each side, and the steamer moves on a level with the upper stories, or even the roofs of the houses, reminding one of such scenery as could be witnessed in the old days of treckshuyt in Holland. The river is not broader than the Thames at Gravesend, and is quite as richly coloured. But then it is 180 feet deep, and for hundreds of miles it has not less than 100 feet of water. Thus deeply has it scooped into the rich clay and marl in its course, but as it flows out to join the sea it throws down the vaat precipitates which render the bars so shifting and difficult, and bring the mighty river to such a poor exit. A few miles above the wharfs and large levees of the city the country really appears to be a sea of light green, with shores of forest in the distance, about two miles away from the bank. This forest is the uncleared land, extending for a considerable way back, which each planter hopes to take into culture one day or other, and which he now uses to provide timber for his farm. Near the banks are houses of wood, with porticoes, pillars, verandahs, and sun-shades, generally painted white and green. There is a great uniformity of style, but the ideal aimed at seems to be that of the old French chateau, with the addition of a colonnade round the ground story. These dwellings are generally in the midst of small gardens, rich in semi-tropical vegetation, with glorious magnolias, now in full bloom, rising in their midst, and groves of live oak interspersed. The levee is as hard and dry as the bank of a canal. Here and there it is propped up by wooden revetments. Between it and the uniform line of palings which guards the river face of the plantations there is a carriage road. In the enclosure near each residence there is a row of small wooden huts, whitewashed, in which live the negroes attached to the service of the family. Out side the negroes who labour in the fields are quartered in similar constructions, which are like the small single huts, called " Maltese," which were plentiful in the Crimea. They are rarely furnished with windows; a wooden slide or a grated space admits such light and air as they want. One of the most striking features of the landscape is its utter want of life. There were a few horsemen exercising in a field, some gigs and buggies along the levee roads, and little groups at the numerous landing-places, gene rally containing a few children in tom-fool costumes. as Zouaves, Chasseurs, or some sort of infantry, but the slaves who were there had come down to look after luggage or their masters. There were no merry, laughing, chattering gatherings of black faces and white teeth such as we hear about. In deed, the negroes are not allowed hereabouts to stir out of their respective plantations or to go along the road without passes from their owners. The steamer J. L. Cotten, which was not the less popular, perhaps, because she had the words " Low pressure" conspicuous on her paddle-boxes, carried a fair load of passengers, most of whom were mem bers of Creole families living on the coast. The proper meaning of the word " Creole" is very diffe rent from that which we attach to it. It signifi es a person of Spanish or French descent born in Louisiana or in the Southern and tropical coun tries. The great majority of the planters here are French Creoles, and it is said they are kinder and better masters than Americans or Scotch, the latter being considered the most severe. Intelligent on most subjects, they are resolute in the belief that England must take their cotton or perish. Even the keenest of their financiers, Mr. Forstall, an Irish Creole, who is representative of the house of Baring, seems inclined to this faith, though be is prepared with many ingenious propositions, which would rojoice Mr. Gladstone inmost heart, to raise money for the Southern Confederacy and make them rich exceedingly. One thing has rather puzzled him. M. Baroche, who is in New Orleans, either as a looker-on or as an accredited employe of his father or of the French Government, suggested to him that it would not be possible for all the disposa ble mercantile marine of England and France toge ther to carry the cotton crop, which hitherto gave employment to a great number of American vessels, now tabooed by the South, and the calculations seem to bear out the truth of the remark. Be that as it may, Mr. Forstall is quite prepared to show that the South can raise a prodigious reve nue by a small direct taxation, for which the ma chinery already exists in every parish of the State, and that the North must be prodigiously damaged commercially in the struggle, if not ruined outright. One great source of strengh in the South is its readi ness—at least, its professed alacrity—to yield any thing that it is asked. There is unbounded confidence in Mr. Jefferson Davis. Wherever I go, the same question is asked, " Well, sir, what do you think of our President ? Does he not strike you as being a very able man ?" In finance he is trusted as much as in war. When he sent orders to the New Orleans banks, some time ago, to suspend specie payments, he exercised a power which could not be justified by any reading of the Southern Constitution. All men applauded. The President of the United States is seout outcry unanimityagainst far from receiving any such support or eonfidence , and it need not be said any act of his of the same nature as that o f Mr. Davis would have created an n of a' conspiracy, iamllmtheenhim. But a n dt its h e unanimitySo ll t hh as is not greater than its confidence. One is rather tired of endless questi • ons, " Who can conquer such men ?" But the t• ques ion should be, " Can the North conquer us ?" Of the fustian tracks and fighting till every man, woman, and child is exterminated, the re is a great deal too much, i but they really believe that the fate which Poland cou ld not avert, to which F RE VIEWS OF THE WORK. ranee as well as the "Curtis on Manhood. —Tins is a truly valuable work, and nations she overran bowed the ahould be in the hands of young and old."—" Sunday Times," head, can never ad 31 arch, 1856. reach them. With their faithful negroes to raise their "The author has conferred a great boon by publishing, thiscotton while little wor k, in which is described the source a those diseases corn, sugar, and they are at the wars, which produce decline in youth or more frequently premature and England and France to take the latter and pay old age."—" Daily Telegraph," March 27,1856. " This work, which for twenty years has s tood the test of them for it, they believe they can meet the Ameri professional criticism and empirical hostility , treats in aplain r i ca n world in arms. A glorious future op ens b e f ore and gYinpathising manner on the variou s disqualifications - Illimitable fields tilled by multitudinous and impediments arising from nervous excit ement and de • them. b Record.ilitY ; and to invalids suffering from youthful error and ne e es open on their vision, and prostrate at the excesses it will be found valuable and useful." —s London : Published by J. 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But here is the boat stopping opposite Mr. Roman's—ex-Governor of the State of Louisiana, and ex-commissioner from the Confederate Government at Montgomery to the Government of the United States at Washington. Not very long ago he could boast of a very handsome garden—the French Creoles love gardens—Ameri cans and English do not much affect them, but when the Mississippi was low one fine day levee and gar den and all slid down the bank into the maw of the river, and were carried off. This is what fs called the " caving in " of a bank ; when the levee is broken through at high water it is said that a " cre vasse" has taken place. The Governor, as he is called—once a captain always a captain—has still a handsome garden, however, though his house has been brought unpleasantly near the river. His mansion and the out offices stand in the shade of magnolias, green oaks, and other Southern trees. To the last Governor Roman was a Unionist, but when his State went he followed her, and now he is a Secessionist for life and for death, not extravagant in his hopes, but calm and resolute, and fully per suaded that in the end the South must win. As he does not raise any cotton, the conse quences for him will be extremely serious should sugar be greatly depreciated ; but the consump tion of that article in America is very large, and, though the markets in the North and West are cut off, it is hoped, as no exported sugar can find its way into the State, that the South will consume all its own produce at a fair rate. The Governor is a very good type of the race, which is giving way a little before the encroachments of the Anglo-Saxons, and he possesses all the ease, candid manner, and suavity of the old French gentleman—of that school in which there are now few masters or scholars. He invited me to visit the negro quar ters. "Go where you like, do what you please, ask any questions. There is nothing we desire to conceal." As we passed the house, two or three young women flitted past in snow-white dresses with pink sashes, and no doubtful crinolines, but their headdresses were not en regle—handkerchiefs of a gay colour. These were slaves going off to a dance at the sugar-house; but they were indoor servants, and therefore better off in the way of clothes than their fellow-slaves who labour in the field. On ap proaching a high paling et the rear of the house the scraping of fiddles was audible. It was Sunday, and Mr. Roman informed me that he gave his negroes leave to have a dance on that day. The planters who are not Catholics rarely give any such indulgence to their slaves, though they do not always make them work on that day, and sometimes let them enjoy themselves on the Saturday afternoon. Entering a wicket gate, a quadrangular enclosure, lined with negro huts, lay before us. The bare ground was covered with litter of various kinds, amid which pigs and poultry were pasturing. Dogs puppies, and curs of low degree scampered about on all sides ; and deep in a pond, swinking in the sun, stood some 30 or 40 mules, enjoying their day of rest. The huts of the negroes belonging to the per sonal service of the house were separated from the negroes engaged in field labour by a close wooden paling ; but there was no difference in the shape and size of their dwellings, which consisted generally of one large room, divided by a partition occasionally into two bedrooms. Outside the whitewash gave them a cleanly appearance ; inside they 'iN ere dingy and squalid—no glass in the windows, swarms of flies, some clothes hanging on nails in the boards, dressers with broken crockery, a bedstead of rough carpentry ; a fireplace in which, hot as was the day, a log lay in embers ; a couple of tin cooking utensils; in the obscure, the occupant, male or female, awkward and shy before strangers, and silent till spoken to. Of course there were no books, for the slaves do not read. They all seemed respectful to their master. We saw very old men and very old women who were the cankerworms of the estate, and were dozing away into eternity mindful only of hommony, and pig, and molasses. Two negro fiddlers were working their bows with energy in front of one of the huts, and a crowd of little chil dren were listening to the music, and a few grown up persons of colour—some of them from the ad joining plantations. The children are generally dressed in a little sack of coarse calico, which answers all reasonable purposes, even if it be not very clean. It might be an interesting subject of inquiry to the natural philosophers who follow crinology to determine why it is that the hair of the infant negro, or of the child up to six or seven years of age, is generally a fine red russet, or even gamboge colour, and gradually darkens into dull ebon. These little bodies were mostly large stomached, well fed, and not less happy than free born children, although much more valuable—for once they get over juvenile dangers, and advance towards nine or ten years of age, they rise in value to £lOO or more, even in times when the market is low and money is scarce. The women wore not very well-favoured, except one yellow girl, whose child was quite white, with fair hair and light eyes ; and the men were disguised in such strangly cut clothes, their hats and shoes and coats were so won hey are fort the those happiest won derfully ma d e , th a t on e could not tell what they were like. O n a ll f aces th ere was a gravity which must be the i n d ex t o serene contentment and perfect comfort, who r a ought u e g vi h ue tr the t t o h eworld. know South, best e s ttl that astruckt declare d e deep dejection tt Leta me more and more, as I exam i ne d th e ex pression of the faces of the slaves all prevailing, if physiognomist not universal, g o and charac teristicsee o of i s t h h e e race. Here there were abundant evidences that they were well treated, for they had good clothing of its kind, good food, and a master who wittingly could do them no injustice, as he is, I am sure, incapable of it. Still, they all looked exceedingly sad, and even the old woman who boasted that she had held her old master in her arms when he was an infant, did not look cheerful, as the nurse at home would have done, at the sight of her ancient charge. The pre cints of the huts were not clean, and the enclosure was full of weeds, in which poultry—the perquisites of the slaves —were in full possession. The negroes rear domestic birds of all kinds, and sell eggs and poultry to their masters. The money they spend in purchasing tobacco, molasses, clothes, and flour — whisky, their great delight, they must not have. Some 70 or 80 hands were quartered in this part of the estate. The silence which reigned in the huts as soon as the fiddlers had gone off to the sugar-house was profound. Bafore leaving the quarter I was taken to the hospital, which was in charge of an old negress. The naked rooms contained several flock beds on rough stands, and five patients, three of whom were women. They sat listlessly on the beds looking out into space ; no books to amuse them, no conversation —nothing but their own dull thoughts, if they had any- They were suffering from pneumonia and swellings of the glands of the neck:; one man had fever. Their medical attendant visits them regularly, and each plantation has a practi tioner, who is eng aged by the term for his services. Negroes have now only a nominal value in the mar ket—that is, the price of a good field hand is as high as ever, but there is no one to buy him at present, and no money to pay for him, and the trade of the slave-dealers is very bad. The menageries of the gentlemen who advertise " Virginia negroes con stantly On sale, money advanced on all descriptions of property," & c. , must be full—their pockets empty. This question of price is introduced inci dentally in reference to the treatment of negroes. It has often been said to to me that no one will ill-use a creature worth £3OO or £4OO, but that is not a universal rule. Much depends on temper, and many a hunting-field could show that if value be a gua rantee for good usage, the slave is mora fortunate than his fellow chattel, the horse. If the growth of sugar cane, cotton, and corn be the great end of man's mission on earth, and if all masters were like Governor Roman, slavery might be defended as a natural and innocuous institution. Sugar and cot- ton are, assuredly, two great agencies in this latter • world. The older got on well enough without them. The scraping of the fiddles attracted us to the sugar-house—a large brick building with a factory looking chimney, where the juice of the cane is ex pressed, boiled, granulated, and prepared for the refiner. In a space of the floor occupied by machinery some 15 women and as many men were assembled, and four couples were dancing a kind of Irish jig to the music of the negro musicians—a double shuffle and a thumping ecstasy, with loose elbows, pendulous paws, and angulated knees, heads thrown back, and backs arched inwards—a glazed eye, intense solemnity of mien, worthy of the minuet in "Don Giovanni." At this time of year there is no work done in the sugar-house, but when the crushing and boiling are going on the labour is intense, and all the hands work in gangs night and day ; and, if the heat of the fires be superadded to the temperature in September, it may be conceded that nothing but " involuntary servitude" could go through the toil and suffering required to produce sugar for us. This is not the place for an account of the processes and machinery used in the manu facture, which is a scientific operation, greatly im proved by recent discoveries and apparatus. In the afternoon the Governor's son came in from the company which he commands. He has been camping out with them, to accustom them to the duties of actual war, and he told me that all his men were most zealous and exceedingly proficient. They are all of the best families around—planters, large and small, their sons and relatives, and a few of the Creole population, who are engaged as hoopers and stavemakers. One of the latter had just stained his hands with blood. He had reason to believe a culp able intimacy existed between his wife and his fore man. A circumstance occurred which appeared to confirm his worst suspicions. He took out his fire lock, and meeting the man, he shot him dead with out uttering a word, and then delivered himself xp to the authorities, It is probable his punishment will be exceedingly light, as divorce suits and ac tions for damages are not in favour in this part of the world. Although the people are Roman Ca tholics, it is by no means unusual to permit relations within the degrees of consanguinity forbidden by the Church to intermarry, and the elastic nature of the rules which are laid down by the priesthood in that respect would greatly astonish the orthodox in Ireland or Bavaria. The whole of the planters and their dependents along " the coast" are in arms. There is but one sentiment, as far as I could see, among then:), and that is,—" We will never submit to the North." In the evening several officers of M. Alfred Roman's company and neighbours came in, and out under the shade of trees, in the twilight, illuminated by the flashing fireflies, politics were discussed—all on one side, of course, with general conversation of a more agreeable character. The customary language of the Creoles is French, and several newspapers in French are published in the districts around us ; but they speak English 7 r,.. which way was best. The young gbitiL -7.,::, answer that the road they were oil 7 , siiilfiVirsitk7,.7 they had come, and that they had bett:tect lige The father made no reply, but at the s Bib liken -.-..- 1 " ::1 turned his horse aside and went up a lankio tilt &;4 left, leading off the road. The lane was a lonely one; there was no one about, nor any one visible when they entered it, and the son, who had all along felt a peculiar dread, said to his father that he could not understand how they had gone up into that lane. The baron made some reply about feeling unwell, and asked his son to hold his horse while he got off. The son did so, and inquired whether he should ride on and fetch some brandy, but the baron declined this with some haste, and said he would go and pay a visit to the Due d'Aumale, and then led the way down a lane to the right of Orleans House. Here they met a woman, who informed them they were going in a wrong direc tion. They retraced their steps, and again his father led the way down another lane and then another, which brought them to the back of Orleans House by the stables. The son wondered, but ex pected there must be some reason for this. They did not enter the house, but again turned on one side, which led the young gentleman to suppose his father was going up to the entrance. They got up this lane, to where it turned almost at a right angle facing a shady nook. The lane went on for a short distance, and then made another turn at a similar short angle. When the baron reached the spot he halted his horse at the corner, and gave a scrutinis ing look both ways. No one was to be seen. The young Alfred had ridden on, but his father's voice SO3ll brought him back, as he told him they were , all wrong, and must come back. The youth was then on his father's left hand, and had only returned a few paces when he felt a violent blow, and on looking round to see whence it proceeded saw the baron advancing upon him with his hand uplifted, and something in it, preparing to strike him. The blow fell a second time on the alarmed youth, and the father was about to complete his diabolical purpose by another and a finishing blow. The youth's hat had fallen off. There was nothing to save him. The murderer's blood was up. The poor boy's forehead, cut and battered, was streaming with gore. Impulse made him press on his horse, and as the horse rose to the spur it caught theblow on its head. That moment saved the youth's life, 101* he saw coming round the corner a man and a worn"- Withillitastitit'S:clelayalle slipped or fell from his horse;Yttned fewards :delay, woman, and,. in an agony of terror, poor youth! clung to her knees, saying, " Oh protect me—save me. The man was John Rivers, a labourer, and as he was coming from Sion-row, down Orleans-road, he had seen the two gentlemen riding up from the Thames towards him. He saw the elder gentlemen strike suddenly at the younger one, hit him on the forehead with a whip (as he thought), the handle of which was bright at the end that struck the poor youth's face. He saw the young fellow's hat fal ling off, and heard him cry out, " Oh! don't, pray don't ;" but the eldest advanced upon the younger, and when the young man slipped off his horse and ran forward, the elder gentleman ran forward too, calling out " Hoy ! hoy ! here is your hat," and he had almost caught the youth, but the latter ran, and fell at the woman's feet, imploring aid, his fore head streaming with blood. At this moment they had reached a spot where was standing another man, John Evans, a barge man. He saw the young Alfred's face covered with blood, and that he came crouching like some hunted and terrified beast all shuddering for its life, cower ing down as he cried out " Help me ; protect me. ; save me !" He saw, too, the Baron de Vidil (w ho wore a white hat, and had a riding-whip in, his hand) come, or rather run up, and ask in an agitated manner—" What is it ? what has happened ?" and the baron made a rush at a gate by the roadside leading to a field down the Thames, and tried to get over it, though John Evans told him there was no thing on the other side ; but, though he shook very much, he still persisted, and in his haste and tre mulousness slipped as he got over and tore lais hands with the hook nails that were on the hal) of the gate, and went on two or three paces to be hind some shrubs. The young de Vidil was bleeding profusely, and John Evans supporting hi m . " Oh, lam so glad you are here," said: the poor young man, "Do not, do not leave me." " No, I'll not leave you," replied John Evans ; " but how did it happen ?" The yorttle opened his mouth to speak, but his eyes fixed avith a terrified stare as he saw his father's eye steadily Gazing on him, and he heard him murmur some thing' about a wall and a fall. And so they pro ceeded, supporting him bleeding, to the nearest publichouse on the road. " Why did you get over the gate ?" inquired John Evans of the baron. " To fetch assistance," was the ready reply. " How did it happen ?" inquired John Everett, another labourer, who came up as he saw the group and the bleeding man. " How did it happen ?" " Oh, the young gen tleman stood up in his saddle to look over a wall," was the father's reply, "and his horse reared, and so he fell ; hut to John Evans he said the horse shied and threw the boy against the wall. They washed and bathed young Alfred's wounds, and, to his terror, his father wished to assist in the operation, but he became alarmed and clung to John Evans and begged not to be left. Then a sur geon came, and to him he communicated his desire that that gentleman's assistant should accompany him to town, for he dreaded a lonely journey and a solitary night with that fearful man. The sur geon, Dr. Clarke, of Twickenham, who imagined something was not as it should be, consented to the proposal and saw it carried out. He examined the wounds, which he considers to have been produced by some weapon like a life-preserver, and declares. that no fall from a horse or otherwise could have , produced the same wounds as are on the head and. forehead of the young Alfred John de Vidil. The two horses meantime had been caught, and blood was seen on the mane of one horse and on the saddle. The baron accompanied his son to ton n, and stayed with him, greatly to his terror, until 12 at night; but the young man wc,uld not part with the assistant, nor could any cleverness on the part of the baron induce that trte sty assist ant to quit the side of his charge. Early T lest morn ing, convinced that his father's intention had been to murder him, and conscious that his, life stood in dangerous interposition between 1' father and the enjoyment by that person of b is mother's for tune, the youth withdrew in . alarm from so dangerous a vicinity, and went, r a l mos t with the morning's light, to his uncle's ho use in one of the home counties. But even there / -is father seemed to follow him, for a letter came tc 3 his uncle inform ing him of the accident, and how young Alfred had fallen from his horse. But the young man told his own story, and inquiry begat a to be made. The baron, meanwhile, lived a th , a Clarendon, and last Friday dined at the Travel) , o er tyi s t ' oc C raes l it. u g, b in company with several members of th a Monday afternoon he was ar the accusation of murder, .fl ' k for bnr hi ffin s n e s a p s e e c i t n o rhTahnodr,nt and on, has f the h d l Y e 1 :t e ° . e g • f detectives on his track. five orce d , cl h eeiclf a .e : w h tOi2l a t d hne the l of evidence and supplied the: thye,pmic is e s d in u g p l t i h n e ks c . hai A n party of detectives are now in Paris, but up to the present time no tidings have been received of the capture of the delinquent baron.. It would appear that there is a flaw somewhere in the law for the extradition of criminals between the two countries. A Frenchman committing a crime in England, and escaping to France, cannot, it is said, be claimed by the country in which the crime was committed ; but an Englishman committing any crime is given up, because the laws he has offended are those of his country. It remains, howerer, to be seen whe ther this difficulty will prevent A. de Vidil from being placed at the bar of a cr;Lminal court in this country. _ _— MUNICIPAL JUSTICE AT CAli TERBURY.—Yeder day the Mayor (Mr. E. Flolttursa) and Messrs. Mount, Masters, Trimwell, Philpott, arid T. S. Cooper (borough justices) reviewed the decision o't the borough Bench of tho previous Monday in the case of rrhonlas Godden, a little boy only seven years of age, who was convicted of breaking the G eo rge's. street, and ord ere d windows of Mr. Grinder, in St.. to pay a fine of L 5 and the costs, or to be imprisoned for 21 days, as noticed in The Sun of Tuesday last. The magis trates consulted for some brae together in private, and, upon the doors being thrown op'm for the admission of the public, the boy and his father were called forward, when the Mayor said,—Circumstances with regard to your boy having come to the knowledge of the magistrates, they have determined M the i ns urance-office),, at whose insjan r Ce K th e e ye p s ro ( s t u not to enforc e the p uncshm ent , been instituted, nowul informed the Ben c h that he had re ceived a letter fro the office, 'which he wished to lay a c e a t i g o e n n h t h ad be fore them. Alderman Masters—We have looked into the document you 'handed in on Monday, and we find it not to be law. Mr. " - e r i mmell—Besides,ithe penalty wou ld h ave gone to the. Keyes—Th en, borough fund, and not to the office. Mr. am I to write to say that the magistrates have reverfed their conviction? Alderman Masters—We shall not, enforce it. The matter then dro pp ed . 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We rode through alleys formed by the tall stalks of the maize out to the wide, unbroken fields—hedge less, unwalled, where the green cane was just learn ing to wave its long shoots in the wind. Along the margin in the distance there is an unbroken boun dary of forest extending all along the swamp lands, and two miles in depth. From the river to the forest there is about 11 mile or more of land of the very highest quality—unfathomable, and producing from one to one and a half hogshead an acre. Away in the midst of the crops were white-looking masses, reminding me of sepoys and sowars as seen in Indian fields in the morning sun on many a march. As we rode towards them we overtook a cart with a large cask, a number of tin vessels, a bucket of molasses, a pail of milk, and, a tub full of lkominy or boiled Indian corn. The cask contained water for the use of the negroes, and the other vessels held the materials for their breakfast, in addition to which they generally have each a dried fish. The food looked ample and wholesome, such as any labouring man would be well content with every day. There were three gangs at work in the fields. One of men, with 20 mules and ploughs, was engaged in running through the furrows between the canes, cutting up the weeds and clearing away the grass, which is the enemy of the growing shoot. The mules are of a fine large good-tempered kind, and understand their work almost as well as the drivers, who are usually the more intelligent hands on the plantation. The overseer, a sharp-looking Creole, on a lanky pony, whip in hand, superintended their labours, and, after a few directions and a salutation to the governor, rode off to another part of the farm. The negroes when spoken to saluted us and came forward to shake hands—a civility which must not be refused. With the exception of crying to their mules, however, they kept silence when at work. Another gang consisted of 40 men, who were hoeing out the grass in Indian corn—easy work enough. The third gang was of 36 or 37 women, who were engaged in hoeing out cane. Their clothing seemed heavy for the climate, their shoes ponderous and ill made, so as to wear away the feet of their thick stockings. Coarse straw hats alai bright cotton handkerchiefs protected their heads from the sun. The silence which I have already alluded to pre vailed among these gangs also—not a sound could be heard but the blows of the hoe on the heavy clods. In the rear of each gang stood a black over seer, with a heavy-thonged whip over his shoulder. If " Alcibiade" or " Pompee" were called out he came with outstretched hand to ask " how do you do," and then returned to his labour ; but the ladies were coy, and scarcely looked up from under their flapping chapeaux de paille at their visitors. Those who are mothers leave their children in the charge of certain old women, unfit for anything else, and " suckers," as they are called, are per mitted to go home to give the infants the breast at appointed periods of the day. I returned horn. multa mecum revolvers. After breakfast, in spite of a very fine sun, which was not unworthy of a January noon in Cawnpore, we drove forth to visit some planter friends of M. Roman, a few miles down the river. The levee road is dusty, but the gardens, white railings, and neat houses of the planters looked fresh and clean enough. There is a great difference in the appearance of the slaves' quarters. Some are neat, others are dilapidated and mean. As a general rule, it might be said that the goodness of the cottages was in proportion to the breadth of the frontage of each plantation towards the river, which is a fair index to the size of the estate wherever the river bank is straight. The lines of the estates are drawn perpendicularly tothe banks, so that the convexity ca concavity of the bends determines the frontage of the plantation. The absence of human beings in the fields and on the roads was remarkable. The gangs at work were hidden in the deep corn, and not a soul met us on the road for many miles except one planter in his gig. At one place we visited a very handsome garden laid out with hothouses and conservatories, ponds full of magnificent Victoria Regia in flower, orange trees, and many tropical plants, native and foreign date and other palms. The proprietor owns an extensive sugar refinery. We visited his factory and mills, but the heat from the boilers, which seemed too much even for the all but naked negroes who were at work, did not tempt us to make a very long sojourn inside. The ebony faces and polished black backs of the slaves ss ere streaming with perspiration as they toiled over boiler, vat, and centrifugal driers. The good refiner was not gaining much at present, for sugar has been falling rapidly in New Orleans, and the 300,000 barrels produced annually in the South will fall short in the yield of profit, which on an average may be taken at £ll a hogshead, without counting the molasses for the planter. All the planters hereabouts have sown an unusual quantity o. I dian corn, so as to have food for the negroo a the war lasts, without any distress from inland or sea blockade. The absurdity of supposing that a blockade can injure them in the way of supply is a favourite theme to descant upon. They may find out, how ever, that it is no contemptible means of warfare. At night, after our return, a large bonfire was lighted on the bank to attract the steamer to call for my luggage, and she was to leave at a point on the opposite shore 14 miles higher up, and I per ceived that there are regular patrols and watchmen at night who look after levees and the negroes ; a number of dogs are also loosed, but I am assured by a gentleman, who has written me a long letter on the subject from Montgomery, that thew, dogs do not tear the negroes ; they are taught merely to catch and mumble them, to treat them as a retriever well broken uses a wild duck. Next day I left the hospitable house of Governor Roman, full of regard for his personal character and of wishes for his happiness and prosperity, but assuredly in no de gree satisfied that even with his care and kindness the " domestic institution" can be rendered tolerable or defensible, if it be once conceded that the negro is a human being with a soul—or with the feelings of a man. On these points there are ingenious hypo theses and subtle argumentations in print " down South" which do /inch to comfort the consciences of the anthropoproprietors. The negro skull won't hold as many ounces of shot as the white man's- Can there be a more potent proof that the white man has a right to sell and to own a creature who carries a smaller charge of snipe dust in his head ? He is plantigrade and curved as to the tibia! Cogent demanatra tion-,that he was made eivressly to work . for the aicli-footed, straight-tibia'd Cau casian. He has a rete mucosum and a coloured pigment. Surely, he cannot have a soul of the same colour as that of an Italian or a Spaniard, far less of a flaxen-haired Saxon ! See these peculiarities in the frontal sinus—in sinciput or occiput ! Can you doubt that the being with a head of that nature was made only to till, hoe, and dig for an other race ? Besides, the Bible says that he is a son of Ham, and prophecy must be carried out in the rice swamps, sugar canes, and maize fields of - - - the Southern Confederation. It's flat blasphemy to set yourself against it. Our Saviour sanctions slavery because he does not say a word against it, and it's very likely that St. Paul was a slaveowner. Had cotton and sugar been known he might have been a planter ! Besides, the negro is civilised by being carried away from Africa and set to work instead of idling in native inutility. What hope is there of Christianising the African races except by the agency of the apostles from New Orleans, Mobile, or Charleston, who sing the sweet songs of Zion with such vehemence and clamour so fervently for baptism in the waters of the " Jawdatu ?" If these high physical, metaphysical, moral, and re ligious reasonings do not satisfy you, and you ven ture to be unconvinced and to say so, then I advise you not to come within reach of a mass meeting of our citizens, who may be able to find a rope and a tree in the neighbourhood. EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT METZ?. RR BY A FOREIGN AOBLEHAIV: (Front the Morning Post.) The public mind has hardly recovered from the excitement occasioned by the great fire in the me tropolis when it is likely to be agitated by the pro mulgation of one of the most fearful incidents that has occurred in this country for many years past — an attempt not merely at murder, but the murder of a son by a father, a man of rank, of distinguished manners and position, moving in the best society. Nor is the crime one of darkness or of secrecy ; it was perpetrated—if accounts be true, and, unfor tunately, there is no reason to doubt them—in broad daylight, within a few paces of a frequented high road, in a populous neighbourhood, and not many yards away from a palace which the perpetrator of the crime was apparently on his way to visit, after calling and being received as a welcome guest at another residence of the same royal family. - The story about to be told is unparalleled in the annals of crime, in the romance of private life, or in those stories of domestic tragedy familiar to every English fire-side. For some years past there has moved in London society an individual commonly known as the Baron de Vidil. In manners polished, in address insinuating; tall, graceful, eleg en t, and accom plished ; of brown complexion, in ripened man hood, with hair still black and cut short, as of one who remembered his campaign in Algeria, and how very much that hair had been in the way when An Arab seized it in close contest ; with whiskers just powdered by time ; reputed wealthy • coming into society under the respectable name of the Orleans family, with the romantic reputation of fidelity to a fallen dynasty, no wonder that the Baron Alfred Louis Pons de Vidil readily found his way, under such auspices, into the heart and centre of London society. Such a man came, saw, and conquered. In 1835 he married Miss Susannah Jackson, co heiress to a wealthy Hertfordshire gentleman, and found his associations with English society strengthened by his " family" ties with the brother of his wife, a gentleman of ancient family and pro perty. Hence he soon became a member of the Travellers' Club. When the premature death of his wife had freed him from the constraint of domestic ties, he lived a bachelor at the Clarendon, and when the attractions of the London season were over, he was lost sight of by the gay world for a time. This foreign nobleman of pleasant manners, reputed wealth, and matured experience, had a son, the heir of a large portion of his mother's fortune (to descend to his father if he died without heirs). This son, having graduated at Cambridge, was now 23 years of age, and was in a position to claim his fortune. The father had not permitted the gaities of fashion able life to make him forget the pleasures of a pa , rent, and thus it happened that on Friday, June 28—that is just a fortnight ago—the baron sent to his son's chambers in Je rm y n-street, inviting him to come to breakfast with him at the Clarendon, and go with him to make a call on the ex-Queen of France, a t Claremont; They left t h e Clarendon to gether at 12 o'clock, and proceeded to Waterloo Station, where they took the 12 45 train to Twicken ham, and there alighted. It will be remembered that there is an inn close by the Twickenham sta tion, and thither, at the Baron de Vidil's sugges tion, his son, Alfred John de Vidil, went with him, and the baron having selected two horses, it was settled they should ride on to Claremont, about six or seven miles distant. The baron handed his son a light lady's riding whip, and asked for one for himself, but started without it. On nearing Clare mont the baron at first wished to put up at an inn and take some refreshment, but afterwards went forward a short distance to see whether any of the Orleans family were at the palace. Having ascer tained the presence of the Due d'Orleaus, they re turned to the inn, put up their horses, and walked to Claremont House. The Due d'Orleans received the Baron de Vidil as an honoured guest, and chatted with him in a friendly manner on vari ous subjects foi nearly an hour. The father and son then returned together to the inn, remounted their horses, and proceeded gently at a walking pace homeward. It was at this time his son became im pressed with a strangeness in his father's manner, a singular absorption on his part, which led him, from some unknown impulse, to lay particular attention to his father's every action. He noticed that his father, who was a fine horseman, made his horse passage and curvet, and occasionally rear, but this had not the effect of making his son's horse even fidgetty, for it was a dull beast. They kept on at a walk until they had reached Hampton, where the baron proposed they should rest and take refresh• ment; but his son declined, being anxious to get rid of his horse and finish the journey, during the whole of which he had felt depressed as if by the conscioas ness of some coming misfortune. He therefore rode on, but his father soon overtook him, and on c fr o o m m ing a up asked him to dine at Hampton, similar feeling, the young Alfred again r of Bushey wilich declined. As they passed out through the gate cut with Park the baron gave his son's horse a sly him but the the whip which he had tak en horse was so tame in spirrittionorromso used to such of hired hack s touching up—the usu al .p o that it took no noti ce of it, and the baron returned his son the whip. Trivial as these matters m ay appear, the enumeration and character of th em tends to deductions of importance in relation to subse quent events. It must be observed that the Baron de Vidil carried no whip, stick, or weapon with him, and that if he had any about him they must have been concealed. They now went along at a slightly brisker pace by the high road towards Twicken ham, and when they had reached a public-house on the road side, just where a lane branches off, the baron checked his horse and inquired of his sou