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THE SOUTHERN STATES.
kFrom 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 signifies
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 of Mr. Davis would have created an
n of
a'
conspiracy,
iamllmtheenhim.
Buta n
dt
itsh 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
could not avert, to which F
REVIEWS 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 work, 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.
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Illimitable fields tilled by multitudinous
and impediments arising from nervous excitement and de • them.
b Record.ilitY ; and to invalids suffering from youthful error and
ne ees open on their vision, and prostrate at the
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London : Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Pater- p
base of the mountain of cotton from which they rule
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