Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-04-30

paror they spread themselves about and enjoy
Cd the exctement OF the hour the children Of thu
family did who were mingled with them.
admit THIS IS not very dgnfed in the deed the de
scrPton put 1t serves two good purposes one, to in
roduce new species Of electrical humbug and the other
to show the indoor life and times Of Southern servants
That they have far happier life of than our servants
the North is plain enough to any man who will 20 into
the families and make himself at home keeping his ewes
open and studying what he and hears True it is
that those who laugh the not the happes al
ways but the wisest of said that oppression
makes wise mad and have seen nothing that look
ed like Madness but much of mrth among these people
we took leave Of pleasant friends at Presley and
rode on few miles further crossing twice the crooked
Pomonkey and reached the Cherco the residence Of the
family Of the late General or as he was well known Dr.
braxton TINS gentleman, noble specimen Of the old
schoo OF virginia manners, model citizen christian and
frenu died about year ago. leaving large and spen-
did estate now occupied by his family The spacious
manon, repete with every comfort which taste
and wealth may furnish is surrounded by fine lawns
well with great trees while the broad spread
elery side of it well titled and yield their abundant
nss x We made charming visit with the sc-
c0untry side around. The intelligent company here and
at the residence of Henry Webb, Esq, which also visit
ed tone Of magnificent situations have
seen gave muth information of the practical work
ings of the labor system of the South had the oppor
tunity Of seeing plantations under the operation. saw
also life in Vrgnit had not seen it before, and stu
died it with open tyes and an earnest mind
We do not knoy how many good people there are in
this world till ravel and rest among strangers Here
found elegant, refined and educated women taking
upon themselves such responsibilities and performing
such services for those who in the place of servants
would scarcely have believed the report of book
newspaper Ladies whose adorned the
paror SPEEDING their morning hours in long walks
of mercy among the sick and poor, not making merit
of it, but finding their pleasure in ministerng to the
wants of those who feel and appreciate the power Of hu
man sympathy 1t impossible for to avoid con-
trastng this devotion with what have SO often read
the Indifference and cruelty which is shown in foreign
lands by the arsocracy the peasantry and poor and
here the sweet and heavenly power of the Gospel
Christ producing that love which binds all classes of
kind in common brotherhood Love is the fulfilling Of
the law and if the genial influence Of that principle may
be allowed to work its appropriate effects the hearts
Of all, we shall such results will gladden. all the
good.
If san find the time before going abroad, to
give the facts gathered from gentlemen here in relation
to the support and instruction Of their servants They
were ready to answer all my inquiries and to give the
most minute information to the political and moral
know something of subject before pronouncing
judgment The public mind has SO long been excited
with r,mantc and imaginary stores or at the worst by
extreme furnished specimens Of system, that it
unified to receive the TRUTH and he who tells it is
denounced false witness But that shall deter
from saying that the best friends of the cclored people
whom have met the Christian men and women
of the South My hope under God for the eventual hap
pness Of the in this country is such people
am now among and would give for their prayers
and labors than for all the sound and fury sgnifyng
nothing that have been expended the subject for
century. New York Observer.