The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-07-12
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
Richmond. July IL, 1855.
SOUTHERN SLAVERY.

very inteiiisent correspondent OF the NeW
York Times, who is making the tou- Of the
South, and writes highly interesting letters
relative to what he sees in the South, takes a
much more liberal and just view Of slavery in
the South than most of travellers who hail
from countries where slavery does not exist
He draws very animated and evidently truth
full picture Of the usages upon large planta.
ton where the slaves are treated kindly and
have many priyileges-indeed such as are &C.
corded to them on most plantations-viz -
the cultivating small fields or gardens of
their own, the owning of many things and the
purchasing from them by thoir masters at
reasonable prices whatever they have for sale,
or assisting them in getting it to market, &c.
Upon this picture he thus comments
( Here you see an illustration Of what be
lieve, have before suggested: Slavery is a
grand, practical, orking system of Socialism.
Ii brings up, too, another aspect OF Slavery
its happiest and best. AH1 fA
The negroes came to US from barbarism as
from cradle, with confused, hali-developed
mind, with strong and simple appettes and
impulses, but whimsical and unrelisble; FORM
ing attachments quickly, and cleaving closely
TO their protectors and superiOrs; but, it re-
moved from one, forming the same relations
quickly, and with equal strength, with another;
subject TO violent and uncomfortable passions,
and altogether undisciplined. uneducated, un-
ChristianiZed.
Here see their master, dealing with them
as father might with such children; guard.
ing them sedulously against dangerous tempta
tions, forbidding them TO indulge in bad prac
tees, rewarding the diiigent and obedleHt, and
chastising the perverse and indolent; antici-
pating and providing for their wants; en-"
couraglng them in the provident use OF their
little means of amusement, and comfort, and
luxury; all the time furnishing them the ne.
cessary support Of life; caring diligently for
them in sickness; and only when they are of
good age and strength. SO long as he is their
guardian, demanding of them certain amount
OF their labor and assistance, TO increase his
own comforts, and provide for his age.
Were but all Slavery this, and were but this
all of Slavery! YEoMAN.
% The Danville Register notices the death
of Mack. McCubbin, otherwise Nicholas Nc
Cubbims, very remarkable man, and the last
of his family. The trait in his character which
made him remarkable was his having dnlect
OF his own, which he adhered to through life,
and which his intercourse with men did not in
any manner change, and which no temporary
excitement or exigency could make him forget.
1t is said that Nick. was sent to school when
10y but that no persuasion, threat or pun
ishmen, could make him learn the alphabet
When the teacher called out A B G, he imme.
diateiy said zone, honey, peep" He was CIV
en- up as hopeless case, and grew to man.
hood, with his lingual peculiarities, which
went with him to the grave. His conversation
to a stranger, the Republican truly says,
would have been as unintelligibIe as that of a
Fejee Islander. Yet there was an appropriate
ness in the sound of many of his words to the
thing they were meant to designate. The
liquidness of the word "Gullock'' made it not
an inapt name for water, TO which he applied
it-disinguishing brandy from it by the term
"hot gullock," which, by the way, poor Nick.
became little too fond of before he died. He
called tavern keeper "guzzleman," which
as drinking and suzzling at country taverns
in his young days was excessive, was also not
bad term. Woman he ever persisted in call
ing "one." In this there may have been some
sagacity, too. Nick. may have inferred from
the terms of marriage ceremonies that as a
man and his wife were one, and woman often
the controlling member of the union, that she
was properly entitled to be considered the
"one." He never married, and possibly it was
from an apprehension of the absorption of his
individuality by the marriage uAit. In his
younger days he certainly had mother, with
whom he lived in a cottage in the edge of
North Carolina. He also rode very fat little
horse, and it was difficult to tell which he was
most careful Of his mother or this little ami
NAL. They were his only relations on earth,
if we except that kinship which he bore to hu.
manity as a son of Adam. The venerable
Mrs. McCubbins had sunk into the grave years
since, and the faithful horse had, no doubt,
gone to the heaven Of horses, and Nick. the
last plank of his family ship, has in time float
ed to the shores of the dead. He was kindly
treated in his declining days. and finally put
away decenrly and humanely by those that
had known him well, and had often been
amused by his singulariiies.
~ The U. s. Circuit Court, at Trenton.
on last Friday, granted motion on behalf of
John d. Hager, of Poughkeepsie, New York,
to compel the Directors of the New Bruins.
wick Steamboat and Canal transportation
company, to produce certain books said to con-
tail, IN. evidence of fraud, by which Hager,
former s,ockholder, was unfairly dealt with
in a settlement with said company, and also
to open said settlement with view to . rsas-
easement of the amount due him.
PRryarE EsTERP RISE rs. PUBLIc.-In the
N. Y. Tribune we observe notice IN winch
one Of the printers Of that city offers to supply
the public with envelopes. bearing postage
stamps, together with the business card OF the
rsr.on ordering them, at government prices