Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1854-11-10
Le.scr from II. NJ. stone.

1ShAtE hEOsaA Eis IA IABhts
We take pleasure in laying before our
readers the following letter from our old
friend Ezra ii, Stone. 1t was not intended
for publication, but as it will probably be
of interest to his numerous acquainlances,
we have taken the liberty to place it before
them ;-Norvalk EJperineat
MALAGA, Spain, Sept, 1854.
friend Jay:--Ths is a strange country.
Ii has high mountains, fine rivers, fertile
valleys, good grapes, good vine, good oran-
ges, good lemons aud good fgs poor peach.
es and miserable apples. There is also
grown good wheat, corn, oats, barley, Irish
and swee! potatoes; olives and olive oil are
produced in abundance. The chief articles
of export are raisns, lemons. oranges, figs,
olive oil and bar lead. All produce is
brought to market on mules and donkeys.
The market streets Of Malaga are a perfect
bedlam, day and night, with the hoarsc yell
ling Of Spanards, MOors, and the braying
Of jacks.
The people are OF all shades. black,
brown, copper color, and part white; few
ladies in silks, saiins and rufiies and great
many rags; few gentlemen, and host OF
men in rags. 1t is high or low, ;here is no
medium; the high are well educated, the
low are on a level with the mules they ride.
The city Of Malaga contains from 10000
to 10000 inhabitants There is a Cnthe-
dral, that cost more than the Capitol of the
United States; bull ring, that COS: more
than all the harbors on Lake Erie, (better
had the money been laid out in school
houses;) q theatre and al opera. Last
Sunday there was bull fight after service
at church; attended; FIVE bulls were Kill
led. Next after the bull Gght came the
military procession, part OF Espartero's
Nationals, which paraded through the
streets with the most captivating strains of
martial music. then in the evening came Of
the theair4-I was surfeted and did not
attend. The city OF Malaga is clean and
healthy, and is resort for invalids from
England, Scotland and Ireland, as well as
from America. The climate is not surpas.
sed in the world, as is said; the thermome
ter never varies more than thirty-6ve de.
grees, it is never above eghty-fye nor be-
low fifty. There arc only two Vice Consu
lates in this district, one is u the other i;
80 miles from here. l can not learn what
they are worth; can not even learn the
value of the Consulate here. I only know
that the present incumbent is very anxiou:
to hold on, and he supports very expen
sive family in style and cuts dash. ex
pect to take possession Of the Office this
week.
| think l shall come home in the spring
but shall probably return again in the fall
Ny health is greatly improved and so is
that Of my wife also; think this climate
will work a radical cure, hope so at least
We came by way Of Eng!and-stoppet
there Eve days-thence to Gibraltar. ant
from Gibraltar we came over the country
by land on mules, to avoid ten or lifeet
days quarantine at this place; we were
compelled to sleep on the ground in an ope,
field one night. because the little Villages
were all quarantine and would not let US in
and there are no buildings in Spain excep
in villages, and the villages are walled in
they are afraid Of each other; but we 60
some tea and bread by the aid of a smA
OIiOS the DlObG Was WAL vi anu VIC BO
along well. OF all the countries in the worl
this is the country to come to, that is. II
man gets discontented with the Unite,
States or its government, only come her
and he viii return 20 bis home and say tina
his lot has been cast in happy land, wher
the country is good, the people happy an
intelligent, and government that is mode
it protects all, oppresses none. In th'
country revolution follows revolution; E:
partero is al the head to-day, but anolhe
! revolution is brewing, and who will be uF
permost next no one can tell; but the mil
fortune of the whole system Of Revolution
as now carried on in Spain is, that they al
bloodless. If they would eat each oth'
up, like the cats, great good would gro
out of them. for better race OF peop
: might inhabit Spain but in the late revolt
ton that put Espartero into power, n
more than twenty, all told, were killed.
, , When Espartero came into power the gan
: was up with Soule for purchasing Cuba
, If the old Queen mother had continued
: pull the wires behind the throne and coul
. her cupidity might, and il is thought he
in the end, have induced sale OF that i
: and. but the people of Spain will never st
it. and they could not be made to belle
i that there is a power on earth stroI
" enough to take i; from her, such is their !
! norance oftheir own weakness and the for
- of the U. s.; they have no idea but th
. half dozen well directed proclamatio
would drive the United States out of Il
!, field. Just mention Mexico to them, it "
wish to see the fire fly. But they say th
: Mexico had but little ofpure Castilian bio
:, engaged in that war, else the result wou
i have been very diffarent. ~
But have spun out this letter too Ion
= I must bring it to close. If you can spa
= = the time It will pay any man to visit Euro
8 but can see nothing that would induce
- man to stay here twenty four hours, exec
=. - the climate or dollars and cents.
" hope to recover my health, If poSsib
and return home as soon as can.
II Respectfully,
- o. E. NJ. STONE.
ST.. PATRICK, Esq. 30
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