Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-03-06
varieties of cherries and other fruits which
he has succeeded in producing. Of him she

ries, and he is most scientific naturalist !;
his birds, stuffed and arranged by himself,
excel those of Waterton; and the manner
in which his chronological specimens are
preserved is quite unique and admirable ;
they are in frames with glass behind and be-
fore, othat they can be observed on all sides,
when held up to the light while, being
rendered imperyious to air aud unassailable
to insects, they are indestructible. am
promised specimen case, which will be an
invaluable example to collectors and museums
in Europe. DR.. Kirkland was also so obi
ging as to give me numerous shells from the
fresh waters of this district"
At Albany, on November 6, Miss Murray
becomes an inmate of Governor Seymour
house. 1t was in the midst of the election
in which he was second time candidate for
the Office of Governor of New York, and
was beaten by his competitor, Myron G.
Clark. Miss Seymour becomes interestedin
the election, admires the "calm indifference"
of her host to the result, and his "freedom
from weak ambition" Here she begins again
to speculate on the slavery question, and
comes to the conclusion that the emancipa-
ton of the black man has been prevented
by checking the slave trade, observing that
"If, when q sufficient number had been
imported, their labor had been materially
rendered of less value by the introduction Of
others, slavery would quickly have abolished
itself; but anti-slaverylaws checked the nat.
ural course of Providence"
At Albany, she learns to like the Ameri-
can clergy. 9
Gone circumstance is to be observed, oi
the American Episcopalian clergymen-and,
as far as I have been able to'remark, the same
thing may be said of the Presbyterian-that
they all read well, without the nasal tone or
the peculiar pronunciation of the Northeast
ern States. 1t is pity that civilians, espe-
cially diplomatic men, do not initiate their
clergy in this matter. think the latter, as
a body superior to ours. Among those whose
churches have attended, two ministers, ed
ucated and ordained upon our side of the At,
lantic, both good men, were pompous and te-
dious in the reading-desk and pulpit. And
we must confess that not many in England
either read or preach in an attractive man.
ner."
With Governor Seymour's family she Wis.
its New York, and is domesticated with them
in the st. Nicholas Hotel, the only fault she
finds with which is, that its furniture is rath.
er in the extreme of magnifcence. On the
fashionable society of New York she makes
these reflections:
"People here are not at all less exclusive
than in London; only the differences in rank
and wealth are evinced by more minute and
elaborate attention to dress, and to triAing
conventionalities, than with us. Ihave been
surprised to hear some men of business, b,..
of wealth, assert that cultivation of the fine
artists proof of national efeminacy |! Amer.
lean ladies bestow those hours of leisure
which English women of the same class give
to drawing, to the study of nature, and to
mental cultivation, almost wholly on person.
al adornment. Although it must be admit.
ted, that owing to the bad training of their
servants, ladies on this side the Atlantic are
compelled to look closely into the details of
domestic economy, yet it is odd that they are
generally far less competent to the perform
ances of everyday and sick-room duties than
the daughters of our noblest houses in Great
Britain and so long as girls here devote q
whole hour for every ten minutes allowed by
us to the toilet, they have no right to make
domestic affairs an excuse for want of gener-
al information. Of course there are brilliant
exceptions; but I fear the national character
of woman in the United States more resem-
bles that of self-indulgent Asiatics than of
energetic Anglo-Saxons. And, as far as I
can judge, their children are not being reared
in better habits. Human nature is prone to
extremes and these facts explain why some
individuals desirous of improvement have
fallen into a mistaken imitation of manly
character, instead of cultivating feminine
duties"
At New York she speculates little on
our political system, in which we have made,
she thinks, some mistakes, and hopes "that
a future generation will consider political
rights as due to property, and the virtues of
principle, independence and freedom from
selfish motives, rather than to the mere fact
of an individual having lived, and perhaps
misused, twenty-one years of life" Of
course rich man from England should be
allowed to vote Immediately ; poor man
never.
In December Miss Murray proceeds south
ward. At Baltimore she finds the relation
Of mistress and servant to possess Ga more
agreeable aspect than at the North, where it
is commonly characterized by complaints of
annoyance on the one side, and saucy indif-
ference on the other" Here also she meets
some southern ladies, "whose voices and man
ner of speaking are more refined and grace
full" than those of the other States she had
visited. At Washington, at Willard's Ho-
tc,, she finds in the evening dancing going on
very merrily in the ladies' room, "the ladies
all in demai-toilette;" but she remarks that
she did not ''see SO generally the absurd
Aauting style of dress so remarkable at New
York"
On this occasion, she thus speaks Of living
in hotels:
"On Christmas day I walked to church
with young lady, whose family yreside with
in few miles of this place; but they take