The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-02-15

soly beyond boyhood, perservinsiy keeping up
kino OF Highland trot over number of ANAL pitch
osrreis with al the zest of white child from four
70 SIX years OF age begin to doubt whether they
ever grow mentally after twenty. They are pre-
socious cniidren being 30 initiative; they soon ri
pen. come 10 stand-stl and advance no farther
In ,nis respect Uncle Tom Is myth. but Topsy
reality. mean to 20 and see n sale of slaves nv
wish is TO Judge the subject fairly In all its bear.
gs, ny ana TINS may be trusted to do even by boz
n''onlsts LOT early prejudces and my national and
I ia,reu ioeilngs are certainly opposed to slavery;
gu, a, countenanees are history well prophe
~ .he hationai expression of faces in the North,
as contrasted with those of the South, tell a
s1l1nge, and to me an unexpected story, as re-
garos the greatest happiness principle of the
greatest number
'Of course il must be horua in mind that m
rules are without exception; but OH the haggard
anxious melancholy, restless sckly hopeless ia
ces have seen in the Northern States the rail
Ears on the steamboats, in the saloons, and partic.
uiary In the ladies' parlor. There is beauty of
feature and complexion, with hardly any ipdiyidu.
ahty OF character. Nothing like simplicity, even
among children after ten years of age-hot house
forced. impetious beings, the almighty dollars the
incentive and only guide to activity and apprecia
Il do not yet know much of the Southern ladies !;
put from Washington to this place l have been
struck by genera Improvement of countenance
ana manner In the white race and this in spite of
the horrors which accompany the misuse of tobac
CO. III the gentlemen of this part of the country
would not only acquire habits of self.control and
decency IN this matter they would, indeed. become
ne fTtnr ChieatSers of the United States as their
nuns ana valleys may prove the store houses and gar
dens of the Union"
AT Charleston she sees still further reason TO he
pleased with social life at the South: ~
My pleasant Washington friend called and took
me 10 lttie dancing party, at the house of one of
his married daughters, where saw youno ladies'
more natural, and more gracefully and smnlv at
tred than IN the Northern States both the tone
OF voice and the choice of words and pronunciation
are much more Ike old England as one proceeds
further south; the habits simpler and more unos-
tentatious, and the dress of every day wear il
suitable and gentlewoman-like, instead of being.
as In the North, unbecoming, stiff, and extraya,
giant; the young women plastering their hair and
wearing silks fit for their 1Fandmothers, and the
middle aged spending hours In repairing the raya.
ges of time by studious artificial contrivances
which, after all, make themselves evident to the
most superficial Observers
This is followed by argument that slavery is
the best condition for the negro race. The entire
South presents happy image of patriarchal life,
benevolent masters and attached servants Miss
Murray declares that "she had rather be a slave
there than "a grambling help in the northern
states"
The passages we have extracted will give the
reader some idea of the book but we should be
hardly just if we did not remark, that where the
lady's aristocratic prejudces do not stand in
her way, she seems to have taken kindly
view Of what she saw on this side of the Atlantic