New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-12

content. Of jar -od for q medic, or sI er,t. =
Trinidad, and in this way . great portion Of h
20 COO inhabitants supplied with water. II shlstiss
not hbersry prscticed it Is no wonder.
pool on this stream just below the watering piaca
serves the laundry for large share Of the TradA
people. The display, when I passed 1t ooe ahemsss.
was remarkable: 20 or 20 negresses each attred 3
single garment, and having that reefed bound up 70
show their full length of hmbs-which were indeed
generally straight and well made enough TO bear any
cri'icsm--were knee-deep in the stream and squs,ed
on Its Margin rinsng, spashing and raising perfect
tempest OF mingled work and merriment. The nosrs
indeed seems here noisy and jolly on all occssioaA
those whose scared faces point them out as native
Africans quite as gay any. The blacks on the plaa-
tations do not seem as merry their townbrod fel.
lows.
We were well satisfied TO leave Trinidad on the I'll
Of March. The heat had been perceptibly Increasing
durirg our stay, and one OF two evenings had be-,
" close" end sultry, without the usual breeze. I
should advise travellers to visit Cuba and especially
the southern coast carly in the Winter January
The heat j. then less intense, and the lapse Of Tia
whole dry season has not destroyed 20 much Of TIA
general verdure Of the country at this later sessco
Trinidad has been visited by Americans 10 any Coz.
siderable extent and the Hotel Grand Antia has bee,
opened for the first time during the past Winter Re-
uembering this we must allow that il has been nsde
ga. comfortable as could be expected though there
il yet ample room for Improvement TO meet English or
American views Not word of Epgbsh was spokerbv
any belonging to the house, except single Old negroes;
and there were from morning till night constant caps
for "Lusaw TO come and interpret some guests de-
| mands for some simple thing Herses and volsntes
were scarce, poor and expensive. The table wN
abundant but the attendance Of two waters thirty
| or forty people was somewhat inadequate and the,
costume, dirty shirt and trowsers, with dirty towel
tucked in at the wastband hanging over the shoulder
was hardly suited 10 the demands Of elegance. One
cannot complain Of the want Of privacy in sleeping
apartments and the want Of any door fastenings other
than lock and hook and staple for in no Cuban house
that We saw was the former annoyance any less, and
we saw but spring catch door latch in the island.
The improvements made during the Winter at the sug
geeton Of American visitors many, that it .
fair to presume that another year viii hnd most OF the
remaining annoy ances removed, when we may safely
recommend the Cuban tourist 10 make Trinidad
leading point in his plan Of travel or residence IN the
island.
Returning TO Havana by the same route folovedca
our outward trp, we spent few days more in aad
about the city.
The general cemetery" is an interesting place. is
plan seems to have been suggested by the old Roman
colunbarii only provision is made for the depoSkO
bodies. instead of mere urns of ashes. An ana Of
perhaps three acres is surrounded with a wall aboa
fifteen feet high and eight feet thick, which is fs,
mere mass of stone arches like so many pigeonhoks,
in which oven-ke receptaNes the corpses are placed
snd the openings closed, each with marble slab,
which bears an epitaph. The whole is very neatly
kept The of ground inclosed Is, like the eeme-
terry at Trinidad partly occupied by wants and partly
by graves the bones of the tenants OK which are o.
intervals disintered to make room for Others. By
| some newly-opened ground bones and fragments Of
cofns were exposed, but there was nothing BIKE The
general neglect and wretchedness OF the Trinidad
cemetery.
The public hearse arrived while wewere at the gate,
is driver stalwart negro who like Hsnlets grs r.
digger, chad no feeling Of bis occupation" Tor be
grnned and laughed as if his calling were the joiss
IMAGINABLE. His hear,e contained two bodies the
one We saw taken out that OF man not STAINED
10 middle age clad Ia shirt and pantalooDs and Cared
in al open box.
We visited two gardens near the city, widely differ
ent from each other-the Bishops garden and thasa
Count HerIandines. The former is now compss
lively neglected, the grounds, however, beaurid
with their stately palms; and the house injured By
hurricane about Ten years Sihce' mas gone 70 i$Na
decay Trees OF pushss VI '",n'y rev ~ asa'
growing rom 'ne roo' at 'ne a"e,e', '"e'' ,'s
ing down anu aons us wan '"s , n% aa.
themselves are Cracked "s u10,' ana '"".'e's go
or nying loose ~ 'no "ihu' vnu' na'. s"Aen
Oh TIE cnainoe's' anu ''e "mo'' ."',""0oy -
the place recalls 10 mlnd noods Impressive PT~'
lhe Haunted House Inc %ner sa'ueH ~
feet contrast 10 thswa oeaueiiuly KEPT peSI'
ground NOT lsrge' Dun rnea WIN az 'ne mos '''s.s