The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-02-11
THE DAILY DISPATCH.



sr,rcs pEcuLIARfrrEs The December mum
,sr of Frsser's Magazine contains An article on
scotch Peculiari,ies." In which Is the following
simple and pathetic passage;
tn. Ssoteh are now demonstrative race. do
not believe among our iaeoring class nere IN the
: mosry. there |. any want OF real heart and feel.
tns hat there Ia a great awkwardness and stiff
meas In the expression Of it. People here do not
rive utterauce their emotions like your volatile
Freuehmen: they have words to say what they
fael and they would be ashamed (biate, IN their
own ohrasc 10 use these words If they he'd them.
have had 4 touching instance OF this within ibe
tsst few days Do you remember our taking
ralk together Que beautiful afternoon to the cot
tase of one of my people, \ poor fellow who was
diving of consumption You sst upon a style.
recoect and read proof. while went In aud sat
with him for f;w minutes. IL seemed 10 cheer
him a litle 10 have vist. from the laird and
often went to ace him. Ate you l.f. Us he sank
gradually IL was judi the old story of thst hope
les, maisdy; till at last after a few days 10 bed,
he died. I hate all cant and false pretence. but
there wa. earnest reality ia the simple .aiih which
made my humble friends last hour calm and
hopefI When he felt himself dying he sent f
ME, and weat AID staid beside bim for several
hours The clergyDans house was some miles
OF, and apart from privste regard, il was part If
N du.y as elder CT ie kirk to go and pray as
well as could with the poor fellow He was only
thirty two but be had been married eigb: or lne
years, an 4 he hsd four little children. Afer laying
silent for a while, he said he would Iise to s'e
them gain. and his wife brought them TO his bee.
side. koow well that dying father ever teii "A
more hearty afec!i fer the little things be wa
leavieg behind, a Bore sincere desire tor their
welfare after he bad left them. He was cot 70
weak but that he could speak quite distinctly alo
1 thought that he would try and say something 10
them In the way of parting advice were II only
70 be good children and to be kind and ooeoient 10
their mother. Yet all he did was TO shake each OF
ne elder children by the hand and TO say-"Gude-
day"
old. he said to twill you gle me bit ki,si'
s1d the mother lifted up the wondering child to
do 80 SAY Ta-ta 70 your father, she said -
"Ta-ts," said the poor little boy. in loud cheer.
ful voice, and then out of the cottage to play
with companions. The story, feel, is moth
ing to tell; but the little scene affected me much
believe have told you the very exact words
iba. were said; aud then the dying man turned
away his face aud closed bis eyes, and saw many
tears down bis thin cheeks. / knew ii
the very abundance # that poor mans heart that
choked his uterance, aud brought down his last
farewell to common place greeting like that with
which be might have parted from neghbor for
few bours. Gude-day was his firew ell forever!
SAMUEL JoHNSoN's STRUGGLE IN LIFE Ma.
cauley in his recent biographical essay ON the Life
If Sam'l johnson, and a. that period when his
struggle was severe and his reward scanty, says:
The misery of that struggle needed no aggrava-
tion bu: was aggravated by the sufferDgs of An
rssouad body and unsouud mind. Before the
young man left the university, his hereditary ma.
lady had broker forth in a singuarIy cruel form
He had become an incurable hypochondriac He
said long af.er that he had been mad all his life,
or at least not perfectly sane; and 10 truth, eccen
tricities less strange thai Bis have often been
thought ground sufficient for bsoyiDg felons, and
fsr setting aside wills His grimaces, his gestures,
his mu;teriDg1, sometimes terrified people who cid
not know him. At a dinner table he would, in a
fit of absence, atoop down and twitch off lady's
HI ,.tI Ir,,. h,yn
denly il lcula,ing clause of the Lords Prayer.
lie would conceive uniateligibie aversion TO
particular alley, and perform great Circuit
rather than see the hsteful place. He would set
his heart touching every post in the streets
through which he walked. If by any chance he
missed post, be would 60 back hundred yards
ard req air the omission
Uoder the influence of his disease, bis senses he.
came mortidiy torpid, and his Imagination morbid
" active. Al one time be would stand porting on
the town clock without being able to tell the
hour. At another he would distinctly hear his
mother, W no was many miles off, calling him by
his name But this not the worst A deep
melancholy took possession of him, and gave
dark tiUge TO all his views of human nature snd
OF human destiny. Such Indebtedness as he en-
dared has driven many men t. shoot themS lives
or drown themselves. But he was under
tsmptai1 n to commit suicide He was sick of life,
but he was afraid OF death; and ne shuddered at
every sight or sound which reminded him of the
inevitable hour. In religion he found bnt little
t)UlIpt uuTfuB MS OHR anu IeTVeHL MS CT Qel2Cs
tion, for bis religion parteok of his own chsrac-
ter. The light from heaven shone on him indeed,
but not in direct line, or with its own pure spleu.
dor. The ray had to struggle through disturb
ing medium; they reached him refracted dull and
dscolored by the thick gloom which had settled on
his sJuI and, though they might be sufficiently
clear to guide him, were TOO dim to cheer him
CUBAN SUGAR PLANTATIoN.-A correspondent
Of the Syracuse Courier gives the following inter-
tons Ia Cuba:
This estate Is very properly called tie "Flor de
Cuba. tflower OF Cuoa.") There are otier est.tes
e. large larger but none that have euch pert c,
.nachinei " aud " bich have laid much money
for that. add On buildings. There sbou. ,ntu
OF Ia ID nearly quartz of which are I'M
der cultivation with sugar cane tbs .lsnc h. inp
devoted grazing ana 2 .antain fields Ths p;oduct
OF this ATE OF course, varies with off rent Years
thus, last year owing to the rains they could not cut
al theit cane, and fe II Short hut s present avt
crop ,i, WN boxes aud uG0 hoeshesd of sugar
sBo ns eross iocome 1T present pr Will be from
$3.50 Zoo IT, $3.50 0oU. OF this enormous cum ,bont
onehslfis alb o b by interest ia debt and BY lts
anpuzi, ers-s. There are go hands $50 urero..
SAD 2oi,hi The are I've, scars caitnen
coJlers,snginee nc There are 80 OK car + r draw
ina toe to ihs mill and 600 oxen four heinz
resd TO every c'rt, and they relieved twice day
jhsrs meny buildings IN this visge for il ia al
most ke one Besides the Sugar house, there ID the
dwelling hous fer the and The orv
toE bcuses. tbs hospital, the baraceons for the ayes
and even nursery .os the children of th- saves
The sugsr-hsuse here IS the principal attraction
aud il is enormous fl sir. 1t lie oil one floor and
covered BY sim root and its Interior IL som what
emiia TO that o SONS OF our lar fin, les in
tew fork. Iaer1 are Two Iarse rolling mills ier
cIu,hios the cane, each with three rollers six f..
loog, sod psced top of two, the cane fesdipa
Itself aud passlnG aud over tn other 70
roiiers II con7s out squ,sz almost dry. and Hat
as sheet OF paper, the ju down into roughs
These rollers a'e sst very close, within an eighth of
al inch of eaeh other, and the pre- is enormous
To dive these roiers there is an en- q Of ffty horse
power. The .uloe 'hen is carried by pumps to set
OF fourteen kettles, where by stea IA it is condensed
snd then 1t runs through body Of carbon or burnt
bone In snother ret Of csterns it is hen carried to
vacuum pan, where it is evaporated then over set
OF copper pipes tor condensation, again through the
shsrcoal for cscoiotng, thea into another vacuum