Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-01-08

because these men happen to eSist in the
south, Is Just as absurd as it would be for us
to iaunt Frenchmen With their poverty. be.
cause the Marquis of Westminster has E300.-
600 ayear.
- st guard your readers, however, from
hscause polish is not to be met
is altogether absent
ID America have their
surprising that.osA HE very outset hv
with, good breeding hadlv dresssa
Most English travellers N Asss,or -.
bile reused, imagine. at o. ,rho-o
the want Of all difference from ,ybiab
men to we'll dressed men, aud ever 49,
upon everything with jaundiced eyes. No.
is, perhaps, no country in the world inN ~
mere dress e lets less demonstration Of resp
Every man has more or less of what in Fl
land is called manliness, seems tolerably sun
of his position and his own rights and main-'
tains his dignity. But to suppose that this
begets positive rudeness is a mistake. 1 feel
quite satisfied that if all classes were mixed
up in travelling, speciaIly for ladies, it would be
inloleraLle. One would see more coarseness,
rudeness and indecorum in one day in an
English third class carriage than one sees here
in week, making. OF course, due allowance
for the difference in the divers conyentionah-
ties by which people in the two countries re-
gulate their conduct in public.
l stayed night in Augusta, Georgia, and
witnessed torchlight procession in honor of
Mr.. Buchanan. A leading feature in the per-
formance was sixty-eight FOUNDER, of can.
vass, with lights inside. and bearing the in
scrlption "Buck cannon in huge letters.
About two thousand persons took part in the
ceremony, including good many negroes.
Judging from their appearance, l should say
very few were capable of forming any judg-
ment at all as TO the relative merits of the
candidates for the Presidency; but as every
one of them had vote, every one of them
exercised some influence uuon the destines
of one Of the greatest and the most promising
States in the world. The proceedings were
wound up with discharges Of artillery and
speechitying from local orators in The court
house. The negroes seemed as enthusiastic
in the cause as anybody, which the Pro- Slav.
cry men seem to think a heavy blow and great
discouragement to the Abolitionsts. 1t is a
curious thing tol see how the minds of the
people on all other subjects most sensible,
most reasonable, most clearheaded, seem to
run riot on the slave question, end set at ut
ter defiance both logic and experience. Talk
ing with an intelligent man IN Montgomery
the other day upon the luminosity existing be-
tween North and South. he said the South
was so sure of its position that the clamor
and threats of the Free Soil party made no
impression on it. He added that in case of
a civil war large force of negroes might be
raised, who would render excellent service.
lie evidently considered my Undergraduates as
TO whether personal freedom was not absolute
ly essential to the efficiency of a corps hastily
raised in troublesome times as not worth
moments consideration. Liberty had clearly
lost all value in his eyes as an Incentive to ex-
ertion on the field of battle-at least in
! America; and yet l have not the smallest
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and come TO talk of European affairs, he
would have declared that the love OF it and
the craving for it in the breast of Pole or
Hungarian rendered him match for two or
three Austrians or Russians.
1t is curious to see how the passion for dress,
and above all for French fashions in it, has
penetrated TO every nook and corner of the
country. l am staying in "hotel'' in which
all the chairs are made of deal; in which there
is an average of three beds in every cold, bare,
whitewashed room in which l am waited
upon by filthy negroes; in which my looking
glass is nailed to the wall, and is only four
inches square. Two-thir1s of the men in the
little town board in it, and before each meal
wash in two tin basins, and arrange their hair
at glass in the hall with the same comb and
brush, suspended therefrom by stout cord
How they aboard" may be guessed from the
fact that | sat down tor breakfast this NOR
ming With sixty gentlemen" and that with.
in ten minutes of the ringing of the bell, by
my watch. there was not a soul at table but
myself and two others. All had eaten and
gone. There was not single clean shirt to
be seen among the whole party, and yet every
one of them wore black, shabby coat of Par
isiai cut, and the thnnest and lightest that
could poss bly, be got to hold together.-
Our s.parlor' is exactly like a ward in the
hospital at Scutari. The furniture consists of
deal chairs, except the rocking chair; and its
carpet appears 20 have been manufactured
about the time of the revolution All its col
ors have disappeared under the influence of
tobacco juice. We are lighted in it by one
candle Of diminutive proportions. which, with
the assistance of the whitewashed walls. just
makes the darkness visible. The house is
Just such one as you would expect to see
tenanted by burly farmers, in top boots and
corduroy; in which one would look for
coarse cloth and thick soles; ia which most
Englishmen would think a decent shooting
coat rather out of place. But such is the pas
sion here for foreign fashions that every one
in and about it, with his threadbare black, his
doubtful linen, his patched unbrushed Paris
boots, wears the appearance Of strollng ac-
tor out OF employment The ladies OF the
house come down in the evening alfred in all
the hues Of the rainbow, aud sit in the paror
after dinner, in melancholy grandeur in the
uncertain light Of the solitary luminary of the
place. The men smoke and spit in the bar,
and the niggers lounge in the passage. Every
one seems trying to avoid everything in the
matter Of costume which would be in the
least degree suitable to an active life in a half
settled region in the heart of a forest covered
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