New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-24

d,bts Of which DO reasonable travekY could CON-
plair. The prices varied greatly, being treble at
iome stations What they were at Others. Whether
tbs vas a slidirg fcsle Of honesty or Of actual
value, wss unable TO ascertain.
All dsy We rolled along, over the rich plains of
Poland, ,tppiIg st The large country towns OF
Siedce, Mieezyrzyc, Blsls, and others ~boss names
you have lever tesrd and never could pronounce.
The county nay be described in a few ~ords-
woods Of pine apd birch, fields OF rye, rape-seed
spd turDIps, broad, swsmpy pastures and scattering
one-story yilssep, With tbstched roofs aud white
washed walls. Suoburpt peasants in the fields,
dressed D round black felt caps, drtcolored shirts
aDd vide tIo~sers: Jews in the villages disgusting
70 behold, with shocking bad hats of the ssOye-pPe
breed, greasy love-locks hanging from their tenn
pee, and shabby blsck caftsns reaching to their
heels. There people justify The former midde-sge
superstition that tbe Jew is distinguished from the
CbEstisn by a peculiar bodily odor You can scent
them quite as far as you can zee them. Moses
would have hewn them limb from LIMB, for their
founess. The wOrtt of it is, they hover round the
post.ststiops AID pouDce upon & stranger, in the
hope of making something out of him, be il ever go
little. wss surprised to find tha. they all speak
little German, but hsye since learned that they all
do more or leis OF smuggling, in the Baltic provin-
ces. "Tbey are such tin id snd cowardly race,"
iad my informant "and yet when detected in the
act Of smuggling, they will sometimes fight despe-
,st,y, rather thar lore what they bavs." Many
Of them CARY On trade in cigars, done up 10 sealed
pack k,ge., which you are expected 10 buy without
opeDIng.
The towns through which one passes are built
upon ole modal, sDd present very little difference
in their general features. In the center is ususy
atp,clous square, which serves as a market place.
Tie shops and Government Offices front upon it,
ard broad sir.ets diverge from the four corners.
Most of the bOuses are oDe-story, and built of
wood, psiDfsd red, white or yellow. Standing in
the center of the square, looks over its low bar
rier upon some groups of ash, poplar or linden
trees, which rre from the gardens beyond, the
besvy, hslfA,istlc ,pire of church, and the ky
whoe large upbrcken vault rests npon the circle of
the horizon. At this sessop, when many Of the in-
babtants are in the feds, the place has silent
,eepy air. and you are glad to exchange it for the
ripping Of grain, the shadows Of the dark pines, and
the rmsl OF blossomiDg grasses, which awsi! you at
its very door.
In he afternoon, We crossed the Bug, the eastern
fro ntier of the last kingdom of Poland, although
the language is heard as far as the Dnieper, and
the Pollfh Ztots accepted ss currency. Here is an
immeD,e fortified camp adjoining the city of
Brzesc Some hundreds of soldiers were bathing 10
the .tresm and washing their clothes at the same
time. The fortlfcatiOns are built of brick, Of
areat exteut, but not Of remarkable strength
There are aso small military stations at intervals
along the whole length of tie road. The soldiers
are employed ID keeping in order email ornamental
garden, >tached to the buildings and tn sse bits of
gravel walk. tbicket and hower-bed are so many
cheerful oa,es in ,,ee Ig waste OF hatcultlvated
country.
For more than hundred and fifty miles, we
traver.ed the swampy country betwsAn fh~ ''"s
spd the Drieper. There is almost an uninterrupted
extent of msr.by lsnd-vafying greatly IN brsaaln
the Baltic to the Black Sea. The
streams which soim the Dnieper and the Dwins
owlr in contrary directions, are interlaced Like the
fingers Of two cs,ppg hands, so that there is In re-
ah,y No watershed, but level plateau, over which
the waters 90 wandering as if in search Of some ac-
cdent to determine their future course. In this
reriop the villages are few and far apart, and the
rabk, dark woods more frequent. Malignant gnat,
bit us Of night, and huge yellow CAD fie' came io
swsrms by dsy, to madden our horses and attack
ourselves. The country was monOtonous as the
,ea, and 30 close was the general resemblance be-
tween the districts through which we passed, that
we seemed to make no headway whatever. Every
morning, we opened our eyes on the same land
,cape, or the ssme wide, low village, and the same
abomiI able Hebrews. After two or three days OF
such travel, We hailed the first mOe-hil OF an ele-
vation with much the same feeling as If it had been
Mont Blanc. / could easily understand why the
Russian peasants, when they draw a mountain,
place its summit among the very stars.
The country, nevertheless, through all Central
Ru.s a. is evidently of great fertility, although un-
DER On imperfect system of cultivation, it does not
yield half Of what it 8 capable. The same charac'
ter of soil, in England, would be garden. What
Russia greatly needs s class of enterprisins agr-
cultursts who would live upon their land, and
devote themselves to its proper development. During
the whole Journey, 1 did not notice ten country
residences. The road, however, is comparatively
new and the old highway, via wilma and Smolensk,
which it bas superseded, no doubt presents better
picture in this respect Drainage, manuring and
juoiclOus rotation Of crops, would work wonders
with such a mellow and bounteous soil. Some
travellers speak Of the waste and desolAte appear
ance of the Russian plains; the French describe
this m as a SAVAGE WildpIuese but they are in fact