The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1860-07-21
our NEw YoRK ooRREsPoNDENCE.
New York, July 3, 1850.

this country. 1t is not unusual for steamer OF
to carry over more than one hundred steeragel "
passengers-young mechanics, clerks, aglIcul- q
tural laborers and country sthoolina5tels from o
all parts of the Union, who have managed TO
save enough to enable them TO spend IRON b
three to six months in Europe. Composltors
from the larger cities of the Union arrive here
every spring and summer, on their way to
Europe; and most of them, ] have no doubt,
come back improved in mind and body. 1t ls I
great pity that it is not more generally i
known that to travel in Europe is by no means
an expensive affair. If a man wants TO put on
airs, and show himself off, he may, OF course, y
spend lust as much money as he chooses; but
sensible young fellow may acquire vast
fund of interesting information, q large proper
ton of which he may turn to good account III i
after life, at weekly expenditure OF ten dol
lars. | travelled over France and large por-
ton of Spain on foot on one occasion, when
my weekly expenses did not exceed $9 Tor
months together, living all the time IKE Il
fighting cock and am confident that learn
: ed more of the manners, customs, habits OF
thought and general cast of mind of the people
;, of those countries during that trip than l
would lave learned as an American Minister
or Secretary of Legation near the Court OF
c Madrid or tho Tuileries. On other occasions
! when Travelled as Americans and EngllshmeH
d usually do, dressing as well as | could, putting
: up at the best hotels and riding from place to
place, found that not only was | getting an
; unsatisfactory, superficial view of things, but
G that the little | did see was not real. Con
: versaton, eating, drinking, accommodations
l. and cvilities Of all sorts are specially got up
It in all countries to please foreign travellers who
70 spond their money extravagantly and assume
!, to be men of mark in their own country-not
: to instruct them. People arc not inclined to
/ "act themselves out" to be natural, before
'r "dstinguished foreigners" During my pedes-
rs tran tour. however, it was to no ones interest
r. TO deceive me. Sometimes | used to leave the
, main road and cut across the country, without
:. the slightest idea Of how far | was going to
~ walk, where was going to, or where should
ne put up at night, One day would fall in with
We parish priest with whom l would walk and
Il talk for hours the next day, perhaps traV-
ii. cling tinker would be my compagn0n de poyage;
n the next day, country schoolmaster, SIX or
: r. eight soldiers going home on furlough or re-
r' turning to their respective regiments, market
" gardener, q poor student, an expert thlet,
at travelling halter or printer short OF funds,
cd thrifty farmer, tavern keeper, gang OF con-
se- vcts on their way to the galley3 in charge OF
10 an escort of gen d'armes beggar, servant
=, girl who had just lett her situation and was
returning home, &C., &c. | always made
10 noint of conversing with every person | mel
on Who was communicative; and when was in
hO terestcd or instructed would remain day OF
er more near the homo of the persons who at
bo tractod me. in order that the information
,.o desired on any particular subject might b'
wv comuIeted in further interviews. Factories
No village schools, workshops, printing oihcos
II hospitals, barrack rooms, guard houses an'
the prisons appeared to me in their every da.
an costume. was not such IN Important person
on are that my movements were chronieedi no
would it have been thought necessary to &c
up display, eveh if my visits had been alitlol
lnd pated-which they never were. } Away
, ii "happoned ill.," But am afraid am Settn
lie tedious My thoughts run III Tins dliectio
ioal lust now, because have been convcrsins 10
-, the past three hours with couple OF youn
ny friends who arc anxious to spend year i
tort Europe, but are afraid they have not mono
in enough. | told them that while man ma
and spend with perfect case $4,000 year, "
= oel that would make $500 last me that long an
onioy myself. | speak French with lacllit.
and enough Spanish to make myself oompr
con heuded and that, of course makes some due
ling ence. But French is very easily learned |
The any man who knows how TO learn; and TO oil
IL man who understands Latin and French IL
'U learning of Spanish Portuguese aud ltalla
'4" 1 comes as easy as slipping oil log
inc The Japanese left for their home in the f
sted East the day after the arrival of the Gre
lead Eastern. They carried off large and usef
ltify stock of new ideas, experiences and present
and left us their bills to foot, with vague proI
ses Of profitable trade between their count
80, and ours. Thus far they have the best OF l
~ The Japanese were appropriately aescfoe
'niy lmany years ago, by an English traveller as !
the Yankees of the East The members OF I
and late Embassy were certainly men Of utilitari
habits and tastes. Tho princes were m9
lree. more interested in machinery, weaving, sf
bors buildipg. fire arms the assaying of gold a
silver. sc, than in balls, professions and &C
Ia, certs: and the inferior officers down to
aIu' servants Inclined also to the useful rather th
eek tho ornamental Our shop-keeper5 and Il
ION" ohanics say that they have never seon betl
Judges of the quality of fabrics and The woi
nber manship and finish of useful articles than I'M
the Asiatic Yankeee. Every attempt to lndl
,,;on them to purchase cheap, inferior articles
r SNOWY exterior was unsuccessful, althou
.no ~ they ramblod all over the city on shopping
Che cursons. and often without an American esct
Whom cheap watches, jewelry aud diamol
n are were displayed before them, they were coal
kin. GUS and complimentary but they would
so on buy. | saw several of them on the day oei
lends they sailed, III the sales Iooh VI tio " -
mole u Gibbs sewing machine, pertecnng th'
.He selves in the art Of Operating" Mr.. WI
I assured me that he never had more apt pu
er' than the Japanese, who were not content
merely learning to sew, but insisted upon
Sl0,s ling q machine taken apart and put to9et
ticket acain-a feat which, after having been q
S and once, they could perform, themselves,
great facility. They have also keen eye
speculation. Those who were learning
;, manage these machines had bought sev'
w. which they expected to sell when they ret
ent in ed home They had also made arrangem
with Mr.. Wilcox for being supplied prom
an with any number they might write for. "
: the mechanical skill Of these remarkable nc
v his is considered, together with the fact that
n the received, as presents, highly finished san
EJdv of every machine in the market, and
!, ID: therefore, ample time for investigating
pa merits, it is no small compliment to the
plioty aud general efficiency Of the Vile
!. Gibbs $50 Sewing Machine, that they sI
per ID have finally selected it as the machine
0Cfatle ,Sbich thew would be most likely to I