New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-07-30
TIE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA!
By W1G,v HowtBD Rr.sziI LID, Bslf,er 1t Law, tho
Special Conc pendent u ne london Tunes.
NATCHEz, Mise, June IT,.
Continued from IT.. Tiar II JalyI2.

By wnnav Hew,sD Rg.s.; LIP B,lli,.r e. Law tho
NATcHrz Mise, June H.
Continued from Tie Tina IF Jalyl2
As we log along in an easy-rolling carriage drawn
by pair on stout horses, a number Of While people
meet us coming from the Catholic chapel of tie PARISH
where thoy mad cen attending service for the re-
nose OF the rou Of lady much beloved in the ncigh-
borhood The black PEOPLE suppOsed TO have very
happy souls, 10 be utterly iOst Dir. shandy
hOmuncule uuder certain circumstances for have
failed find that any such services considered
necessary in their case although they may have been
very goCd-Cr where il wonld be most desirablevery
bad Catholics. Ny good young friend, clever, amia-
/ be accomplished. who bad daik cloud II sorrow
weighing down his young lie that sooEed HIM TO al
moot feminine tenderness, saw none Of these thing-.
He talked OF foreign travel IN days gone byof Paris
and poetry Of England aud London hotels Of the great
C1rme aud OF poor Alexis SOyer Of lctufeH OF politics
Ii 0laHc scibd Tie storm gathered overhead, and
the rain fell in tOrentsthe Mississippi flowed lifc-
esey by--uot "a boat it, broad surface Tie road
passed by plantations smaller and poorer than have
vet seen belonging to small planters, with only some
zen or twelve saves all told The houses were poor
and ragged. At last We reached Gov. Manuing's
place. and drove 10 the overseeT Cd large, hcavy-eye ell
old man. who asked us INTO his house from out Of the
rain till the boat was Ieady-and the ryer did not
look inyting-full Of drift trees swrls, and mighty
eddies. IL the plain room in which we sat there
a volume OF Spurgcons Sermons and Bakers works.
" This rain viii do good to tie corn, faid tho over
seer "Ibe niggorS las had sceerce nOihn' 10 do
leetly, as they eve cleared out The fields pretty
we'll" We drove down 20 poor shed on tie levee
called the Ferry-hoGse, attended by one stout young
slave who was 70 TOW Inc over. Two hat-5ottomcd
ekiGs Law on the bank. The negro CROPPED under
the she'd and pulled out piece of wood like a largo
sratula some four feet long and small, round pole
"A little longer. "Nhat arc those :" quOth J. " Denis
oars Nassa," was my sable feuymans biisk reply.
" I'm very sure they are mott If they were spiiced
they might make an oar between them" Golly and
datfs tho trute Nasea' "There, 20 and eet oars,
win your While lie was hunting about We entered
the shed for shelter from the Iain We found sol
iary woman sitng" fm0king pipe by the ashes on
the hearth biearcyed, low-browed, and mOrOfe-
Young as she was. She never said word nor moved
as we came ill., BAT and smoked, and looked through
her gunmy eyes o. chickens about the szc OF spdTOws,
and az "a cat 10 larger than rat which ran about on
the dirty floor Htle girl some four years Of age,
not over. 5relaedrdeed, ha,i-uaked not TO put too
fine point upon ir'-crawled ont from under the bed,
where she had lid on or approach. IN she seemed
incapable OF approaching the uscs OF a snail piece OF
silver presented TO ler-hayng DO pIecire ideas on
coinage toiyher parent took the obons In charge
with unniEiakablc decisiUn bnt, stIl che would not
stir stop to aid Charon, who now Insisted the
" key oy de OT-hOusc' The little thing Tiled OF and
hunted il ont from the top Of tho bedsetd and
not sol1y to qni. ,he company Of the silent woman in
black. ChaIOn pushed bis sdd into the wateI-theio
was q good deDl Of Iaiu ia tin shape q snuierdish,
come ten let long and foot deep. got in aud Tho
conscious Waers Immediately began vigorously spar
lug through the cotton WaCding WhereWlth the craft
was edulkcd. Had we gone out into the stregm
we should have bad swim for IT, and they do say that
tho Mhsisippl l. tie most dangerous river for that
healthfal esefcs0 b. the known world. "Nhy, deuce
take yoa" Il laid at least that, in my WRATH, don't
you see that the boat IL leaky ~ See now iog true,
Alassa. Nobody able to I'll. dat til aiassa get in, tho'
Another skiif proved TO be stanch. bade good bye
to my friend, and sat down in my boat, which was
soon forced up along tho stream close to the bank
~ order to get good start across 10 tho other tdc
The view, from my lonely position, curious, but
hot at all picturesque. Tie Landscape had disappeared
at once. Tie world was bounded On both sides by a
hlgh bank, and was constituted by brOa. ryeIJust
AS II one salug down oTau sewer Of enormous
length and breadth. Above TOO bank rose, however,
the tops Of tall tree. and tie chinueys Of suguhOuses
a row Of quarter of in LoGr brought us 10 the
i s On me other eide. ascended Tue bank and
directly IN trout Of Ine, acIoss the road, appeared
carriage gateway, aud Yiekels VI wood, Pailsed