The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-08-10
suEerc.Iing Facts.

An eminent Frenchman, NJ BouDIE, has
Published some interesting facts on MANI
Power OF adaptation to Different Climates -
The writer protests against that prevalent no
| ton 4 .nan's heipg able to adapt himself to
all climates AMI 20 take up his abode in all
parts of the earth. lie contends that all his
tory shows the folly, not to say the wickedness,
| OF mans endeavors TO set aside the natural
laws which rest on climatic influences and the
| difference CT racea.
| From the earliest times tie European. have
failed, says VI. BoUDIg, in ali their attempts at
| acquiring permanent hold on the land Of
Egypt, where, also, the negroes and Mona
luhes are known to he incapable Of procres
| tion beyond the third generation. Other facts
| are mentioned, illustrating the same position.
| Ia Corsica, the Italian termination Of family
names proves, of itself, the inability of the
French TO establish their stock in that island.
| Where, in the North of Africa, arc the dsscen
dants of the Romans and the NandaIs? In
sanity makes frightful progress in the ne gro
| population Of North America, in proportion as
1t Is removed from the zone where the white
race are unable to cultivate the soil Thus,
| the proportion 0finsane negroes which, in Lou
isiana Is ! in 1910, amounts in South Caro-
lima to in 2, III in Virginia, to In ], 299 :;
in Ma ssachusetts, to in As in Maine, to | in
Ii. The height above the ocean which gives
protection TO the life of European in not cli-
mates, becomes fatal to the negro.
~ ~
Hest times, despotism made use of exile into
countries alien to their nature for the destruc-
ton Of different people. With this view, after
the destruction Of Jerusalem, great number
Of jews was cent to Sardinia, on the occasion
of whose exile the bea,hen TAcITus makes
reflection which the Northern Christians have
INDUCED towards their own friends, whom they
have sent to invade the South Gwen if they
should fall victims to a nurderous climate, the
loss would not be very great" After the war O.
the Morea. MEHEMET ALI, wishing to get clear
of the uDdiscipined Arnouts, sent them to the
shores of the Red Sea, where, in few years,
eighteen thousand mon were reduced to four
thousand. by the mere influence of the climate
The deaths among the Africans of New
York are twice as numerous as those of the
whites in the same city. In the West India
Islands the number Of the black population is
progressively decreasing, and this in very
remarkable degree. The deaths are most nu-
merous among the adult males, being nearly
double those of the females. The disease from
which the greatest mortality arises is, strange
to say, pulmonary consumption. The cause
is conjectured by some to be the want of ade-
qus,e iparticularly of animaD nutrimeat. In
the island of St. Domingo, the garden spot of
the Western Hemisphere, great want often pre-
walls among the population on the seaboard.--
In the vital statistics of New York, facts Sim
lar to those in the West Indies have been no.
ticed. 1t is computed that, at the rate of dim
inu,ion--a tenth part Of the population every
four yeafs---the negro population will have
almost ceased to exist in the British West Indie
colonies before the termination of another CEN
fury.