Washington telegraph., 1865-10-04

white owner Of the soil, think thar his
day in Jamaica is done The glory, |
fear, has departed from his house. he
hand-loom wsavers h we been swept in
10 infinite space. and their children now
poke the engine fires. or pierce thr' ads
stand ng in factory. The children of
the old Jamaica planter must also push
their fortunes elsewhere
1t is thousand p!ties. for he was,
may still say is the prince Of planters
the true ar;stocra, OF the West Indies.
He is essentially differ mt as man from
tho somewhat purs--proud Barbadian,
whose estate of two hundred acres has
perhaps changed hands halt dozen
times in the last fifty years. or the thor
ous hly mercantile sugar manufacturer
of Guiana He has so msny of the
chara ,teriSics Of 81 English country
gentleman that he does moi strike an En-
glis man as strange being. He has
his pedigree and hi, amily house. and
his domain around him He shoots and
fishes. and some few ars since, in the
good days, h. even kept pack of hounds,
he is in the commission of the peace,
and AZ such has much 10 do A planter
In Demersra may also be magistrate
probably is so; but the fact does not
come forward as prominent part of his
LIES history.
In Jamaica, to-. there is scope for a
country gentleman. They have their
counties aud their parishes; in Barbados
they have nothi & but their sugar es-
tstrS. They have county society. local
balls, and local race-m-etlags. They
have l.. cal politics, local 9uarr-ls. and
strong old-fashionrd local friendships.
In all these things one feels oneself to be
much nearer to England in Jamaica than
in a V other of the West Indian Islands.
All tii. is beyond measure pleasant,
and it is thousand pities that II should
not last. fear. however that 1t will not
last that indeed, ii is not now lasting
That dear lady's unwillingness to obey
her lords behests, wh.n hr asKei her TO
call on her brown ac,ghbor, nay. the very
fact Of that lord 5 req est, both go 10
prove that that is so. Th- lady felt that
her neighbor WAS cutting the very ground
from under Der feet The lord knew
THAT old times We're changed. old man
ners gone =" The game was almost up
when he found himself compelled to
make such request.
AT present. VII n the old planter sits
on the maglst,.rlal bench. a col'red m N
sits beside MIN; one probably ON each
side of him A, road sessions ne cannot
carry ont his little p-ojrct because the
cnl red men on vote him There is a
vacancy f,r his pa ish in the House of
Assembly The odd plan er scorns The
House of Assembly, aud will have moth
ing tn do with it. A cnlered man L.
therefore chosen. and votes away the
white mans taxes aud then things
worse aud worse arise. No only color-
ed lseu get lrto office. but black men
also. " hat is our old aristocrstic plant
er to do with a negro chprcl-warden o.
one side, and a negro coroner on anothefi
Fancy what our state is," a young
planter said 10 me; 81 dare not die, for
fear should be sat upon by a black
mani"
Negro suffrage has been alluded to in
the above extract. In another place the
writer gives picture of the kind of l-S
is alton produced by the system.
The House of Assembly and the Cham
Der of the Legislative Council are both
situated i'll the same square with the Gov
ernor's mansion Ia epa I.n Town. The
desulatrne>s uf his place have attempt
ed to descrbe elsewhere, ald Yet. when
was thels, Parliament was sitting
What must ,h- pace be during the niue
months when l'aiilament does not sill
They are yellow buliGing, erected AT con-
siderable u IrAe,., ana not without some
pretrmc,. bat nevertheless, ,hey are
ugly--uSiy from their color. ugly from
hea ana ag!y from Certain hrariness
which seeliis natural 10 ,b-In and ~ the
piac'.. .... ,.
The house itss,t in which the forty
seven members Il is comfortable enough,
aud hot badly adapted for ii. purposes
The ~ eaker II IL At one end ali III full
fig, with e,k at tue table below; oppo-
site to him, two-thirds down the room, a
low lar, about foltr ieet hign. runs acruss
it. As far as this tn pi,bnc are always
admitted; anu wnen any suhJect of spe-
ciai interest is under 4 S:ussiun twelve or
fifteen persons may De seen there assem-
bled Inen there is a side room opening
froIn the house, INTO winch mem' m'ers take
their friends Indeed II rs, bel eve,
generally open to any one wra Ing de-
cent coat Iherr is the Bel.any of th.
adjustment. III which honorable mein-
bers take such L, ileshineni as the warmth
ot the debate may render necessary.
| heir tasts Seemed to me 10 be- simple,
and to addic, themselves chiefly to rum
and water. . .....
l was throwing away my segar as
entered the precincts OF the house. "Oh,
you can smoke" said my friend t. ne;
"oniy, when you stand at the doorway,
don't let the Speakers eye catch the
lighi; but it wont much matter. y 80 l
walked on, and sto d at the side door.
smoking my scgar indeed. but concious
that was desecrating the place.
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