New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-06-04
A Grand scenery-Negrs and White Labsr-A
Remedy for the Cholera.
Correspondence of The n Y. Tribune.

Corre,pondence OF Inc N l. tribune. 90 -.
If YOU wish to see the grandes scenery, feel the mos
delicious climate, and know the kndest clans OF ths
of Jamaica. IL you wish 20 what is richest and mos
peculiar the spendors of tropical vegetation and most
graceful the Q60adOR, the dc nienfe OF trop-
zeal life al the smallest possible sacrifice Of time money
and personal comfort again say come to the coffee moans
tains of Jamaica In month-in week. even, II you
set about it ghsyou may enjoy vivid and complete
panorama of the tropics. Church, the artist, was not
stated Of tropical gloes in half year. but youth is nov
putting up his portmanteau for return TO the States whs
has swept through ST. Thomas Santa Cruz and Jamaics
in % days and he expects TO Ha and the Dominica
Republic in three weeks more Yet VIII say wors
about his whole week In Jamaica for he unlesrnee
many old lessons in that brief space and acquired at least
one He unearned the old doctrine that Negro
labor cannot be profitable when free.
He saw the cheapest labor he had ever encountered 10
the Constant Spring Sugar Plantation, seven or eight
miles out Of Kingston and satisfied himself that good
master have many hands a. ho wants al quarer
of dollar per day. with cottage and provision ground ree
knew il by longer experience; but rejoice all the
same over this Endorsement.
He unlearned week what many long slow years had
forced comprehend fallacy-the common idea
that White cannot labor IN the tropics Yet htns
while and world will understand that intelligent aboe
and machinery to redeem these islandS
The White must come with their stores OF practical
knowledge and instruct the chdrace OF negroes how ia
labor proitably and then the asonshed world win SCI
the great truth that Our Heavenly Father intended thaa
the White and Black necessary to each other
especially this continent and most OF al In thess
islands at the present moment =.
agent for Cholera abounda
on almost every hillside in Jamaica yet Is almost II not
altogether unknown as such IN other parts OF the word
Aspice is the fruit Of the beautiful evergreen pimsntc
tree but the spice Of commerce Is collected green ana
dried many days the sun TO prepare for exportaton
and the best part Of its pure tonic virtues are exhaed n
the process The ripe berry is Of deep purpsh black
and that preserved in strip steered IN rum Kept
fmines-Afrcan or Europeans an instant spccino
for cramps and for those sudden arrangements or the
system which herald the Cholera. think pimeno Srup
and pmento cordial nearly unknown In the Onitso
Staes and the faculty would sheer at the use OF sucn
cheap and easy remedy, or rather preyentve-as az
snce bitters or pmento sirup made from the ripe bcny.
mind But tho Jamacaus knor It's value by experiences
Nv friend Green-so will write his name-landed ~
Kingston Saturday rode out through the ana dusty
parade TO the and came back rather dscon
tented with the level, sandy, duooklng city ana us
barefooted Blacks On Sunday, he went early 10 the
Catholic church. and surprised AT the ar OF wealth.
and culture He not surprised however TO see as ne
passed back 10 his lodgings lido OF wedressed hites
slightly spnkled with Blacks, pour out OF the EpiscopA
and Presbyterian churches in the evening TO sec the
large WESLEYAN chapel crowded with devoat and orderly
worshpers Of every hue but Black predominaiing On
Monday he rode out 10 sugar plantation on the lower
slopes OF the picturesque mountains OF St Andrew ana
there he stayed all night watch the cure OF Chinaman
who had what Green believes to be an attack Of thu
cholera he took nothing but bot drinks, made 81 cup
of boiling poured on about the same quantity OF
pimento cordial" 80,
On Monday, be took the railroad, y miles TO Spans"
Town and gave half a day az the seat OF government n
turning thar evening The of the week was spent ~
an excursion 10 Bellevue and beyond in the green snd
corons mountain of 81. Andrew in which he saw nea
every production OF the West Indies with spie .s
SUMMER thunderstorm thrown in gratis nj sn''ah. l
~ nyvrith the utmost ease comfort and economy IA
about three days. He is now taking me ,hs 20
for Santiago dc Cuba, and goes rom oHo 1 49,, -
Hayt in fortnight Ii that Il not 800 49," w
Yaskss SPEED pray state what w0uia 'e s''s'''0'!