The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-03-06

wagon loads, Of grain are hsaped up IN ring abon any
yards in diameter and enclosed IN high barrier Of
stakes interviewer with brush Several hundred mares
gallop by number Of peous torseback. Sixty or
seventy also stand aroung the ring. and by their
shouts hurry the frightened animaisnto furious and
resistess stampede The obscuss everything except
on the windward SIDE and the ye OF the men sound at
little distance If the internal regions had secured an
opening 10 the surface and the hen were having Jolly
time in the smoke After the grain has been threshed
II is hesped in the centre OF the threshing
moor and wlnuowed oy casting !. up 70 we wlnd which
straw which becomes cut up by the mares hoofs as
nne as II II had been run through cutting machine, is
packed up in bales and sold for horse feed.
Labor on the haciendas is cheap, exceeding
twenty per day the busiest season The peon is
without home or ties BE is here today morrow
rude hnts OF adobes AMI reeds and raise few
potatoes and melons on patches OF ground loaned them
bv the hacendadoe At the end Of the week the peon
receives his weeks wages anc Immediately commences
drinking and gambling He gen,bes away his clothing
commence another weeks work with always hiring out
on the hacienda for the week which he NAV have
got drunk There Is considerable virtue some OF
them, and marriages are frequent; although there
many ilegmate children there born in wed.
lock The funeral ceremonies Of the poems are of the
simplest character The remains of the dead put
box life is eNtirct and carried the should
to neighborng church where the priest has
made ..hoy ground. = and there tumbled into hole
without ado Sometimes infants dressed up in gay
soon az they dead and placed on oxhib
ition by the family The neigaborng poems all loan
ornament the altar erected u, while the wealthy in
passing contribute something the family 1t is not
unusual for family to lend dead child 10 another
family for the purpose Of getting up OF these shows
and sometimes the is passed around until II be-
comes so offensive as to render It's burial imperative
They also have about Christmas time great feast in
some OF their churches "a which tho poems blow horns
and make horrid din every conceivable instrument
applicable for producing aiscord The object please
the infant child Jesus figure Of which Is put exhibit
toni on the same principle that rattle Is given to
babe hundred other practices equally strange are
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brutes IN Intelligence. As class, they are lower than
the negroes OF our Southern States They have neither
the vivacy, intelligence fidelity of the slave, and
are controlled only by fear. Virtually the peon is a
slave He Is born serf spends his life tilling the thou
sands of acres Of who docs not know the peon $
name, merely gaining subsistence for himself, and
finally pershng like beast Of burden He has all the
labor and abuse and wrong inflicted upon him that the
slave experienced with the exception ef the slave traffic,
without interest whatever between him and his task
master II of no importance to the haciendado what
becomes of his laborers They only cost him the
of their days wages and their death is of
sequence 70 him than the tring Interference with his
work which result from the drunken spree az the
burial.