The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1867-10-01


The farm house, be il large or small, i
without adornment of any description
externally or internally. As rule
there are no carpets or pictures, and only
furniture of the plainest and most usefu
character, Near the house are the negro
quarters, almost as comfortable as the
inapsion itself, and in and about the door.
yard roam in droves dogs, cats, pigs,
ducks. turkeys, geese, chickens, cows. and
stray domestic animals Of every form and
kind No person of delicate nerves or
fasiidiuus tastes, would bc inclined TO stay
long in such "A place for plcasnrc--unlcss
perhaps. proximnte to large insiallments
of the night blooming ccrrus.
The farms raise abunt half the produce
they should yrld nndcr an cul,ghlncd and
intelligent cultivation. and observation
leads us 10 presume that three times the
number Of laborcrs are employed, than
is nSnal on the same number of acres in
the north. The out-buildinss, barus and
granrres, are nearly always capacIous
aud solid structures, AMI compare very Ia
vorably with similar buildings in other
and opposing se ton. Ole feature of
.on;hnn farm life strikes the nosthein
man as peculiar, and this is the ~ parent
intimacy subsisting between white and
hlack children. Boys and girls of all
colors may be seen playing together m
tJitam with the dogs and pigs, or roming
along han in hand, on terms of perfect
equality. This may account for much of
thc interest manifested by the whites in
the inf.rm blacks and their youthful de
them 10 care for them after they have be-
c,m, useless as servants, or while too
young to take carc of themselves. For
ne law as well rs humanity, in tie
on case, anl interest in the other prompt
ed such ac ion, bnt it exists no longer
1T the matter oI the sentiments of Nir-
ginnnS towards ynnkccs. the fact cannot
bc avuilcd ;hat N,rgiuians do not love or
respect the people of the north. The
men rnlcavcr 10 cover or cor ccal this
feeling Of aversion beneath forced and
hard show of rivility, but the women take
no such trouble, and trumphanily elevate
their prob 'sci wherever the >ligln st oppor-
ruuity nilo-d. During our srj urn in
that afflicted state, and quite contrary TO
our usual custom in the affairs of the la.
dis, wc convcrscd with several of The
more intelligent country women of Virgin.
ia, AMI foun them al unanimous in their
sentiment, of adherence for the "lctcsted'
yankee. One 'l,dy" remarked to Us,
that she thought the south, rhcrs the most
noble people Oh the face Of the earth
that the yankees were II vi race, anl
only fer h,r husband and children, she
would remove 10 some foreign country.
W. calmly begged her to ref ct before
taking su h step, as the nscqucnccs
likely to b. cnlailcd upon the uorlh,
sltonl sh3 und such an enterprise,
would he disastrous indeed She replied
that the South began the war to $ cure
freedom from the yankee AMI That had
they acquired their Independence, the
South would have been the greatest nation
in this imperial Universe.
Ii good feeling AMI harmony shall ever
exist again between the North and tn,
South, il will be after many OF the ShrcwS
Of the latter are either tanned, or cease
their extraordinary influence over the
men. a. rulc, The millIug class of
females in the south are not well informed
about anything, except, perhaps, the
county in which, thew reside; this cluca.
ton consisting principally in II slight
knowledge of reading and writing, Il few
common place topics of conversation, IL
small smlttcring of music, vocal and on
the pi mo forte Some of them, we
really believe. honestly thought that the
yankees bad horns; all Of them imagine
an inherent difference between til, norh,
crn and southern nan, and in that o2in-
ion we think most n3rihcrn men and
women will not object TO concur We
remember when boy ut school, that We
looked with much respect upou south
crncr, and especially Nrginiun. We
viewed with reverence the grand old
molher Of Presidents, the land that rear Il
Washington. Although our ideas in re-
spcct to the south have been toned down
suncc that early day, in considerable
degree, aud we confess. we cannot now
by the lights of cyp'riencc AMI ob.crva'
;ion, discern the once vauntcd superiority
Of the southern people over the ''mud-
sills' Of the north, yet we cannot avoid
seeing, in the dim prospective, time
when Virginia will really again be n
great State in the august American
Union ii period when she has recovered
the iity years Of material progress she
has lost through the existence of slavery,
she will. for the first time in her history,
rival her sister states of the north in
morals, learning, industry and inclli-
gcnce, May Almighty God speed the
day when Virginia shall again lift up her
mighty heat in reverent alteration of the
Union, the Constitution AMI the Laws.
Then will she once more he II truly SOW
creign state, not of disenteerated, dis
cmbowced, and ruined contederacy, but
of that other coniederacy, the North
American Union, strong, prosperous,
hale, and elurious---the giant admiration
Of the civilized world.
There are three manufactures of wire
rope in the United States, and the article
is largely used upon the inclined planes OF
railroads connected in the coal regions.
Ships and steamers now use wire ropes