Litchfield enquirer., 1869-02-11

-A mEb. W ulGuey OI west OOSueus hgeu | about 66, died very suddenly. Jan 31st. She had been about the houselin her usual health, and sitting down in Ter chair. she almost instantly expired. She had been subject to fits and probably died in one. '-'ss'''' Hayi.
 We extract the, following interesting de- scription of Hsytien scenery, &c., from the private letter of lady;-
 PoRT AU PRINCE, Jan. 27th, 1869.
 = tsss The city of Port au Prince lies low built to the waters edge, but extends backward to the hills, and is surrounded by bold mountains fertile to the very top with all the luxLriance of the trop ics. In our country, you know, all the mountain ous regions are unproduetive; here,. they abound in all kinds of fruit, grain and flower, known to these attitudes. You will see cocoanuts, bananas, lemons, lines, oranges, mangoes, coffee and cot ton growing at an elevation of 15o0 hundred feet above the sea. The gorges between the mountains are equally fruitful. have seen at. the foot of precipice, and growing almost in the bed, of
 
 fusion of everything which helps :o nourish thls lazy people. We live three miles from town on mountain side, accessible only by bridie path, but it is great thoroughfare ahd in the early morning, innumerable donkeys go by with. great straw panniers their backs full of offruiand vege- tables for the city. A woman will ride donkey, and four or five thus laden before her The piazza (called gallery here) in front Of house is p feet wide 60 feet and 16 feet high It lis our sitting, dining, reading, writing, and keeping roomj week in and week out. It commands 3 fine view of the harbor, bay and city. and looks out or flower garden where we have hundreds of roses now in full bloom, besides jessamines, tube roses and lilies. It is shaded by four royal palms, fright roys they are) about eighty feet inI height. and several tall cocoanut trees that look Fiid as Car raib Indians the old inhabitants ofthe island who called it most appropriately "Hayti." the pams meaning "wooded and mouatainous." I can hear the sweet old French bell in the cathedral from the city whenit strikes in the night, and the rev ellie from the palace two miles o calling upon the soldiers and the people to rise and begin the 1abors of new day. It is as dark as midnight until 10 minutes before six, then the east will show faint flush of dawn, and at si o'clock, precisely, it is broad day light. The srme is true of the sum- set. Charles Reade was right when.he saitl; i'the sun goes down with abound in the tropics; the transition from daylight to dark is almost fnstan- taneous. It IS said that the duke of DevoHshire has spent half million sterling for green house. 1 think we can beat him. We have a few acres near the house covered with about every variety of fruit tree known to these islands; in short mag nifcent greenhouse without glass, under a sky that makes the stars at night look like what they are, suns and worlds Of all the trees on the place II think admire the mangoe most. It is a, 4spe cies of peach, but resembles at s distance fine full grown, but young chestnut, and in it's form and the density Of it's shade, it is very like ou, shard maple" at home. The most rakish looking tree about us is the cocoanrt It rises from 70 to 80 feet without branch and then throws, rath
 CT aingsout without any regard to regularity about fifteen or twenty leaves, I may call them so some of them 16 feet long. You may call them lassea aa SSag seelfg f ar g Rfea Wfsh fbrous bayoaet-shaped foliage on each side, point | ing vertically upward and downward, and shining 1 in the starlight and moonlight like masses of si 1 yer. The palm leaf is also very long, but the l. Ill. and are flexible and dropping. like those of our In ! dian corn, when wilted by the heat of a July sun Ne have several almond trees. They have a large oval, glossy leaf about eight inches long and five wide, and are of very dark green, and are cover. cd with aparasite vpe of . grayish green color, making strange contrast to the noble foliage that half hides it. There is plumpness and mas siveness in the appearance of the almond leaf that suggests at distance some solid substance
 went the other day to visit sngar plantation in the country. eight miles from Port fau Prince, The road is broad and level, and in as good order as when the French made it, 6 hundred and fifty years aga oniboth sides, for miles, the Cacos have laid all the buildings in ashes, destroyed all the grass and sngar.cane, broken down the trees, and realized the description of war. given us by Tacitus think, 4 they make solitude and call it peace.." But they could not conquer nature. All along the hedges, and mounting to the tops ofthe, taest trees the convolvulus grew in all it's varie- ties, and makes perfect arbors, as far as the eye could reach with it's exuberant foliage and wider ness of white, ,hlac pink purple and straw colored flowers It is impossible" to describe the holiday look of these joyous hedges thus decorated. I saw many other kinds of towering vines and trees, beautiful in themselves, butI could not look at them on account of the witchery and beNildering beauty of the con,olvulus. We took cur picnic lunch under an immense :fg-tree,; close. on the brink of La Grand Riviere." The water of the l stream is guarded by steep banks overshadowed by vast trees, which gre iEterlaced with innumer- able vines. f -- se-' ,-s'1 2-.
 The trade-wind clouds, here, are peculiarly beau tiful They have almost tangible look, and seem to project from the sky, assuming the most fan tastic shapes- They are perfectly vhites and re- mind mo of huge, gracsfni snow-drifts. partially wet through by rain, one; point hard and glsten- ing, another sapory with moisture, and when the l san lights them np, or the moon silvers them, fa- diant castles arise, or iordy towers glitter in the sky Eo "z-ss1 e-Afa9. ;Ee7f -2o1d
 Tit were not for the New York papers we slo,uuld get Ittll Haytisn nsws Of importance. It. seems shat Port aa Prince vas bopbarded by Saget, Jan. 'th, and that the forts vigorously returned the Salnaye had all his staff cut to pieces while attending mass ataTirsgoans- and that . wo- nan nsaved the Presideats life All this would De | 1ery interesting if it were true. Alas. every word # 1t is false, Tn fact the news sent to New York y the way Of Cuba is paid iSr, by European