The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-02-14
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aggravated, AZ che did not denythei soft
impeachment, but changed the subject o.
conversation very rapidly, l don't khGH
whether she was pleased or not. th'n ,;'
on the whole, she thought | was co'npn
mentins her, as her manner ana to.ss
softened very much in our subsequent c' M
I Iabored very faithfully, like missl' IN !,
ary. among these benighted people, pu. /.
fear without success; they were eVlusli' =,
mast PRAYING for; burnt brandy Wouid H."
have saved them.
Tn fact, women have too much power III
tho world: all that is really left to the men
ia the privilege of voting and fighting, and
| think that we had better keep these ANY
| woBaan's tongue is stronger than any Iaan's
hand. Any woman can influence her nus
bands, brothers.. or sweetheart's, vote
| Had the women on both sides in TIE late
unpleasantness not urged the men on,
there would have been no war; they sent
the men to the field. !.
1t hes always been sos from Adams Sime
downwards, and always Will be 80 until sne
end of time. The man who don't nina ills
wife is q brute; we always do obey thel o.
right or wrong. !.
| Yet woman should remember and NOT
draw the reins too tightly; let her recol1ec'
her first memorable effort at government
when she outvotcd Adam on that famous
apple question. / don't blame ADAM
would have done exactly the same snzne,
and so would any other man. only want
to caution the fair sex, lest they might try
again where Eve so signally failed. Better
let the apple of politics alone, ladies; 1t Is
Adams apple you are modelling with; YOU
will only bring more discord into the family
of man: probably strangle the entire
human race, or certainly send us all 70
the -.
| hone YOUR female readers will under
stand me. No man values o trse woman at
a higher standard of excellence than 40.
God made her last and best that she
might crown creation. Last made, she
sums I'D and expresses in herself ali that
had gone before as though God HAD WRIT
ten out the book of nature, and put her IN as
the final Fentence. :,
| Angels, matter. force, the animal world,
mind. and man, were formed and then, rs
the elimination, woman. She is the con-
centration, the essence, of that creation
which was finished only when she was made,
and which would have been incomplete
| without her. For the work was not called
good until she stood in being and beauty
unon the earth. In Gods most holy BOOK
of creation-that grand and solemn prayer
of life-she is the amen. And last ARA
specially made for a divine purpose, VIC
NAV almost call her the atterthought OF
| God.
| SHE'LL MOUNDS.
These are really curiosities, met with
here and there frequently in Florida. Ihey
each consist of q single kind OF shell only,
and are found sometimes as large as good
| sized house. Some, indeed, arc very large,
and cover a great space Of ground. stood
on one near Enterprise, on Lake Monroe,
consisting entirely of periwinkle shells.
A hotel with out-houses had been erected
upon it, and with ample space for more
than Portuguese
The mound was twenty-five feet in height,
and was formed Of nothing but this kind OF
she'll. Others are of oyster shells alone,
and forts have been built upon them. There
is no explanation to be given Of this forma-
ton. Of course, they are scrviccablc for
making lime. East Florida is singularly
wanting in hills. An elevation of few
feet Fifteen or twenty is called out of
compliment, bluff; and it is really Gu
rioslty in such dead level. On the shore
the sand is often blown up into hillocks
but these are uncertain things, as they may
be blown away again.
| Sand is continually forming on the
coasts; the coral reefs and the oyster-beds
spread out long tongues that gradually APP
proach the surface, enclosing large lagoons
in these, grasses and sea-plants take root,
sand is blown in, and mud washed in to fill
| them up, and marsh is made where trees
take root, and presently soil is formed.
This is probably the manner in which Flori-
do has been slowly formed in mid-ocean,
and is still forming and growing. Possibly,
in time, it will absorb the Gulf of Mexico
and become an extensive State. Ii man
should buy tract of sea-coast. probably
in few hundred thousand years he would
have become owner of quite large farm OF
mud and sand. l think it hardly worth
waiting for, however. If the mosquitoes
spared him, he would be shaken to pieces
by ague in the mean time.
l don't think that | would own East
Florida if I had to live there. 1t is q plea
SAINT place in which to spend the winter
very desirable place to 60 to if you are
sick, and 30 is hospital-but one does not
care to live in hospital unless he is a con-
firmed invalid. And then it is no place in
which to raise a family; almost all the
women and children that saw had sickly
look, except in St. Augustine.
1t is grand place, however, for the ne
gro race they flourish, the climate suits
them, and if that race is wise, and does
not wish the white pressure now brought to
bear on them to destroy them since they
have been freed they will crowd into it.
Almost every acre not covered with water
can be made to sustain a negro family !;
the water itself, in it's products and its fish,
will materially help this support. l am
satisfied that if Cuba is ever annexed the
white race will desert it; the invalids Of
course will got to that island, and the money
spent in it annually by 10000 invalids is
| the life of Florida.
CUBAN INDEPENDENCE.
met many Cubaus in Florida, and ira
yelled for several days with Il large party
recently from Havana. Some of them
spoke English, and l learned much from
them of their native isle and of their effort
for independence. I came to the conclu-
sion that they would not succeed in obtain
ing it. Their reliance was upon American
rltemen, and yet they were utterly un-
willing to be annexed to this country. They
were evidently very much disguised with
the specimen of carpet-bag government
witnessed here. They described their peo-
| pie as utterly ignorant of the use of fire.
arms, and nothing excited their astonish-
ment more than to see rifle fired at an
alligator, and that the ball would strike
somewhere near the mark. The Spanish