Litchfield enquirer., 1873-06-12
The MISaiRRlnni.

Bailey oRthe Danbury News has made the acquaintance of the Mississippi river, and records his experience thereon as fol- lows:
 "At Quincy, got my first view of the Mississippi river. I believe there is not an American but has some sort of an idea of what the Mississippi river looks like, and has Q vague impression that some time or other before he dies he will be permitted to see it, The Mississippi what word it is to chew up ink-is an institution by itself. It is full of associa- tions, both tragical and comic, and it is also full of mud. It has no banks to speak of. It is full of bars, and has Q nar- row and very uncertain channel. These are matters we all hear at school, and see repeated in the papers, but we don't real ize them until we get on the river itself. The steamboats are flat bottomed, and many of them carry the wheel at the stern. l think 1t is the stern. It Is that part of the boat where, if it was @ house, the slops would be thrown. The wheel is a cumbersome looking article, and to the casual observer the boat appears to have just climbed over it. q would give you a picture of the two were noeengaged in painting 0 view of the Rocky Mountains at sunrise.
 The river is much broader at this point than l expected to see it, but we cannot always have things our own way in this world. The channel is about three feet deep opposite this place; don't know the exact width of the river, but there is no doubt but that the water is as thick as it is broad. The traveller should turn it over with his foot and so look at both sides of it. All was hustle at the dock when I got there. The boat was taking on it's freight, and about thirty lively ne- R10Sp pf5fan@ White man were doing the business. That white man was study. He was the mate of the vessel, and what he didn't know about rhetoric could be held on the point of knife blade by a nervous man. The thirty negroes had all they could we'll attend to to keep up with his new oaths, and roll on the casks. Without any cessation they bobbed from the boat to the shore, and from the shore back to the boat, and all the while that Mississippi elocutionist danced around and swore. When I got on the boat sat down on nay baggage and watched that man,
 Being resident of New England, I thought knew something of wickedness, but l was mistaken. The negroes were uniformly dressed in pants, shirt and hat. Some of the hats were ornamented with different colored ribbons; others again contained but 0 simple brass plate-the trademark of Q retired fruit can. Beau ty unadorned is adorned the most. They were driven like sheep, first to the shore, then back to the boat. The least hesita- tlon, the slightest mis-step, was noted by the orator and promptly incorporated in- to his discourse. He couldn't have been more familiar were they his own fathers. which it is not likely they were.
 After getting through at the dock the boat moved up to the coal yard. The coal was brought on in boxes with ham, dies at each end. Each box contained q bushels, and was carried by two men. Six hundred bushels were thus taken on. The same amount of hustle and vehe- mence occurred in this transaction. The men sweat like April, and appeared to be ready to drop at every trip, but the mate hurled tonics at them and kept them up. When his throat got tired he used his boot, and used it in that whole-soled way peculiar to the Mississippi boat men. victuals. I should think they would go " oOAAO OAOJ tsAAN SoOO 4AOO " OSNAC"
 Through the courtesy of the clerk helped to occupy the pilot house, and in this lofty perch got splenid view of the river and the cinders. The shores are flat and covered with forests. When grew tired of looking at them 1 looked at the pilot. There was 8 boat ahead of us which the captain was bound to overtake. The pilotdidnt t believe it could be done, because the boilers on our boat were old and weak, and could not possibly stand the pressure. This made me sick t..the stomach, and so climbed down out of the pilot house, and immediately placed between me and those boilers all the ter
 1tory I could get thgether.
 Shortly we came to cleared place on the west shore, in the middle of which stood single house, the last survivor of Marion City. It was the ground work for a city, and never did city look fairer on paper. People came there and built places, and soon after the water in the river overhowed that point, and the inhab; itants, got up and dusted. No, not dus- ted, exactly; but they got up. They said weren't naturally advocates of irrigation.
 Col. Higginson pursues the advantage he gained over President Elliot of Har- yard ill the recent discussion on the CO., education of young men and women in colleges, with the following neat hit
 Two ATMosPHEREs IN ONE TowN.-Some sollcitude is beginning to be felt among the older inhabitants of Cambridge, at the development of two entirely distinct atmospheres, in different parts of that town. A street formerly called "Profes- sors Row" and now "Quincy Street" separates the two climatic zones South of this street, where the college buildings lie, there is some peculiarity of atmosphere, very prejudicial to women. In that region, 1t is found to be almost impossible for them to occupy the same laboratories and class-rooms with men. manners suffer, their morals are endan- gered, they think only of matrimonial schemes, they, lose all capacity for higher education. Yet, strange to say, when once they cross that line northward, and get within the domain of Prof. Agassizs si Museum of Comparative Zoology" the whole atmosphere changes. In. that re- zion, the laboratories and class-rooms. show women working and studying beside, men; their health does not suffer, their morals are safe, their brains are active;, and there is no undue tendency towards matrimony.
 It seems incredible that an. almost inn aginary line of demarcation in town like Cambridge can show such a strange di- vergence of the >commonest phenomena. Yet there are those who honestly declare their belief, that much of the difference after all depends on the observer. These skeptics boldly assert, that if tomorrow President Elliot were placed in charge of the Museum of Comparative Zoology" and Prof. Agassiz of the undergraduate department, the whole phenomena would be reversed; the Southern zone of Cam bridge would at once have an atmosphere suitable to women, and the Northern ate mosphere would then be fatal; the Bach, elor of Science" would be bachelor indeed and it would be the ''Bachelor of Arts" who would have female society in their class-rooms. Thus difficult is it to esti- ' IL, SzNvN Nryh0