The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-07-25

common'day laborer earns shilling (25
cents) per diem, good clerk or shopman
from e3 to S5 ($l6 to $25) per month,
and all seem TO live very com Sortabiy
and contentedly in their respective states
of life. The Mussulmaus are the princi.
pal agriculturists. and, outside Of the
thirty miles of Britiah possessions, work
their farms with slaves, either bought or
inherited. The slavery is of O very light
nature, the nearness to Cohn Bull's limo
making it easy for the slave to run of if
ill-treated. He 10, therefore, generally
exceedingly well cared for.
THE ORDINARY NEGRO.
There is one point where the Sierra
Leons.negro far surpasses the American
citizen of African descent. He washes
himself always once and generally twice
day. He generally lives on rice, pre-.
ferring the native grain, which is par
boiled before being beaten out, which
process ruins its clear white, but renders
it more nourishing and pleasant to eat
thoy say &c, aua J think 80. Il tho ordii-
nary negro is in your employ for five
minutes or five years he always addresses
and speaks of you rs "masser," touches
his cap when approaching you, and takes
it off in your presence. Ue makes re.
spectful, ready, cleanly ani faithful SER
want, works cheaply, and is delighted by
q "tip," bowing almost to the ground,
scssr!sg, end grinningg frnm ear tn ear
when presented with six pence or shil.
ling. He never calls you "boss" or
speaks of you as cole -" Yet he
knows his rights too. People can, and
do, call him an internal fool, q bloody
idiot, q blasted son of q gun, and an
"onery cuss," and he takes it patiently.
and good-naturedly. But they are de-
prived of the sweet consolation OF calling.
him "a durn nigger." The latter is an
opprobrious term, and he will immedi-
ately have you summoned before mag
istrate and fined from five to fifteen
shilhuge. We were not very; favorably
impressed with the morals of this class.
however, as the "drummers" at the
whafves offered chickens, ducks, cab
bages and young women all in the came
breath and with the came busirsss-l like
air.
'sTRUCK ALL OF A REAP"
So much for the lower cladses, now for
the other. An English gentleman, with
whom became acquainted, invited me
to his house to dinner. He was o prom
ineGt man, and there is. no. doubt % to
his business and social standing being of
the. best On going to his house, Il was
Struck all of heap" by being intro.
duced to his son and daughter, both sun-
mistakably colored. In the expressive
language of Mrs. Camp, "You Might q
knocked me down with o feather.p Blue
Moses | Y Here was I who had never,
never, never, sat at meat with anything
but pure Caucasian 8 who had never
called colored man or woman @Mr.,"
"Miss" or "Mr5.," (resortipg oftentimes
to ingenious devices to avoid doing 10
without giving offence, such as asking g
boy coming to the door "who lives here p"
in order that he should say "Mr. John
son." and shouldn't have toy I, who
had been explaining to my host, while
on the way home, why, in my judgment,
social distinction between the races
YES natural and proper: here was sud
denly confronted with this appalling pro-
5lem. Of ecourse there was only one
thing to be done, and went blindly and
recklesslyj insand did itLthat wes pre-
tend that there. was, nothing unusual, and
that I didn't know white from otherwise.
She did the honors of the table very
gracefully, and afterwards performed
several airs on the piano with correct
ness and taste. (. / was so afraid she had
noticed my involuntary start at first, that
l assured her with tears in my two cen
ina her music was the sweetest had
syer heard
A CONCERT BADLY MIXED.
After dinner that night, (that was Fri
day, June ~ went to concert, magic
lantern and amateur theatrical perform
ance in the court house hall. The room
was about thirty feet square and divided
by an ordinary railing. Outside of this
were rough benches. Here were the
shiiiing, half price seats. Inside the
railing the walls were decorated with
cocoa tree branches, and there were
chairs, which formed the two chilling
seats, occupied by the elite. Against the
wal, opposite the entrance door, was
stage, on which the sheet on rollers, raed
for the magic lantern, was placed. This
part of the performance was over. In
the centre of the stage sat Governor
Rowe, on his right a British officer in
uniform, 81; CID, and G middle aged Gel
,ored woman, and on, his left an octoroon
girl and another young British officer.
Against The wall on the left was another
and smaller stage for the theatricalg.
The audience was of all colors, mostly
black, there being slight sprinkling Of
English officers, one or two white civil
Jams, the cprate, and, in fact, everybody.
The play was q farce entitled, "John
EeDbs," and the actors were all black.
the female parts being assumed by men.
(shades of Manager CttolenguiD y When
the farce, which was q very perfect farce
in every way, was over, all went home.
several of the ycolored damsels being
Escorted by white men, while Others OF
the latter race and gender stood about
the doors latter the manner of empty
headed young mon in general,) uncov-
cring and bowling.
LITTLE SUPPER.
met there an Americana New
Yorker and o "Copperhead,D e who had
been living FIVE years in Sierra Leone,
and he carried mo off to q Iittle suppsr.',
in q delightfully."- cool upstaiss room
somewhere, where q miniature fountain
played from amS1g gfeen shfubSEin rne
centre of the table, And.r ate roast fowl
and Halmon, and drank claret from porous
clay utensils in company with ,tfs6 men
black as Crows, one OF whcn addressed
my friend by hia lsst name. ThasA,s
social equality, and nobody seems to feel
| or see any difference. My American
friend says "You soon get used to It,"
"a fact is the colored people in Sierra
Le ; are so thoroughly Angiicized in
Ies.-y respect that the English find NO