The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-05-28


.negsnaners. ii, 1. no old fashioned 1ishtwoodl
desk tor wiring. Mr.. Davis makes great g.
use OF an armchair with Nv rltlb g-shetl
attachment. Isl sss q
Tadgerted to the Inconvenience ne must
experience in preparing bis memoirs Id q
mace remote from the Government arcb.Fes
and the great public libraries. He said that
he did find himself greatly inconyen enced
az times. Mr. Davis remarked that John
Quincy Adams was probably the widest.
read OF American statesmen. Ii you
could not find the book You wanted, MI.
afau,s.s - said he. "couid tell YOU oil ati-
osher which contained what you were look
ing for, Mr., Adams was what few people
remember very witty man.
"REMINISCENCES. 81
Early IN the aiterco DON lunch was served
in the little library. While we ate Mi.
Davis talked pleasantly oi. men anu ess s,,a
nass os humor which communicates itself
80 his auditors, snd has, besides quietly
q ittg farm. What was said by Dir. DAVIS
regardane current politics | am not ,at nd
crfy TO repeat. But may say that none OF
Mr.. Dayis's Judgments OF men anu things
we're dnged with bitterness. de seems TO
discuss politics from the .serener beights OF
niitsophic craftsmanship. BE is tolerant
az AL opinions, while earnestly believing IN
tine doctrine OF State rights. Without the
States there could, he said, be no Union,
and in focal seli-government alone hes
safety. This is the Hsraid's principle, as l
understand it.
--7<r2T THE EXODUS.
Regarding certain matters which were
discussed lin the course OF the day l am
nriyiireed to speak. I asked him II he
thought the negro exodus would assume
formidable dimensions. He said he did
not attribute exaggerated importance
TO the movement, nor did he think
it a.trifling matter. The negroes are Gre
du.ous and easily led. Those VINO nave
gone to Kansas will probably return, II they
have the means, otherwise they VIII remain
only to die in that cold country. Some OF
his negro iaborers on bis Mississippi-rlYer
ulantation went to Kansas in the outset OF
the q exodus" They bad asked his opinion
Of Kansas, and he had told them OF its rlgo-
ro1ls climate, but had said to them, If they
felt it to be for their best good TO IeaVe' 70
90 rather TO a warmer region.
AS an instance of negro creduilty, alr.
Davis related to me the experience or one
OF his negroes, to whom an agent had sofa
a certificate for So, emitting the purchaser
70 take forty acres of waste land. The poor
fellow selected piece OF ground ana spent
all his savings in improving and stocking
the place. He had got the land into fair
state of cultivation, when the owner
came along and told the negro to leave,
for it was his property. Thus the poor,
duped negro lost every cent he had. MIR.
DAVIS thinks the return OF some OF the Kan
sas emigrants will for time deter other
al fort
but he fears that the easy credulity OF the
negro may at any time render him the VIC
tim OF some cruel scheme.
HoMEsTEADs.
Mr.. Davis said that there was great deal
OF excellent land in Mississippi belonging
to the State and General Government which
the negroes might buy. very cheaply. lie
believes that apart from the white man
the negro will cease to thrive, and Will
relapse into barbarism. The races need
each other. Mr.. Davis remarked that
it was impossible for man who
had been reared apart from the ne
gro to have that same affection for him as
is felt by southern men, who have, in child
hood, been nursed by negroes, been the
playmates OF negroes, and grown up with
them.
The tendency OF negroes in the State OF
Mississippi, thinks Mr.. Davis, is to move on |
to the alluylal. They are leaving the Hills
and going to the river. He advocates The
immigration TO this fertile hill country OF |
northern men, who will, lie believes, be |
welcomed. ...- .......r So.
-. ENTERPRISE IN MISSISSIPPI. T.. |
Men OF small capital can iavest it to ad-
vantage in fruit and vegetable-cuture. |
Vine-dressers will do well. The thirty Sc
cond parallel Of latitude, said Mr.. Davis, in
dicates the proper country for the peach. On
both sides OF fins line the peach thrives.
This parallel runs nearly through Ficks-
burg, Jackson, and Meridian. Alr. Davis
spoke of the sure remuneration afforded by
orange cultivation in lower Mississippi.
There were instances OF trees bearing 5,0O0
or at the rate Of $50 tree. I" But
10 be moderate" he said, ''let US say from
!, 1000 to 1000 oranges per tree; here is from
$40 to $40 return" Fig-eulture is pracll-
cable on a large scale, end he would advise
the canning OF this fruit for the man ket.
&c had, he said, seen the blue Celeste liz
candy on the trees.
In speaking at some length on grape-cul-
;ure MIR. Davis remarked that the scupper-
nong is the variety best adapted to the coast.
Mr.. Alfred Davis mot relativc) has at Bay
st. Louis O vineyard Of eighty acres-pro-
oably the largest vineyard, said MIR. DAVIS,
n the world. The owner makes cham
oasne, and also a stil-wine. have myself
seen some splendid vineyards in this region.
The yellow-iever Mr. Davis regards as u
deterrent to northern immigration, but the
lever. he says. is an exotic, and probably
rigid quarantine will, in the future, diminish
The chances Of its appearance.
The natives. do not fear the fever SO much
as might be thought. They would greatly
The more dread the scarlct-feVer, or the
that scourge Of the North.
On Mr.. Davis's estate at BeauYoir are
citron and orange, and Zig
trees, their condition sufficiently testifying
to the geniality of the climate. ..
The people OF the region all look healthy,
and even rugged. The Gulf affords an mex
supply OF fish, and there are excel
lent oysters in profusion,
MIR. DAy1s's HEALTH.
One word OF the master OF the estate at
Bcauvoir before | close. Mr.. Davis,
although I found him temporarily indis-
posed, has good general health. He takes
4 9 constitutions" on horseback daily, and,
is good pedestrian. He told me that since
be had left his plantation on the Mississippi |
and come to the coast his health had I'm
proved, When he was in Congress he spent
his winters la Washington and his summers
on the river. He thus reversed the true |
sanitary rule, and malaria attacked his |
system. His soiourn in Canada benefited |
tiH greatly.
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