The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-09-12

form OF ", IL could not hold together day,
but would deliquesce from utter rotten
ness. Still there Is great deal to deplore.
In Cornwall--tbat white rose nestled In its
soft cleft between the green bills OF the
Housatonic--the capker-worm has been at
work. Three incendiary fires within few
months OF each other, two lads murderous-
~ asssiIed In the open road at night by a
ruttian armed with sh0t-gun--aiI these
acts charged 10 foreigner, but with what
truth I know not. In pretty Litchheld
the Jail, admirably clean and boasting H.
brary, was nearly as full as II could hold and
the local papers, during my stay In the VII
lage, reported drunken woman twice
found in one OF the parks with child cry
ing beside her.
"Thc race OF New Enganders," said a
gentleman 10 me to-day, In tones OF sad
meas, ais dying out. Men do not love their
wives rs they used TO love them. The love
and the desire for children Is passing away
I'm women as we'll as In men, Heaven knows
" hat The end will be-" Allowance must be
made for this statement, in which, as pre-
vious letter will show, do not concur. The
speaker Is in the decline OF life and suffer-
ing from heavy affection that had not long
ago befallen- him. When / asked another
and younger gentleman u the infrequency
OF births in these parts was the result OF ac-
cident or design, he made no reply, and at
once changed the subject. Whatever may be
the truth about domestic infelicity at the
North, my own observation disclosed moth
ing that any people need be ashamed OF.
While / saw no uxorious husbands, GER
tainly saw no unkind or unhappy ones, and
did see many examples OF parental aflec-
ton. The women, without exception, were
M "a
You may ask, as I often asked myself be-
fore coming here, how ii is that so many ter
ribie crimes can occur in a country so popu-
lousi The easy answer is that, owing 10
the repeated cutting down OF the woodland,
the forests, though small, are full OF under
growth. and there are thickets and eopses
veryghere, in which an enticed victim may
be murdered and hidden. perhaps for weeks,
without discovery; for no one without
special object will venture into iungles
which seem TO be homes for reptiles.
But, after all, isn't there great difference
between the two peOplesi No, | can't say
there is, OF, rather, would say there is
both more and less difference than one
would suppose. A casual observer. taking
note OF the salient points OF difference,
oyerIooks the resemblance, but the close
comparative student is more impressed by
the likeness than the unlikeness OF things;
the unity, not the variety OF nature the
sameness in the grOund-plan OF mind and
matter astonishes him. In a general way
all men are alike, and the Yankees are
more like ourselves than we are willing
TO believe. Many Of them do not
guess" but "Teckon." 81 Judge not"
for 81 suppose not" you Will often
hear. "Dan'l" in place OF Daniel" is
habtual. and Naihan'l" instead Of " Ma
thaniel" heard in the pulpit last night.
Introduced to an old lady yesterday eve
ming, she held out her hand and dropped
me a "court'sy." thought it very pretty.
We brag much about our hospitality, but
every day that ] have been in this house,
and at almost every meal, there has been
company. Three persons came home with
the family from church yesterday, spent the
day, and remained all night. But for the
rain the family in this house would have
spent the day at neighbours, mile or so
of. Isn't that like Maryland or Old Vir-
giniay
That free society has developed a race OF
men and women in every respect superior
10 those Of the South Cmphatieally deny.
With equal emphasis | deny that we are
as superior to the Yankees as we fancy.
Doubtless it makes each side feel better to
think so, and il IL made either Of us act
better it would be well TO foster the delu'
sion. The facts, however, sustain neither
us nor the Yankees. Beyond question we
have more polish. But read any book OF
eastern travel-read Herbert Spencer on
" Ceremonial Institutions "-and you will
find that the most deliberately polite people
on earth are the semi-civilized, Still, | like
the polish; for, be it what it may in Persia,
with us ii is not veneer.
They are more industrious than we are,
but deserve no credit for II. They don't
want the credit, for their industry pays. liz
man could lie down under tree and be
fed with mamma by angels he wouldn't get
out OF that and 60 to dltching eleven hours
a day at % cents cubic yard. What would
be do with the % centsY BuLsee. An old
man is breaking stone near an unused
quarry on the suburbs OF Bridgeport.
.sDo YOU make your living by this work ?"
ask. ooh, no; just do it at odd times"
The bile before him was worth Sl2, and he
had made many such piles. A youth in bar
ber's shop at Litchtield talks out OF the WIN
dow TO another youth. who is plying an axe.
The talk is animated, but the axe never
stops. A farmland, twenty years or less
old, comes on Saturday nights to Lebanon
and cuts hair or shaves boards. After
the heavy work OF the day Is over farmer
goes through his orchard and picks up the
fallen apples. After supper he "prolcks "
around the barn and stable. Ny host In
Cornwall was one OF class that L delight
to honor. For thirty years he has practiced
medicine in that rough country for poor
nav at best-often for no pay at adjust as
country doctors do with us. Far from De-
ing a seli-asserting Yankee, he seems to
think that he owes An apology to the world
for not being rich. AS an opulent news,
paper man feel that something OF the kind
is due me, aud accept his apology; and all
the more readily because he does his
- chores himself-milks the cows, grooms
the horse, gathers the vegetables, and 80 on.
These people can teacn us nothing about
farming scienti6cally--not thing. Parcel
culture, little land well titled, occupying
spare moments working with your own
hands, and never employing help until you
really need help. That is the whole secret
We of the South have got TO come to ii, and
the sooner we learn this lesson the better.
Like ourselves, the Yankees are an old
people--i;ving in old States, in old houses,
with many old ways. You may not think
II. but there are plenty OF w0rm-fences in
this country. On the road TO Lebanon station
there is a spot OF ground so like Prince
Georges county that you would swear you
were at home, II you didn't know better.
There are no grand old brick homesteads.
with avenues OF catalpas a quarter OF a mile
leading up to them, such as you see on the
Eastern Shore OF Maryland, and that is one
difference. There are no big, old'time,
outside chimneys, like those we have every
wnere-and that is another and profound
difference, for it marks the division between
economy and extrayagance, between COM