Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-08-29

counueo gUoo crops. Cabbages and onions are usually profitable, but this year there is glut, and these are rotting in the fields. For poultry the northern settlers tell mo there is no other part of America so favor able, so eggs and chickens are abundant, cheap and good. The country is not favor able for grasses. The highest price could hear of being paid for land within ten years was $35 per acre, and from that it grades down to $1O. There is still so much wild country that game abounds, and fox hunting is a great winter sport.
 A Surplus.
 Socially and politically the universal testimony is that there is harmony. Al most everybody seems to have some .reli- zion, and communicants are about equally divided between Baptist, Methodist, Pres byterian and "Campbellite." Every sec tion is well supplied with schools for both races, and the average country term is five months. The white people take their open air sports chiefly in hunting and their mental recreation in debates at the cOun- try schoolholS;es and in religious discus sions. The negroes have their fun at dances and religious revivals, the latter often running three or four months at a stretch, and 1 am told that at their big church near Ellerson's mill as many as 20 have been struck with tho power" i'll one night. There are no official statistics on this, however. Incidentally it is estimated that tho county of Hanover contains 600 colored Democrats, but down to 1884 those who voted that ticket were turned out of mccting' and oStracized by their own race. When Cleveland became president, and no attempt was made to re-enslave them, there was a growth of liberality. 1 was @ that tho first negro who voted tho Democratic ticket in the Mechanics vile precinct was killed for the act, but tho evidence shows, think, that the mur- der was the result of a quarrel about a woman. Most of the negroes quarrels are about dogs and women, which is quite a surprise, as that race has a surplus of both.
 A Question of Losses.
 Riding and walking over this truly his toric region, am led into train of reflec- tions on the peculiar ways of Americans in considering their own history. There have been ill this country three great vic tories which amazed mankind at the time and on which the critics have bestowed ono might say millions of written pages, apologists for the defeated have given us thousands of able arguments and which historians have vainly tried to explain. They arc San .Iacinto, New Orleans and Cold Harbor. The first secured the inde- pendencc of Texas and settled it forever that the Latin race was to be of little consequence in North America's dos- tiny. Neither of the two others made the slightest difference in the worlds currents, for New Orleans was fought after the treaty of peace and so far as any ono can point out Cold lIarbor neither heightened nor shortened tho war by a day. Yet 1t was by far the bloodicst repulse. At San Nf many Mrxicans and captured nearly as many more, losing only eight-a hundred to ono! At New Orleans the Americans had killed and 13 wounded 21 in all while the British lost nearly as many hundreds. At Cold Harbor in the bat tie and subsequent siege the Confed- crates lost about 700 and tho Feder- als l4,93l, yet of the latter only 1905 were killed outright, while 10, 570 were wounded and ,, 456 captured. Taking the usual percentage of murtally wounded in the total of wounded, it would seem that the FcdcralS' dead at Cold HarbOr were considerably over 3, 900. We do not know the exact loss in Pickett $ charge at Gcttys- burg, but it was parallel case on the Confederate side. We may rest assured that this kind of fighting is done with for good and all, It ought to have ended with New Orleans, for a charge across an open field against intrenchCd riflemcn is risk no commander has tho right to assume. It is done with now because with the present day rifles the one chance in hundred which such charge had of being sue cess is destroyed. It is now a certainty that 5O GOO men could not cross an open field like hat of Gold Nnrhor or move uI Il slope like that of Gettysburg and drive 5000 ritlrmcn from an intrenched posi-
 
 wounded before they could reach the brcaStwurkS. The hrCcchloader has done away with that sort of thing forever.
 J. H. BEADLE.