Year: 1878

Il covered Way-pTODaRly Oh acCouuG VI Iuo
severe wnters-to save exposure as much as
possible. Their stock has to be housed about
six or seven months in the year. They pay
their farm-hands from fifteen to twenty dol
lars per month, and even at that they make
their farms pay. Their principle crops are
potatoes and hay, and it Is puzzle to me
10 know how they manage to five; and yet
they do, and most OF them have money
saved. It would stagger q Virginia farmer
to undertake one Of these farms, especially
along the coast north from Boston to Bau-
gor. They are not generally over 100 acres
in fact, that is considered large farm
and then half OF that is not cleared. The
clearing must cost over 500 per acre, for 1t
is not simply the cutting down OF trees, as
in Virginia, but blasting rock and clearing
that away-a fearful amount of labor. They
raise a goodiy number OF cattle, feeding
them on their hay. They buy their corn
chiefly in the West, not raising much them
selves, nor of wheat either. One farmer
who grew enough wheat to supply his
family for the year was considered model
for all the others to look up to and do like
wise. never saw such crop OF apples as
there is in New England this year. FARM
ers can hardly sell them for one dollar per
barrel. The fishing this year seems to have
been very good.


For the first time in my life have heard
that much money was all injury to place.
Portsmouth is very wealthy old city, but
those who have the money just live on their
incomes derived from United States bonds,
and do not use their money in any busi-
ness. This is what called forth the remark
that there was too much money in Ports
mouth, and it was curse to the place.
Much OF this Course" would be invested
in Virginia if the owners felt secure from
repudiation.


Notwithstanding the well-to-do appear
auce OF things up here, tradesmen generally
complain of duh times and difficulty IN
making collections, especially in the


MANUFACTURING TOWNS,


where very few of the factories, either cot
ton or boot and shoe, are working on full
time; and the tradeS-people depend on these
factories chiefly, as they credit the opera
tives for groceries, dry goods, &c. These
operatives are almost exclusively French
Canadian, and so largely is the population
OF these manufacturing towns made up OF
| these people that the best-patronized stores
are those kept by French Canadians, and 1
notice that some OF the conductors on the
cars are obliged to be able to speak French,
50 great is the travel from Canada. The ma
tive Yankee looks on these Canadians with
| great contempt and some dislike, because
| they say that they have reduced the price OF
labor so low that q decent white man can't
earn 4 living. 49,.
The ship-buildng towns along the coast
say that the English have stolen their trade
away from them; but it seems to me the
English have nothing to do with the Amer
ican laws, which have given the English,
or rather the Canadians, advantages over our
own ship-builders. Certainly those places
in Maine once so famous for building fast
sailing vessels look very dead. and many an
inquiry has been put to me about living in
Virginia, and have always given an en-
couraging account, assuring them OF q
hearty welcome if theY came. And here
let me say that had only to say that [ was
from Virginia to ensure me very KIND re-
ception among these people. l saw no .ih'
stance to the contrary. Unfortunately fol
both sections, we can only know each other
through party newspapers, which heap on
each other ell sorts Of abuse, leaving the
| people utterly ignorant OF each other.


always knew New England was great
BOOT AND SHOE


manufacturing country, but l had no idea
it was so general. There is scarcely man,
| WOtnlU, OF CllllU III SCH itiliu lbae uoSs


not understand hoy to make boots. The
factories send to families in the country
material for making a case OF shoes (siXty


pair). and pay for the same when returned
| finished ten to fifteen cents per pair, or six
to nine dollars per case. The uppers are
all made by machine at the factory, but the


country people do the fitting, soling, and


heeling. All the shoe-pegs, wax, thread,


&C.. are sent from the factory. heard one


manufacturer speak very highly Of the work


turned out by the factory in Richmond,


which was very gratifying to me. / may


also say that the tobacco that commands the


highest prices of all is that manufactured


by Messrs. 7. C. Williams & Co. and ]. u.


Dill, who are fast getting back the ante


beIlum trade, although the competition is


very lively from the West, and New York,


and Boston, and Petersburg.


Last night, following a crowd Of people,
thought I would hear some popular


preacher, but found they led to the Boston


Music Hall where, paying fifteen cents, ]
entered the hall. Some one was playing
very beautifully on the fine organ they have
there, and I was enjoying it very much,
but presently the music stopped and man
came to the edge Of the platform in very
shutting sort OF gait, With what appeared to
ime manuscript sermon in his hand. On
inquiry found he was Henry Morgan, who
seems to be popular ranter. He said ne
intended -on next Sunday to lecture on
Polygamy in Boston, and then went on to
extoi the Yankee and to ridcule every
body else. telling whole pack OF lies
about what an English captain said to him
when he went over to Europe. At one time
he got very violent about Bntler, and as the
lecture was becoming very much political
he was hissed heartily, and many left the
hall in disgust, presume, like your hum
BILE servant. How 50 many could put up
with such vulgar ranter cannot under
stand. but perhaps they were waiting for
nrobable music when be should finish.
however. thought it would be paying too
dear for the music, so left. TRAVELLER.


The aggregation of intelligence OF men
is always right; 1t never makes mistakes.
No instance can be recorded in history
where TIE people as body have spoken
Wroneiulh-. Never, neyerl While here
and there fragment of q community may
be wrong, yet the great mass correct it, as
the great waters Of the ocean wash out spot
OF ink from its sores. General Butler at
fremont Temple. What a comfort It must
be to Butler now to know that he "toid
,em so. ss-- . q -, - -