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From " time immemorial," the idea
of " calibaging." has manehow been as
sociated with the " art and mystery" of
tailoring; and perhaps, nearly ILII the
world" think it originated with the
" professors" or that w..oroi, but much
maligned art. Whether it orif/ineterd
with them or not, it is very certain that,
before tailoring assumed its present dis
tinctive commercial eharaeter, nearly
all its suhjeets Idol: lu eabilaging,
al
most as natural as ducks take to water.
There were two terms aniong tailors, of
nearly equal significance, Hutt expre-s
-eil the Sallie idea ill their results. The
01.110 l°b"!/ 1 ”'/ 111111 the other crib
-1,,i Ilivt,t them of all the sanc
tions or long established custom, 1111(1 Of
legal quibbles about their definitions,
they both procti,,,/tg meant illegal sel f
appropriation ; or , in plainer language,
stralittg. So inextricably had the idea
of cabbitging been ingrained into the
mental " warp or woof" ofs.nne
that we . liave known many very excel
lent men—otherwise honorable men—
men reputed 111 4 good Christians—
who would cabbage without the least
conscientious compunctions, but who
would at the same time no more think
of perpetrating what the world regards
a //up, than they would of throwing
themselves Irmo the rock of Gibraltar.
So powerful was the sphere which cus
tom had established, and which custom-
Cr. 4 themselves had encouraged—if not
sanctioned—that a boy who had never
dreamed Of appropriating even a mar
ble or a top that was not his own, as
soon as he became a squatter on the
shopboard, would, instinetively as it
were, take to cabbaging. So that, by the
time he had reached the end of his ap
prenticeship, he .vas as great an adept
in this art, as he 00115 is forming a la
pel, or working a button-hole. lie had
seen it justifiedly perpetrated before his
eyes; talked orcr it; laughed or it;
jested about it ; and participated in it,
for a period, of four, five or six years in
succession, by both master and man ;
and Is it ally wonder that he should
become proficient in it
We. have said that customers them
selves have encouraged this practice
among tailors, mi many occasions—at
least they have manifested no special
objection to it. lint, it is doubtful
whether this was not only an appear
ance, for no man, no matter how lib
eral he may he, could be expected to
sanction such a practice, without yield
ing to an influence which he did not
wish to openly oppose. here, was an
other evil—perhaps the greatest evil—
of the system of cabbaging, and that
evil Impressed itself upon the character
of the tailor, and Ills most intimate as
sociates. The customer who insisted
upon a return of the overplus to him
self, was considered iwnurious, unrea
sonable, and mean. This aspect of the
subject continued the tailor—his jour
neymen and apprentice--in the practice
of this species of pilfering, and blinded
them entirely, as to its moral quality.—
As a general thing, men prefer to act in
freedom, in the hestowinent of their
gills, and not under the coercion of a
doubtful custom. l'hcre nmy be Indi
vidual cases in which the customer
would beperfectly satisfied if he got a
garment that suited him In every re
spect, without desiring a return of what
the superior skill of the tailor may have
saved in cutti Ig his cloth. But the evil,
in even this aspect of the case, Is, that
It may tempt the tailor to make those
shifts and substitutions, through which
one man's garment may contain scraps
of sonic other man's goods, in order that
the tailor, or 801110 Of Ilk employees,
may indulge ill the gratuity of a hand
some waistcoat, a cloth-cap, or a superb
pair of gaiters. Besides, it may be an
invasion of the privileges of the eco
nomical house-wife, who may desire the
surplus fragments, to make repairs in
the family wardrobe in a time of need.
In purely commercial tailoring, how
ever, there can be no such thing as rub
&wing, unless the jours or apprentices
practice it upon the " Crooks ;" and
then it is generally called cribbing—but,
perhaps we ought to define more clearly
what cabbaging is.
In localities where it was the custom
for people to carry their own material to
the tailor to have it cut and made, no
more was usually taken there than what
was necessary to make the garment, or
garments, which the patron desired ;
and therefore, the merchant from whom
it .was puohased, cut off just such quan
tity as -was thought sufficient. Mer
chants themselves were sometimes sel
fish In this matter. If they sold the
material at a lump bargain, they would
give the smallest possible quantity out
of which a garment could be made; but
if they sold by the yard, they would cut
off a large pattern. After cutting out
the garment, the overplus—if any—was
claimed by the tailor as a sort of legiti
mate perquisite—unless there had been
a distinct stipulation to return the
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VOLUME 72
patches—and this overplus was called
cabbage," and found its way into the
tailor's cabbage-box"—sometimes also
called hell. The term cabbage, was not
usually applied to any act, save such as
could properly come under the above
definition. Crib, cribbing, or cribbag
ing, was, however, indiscriminately ap
plied to this overplus, and also to a
species of small stealing. Therefore. it
will be seen that, although tailors could
not, in a restricted sense of the term,cab
bage from each other, they yet might
crib from each other.
But, according to the quotation from
the old song which we preface this pa
per with, we think we can show that—
" Tailors are not the only folks who by
cabbaging have made"—nor has the
term originated with them. Although
vegetable eabbayes, or kale 4, were known
among the Romans as early as the time
of Col umella, and probaoly were in tro•
duced by them into England at a very
early period ; yet, the particular close
hearted variety, that now goes by the
name of cabbage, came originally from
Holland ; and Sir Anthony Ashley wits
the first man who introduced its culti
vation into England, and made his eou 0-
try independent of the hutch for its
" sauer kraut." According; to Ritulli
"this planter of cabbages rendered
his name famous, but was also
known by other deeds less credita
ble to his character." It appears that
he had a military command at Cadiz,
or Cales, where he got much by
rapine, especially front a lady who
entrusted her jewels to his hon
or. "Front this, originatire jest
(.11 him, that ''he got more by C.th., than
by a and cabbage." This not only
demonstrates that tailors are not the
only people who have acquired property
belonging to others by oribbailitly, but
also that Ihcy are not the only ones who
has:y.)o:6bl/ ever such acquisition. This
great cabbager has a monument erected
to his memory at Winiborne St. (tiles,
in I torsetshire, England; and there is
said to be a cabbage sculptured on it at
his feet. There is no doubt that from
this circumstance comes the term "cab
baging" as applied to similar acts of sel
appropriation among tailors; and furth
er, that If the act is not stealing, it is at
least a breach of trust. From England,
the introduction of the term and the act
to which it applies, would have little
difficulty in finding an easy transition
to America, a country so dependent
upon the mother-country for its early
artisans of all' kinds.
But how insignificant do the very worst
camesofa cabhaging appear,wlien
compared with the official and other acts
of cathaging which have taken place In
our country during the last ten yearn,
in National, State, and Municipal ( lov
ern ments
A good story, exhibiting the strong
temptation, and the conscientious scru
ples, involved in cabbaging, is related
something in this wise, by a friend : Au
old tailor with strong calitinging osopen
slties,was brought nearly to oath's door
through a severe attack of fever. Int r
ing a delirious period, a long scroll pass
ed in vision Lefore hiui, composed of
pieces of all the cloth he had rabbaged
during his life. Feeling great remorse,
he promised, that if he recovered, lie
never would cabbage more ; and fell ,. f
his recovery, he told his journeyman to
admonish him, if he ever saw him do
the like again. Ile resisted the tempta
tion for some time; but finally he saved
a vest-pattern, from an exceeding line,
and beautifully colored piece of cloth,
which straightway was transferred to
his Box. Ins journeyman reminded
him of the "fatal scroll" he had seen in
his fever-vision and the vow he had
made. "Ali," he replied, there was
nothing on that scroll, fib', or that will
eompo color and quality with this.”
Si,, we may see how difficult it is to
"work out of the flesh, what is bred in
the bone," for no doubt this anecdote
has been, in some sense, realized, on
many occasions, by those addicted to
similar retaliations.
What is it, in the political world, that
makes necessary such an institution as
a "Corruption fund," for the purpose
of advancing the claims of aspirants to
(Alice, but that said aspirants, if success
ful, expect to enjoy opportunities to both-
Intyc the people's money How could
a azure possibly irhtord to pay the whole
salary of an office, to obtain possession
of that otlice—unless he is rich enough
to forego the sslary for the mere honor
of serving his eountry—if he did not
contemplate going into the ivbba,q ,
business, and illegitimately making a
sell-appropriation of material means
that are justly due to his constituency,
or his country:' If there is any truth
in common rumor, in newspaper :faro
graphs, and in Court proceedings,oh:cial
eabbaging has been organized into
regular system, and has its sanctions in
long-established precedents- precedents
which modern i ncu in ben ts regard NS COO
sacred to evade, to oppose, or to over
throw. Never was a tailor more fully
under the conviction that he had an
inalienable right to the surplus material
of his customer, thew aspirants to office
have, that those offices were created for
(lent, and that they have a right to
make a self-appropriation of emolu
ments and perquisites, that never was
contemplated by the laws limier which
those offices exist, and have their au
thority. Phut eabbaging is not confined
to the tailoring and political worlds
alone. It more or less pervades the
commercial, the social, the literary, the
scientific, and perhaps also the religious
worlds. Any system, whether sanc
tioned by custom or not, which makes
11 self-appropriation of that which right
fully belongs to others, is pravticully a
system of eabbaging or cribbing, no
matter how plausible the arguments of
self-justification are With the same
breath that the frugal customer asserts
his claim to the overplus of his garment,
in possession of his tailor, he may also
be asserting his right to the property of
others in his possession. If we properly
reflect upon these aspects of the case,
we cannot help coming to the conclusion
that—
"Tailors are not the only folks, who
by cabbaging have made."
l i i:.\ x`l' IS 1.1. l
• 8y.ti0..1,3.. to Ire a good iintiliager required
sonic el: ill in economical drafting Lind cutting;
I ecause, If the iiverplus tas not In one piece
large enough to Mane a vest, IL cloth-sup, or a
pair of gullet's at least It Wits comparatively
worthless; and When It was 111 ninny small
Moves, It wits sonic( Imes locally called " odd
claw." Thort•lOre It Was liSmUllltql, that If IL
shiftless eilltel'eollid MIIVe sufficient material,
In Lanny pieces to make any of the aforesaid
articles, my superior skill In "laying oaf," it
could ho No managed as to concentrate them
into one large ply.. On the same ground It
Leas assumed, that If there was sufficient ma
tenni In a 1111,0 Of cloth to cut a coat, iir of her
garment, with piosiug, by superior Skill It
!night In. cut gat/tout piecing, and this skill
VOtletllllted a man a good, or at least uu eve.
110111fral, Mater, or "crook." It Wile more or
less a 011OSt11311 Of frugality, for In t•ut ling the
haute quantity of clot 11, into garintlito id the
Maine nre., flue cutter might have the overplus
la the toms or carpet-rags or ' cold-slaw" ly
ing at his feet on the tloor, whilst another more
ecommileal operator might. have It stowed
away In his cutiliage-lox or hell, in the l i arm of
rent-put terns; and Oils elreumetance went far
towards Justifying the system of cabhaging ;
because In' would have been considered a Mean
customer indeed, who would have cialmed the
carpet-runs ; and yet, abstractly speaking, one
18110 more our Ives his property than the oth
er. This term cold-slaty (as often /10t as cold)
more prupi • rly Lvritten rub'-slow, Is it derlent lon
front the Saxon knit', or role Windt, and literal
ly rendered is:cob/my,. s a lad tir cob . , be
ing the Saxon name Iml cabbage, Front this
also 00111 es the name Ma culinary preparation
of cabbage and potato., culled " kale cap 011"
or "kale canew," which Is volleltiOred by Its
Dllllll OppOOPIIIN, an I.IOIIIIng Init all "Irish
mess. It a taller therefore eschews the system
of cabliaglng altogether, and relinquishes his
tight Lo the cabbage entirely, unless he sweeps
Ills shop ' b ully, and turows sweepings Into
Lhe streets, he cannot discontinue Or abjure
his accumulat lons of slaw, and hat' rOnell',
more popularly known under the name id rol . -
p t 0.11,1
Public Taste In the East
No amusements are tolerated In the
East of an indecent or immoral nature.
In Australia Catharine Hayes made a
fortune; Lola ISlontez wasa dead failure.
In Calcutta, not long since, a Gernum
dunsemqc made her debut and her fare
well appearance in the towu hall on the
same evening; the authorities prohibited
a second appearance, and yet she wore
an amount of clothing which 00 the
stage at home at this period would he
considered abundant. lu Bombay some
people declined to subscribe to the Ital
ian opera on the ground that it was im
proper for a woman to appear, for in
stance, as Ilfeco, iu Lucrezie"—a
singular objection, as was pointed out at
the time, to be taken in an Indian city,
where the natives frequently go about
nearly naked.--Cornhill Magazi?le for
February.
Dinners—for lawyers, suet-pudding;
for financiers, mint's meat; for clergy
men, soused sarmon and sweet amens;
for sporting men, steaks, trotters and
sago; for Crispins, eel sand soles; for
carpenters, aplane meal; with perhaps
a bit of sawsage.
History of the White House
1711=
Corre.pereleuee of the N. Y. Eveulng /V11..1
WASIIINUTON, Feb. 1871.
The history of the White House is too
generally known to need much com
ment here. In 1790 and 1797 its walls
reached only to the level of the ground,
and when Mr. Adams, whose term of
office was then nearly completed, re
moved here in 1900, the house was not
ready for him to occupy it, and he took
lodgings at a public house in George
town. Before he retired from the Pres
idency, however, he and his wife re
moved to the Executive Mansion, and
lived there in great discomfort. It was
much injured, but not entirely destroy
ed by the British in 1814, and though
repaired, some of its apartments were
not entirely completed until General
Jackson's time, when the East Boom
was first used. Neverthet&s the early
Presidents lived in style, and knew
how to entertain so sumptuously, that
an old servant of Mr. Madison's is
moved to indignation when talking of
the past and contrasting it with the
present. This old Mall has his own ac
count to give of most things, and espe
cially of the means by which the city
fell into the hands of the enimiy during
that invasion to which I have had occa
sion more than once to allude. Uncle
Paul is a most interestingacquaintance.
Ile WiIS born a slave in the Madison fam
ily, mid raised as a pet. lie stood always,
alter he grew large enough to wait at
table, at Mrs. Mad sari's left hand, and
poured out the tea and coffiee for the
guests. lie Wtl:; Madison's conti
dent bit messenger, and carried the notes
folded lengthwise to all imch or two n
Width, and then by a tWi,t and turn in
the centre made to form halfa rectangle
--for envelopes were not then—to the
Cabinet officers when special meetings
were called. I could read writing,"
says l'nele Paul,"before I could write a
word." When the Cabinet assembled
the boy had the daring to remain in the
room often during the meeting, and un
noticed, or if noticed supposed to be too I
young for his presence to he objection-
able, he listened to the councils of war.
Of a special meeting which took place
just before the brittle of Bladensburg lie
particularly speaks, and gives the name
from memory, ()revery Cabinet. Minister
present. "I heard," he says, "Mr. Mad
ison say to Gen. Armstrong, the Secre
tary of War, 'you must give arms to
those men living down by the arsenal,'
and Gen. A rinst ro g said, 'lt shall be',
done. sir;' but it never was done, for'
that Armstrong was traitor. Yes, I
don't care who says rirrl, know he was
a traitor,"
"And I tell you what I saw," con
tinues l'ncle Paul, on " the 2:41 of Au
gust, the day before the battle, 1 saw an
old woman conic through the hall of
the White Ilouse, alld she wore a black
dress and a black silk handkerchief
over her head and spectacles, and 1 ran
after her, boy-like, you know, and
pulled at her skirts, 11.1111 she shook me
oil', and said, (lit away, you little
scamp ;' and that old W0111;111 was Cock
burn, the Antniral of the British tleet!
I know it was ; and he went through
all the departments and saw all he
wanted to see. The next morning 1
was standing by Mrs. Madison at break
fast, and all the Secretaries were there,
and some more, and Mrs. Madison said
to General Armstrong . , ' l leneral, do you
think the British will come to-day:"—
And he said: Ily no means, Madam,'
but he knew it all the time."
The Whole party who rode away after
breakfast were expected back the same
day to dinner at 3 o'clock, and Paul,
who prided himself on his ability to set
as butler, had the preparing of the din
ner table. At 12 o'clock, he says, he
put his wines in the coolers and at the
tattle, and the cook put the "stew-pans"
on the stove, and then Paul amused
himself with a game of marbles out of
doors. Pretty soon he saw a black
cloud in the direction of Bladensburg,
and heard the caution tiring, and pres
ently people began to run past, then a
messenger came to AI rs. Madison, warn
ing her to hurry from the city, for Gen
eral Armstrong had ordered a retreat:
l'aul betook himself within, and saw
Mrs. Madison come down stairs
with a reticule in her hands and
till it with silver, "but she never
looked at nothing else," says Uncle
Paul, alluding to thestory of lier cutting
(;eneral Washington's picture from the
frame and carrying it with her, "she
just went oil in a hurry." Left behind,
the boy enjoyed the sport or seeing the
people run through the streets. Never
was there anythino . like it " Dere was
old bonnets, old Eats, old dresses, old
carts and feather beds lashed on behind."
liy and by Paul, who had once in the
meantime refined to leave, concluded to
with another boy. and went, saving
nothing, " forgetting even my two vio
lins down in the cellar, - lie says
dolefully. Ile reached the ferry at
teorgetown just as Mr. Madison was
about to erns; it: going to N'irginia,
but was unseen by him, so went his
own way. After some adventures he
reached, about dusk, a farmhouse where
a Methodist minister lived, and found
many there before hint. For there was
a crowd everywhere, " hen houses and
chicken coops were full of people." The
minister gathered all assembled on his
premises about him in prayer, and
while they were praying art awful noise
was heard and everybody rushed out of
the house, "and we saw," says Paul,
"the public buildings all on fire in the
city, and When I saw the NVltite House
burning, I just cried out, " Dere goes
my poor fiddles. I was only a boy you
see."
A few days afterwards when the panic
was over and al! were returning to the
Capital, Paul met Mrs. Madison in her
carriage on the road, " and when she
saw me," he says, "she just learned
half her body out the carriage window
and caught me in her arms, she was so
glad to see me and know I was safe.
Well, I went back with her, then, and
when I went to the White House, what
do you suppose I saw ? It's the truth
and no one, living or dead, can deny it;
I saw written everywhere on the walls,
in big letters," General A rmstrong sold
the Capital for one million of dollars,—
Yes, I saw it, :not plenty more saw it
tom,'
Uncle Paul continued to live with Mr.
anti Mrs. Madison after they mt.! red to
private life, and after the death of Mr.
Madison remained with his widow for
many years while she was living in the
house. till known us the Madison House,
on the northeast corner of Lafayette
Square. In this house Mrs. Madison
continued her reign, for never while she
lived did society forsake her. It was
customary until her death On New Year's
day for all the grandees, after calling
upon the President, to call next upon
Mrs. Madison. In her parlors political
enemies met as on neutral ground.
Often as I have found it necessary to
mention her name in the course of
these ,letters, I have heard it still
oftener from those who have kindly
furnished me with facts and in
cidents. Of her grace much is said;
much, also, of her conversational pow•
era, of her dignity, and, in spite of the
last, of her wonderful ability to put
everyone around.her at ease. "Never,"
Uncle Paul declares, "was a more grace
fuller lady in any drawing room. We
always had our Wednesday-evening re
ceptions at the old Madison House,
and we had them ill style." Of Mts.
Madison's high white turbans much is
said also, for they were much. It is
supposed she spent Slob a year in tur
bans. She wore one to her latest day,
long after turbans had ceased to be a
fashion. These turbans were made of
the finest material, and trimmed to
match her various dresses. Her old
servant speaks of one of her dresses of
purple velvet with a long train trimmed
with wide gold-lace, with which she
wore a turban also ornamented with
gold lace, and a pair of gold shoes. With
a white satin dress she wore a turban
spangled with silver, and silver shoes.
She sent regularly to Paris for her
grand costumes. Her tea-parties and
her " 100 " parties are mentioned as
features of the past. Cards were the
great resource of middle-aged ladies at
that period, and a certain circle, of
which Mrs. Madison was one, met reg
ularly every day at the house of some
one of the circle to play 100 or whist.
Since her death Commodore Wilkes
(the same who captured Mason and
Slidell) has owned, and for many years
occupied, her house. More recently
Mr. and Mrs. Chanler, of New York,
have resided in it. .Though altered and
remodelled since Mrs. Madison's time,
the glory of the house is very evidently
in the past.
Before closing the:recital of Uncle
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING MARC Y 1, 1871.
Paul's reminiscences It would be well
to add his account of the rescue of Gen
eral Washington's portrait, whose pres
ervation has very generally been cred
ited to the forethought of Mrs. Madison
in cutting it out of its frame. " sow
does it look reasonable," says the old
man, " that she would take down that
picture of General Washington, six feet
high? I don't care for history when I
know what I saw, and I told you I saw
her leave in a hurry, just taking some
silver with her. 1 disputed this point
once with a gentleman long after
the war was over; and when he
doubted my word. and talked about his
tory, I went and found John Susa, the
French door-keeper who used to live
with us in the White House. When
he saw me coming he ran to me, and
threw his arms around me, and says,
' Oh, coon cher Paul ! Mon Dieu! Paul!'
And here he who was thus vehemently
welcomed gets off a surprising quantity
of French expletives. When I asked
him, ".John, who took lien. Washing
ton's picture away when theßritish was
coming?' he says, ' I did; 1 took him
clown. And so he did, anA one of the
other servants helped, and they carried
that picture and one or two more, arid
smnesilver, away in a cart, and hid them
in the woods till the trouble was over,
and then brought them back to the
house." This story, which is no doubt
correct, as Uncle Paul is considered re
liable by those who have known him
longest and speaks well Ihr the
patriotism and honesty of those em
ployed in the White House, :tt a time
when all missing articles would have
been laid to the account or British Van
dals
' The Itheen's l'ay."
What the Royal Family of Eoziontl
What it workingman at a late meet
ing, more probably from paucity or
language than disrespect, called the
"Queen's l'ay,' or the sum fixed by
Statute 1, 11137, " lor the maintenance
of the Queen's household and the honor
and dignity of the Crown," amounts ilk
gross to .085,000 a year. Besides being
sovereign the Queen is also Duchess of
Lancaster, and derives from her• well
managed ducal possession a further va
rying annual income, averaging, say,
r. 2.3,000. It is, however, the former
amount only that conies out of the con
solidated fund—that is out of the rev
enue of the kingdom ; and from the
U 115,000 so derived must first be fairly
deducted, before estimating the Royal
national Income, the charge thrown
on the civil list, for pensions, at the rate
of .1;1,200 a year, for with these pensions
the sovereign personally has really
nothing to do. What their amount now
reaches does not appear. The civil list
of L. 35.1,000 is also charged with 1:13,01111
a year for '• royal bounty, al ins and
special services," whh•li fall on the
Queen as representing the nation, and
diminish the income personally enjoyed
by tier Majesty.
Whatever the act income of the Queen
under the act of 11177 may be, it is no
torious: I. That it is less in amount
than that of her majesty's predecessors
for the last one hundred and seventy
years, and in purchasing power than
during by far the greater part of that
period. :1. That it does not reach the
income possessed by the other great sov
ereigns of Europe. ::. That Queen Vic
toria hits not exceeded in tier expendi
ture, as most of her predecessors in that
time did, her civil list ; and 4, has not
had the other pecuniary resources which
they one and all had, from Queen Anne
down to William I V.
Queen Anne had an annual provision
front Parliament of ..t: , 00,000 a year,
whereon debts accumulated during the
twelve years of her reign of £1,21)0,11(0,
which Parliament had to discharge.
George I. had H. civil list of similar
amount, but in a reign of twelve years
Parliament had to pay its debts to the
extentol £1,000,000. In the thirty-three
years of the reign of (;surge 11. the
debts on his civil list of.tC in oo,ono wer e
1.:4.51.;,000, which were also discharged by
Parliament, and in the latter years of
his rule the taxes assigned to him for
the civil list, there being then no con
solidated fund to charge it on, produced
more than the .000.0110 by about half a
million. The civil list of George
was originally .1.:%;00,00) a year; at the
end of seventeen years it was increased
to Entoo,ooo, subsequently ..C960,000, and
in the latter years of his life it was aug
mented to .E1,030,nu0. Nevertheless, in
the course of his reign of sixty years
debts on his civil list were liquidated
by Parliament out of taxation by the
large sum of X:l,sll,nua. In his reign,
too, the casual revenues and debts of the
(Town which had not been surrendered
to the nation produced 1:P2,111111,mo, of
which .C-1,4n0,000 were received by the
King for his present use. And until
majority, George I 11. look for himself
the income irf the Duchy of Cornwall.
'file civil list oil leor g ,• Iv. was L. 1U eon
and that of \Villiam IV. the same
amount. Neither of then• monarchs
incurred dclit-i that rarlianient had to
meet, but both, in addition to the civil
list, were in receipt of the revenue, of
the Duchy of Cornwall.
•
No doubt the Civil lists of the first
four of these sovereigns were charged
with sonic public liabilities and abused
by unrestricted pension, from which the
present civil list is free. But the value
of money was generally in those reigns,
part of that of George HI, excepted,
much greater than it now is; the
sovereigns of the house of Hanover had
incomes derived from that kingdom,
which the Queen has not; and they all
had inherited private fortunes, while
her Majesty inherited nothing, and had
her father's debts to pay on tier acces
sion to the throne. During all these
reigns Parliament. made separate pro
vision for the members of the royal
In the former reign the privy purse
appropriation included that of Queen
'Adelaide, who, on becoming Queen
Dowager, had a charge on the consolL
dated fund of .1:100,000 a year; whereas
the grant to the late Prince Consort was
only .c 30,000 a year. And as the for
mer sovereign had no children, while
her Majesty hail nine children, who re
mained and remain a charge on the
civil list until otherwise provided for,
the burden on her civil list has of course
been much greater than that on the
civil list of King William. Notwith
standing the greater pressure, and by
means of order and economy, the pres
ent civil list has been sufficient for the
Queen's expenditure : and the nature
and education of the royal and
out of its economies Osborne has been
purchased and built, and is maintained.
These civil lists bade been granted to
the four last sovereigns on their surren
der to the nation of the royal hereditary
revenues, the casual revenues and droits
of the crown excepted. This arrange
ment, originally pecuniarily advantage
ous to the sovereign, has, by improved
care and management of the royal prop
erty so surrendered, now become profit
able to the nation. Thus, in the ac
counts of the receipts and expenditures
of the commissioners of her Majesty's
woods, forests and land revenues for the
yqar ending 31st March, 186 f), there
will be found two Items paid into the
consolidated fund—that is, to the na
tion—amounting to £458,21)0, or £73,206
iu excess of the civil lint of the Queen,
paid out of the consolidated. fund ; and
already In the course of the present fi
nancial year the crown lands have con
tributed to the revenue of the kingdom
the sum of £331,000. This considerable
pecuniary balance in:favor of the nation
on the arrangement of 1837 for the main
tenance of the sovereign and the honor
and dignity of the crown is, moreover,
irrespective of the other substantial ad
vantages the country derives from the
arrangement, to the great pecuniary
detriment of the sovereign were no such
arrangement in existence for the he
reditary possessions of the crown in
chide the ancient parks in and around
London, which, devoted, in con
sequence of their transfer against the
civil list, to the nation, are applied
towards the health, the recreation,
and enjoyment of the population
of the metropolis. Without a civil
list charged on the consolidated fund,
and thrown on the hereditary posses
sions of the Crown for the maintenance
of her household, and to support the
honor and dignity of the throne, the
sovereign would be free to utilize all
royal property after the manner in
which the Marquis of Westminister,the
Duke of Portland, the Duke of Bedford
and other great metropolitan proprietors
have utilized their estates in and about
London; and the result would be, that
while London would be deprived of its
ancient parks, Queen Victoria would be
in possession of a much larger income
than £385,000, and be in a position to
amply provide, without the assistance, NAN DOMINGO. files. The staples of their diet are phintians
of Pat liament, for her family. Which are excellent when fried, yams,sweet
The civil list arrangement puts the What the Reporter,. Sat, potatoes, coseoa-nuts, pines, bananas, or
public In full possession of these metro- -:. angel, tomatoes, egg plants, and sometimes
politan amenities, and a large annual The Island—lts People—lts tqww salt fish. Fresh Itch is lever seen—whether
the ,
profit out of the hereditary possessions tions—.ll:e., A7e. waters do not supply it or the people
of the Crown after payment of a civil : We make the following eopiotis eXtraels
from the very full correspondence furnish- cattle being raised are too lazy to catch it, I cannot it The
better eht•iseS have !neat about twice a week
list of 1:383,000 a year. But it throws on in small numbers on the
the nation the obligation of providing ed to the different New York papers: high lands; but beef sells f,r eight or ten
for her Majesty's children on their nut- The Tennessee first en tied thel
ce.ebrated , ,•ents a pomid - which is tar beyond the
jority or marriage, awl that obligation i harbor of Somana. The portico of territio'y Means of the poor—and besides it is hard to
Parliament has unhesitatingly perform- i embracing this bay is represented on th e keep in this climate. Everybody keeps
ed in reference to the Prince of \Vales
maps to be a peninsula, but is said in real-
poultry, and when there are ships in port
the Duke of Edinburgh, the Crown; i ity to be separated from Hayti and to be an cliii•kens are worth 50 cents a piece, and
Princess of Prussia, Princess Louis of I island. 'Lim special correspondent or th e eggs ilu cents a dozen. ISM as soon as the
New York TiVoirie gives the following last vessel shows her stern to the rickety
Hesse, Princess Christian of Schleswig- , description o f oescription ot Mtle fort at the end of the village, down
If olstein ; and will shortly be called on , TOE TOWN or SANTA BARBARA DE SAMANA, troubles all (.01111110,e, and the people be
to perform towards the Princess Louise ,
antana is a poor, little, dirty place come frightfully lavish in the use or their
and Prince Arthur.-- Lund'', / 1,7 ., 1 enough, for all its romantic and picturesque remaining stook of beef and eggs.
appearance. It is built in a random. hap- THE CLIMATE AND v u
emocrioN.
~.
Rocky Mountain Faille
A correspondent of the Cincinnati
(;..t.z,t7te gives an account of the large
herds grazing in the West, and the man
ner of breeding and feeding cattle and
sheep. lie says :
I cannot begin at a setter place than
the Laramie plains—t he paradise of cat
tle raisers. It was late - in the afternoon
of a chilly day that Dr. Latham took me
in his buggy and started for the grazing
grounds south of the city. In an hour's
time we came in sight of the herds. First
were a few stragglers or warders, who
seemed to be the sentinels of the great
herd, and looked not unlike Indians as
they raised their large heads, with
wide-spreading horns, am) peered doss : n
front the hill-tops to see who and
what we were. Next we came upon
families of into, four :Ind six head ; then
groups of a dozen, and lastly, avast mass
of cattle, stretching in all directions as
far as the eye could reach. I fere was a
stalwart Durham calf, who, with mas
sive head erect and staring eye, at us,
wondered what on earth no strange a
thing as a horse and buggy could be.—
There was a big bull that had cost his
owners hundreds of dollars in the east,
and who hardly deigned us a look as we
drove by. Near him was a mild, demure
looking cow, with three calves, one a
two-year old, another a yearling, and
the last, a fat little one, only a few days
old. :ski we drove on for nines and miles, I
young bulls bellowingaround us, heifers
kicking up their heels and scampering
away, and old dames hastening to their
young as if we had come to rob them of
~..their pretty calves. I t was a grand sight,
this single herd of fifty bulls, three thou-
I sand cows and eighteen hundred calves.
It seemed an endless mass of beef.and
I large fortune for one man, yet I was told
I that the gentleman who owned this herd
I owned three others equally large. .
We saw a little Id low just brought
, into the world, and stopped to observe'
hint take Ids first steps on tile prairie.
I The dam ran away, but immediately
canoe back and stood resolutely by her
young; indeed, so wickedly did she
look that the doctor drove hastily
saying it was not safe to go too near
these cows when they have calves.—
From the lire in the beast's eyes, I be
lieve she had determined to charge upon
us, and the pony seemed to understand
this, for he reared, snorted, and was
anxious to be off, having no relish for a
goring front a pair of sharp horns.
It was curious to observe the habits of
these prairie cattle. They run in fami
lies like the buffalo, their cows keeping
their calves with them until they are
three or four years old. It frequently
happens that the mother has under her
protection sons and daughters larger
than herself. The dam watches over
her ofr:pring, and, when they disobey,
punishes them, to which they submit
like well trained children. In the mid
dle of the day the cattle leave the L igh
ground and go to the river bottoms for
water. About four o'clock they go back
to the high ground and graze on the rich
gramma and bunch grapes until night,
when they lay down on the warm sandy
soil and sleep until next morning.
They graze in families and little herds
of six, eight and ten, anti these stick to
getherlike chosen friends. hi travelling
hack and forth to the water, they march
in single file, and follow the same path,
like the butralo, wearing deep ruts in
the earth. The cattle frequently go four
or live miles to the water, and, having
slaked their thirst, nearly always return
to the place from which they started.
The total number of cattle 1,11 the
plains of the Platte river is 18,200; total
of sheep, rityon! grand total number of
head, 'rhe number of cattle on
the plains more than doubled during
the year 1: , 70 ' and it is fair to presume
that the herds will quadruple in Is7l.
great facilities for raising cattle on
the plains of the Platte have attracted
the attention of the clock growers
throughout the Iltion , and those who
have visited the Rocky- mountain pas
tures went away expressing their satis
faction and intention of thriving in a
portion or their herds next spring.
pct the pasture lands are mostly
unsurveye, government any :,ant gem
t" any one who chooses
eonie and ‘wetipy them. They will
not Corte in the marl:et I'm years yet,
and \viten they dm ,toil: raisers, who
hegin nuts, trill he amply able to buy
:ill the land they need for (MM.
H erds.
Last winter, Mr. 11111 tried the exper
iment of shipping dressed cattle to Chi
cago :Ind New York markets. For want
of suitable cars on the Union Pacific
railroad, and an easy mode of transfer
ring across the Missouri, he did not suc
ceed in a pecuniary point of view, but
Mr. mu . himself told me he washy
no means discouraged and would renew
his eflbrts this winter. He assured me
he could lay down plain beef in the New
Yolk, Chicago and even Boston mar
kets two cents per pound cheaper than it
could he brought from any other part of
the I'M tell States. This year the Union
Pacific railroad is building a number of
refrigerator ears, and as soon as the
bridge across the Missouri at ()Inaba is
completed, the winter trade of dressed
cattle for eastern markets will begin in
earnest from the plains.
l'at's Veit}
Pat was but an idle buy ; one day be
wassuddenly called up :Ind the question
propounded by the pedagogue:
'• Patrick, how many Gods are there*.''
Pat %yam not a distinguished theolo
gian, but h' promptly an..
" Three, sir."
"Take your seat:" thundered the
master, "and if you don't answer in
five minutes, I will welt you"
The probationary period passed, and
Pat taking the floor, hesitatingly stated
the number of ( ;oda to be " five, sir."
Ile received the promised "welting,"
and returned to his seat, ten minutes,
for consideration.
Ten minutes up Pat was up, WO, and
satisfied that he hadn't fixed the num
ber ~ e tifilciently high before, shouted
There's ten, sir."
He saw the ferule descending, and
broke out of the dom., he cleared a five
rail fence and run like a quarter-horse
across the meadow. Panting with ex
ertion, he met a lad with a book in his
hand, and with a look of one in the pur
suit of knowledge under difficulties.
" Where are you going'."'
" To school yonder," - was the reply.
" I low many Gods are there
" One," answered the boy.
" Well, you'd better not go down
there. You will have a good time with
your one God. I just left there with ten,
and that wasn't enough to save ute from
the darn'dest licking you ever heard of."
If timorous
On Ids late return to Salt Luke, Brig
ham Young found his wives drawn up
in a hollow square to receive him.
They tell of a farmer in Kentucky
who was so lazy that when he went to
hoe corn he worked so slowly that the
shade of his broad-brimmed hat killed
the plants.
A countryman who had attended a
race said he didn't see why the sports
men should be so particular to a quarter
of a second about the end of it, when
they kept the public waiting half an
hour for the beginning. •
Justice Thompson, who was immedi
ate predecessor of Judge Nelson, of New
York, on the Supreme Bench, was prone
to excessive libations. One morning
after a carouse he was promptly at court,
and, before taking his seat, entered into
lively conversation with some of the
guests of the previous evening. One of
these fearing that the good Judge might
have "suffered from the hospitality' (as
Mr. Webster once quaintly observed),
said to him :
"Well, Judge, I hope you are feeling
well to-day."
"Yes, sir, thank you; quite well, sir.
I have just taken a gin-cocktail, sir, and
it has acted like a Beire-facias—it has
'revived any judgment 9'''
I hazard sort of a way, along half a-in ile of
curving shore, et the hit ofa ridge of high
wooded hills, and what, with its ,ram Kling
lanes and grotesque huts, think is one
of the most absurd places I ever saw.
There are 00 or 90 buildings, all told, rain
slating for the most part of a light frame
work of scantlings brought front the States,
and clap-boarded with bamboos split In
half and pressed flat by.piling stones else'
them while wet. The rude planking ninth'
in this primitive mariner is front four to
six inches wide and half a quarter of an,
inch thick. Paint is almost unknown, but
most of the huts are whitewashed. The
roofing is of cocoa leaves bound together
with vines. 'rhe flooring, when thew is
any, which is not often, consists of rough
, hewn wood, or bark, or boughs, or the
same leaves that are used for thatch. Nona
of the houses—or, perhaps, I should say
cabins—have more than one story; few have
more than one, or, rerhaps, two rooms.—
Doors and windows are luxuries , which the
majority of the people have learned to do
without; but there are moor three houses in
the village roofed with shingles and sup
• plied with all such modern conveniences :us
plank doors, partitions , and doors 81111 win
'lows. In the centre of the settlement i.
the Plaza, or square, without which no
Spanish.built town is thought to be cow
-1 plete, and hero is a Liberty Tree, of the
royal palm species, planted by the village's
live or six years ago to replace one vet
down by the Spaniards befrire they were
driven away. We landed from the ship's
boats on a wretched wharf Which runs out
about 100 feet into the shallow water; and
I if the village looked comical from the frig-
I ate, what shall I say of the nearer view?
The platform swarmed with men, women
and children, of all shades of color, gazing
open-eyed and open-mouthed upon the
strange arrival. At least half the children
under eight years of age were as naked as
when they first mule into this wicked
world. The offspring of this innocent pop
ulation usually begin to Viddle about the
streets when they are little above the size
of a large sweet-potato, and it is not ens
' totnary to clothe them In so much as a lig
leaf until they are at least live years old.—
Clothing, even at that age, is looked upon
as superfluous, as often its lea, d u ll 1 keel' '
seen sortie pretty well advanced ehildren
with nothing on worth mentioning. It
seems to be one of the unwritten laws of
fashion that the young shall never wear
more than one garment at a time. If a
mother has given her child a shirt, that is
enough ; if a coat is more handy, let a ',oat
suffice; and, indeed, it is not uncommon
for all the purposes of convenience and
adornment to be answered by a hat or a
pair of shoes. Among the louver classes—
if I may be pardoned the expression—econ
omy in costume is not confined to the ehil
drum There are men whose whole ward
robe consists of a pair of pantaloons, and
women who boast of no garment whatever
but a torn calico gown—not so much as a
ragged handkerchief. One of the members
of the Commission assures me that, in the
interior, the full dress of a gentleman
sometimes consists ofa broad-brimmed hat
and a rusty sword, tied about the loin with
a belt of bark. I don't wish to be under
stood as making this statement on my per
sonal responsibility; but evidently we shall
have a great deal to get used to in S n Do
mingo.
There is no tavern, or hotel, Or any place
of accommodation for strangers, una far
as I marl' been able to learn there are Ilia
more than two Or three bedsteads on the
whole peninsula. Those who have no
hammocks sleep on rude bamboo frames,
or on improvised pallets of leaves au ra l bark.
It is a curious feature of Santana life that
almost everybody keeps a shop. 'if the se
houses in the place, more than hall are in
some way devoted to trade. I low 40 shop
keepers can be maintained hi a village of
so houses is a problem in political econo
my that I shall het athilllet. to solve, but so
it is. All that 1 have seen sell liquor, and
beside this staple of COIIIIIICree One can boy
common calicoes, groceries, tobacco, veg
etables, and fruit.
ekortk.
',C here the earth yields so Creely of her
store, awl the artificial wants of civilized
lift are unknown, it would be unreasona
ble to look for a very industrious popula
tion ; but I must say the people of Samana
impress rice as all uncommonly lazy set of
vagabonds. They are irresistibly good
humored, and certainly intelligent beyond
their station. They have capacity for ion
provement and wore general information
than onewou Id naturally expect. But where
property is insecure, and fruit always in
season, and riven pantaloons not an abso
lute necessity, whiat is the use of work?
The women are more industrious than the
men, and Whitt little labor is performed
is nearly all dine by them. I 'mule a little
inland, yesterday, in company
with one it iny fellow-travelers 'teach of
us mounted oti a bull, accordiugtothcens
tom ,if the country,) and everywhere we
were struck by this inversion °tithe sexes.
Near the top of a long hill we met a man
and woman returning from town. They
had evidently been to barter their print 11,0
for sonic, family necessaries, and the wile
was staggering Under the load 01 two heavy
bags, while the husband walked gaily
ahead with empty hands. We 0101 sever
al women leading bulls to and from the
town, and children carrying burdens, b u t
not a man doing anything. •Vito lords of
creation lounge about the shops, suck
oranges and look at strangers ; but, during
our stay at this port—and I have been con
stantly ashore—l have seen hardly a man
at work, except six or eight. ha n dy negriies
who are kept busy on the Methodist
Church.
The population of the y Hinge is Mama 2. - e.
and of the whole peninsula about ii,ooo. A
inajority—at any rate, of the villagers --
speak English. There are very few white
men—Mr. Burr, a live Maine Yankee, of
whom more hereafter; Mr. Horan, a sort
of Spanish Pennsylvania Yankee cif you
know what that is), who has spent many
years in New York; Price, formerly
purser of the Tybee, and now building up
for himself a wod business here; Mr. Mar
ciaque, a French merchant, formerly of
New Orleans, but store recently a partisan
of Salnave in Hayti. These, with three or
tour more, are all that 1 havo heard of. >I r.
I•'abens, Judge USulli van, and some others,
spend a great deal of time here, but ran
hardly be called inhabitants. All the coliir
ed residents speak Spanish, many speak
French, and certainly a majority of all—
men, women and children—speak English.
Very few are natives of the island ; indeed I
have not thus fur, to my k no w ledge,met one
who was not an immigrant or the immedi
ate descendant of immigrants. Probably a
half of all the blacks, or their ancestors,
came from Philadelphia. The earliest of
the colony settled here in 15124 under Presi
dent Boyer, anti others have been sent liy
colonization societies subsequently, or
have lied hither from Hayti.
As there are no roads there are naturally
no wagons, and the only thing approaching
a vehicle, that I have seen, Is a wheel-har
row, brought from the United States. The
only mode of land transportation is on an
ox or bull-I ack. The loads of course are
small. They are packed in bags made of
hark, and slung across the animal's back.
Water transportation is done by means of
clumsy "dug-outs," or boats, fashioned
from the light and soft trunk of the cellar
tree. Rude and awkward as they are, the
negroes brindle them with great dexterity,
and manage to urge them at considerable
speed.
The price of labor—such as the labor may
be—is $1 or $1 25 in United States coin. But
this standard of value Is entirely the pro
duct of the annexation scheme. Before the
excitement on this subject sprang up ono
could hardly say that anything had a price.
Labor way either borrowed and returned
in labor at some future time, or repaid in
produce or store goods. There was no cir
culating medium, practically speaking.
The currency issued by Baez and his pre
decessors can be bought by the bushel
at the value of waste paper. Den. Boynton
obtained for one good dollar about $l,OOO in
Haytien and Dominican paper curl ency.
He bought a few copper coins, also, as cu
riosities, and the shop-keeper scrapped
them up in $2O bills of Santo Domingo.
Another man said he had possessed about
$15,000 in bilis, but lie had used's good deal
of it for wrapping paper. So you see what
ever else the people may expect from the
United States, they evidently don't expect
us to redeem their paper money. The price
of fruits, vegetables, and all products of the
country are governed entirely by the mar
ket, and the market, depends entirely up
on the ships. When there are no vessels in
the harbor, the cost of everything is mere
nominal. At such times speculators buy
up everything at low rates, for the people
must sell their fruits or see them spoil on
their hands, and as soon as a cargo is col
lected, it is shipped to a northern port.
Thus,when the market is good, coacoa-nuts
sell here for $1 •25 or $2 a hundred, bananas
for 50 cents a bunch, each bunch containing
from 70 to 110, pine-apples for 5 cents a
piece, coffee for 20 cents a pound, sweet po
tatoes for $1 a bushel, rice in the husk for $3
a barrel. Wheat is not raised, and the flour
sells for five cents a pound: Wheat-bread,
therefore, is comparatively rare, but when
ever you get it, you get it very good. The
people generally live on fruits and vegeta
• The correspondent of the Nets' York /ter.
Oil, says: Almost everything has a rose
tailored line to the l'inicuissioners. Most
of them have never seen a tropical country
before, and this looks like a paradise to
them. 'l'he sudden transition from cold
; and dreary winter at home to this warm
elittiate and luxuriant verdure has made
them very enthusiastic. Even the naked
, or halt', clad, lazy natives appear to them a
; charming sort of people. It amusing to
I In,' them as they return to the ship ex
claim in glowing language about the beauty
and richness ,if the Lid:incl. The English
, language is strained to the utmost to rind
superlative adjectives with which to ex
! press their impression. (Me 11E111 reports
that he found a mahogany tree its the almost
impenetrable interior worth as it
stands. .knother avoivs that ati acre of
land will support a family al ity,st ,vithout
labor, tool that there is wealth in aboti
dance to be notde Nvalt scarcedv any effort.
All is gorgeous, splendid mid marvelous.
tf i•ourse the tie,ple of 53111.111.1,
interested in the question of annexation, or
in the proteetiotate of the l•nitial
./Stir till . lll, make the best of everything.
A II I.Tit 1.1. Am%
According to their account there is no ;
sickness here worth speaking about.. one
mail, an industrious still enterprising, white
• the rnited States. who has set
tied and acquired property here, declared
i this country the healthiest in the world,
. while in the room adjoining the one in
which we sat and where lie made the re
' mark his only child ,its lying sick with
let or. Then, the peoplesay this is the hots
Lost season of the year, though the sun is
fifteen or sixteen degrees the other side of
the equator, and in June it is right over
head. This is rallnd the dry SI•104011, al-
though it rains every day and often many
times a day. NVe may imagine what Hoods
1•01110 IiONVII in the wet stasis. heavy
and :Mutest constant rains may, however,
modify the temperature and inure the sea
son ..f the sunnnet•-..h.,th•e cooler than it
would lie ”thi.rwi,e. Looking, then, at the
motive the people of tianiana have fur
, Making a lavorable impression upon Lim
Umitinission and those accompanying it,
I and the natural entlitenasin of nearly all in
this expedition over 21 eritintry so luxuriant
and a climate so much in contrast with that
they hail just left, it is not surprising that
everything is viewed hi 11111,I • lie
NM' \Viand it be 100.0111 , i111114 should every
-110104. he ,•01,1/11,1 • 111.1 . 11 by the Commission
and correspondents.
THE CLIMATE.
S till, With all this exagvvration, the .•li
ffiat, In most agreeable. the breezes 011 the
bay and along the shore are balmy and re-
Ireshing, and the surrounding scenery is
charming to belio:d. It is not an Arcadia,
It.lr there lire no flocks or herds, no varie
gated hindscapes, with cleared and highly
eultivated lauds, beautiful gardens and
shrubberies, handsome residences and
comfortable cottages, line churches and
other things which make the civilized coun
tries of the temperate zone so delightful.
With the exception of a few poorly culti
vated spots an acre or .40, or of a lets
acres lit most, with a rude hut on each for
a residence, widely apart., all the rest of the
soil, and even 111/ to the crown nr the Lille
is covered with a dense wood, interlaced
by shrubs anti-vines.
x*F.orr.vrioN.
There is little raison fur market, except
a tole oranges anti cocoa nuts. The soil
almost everyirliere is rich, and this is seen
liy the abundant and rapid growth of veg
etation. Even on passing along ordinary
bridle roads men invariably carry the
machete lit clear away the brush andvines
that. grow Sll rapidly. Different varieties
of the pall'', including the moon-nut tree,
grow abundantly, and where the latter are
cultivated in little groves in the indenta
tions of the bay 11101 along the .+ll.lre, think
id by the thick and dark green forest rising
up the hills, the scene is beautiful. 'fliers,
is 110 llOtlbt that the sugar cane, a.lfre, ,
01,1•11 a, oranges and all the products of the
tropics would grow here abundantly if
there were labor to cultivate the soil :mil
non could be kept at work in this lazy cli
mate. WILIIOIIL that the 1 . 011111.1 . V Must
cc
umiu It i•oniparative wilderness. Corn,
probably, can be raised with little labor and
great yield, It is said there is an 111)0101-
O.llCe lit inahogativ and other valuable wood
in the interior. .13tit, after all, to improve
this country, is is question ill labor, and the
first thing is to ascertain when , that is le
isane Irmo.
There are no roads hotter than rough
bridle paths in the country. There is
nothing on wheels to be seen here, not even
the retest sort .1 cart. Everything is ear
viva on oxen, asses, ponies or mules, or by
hand. The 110,1 4 , 11111,11 of I,rden
or riding on by the people of the in
terior when they •' a
small Lull. 'l'm: rider, who is Often a WI,
Mall or girl, sits astride 011:1 rude wooden
saddle, without stirrups, the naked Feet and
legs hanging 11:111141i11)4 110W11 nearly to the
ground. In phu•e ,d'a bridle or other head
gear to guide the bull, there is a ring in the
nose of the animal, with a single cord at
tached to it. literally those stunted and
docile little bulls are led by the nose. One
of ,air party was so 11.11111S1011 with the comi
cal sight of a half-nude young woman sit
ting astride one of these animals, :is she
rode throughlthe village, that he declared
he had seen Europa.
101=
The magistrates who administer law awl
justice in this favored quarter of the world
seem to have no respect for any known rude
but proceed in a summary wanner ac
cording to their own crude notions of
equity. As a specimen of thequeer things
110110 sometime, under this system, I !nay
tell you a story that has just been told to
. A b u tcher suspected a man of steal
ing Irnm him the sum of $1.7. lie mention
ed his Sll,l,i , • ionS to n magistrate, and, al
though he did not invoke the aid of the
law, the zealous functionary took the re
sponsibility of ordering out the guard, ar
resting the supposed culprit, and organiz
ing a court. After a farcical trial the pris
oner WaS acquitted, and the butcher called
upon to pay &SO costs. lie demurred to
this, Mitt for eoutem pt. Ile
asked for a copy of the proceedings
and was charged 810 more. Then, being
a British subject, he applied to the
British commercial agent who was here
at the time, and so he expects to obtain re
dress. But I must say, that, considering
the strong inducements which the people
have to abstain from going to law, nets of
violence and dishonesty are wonderfully
few.
The only revenues of the lravernment
are derived from an ad valorran customs
duty of .10per cent., a small tax on busi
ness, and the Imposition of lines and pen
alties. The receipts, however, aro very
small. The imports are of trilling amount.
There is no poll tax, no school tax, no
property or other tax, except the fee for
licenses to carry ,in business.
The military consists of a sort of na
tional guard, serving without pay, meeting
regularly for fluster, and fir rn ishing details
for guard duty.
We Mend no prisoners in the calaboose—
perhaps they had all been released in honor
of the United States—but the vigilant and
imposing aspect of the guard WILY worthy
,if the highest admiration. It was a military
guard, detailed, I believe, from the stand
ing army of the Republic:. The troops were
barefoot and half clad. Their arms were
various. Some had knives two feet long,
with a blade front two to six inches in
width. Monte had swords, of all manner of
odd patterns. At I crust One carried a musket
without any luck. A bout a dozen of these
troops lolled in the dirty guard-house, eat
ing bananas, drinking cocoa-nut milk, and
smoking dirty pipes. The calaboose con
sists of one room, amply ventilated, though
it has neither door nor windows. There is
neither dark cell nor gallows; but Samana
has a fine set of mahogany stocks, whereof
one of the correspondents iu our
party will lung preserve a pleasant
recollection. Like I/r. Riceaboeca, this in
quisitive gentleman wanted to know
"how the thing worked," and the
guards were delighted to show him.' lie
sat down on the ground and placed his
ankles carefully in the holes ; the upper
bar wan let down ; arid then all the young
gentleman's companions sat on it, to the
unspeakable amusement of the spectators,
until the prisoner had bound out a good deal
more about the stocks than he had any de
sire to know.
Judging from the appearance of the wo
men, from fourteen years of age and up
wards, and the numerous children here,
the human family is as prolific here as the
soil. As in all tropical countries, females
arrive at puberty at an early age. Consider
ing the large families women have, and at
the same time the very limited population,
it is evident there aro causes at work to cut
°tithe people rapidly. What are these?
The frequent revolutions and intestine
wars contribute undoubtedly to keep the
country depopulated, but there must be
other causes. The ignorance of the people,
and their mode of living, may account for
many deaths, still the country cannot be as
healthy as has been represented to us at
Samana. White people, particularly those
of the United States and Northern Europe,
could not labor in cultivating the soil. If
ever St. Domingo be made productive it
NUMBER '►
;oust Lo through other laborers. Thu q uo
don is, when, aro they to come from all
how are they to be controlled Or induce
to labor ? It Is all very well to talk of th
teeming soil, and the beauty and gut
geousness of this tropical country, but th
practical question ns to production is ,net
labor.
From the Bay Or Sala:ilia the Teurie,o ,
sailed round to the Capital or the 1,1.1
The correspondent nit the
- Santo Douningo Pity is nothing Ina
ruin. I have been here ninny t‘,o day,
and have searched vainly tar a Ilva' house
a fresh brick, a nowlyoputrried stone, or
lately-sawnsiseantlinn.t. Apparently them
is not, inn the whole city, a n.trueture that is
not 200 years old. .kII the holn,ei bear Ihr
proof el g rent aze. Crain Ming stoneN, con
crete Idling to deeaN, ivy and other vine.
clinging to the walls, moss :tad ieohl and
discoloration everywhere. Every street iv
but a copy or it 4 fellows. lo• lealsea nro
like prisons, with thick
doors, itild barred window.•..
Tile (tottntlissittners are It tented in :1 house
rented of liner for trine!' they pa) forty dol
lars a month. Itaez is described by the lice
(ild correspondent, who says "iten. It tt z
, velet.illed Ill° French un,l spoke
had 1,1-.2
slight-glade own s of tttrdt• ts,dtt ttr tiny
years or ant, apparently, .11 . 05,, 101 l an,l
has 1 gracious IS .1 11,....111 Ills
lath°,„oth 010 kink of ltd,r. The,e
is ettssi nature anti entinitutt Mended in ins
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1.1.1111,1 g.. If Ivo .11111 ex thu 001111Iry. -
I'llo IN 1,1111 II
formal illterVIOSV NV:ls had kith Iti,
lla principal toper it rvruvv.sl Lrinq III.•
ol itri•orthoLt 1,.
rorrespolltirot,
IM=SEII
Avbole negotiation, from the voininenev
!tient, has not been %, ith our mtn pe.pit..
At the list mention of :uniexatoui they
were AS ell pll'ased ; but not .o our neitzln
hors. We found that we lilt at i!llct.
Intro to defend the I)ominn•an
11'0111 a I laytiell ill °lid 4,11011
repealed MOUNT nr trouble. The I tat tier,
weredeterniine,l to prevent, if po..e.thie, our
alliance or uuiou With 010 Skin,
Nlr. Wade—A re not many of lii, Domin
ican people with Cabral
President Hue'', -Far 1u nit it. 1110
Wil ask Jr . .. NVIly ?
Nut to protect fruit Domini
cans, but from Hayti, which ~utnuw bens
its unit is litistili) tin
whom so much iv.Saidl nl tlu I . lllll'il
and sun little hero. iv ri.ally nut al the head
of hilt lie is with
a fm . co of lluy rises, a In In
and a very small number ui I , crsune r,bkloti
to or rnunectuJ kith Ilinl~ol f. Ito iv ul lit
the iiiiiiortaaeo. The I luclirn ; its
ollievrs are I laytich,. lle 11411,
it, ill ; Intl a !kph II 1;1'111'1,i le
ill I . llTlllllllllli. 1 . 110 liayiil.ll
by his ;till, is
particular
time, in order l.n affect the 1'44 , 1.10 till.
Ullilell Mutes, unit !woven( the 'Will:111.W
-boring Dominican Republic 11,1111 twin:4
united with a stn,ing
MR. WADE—Your statement is smile
thing new to MO, and will be now to Most
of our people. Is it entirely certain?
Pitt:slut:NT ISAF.z —Beyond question, and
perfectly well known to us here. I Jere are
several letters received from there recently.
[lle showed two letters lately repel ved frion
the llaytien frontier, and confirming, his
statement.] These and plenty of similar
crooks that you can have at any time, slime
that what you hear Ma, Cabral's movement
so far from being an insurrection of the Do,
minican people, is really a war neon that
people by a Ilnytien invasion, I 'aiiral hiss
a dozen or two of men whom he has gath
ered from abroad, and perhaps as many
from this country; but he is with a I laytien
force, which is commanded by a Ilaytien
General—Gen. Camollien.
We ascertained on the frontier that an
envoy i'aine from Nisage Saget, who is at
the head ot the Ilaymin I,overnuuatt, to
Cabral, bringing word that this time had
been selected for a demonstration against
the Dominican Republie, in miler to pre
vent the consummation .1 the friendly ro
lationS between the Donlinican and in,-
lean Republic. This Elnbas,ador
John Lynch, a cOlored luau or Aincrican
origin ; he carried instrnctions to Cabral to
make the greatest ellin't he could to row.,
some of the Dominican people, by the aid
of the Hayden force, appealing to them
with the idea that this MI Ilt•XialI /II Move
ment was a mask ; thus its real 1111911,1. Was
to take all power from the black S 31111 td -
"red people, and Ida, MI in the II MI s of
the whites.
The //,,,,/,/ correspondf.n! Sncy
Though there may he no johs, as f,,r 11.1
nor government. officials are coneerned ill
land speculations at the town and inner
hay of Samaria, the lease or iho I ittlo t•ottl
ing 181111111 slid pH,' ileges of tho uly to the
lotted States for :61. - 0,1/1/1/ a tear loot:, very
much like a jolt. 'lids is 101 ellen:001s 811111
of 01,1111-y for such property :Intl privileges.
Fifty thousand dollars a year WWII,' be tee
11111111, 11101 OW 1 hllllillll,lll )2,10 el"11111eIll
111,11i8141y Weill.' 11 IVe 18,11 glad to have got
I, s•-•. "(hers hushes ltd, 7, there is reason
le sus pert, have their 1181Ols ill this ieh, -
craw's rent of tins lease ought to Ito
enough to Idly up iie.trl,t, all the noel around
the !tart tor.
The oviJ cure the Ws that .1. Sullivan
has a lease for tiso fort !relit ell Li,
inner has ur harbor, in ivhich the town of
Santana is situated, and adjoining the ivest
end of the LeWirl. This lease is for twent2,--
tl ye years, at sixty-tine dollars a rear rent.
Ile, has also it lease for tine LOVII lets, Will
water front, one SI lilt frontage and the
other 111 feet, The rent for each is four dol
lars a year. Sullivan has Lull right of re
110Wal Or those loaves, With 1108111081 eel)
ditions. ' , abet's has, 111 the Immuntil
ford S. CO., a perpetual lease for I,lisd feet
water front adjoining Mullis an's, rod o•v
tending round to the west point of the in
ner hay, or harbor, to the land on which Is
Spofford S Co.'s wharf and store, at a 1,111.
of St I:2 a year. 'riles° leases run httek to
the main rote', and vary in depth from two
b, six hundred lisst, spoitord (...,
the l'ybee steamer which trades regularly
between Doilittigo and Nein fork.—
habeas WAS, 11101 may he still, the agent
the company here. Ile has, no douht,
large personal Interest. in the lase, It he
does not Ills, the wh• de. I 'Mess Ifrueral
grant, Italteocli or others have a ' , hell!
iu-
Cerest in 0110 or 1101.11 the 11,1808 of Slllll,lll
and Fattens there is Ile reason t.." believe
they have any interest at all at SilleaLlll., Se
far, the evidence goes to sII.PW that they
have no interest in the lea•-es.
I called the President's attention to the
enormous grant or tand—ooo firth ofall the
public land in the country—as a survey
grant to I•hbens. lie seemed to regard this
as a valid giant, and argued that the ser
vices rendered and to he rendered by
bens and the company aSSOCialeti Willi him
aro a quid pro 11110 for such u vast lerriti-ry.
In a conversation I had with Mr. Delmonto,
the M inister of Justice, who Is a white man,
I found that he also regarded the grant as
valid. .'dr. Delinonte said, however, iv nen
I remarked that this stupendous grant of a
tenth or the whole territory of the Repnblic
might prove an obstacle to annexation, that
President Baez regretted it hail been
made. Fabens has taken care to keep
up a show, at least, of fulfilling con
ditions of the grant. for he has here
a geologist and surveyor from the Cnited
States. This has all the appearance of a
stupendous job, and it is hardly to be sap•
posed the shrewd men at the head of the
government would concede so much
a large personal interest in it.
Surveying the rountry Is a vague sort of
matter, and to get an lifth of the public
lands, which amount to a tenth or the
whole country, if riot more, for keeping a
little surveying party in St. Domingo, must
b 0 all exceedingly profitable business
should annexation take place. Well might
Faber's w rite a book and work like a heaver
for annexation. 'This Is one of the embar
rassing legacies that would Le entailed upon
us if we take St. Domingo. Why. is it that
General Cazneau, Mrs. Cazneau, Pidgins,
Sullivan and other speculators, who have
been so active in working up this atilieXit
scheme, are out or the country jit.l nt
the time the Coinmission is here? Alt are
across the Flea, in one place or another.
THE COST OF ANNEXATION.
The Herald correspondent, after noticing
the tierce opposition of Cabral and the lay
dens to annexation says, there is eisoron to
fear very serious trouble from that source,
and that in that ease the United States
government would have another disagree
able and costly legacy turned over to it by
annexation. Military operations would be
very difficult to carry on, and it would Coot
a great deal of treasure and blood, to say
nothing of disease, in prosecuting a war
amid the jungle and dense forests or this
tropical country. It is evident, too, there
is an influential party of Dominicans
against annexation, at least against annex
ation through Baez. To-day a gentleman,
a foreigner, who has been here some time
on business, though not a resident, received
a printed manifesto from the Dominican
exiles at St. Thomas, signed " A 'I lam
sand Voices," against liaez and annexation.
This gentleman inunediately destroyed the
document from fear of being compromised.
I inquired of another gentleman, a mer
chant, who is here to collect debts, about
the Dominican exiles, and he assured me
that out of some twenty-four debtors ten
had been exiled by Baez. These exiles are
for the most part, the intelligent men of
the country. The case of David Hatch, an
American, which was investigated by a
committee of our Congress, shows what
the Baez party will venture to do when
their schemes are opposed. I understand
a great number of these Dominican exiles
EMI=
BUSINESS ADVERTIMEMSNTS, U 2 a ypnr
square of ten Ilue4; SS per year for cash ad
Uonal square.
REAL ESTATE A STERTNESII, 10 cents a I,
the first, and 5 vent.. for islet? Sillime4ll.,
Insertion.
GENERA?. ADVRIITIMING, 7 cenla a line I.
firnt, and I vent,. fur each nu bnequenl li
Lion.
•.
SPECIA T. NOTICK . 4 InKetted In 1.4 - ,eul Co' t
15 cents per lino,
SPECIAL NOTICES preeed Ing marrlave 4
deaths, 10 rents per line (or first
and 5 cents fur every subsequent lu.rri
LEGAL AND °TILED Ntertms—
Executors' notices
Administrators' notice
Assiwnees' notleeN
Auditors' Dot It`i•S
Other " Notices," ten linen, or lens
three times
are seatteretl over different islands
\Vest Indies, Every 0110 %VIM let. dar.,t
ed I oppose annexation has Ireen exile l sr .
he [narked 1113?). I hOW, then, mold LI, .!
)r- have been a lair expression to'
the pretended vote was taken on in ,
of '11110,6011? Still 1 think tilt'. Illilii.rlty
annexation. Vet WiLil Itny considiti, •
I latent and suppressed opposition, oi
the ellaneo of a War With the Ilactieu
sI eNperinlont 111kZilt. be a dnu Ceru u..ne•,
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alter lo,iniz thotimitilds of lives and .14
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lilt. nL 1111 . 1' 11111 . ' lit' ' , WM.,' 111. in i•
14.,v ord.. Tht , origitinl I tilliatis i% •
hy for
allii rs hrn Init to It by the
t•Nlor11111111(1.11.
hot, /1,.,1 •
Th , 'r, , t Mit,. • •Ire rOlied (ht
11 ,, r1. 11.10 f.
Th, / , ,It m'! o or I. ti
N”‘v Will
on Ill° land,
lill•I'0 iv uo Inbnr un 11, but tchrn all
4,r lat.'. llro inffiliciellt, barring lho
cult, whirll thr vivilizati4m of tho a,;,•
voluntary hullor
ncgro ?
lilt'
(4. the wino( iinoi it is simply one 441 - th.
need dendis in the world. Ido net 4•art.
NVllllt testimony the Commissioner:l 111.1
roport ; they cannot :Liter facts. lint as a
5p..1 . 1111011 40t the ,vay they ..,,Mort it, I give
you the following tarts: At Santana,
Iturr. un A merle:in, testified to the health
or the piano. II is child hail been siel, ;ill
the time. The with a another American
there told me that they hail
and they did not dare to have it in Saman
for rear it would take the fever. Mr.
was asked in cry presence by the 'omitits
sioners how Icing he had been on the 141;111.1.
lie replied that it %bits over litho( month •
sire, he first ranee here. WllOll the \
;raked :miler his health, he said Ito had
never had a day's siek nos... Now this w.
true, but at the same time 4 . ollVeys
Very fills.. 11.1111 . 1...151,.11. Mr. frier has bee::
purser ..1 1110 Ty bee for lltteun months, hic
1110 i re..l.led 111 : .. 1.1111,k11:1 rut the 1.111111 of c,il.
visit 1111..111. 11 Vi . NV....1:4, that Is , niliel. 111
hest trip hat 0110 lit the Ty hoe; atill yet ;hi
Cottinns,oners went it‘vity with the Im
pression that he had li Veil in Stun:nut lit
teen munlhs ,tort had never hail a day',
sick nes+. In 1 , 111Ver..1116 1 .11 with Fred
I haiglass shortly holOre leaving Slllll,lllll,
1.. .11.1 ro nvut•rd Matt Na
bury has arrayed herself in all her beauty
to tempt. 111..11 to here 11l their death.
Beautiful as this country is, I um satisfied
it is the grave of the ‘vhite 111101 11.11 a 011
111.Vr0 111.4, 1 1 . 1,1 11111 climatic inlluonres
~,y•ti•lf." I respectfully call the attention of
President "taut to this retinal( of Si,.
Douglas..
Tho ,itto,tion nI Iho ad‘•i•iltr,ility of pur
cha,,ing Sawa]a ag n rnul ntntinn, is cutim
IV apnrl I rom thutot unuusiug Son lionlll,
14., I kill th.•noloru htl ii,ro tho road,
the Sim the Tidally° rest nr
eri`d t 4;
I, id iv:lr al Samana iu nil the p.m'
1 , 70 about . 2.,1),014,11 , 1 ,o• juet, \vide!), reek
the r‘,,t, and tri.1.410. Wgetlier al $1)1
I er u,)), and addlng therel, the rent. nI thy'
;:1:,11,111) Itrior44 tlio e.,al
per 1401..
At St. Thouia, Ow United State34 . ati hay ,
real tar stiiwrior 1•V•
try rt•spf .1.1 that 14, it, w . ographical
lion, wtlrlr, 111.1.11 ut alu•horaw.,
pt.r MIIIIIIII. lu 1!57U,
1,1 Slllll, 111 , 1,4-Will' 1/ii board at Si.
Th,iav about 1,70.114,1, whio, ,0 49 t
in.•luding• relit, about $12.50 per toil, 4.r
0111110 ifi7:; per 1., lt,+ than what Nva.., Om—
piled at 5a11.... further r 0,01.1
that r ,, al SIIIII/11011 ill St TIIOIfIIIS, nt
rat. 4,1 our 111111 , 1,cl tuns per 'lour, and
that it took filo TplinesNeo live dery to talc,
boar') at Saniana, I think I ',lb
et . c4 , lllparl , •ll 1..4%1'4,11 OW
lu c..in•lnsioti, lla arinexation of KAII
Iry lla ll,ited Statf's is, :LS 1.1,14
I:a , /. Is 0 ,11 , 1 ,11f..1, a swindle fur persoit.il
itgLtrandizoineili ; as far as Donn :in.:L.4 evil
1111111.11:th ly interested are collet:flid, it;,
sin inurositinn U. w11.•11 they are in real,
opposed, and tcbich they will resist to 11.
tlf•.101; as far Its !'resident I /rant Is con.
.•,.riieil, it is a inistalto into which lie ha
I.i 1.11 lr.l by leis-plural I,lllltll.llCl` In sin
worthy tern ; 10141 as relates to the Anion
run pl , l/1,11., it is a political blunder whirl,
w ill begin to bear ILS bitter fruits in Lie'
,Ilapr of decimation of nor army anTI nut V.
and increased expenditures of every
kind, from the very inuninnt of its c.. 1.-
summation ; a blunder tvhicln l'or sill ,1111.
will I•Stilli , the United State
ratilc, nln 11,..,1111t ,of its avidity of cony.,
and 0:C110.11..1.11, WI It par tvitlt Spain In le,
extermination of the Indians of this lien,
isplierc, or with England In her subjlig,
thin of the present subjects of her 111 (I lan
Ent ['ire.
But In the I 'lined States, Ifyhe perpotratii
this crime, will 1 . 01111 . , a linS1!01110 to Spain,
ns will most surely some day conic to :reit;
Britain, the great day of atonement. Tie
pour 'Donn present inhabitants or San Do
mingo may lie exterminated by this great
and 'powerful Republic, as easily an (Wen
WO aboriginal Indians by the Spaniards
but, unlike Spain, A reeriva will never,
having iiiiinpulated it, be enabled to re.
peeplu it.
precludes the la.Mibility of ; and aft , ,
having ex terinined the present occupants
of the land, and after having held it for
term of years, see shall at last Is, forcisi
the 11111110111,11 IS voice of an indignant peo
ple to 10011110 km what olight, never to hasc
been annexed, and which will have Is • ••
during the whole of itsoccupaney one va
charnel house, for the civilians who
hay.•beeu speciously beguiled to ltsenchanl
ing hut deadly shores, and for the 10r.0.c
soldier. and sailors to WhOln Will race Li ra
recklessly vontided the keeping of a tai -
named jewel, which the experience
Spain, Fran, and England should i
taught our state,onen was not worth 1,0 1,1
Public Mel. NIIIVNIMper WrikterN
Many of our it Wit• inen,,tys Col. Form y,
in his " A needotes," are capital innate,
editors, lie gives the following examples:
"'I lionue-r H. Benton was a valuable anti
vigorous contributor to The Globe, in the
w:tr upon the United States Bank. His
style Was trenchant and elevated, and his
facts gmerally impregnable. James Hu
clialimi was a frequent writer in toy old pa
per, The Lanea.Nter Intelligence,. and Jut,-
nal and in 3/,'• Peal/Ay/I:anion. His diction
was cold unsympathetic, but exact,
clear, and condensed. II is precise and ele
gant chirography Was the delight of the
compositors. Judge Douglas wrote little.
but suggested much. His mind teemed
with 'points.' 1. never spent an hour with
him which did not furnish n o t With now
ideas. lie was a treasure to an editor, be
cause he possessed the rare faculty of throw
ing new light upon every subject in the
shortest possible time. Es -Attorney-Hen
eral .1. Is. itlaek would have made a superb
journalist, and was a ready and useful cou•
tribe tor. His style Is terse, fresh, and
scholarly. What a pity to see such gets
wasted in astride over the grave .1a former
associate and friend ! Caleb Cushing is
another statesman who once delighted in
editorial writing, and still occasionally va
ries his heavy professional toil by the same
agreeable relaxation. I have known him
to stand up to his tall desk, and dash oil'
column after column on foreign and domes
tic politics, on art, ou finance, with amen
ishing rapidity and ease.
Th- Doylestown Democrat favor:
Capt. J. H. Cooper as the Demoeratitt
nominee for Auditor-General.