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DUCKWORTH & HAYiV, WHOLRSALE DEALERS IN Groceries ProFisions, Liquors, &c. No. 80 Dev street, New York. June 16, 1859. ly AN OVERLAND JOURNEY. XII. TIIE PLAIXS-TIIE MOUNTAINS. Denver, June 15, 1859. -A know few greater contrasts than that between the region which stretches hun dreds of miles eastward from the epot toward the Missouri, and is known as 'The JPlaiis, and that which overlooks us on tho West, and, like by its abrupt and sharp ridged foot hiliw seeming just at , , . l. . f ... : nana, ana it, gum-rug m u .u Un kino Hict-atiro vtndHMiton its current VUW V V V . .-..w ww " - designation, The Mountains. Let us elu cidate : The Plains are nearly destitute ot nu- i man inhabitants. Aside from the Buffa- j lo ratine which has been steadily nnr- . rowing ever since Dauiel Boone made hi home in Kentucky, and is now hardly two hundred miles wide it af fords little sustenance and less shelter to Man. The Antelope arc seldom teen in herds three is the highest uuu.ber I ob " served together, while one, or at most two, is more common. One to each mile equare would be a Urge estimate for all that exist on the Plains. Elk are scarce ly seen at all, even where they have hard ly ever been hunted or scared. Of Deer thoro are none, or next to none. For the Plains are the favorite haunt of beasts and birds of prey of the ravenous and fearless Gray Wolf, of the Coyote, the Haven and tho Hawk the firat banning on the flanks of every great heard of Buf fdo ready to waylay any foolish calf or , heedless heifer that may chance to btray for water or fresher grass beyond the pro tection of the hard-headed and chivalrous patriarch", beLind whoe vigilant ranks there is comparative safety, aud counting as their property any bull, cen, whom woundsor discaseordecrepitudeshall com pel to fall behind in the perpetual march, ior, while a stray liuffalo, or two, or three may linger in tome lonely valley for months for all winter, perhaps the great herds which blacken the earth for -nnles in extent cannot afford to do so they are so immensely numerous and find their hafety in traveling so compactly that they must keep moving or i-tarve. A voiding, so far as possible, the wooded ravines of the slender water courses, where experience baa taught them to dread the lauce-likc arrow of the lurking Indjan, they keep the high "divides," or only feed in the valleys while they have these well covered by sensitive bulls to give warning of any foe's approich. Take away the liuffalo and the Plains will he desolate far beyond the preseut desola tion; and I cannot but regard with ead dcss the inevitable and. not distant fate of these noble and harmless brutes, already crowded into a breadth of country too nar row for them, and continually hunted, hhtughtered, decimattd, by the Wolf, the Indiao the White man. They could have btood their grouud againftall in absence of fire-arinf, but "villainous t-altpetre" is too much lor them. They are bound to per ish; I trust it may be rather by sudden ehot than by slow starvation. Wood and Water the prime neces cities of the traveler as of the setllcr are in adequate though not abundant supply for a hundred miles aud more on this a mute uu kuia us they are throughout on the other side of the Buffalo ran: at length thev gradu- j C ' "3 ally fail, anJ we are ia a desert indeed. No ipring, no brook, for a distance of thir thirty to tixty miles (which would be tfretched to more than a hundred if tbe few tracks called roads were not ail run so as to secure water so far as possible) rivers which have each bad fifty to a hundred miles of its course gradually parched up by force of sun and wind and its water lost in their own sands, so that tbe weary, dusty traveler vainly digs for hours in their dry beds in quentof water for bis Ihircty cattle rivers which dare not rhe again till some friendly brook, Laving its source in some specially favor ed region, pours in its email but steady tribute, moistens the sands of the river bed, aud encourages its waters to rise to tbe surface arrain. In one case an emi grant assures me that he dug down to the bed rock of one of these rivers, yet found i all dry sand. j "I know that lean satisfactorily account even to myself, for the destitution of wood j which the Plains everywhere present, es- j Sinco writing the above, I learn by a newly arrived lake's Peaker that tho wa- : terless stretch of desert is already a bun- 1 dred miles long, aud that every day's sun is extending it. t pecially the western balf of them. The poverty oi me eon win uot &uiuut.-, iui these lands, when sufficiently moistened by rain or thawing snowdrifts, produce crass aud are not fterile as the rocky hills, the pobly knolls, of New-England, 1 wood, and water our mules generously , white population of One Hundred Ihou which nevertheless produce wool rapidly , without drying up some long, pretentious sand, one-half composed of men in the and abundanly. On the Prairies of Illi- . river, and condemning those whocomo af- full vigor of their prime, separated by nois Missouri aud civilized Kansas, tho ' you to weary, thirsty marohes through J deserts and waste places from the present absence of wood is readily accounted for : night and day. lhe Cottonwoods, as you otates obliged to rely on their own ro by the annual fires which, in Autumn or near the wiud-quelling range of protco-sources in any emergency, and fully able Sprint sweep over nearly every acre of dead crass, killing every treo-sprout that may have started up from scattered seeds or roots running from the timber in tho adjacent raino beneath the matted gras. But here arc thousands of acres too grass ed to bo swept by the annual fires on which tho thinly-ccattcred roed-stalks and bunch-crass of last year shake dryly in the fierce nijjht-winds yet not a tree w - nor shrub relieves the tamencss. the bare ness, the desolation, of thousands of acres not a twig, a scion, gives promise of trees that are to be. Lor a time the nar row ravine or lowest intervale of the fre ! qucnt streams were fairly timbered with J Cottonwood and low, sprawling Elm, with j a very little Oak or White As-h at long intervals intermixed; tut thcc grew grad ually thinner and feebler until nothing , but a few small Cottonwoods remained, ' and these skulking bchiud bluffs or in I sheltered hollows at intervals of twenty j to forty miles. Once in ten or twenty ! miles, a bunch of dwarf willows, perhaps , two feet high, would bo found cowering jn goQje oufc . a cur . . v rent of water many years ago: but these j like the Cottonwoods, are happy if able to ! hold their own; indeed, I have seen much evidenco that wood was more abundant on the plains a hundred years ago than it uuw is Dead Cottonwoods of generous proportions lie in tho channels of dry J brooks on which no tree nor shrub now j grows; and atone more stations of the ! Express Company near the nnk of the ' liepublican they find dead Pine eight nines up a crccK, wncrc no jive rine na been seen for generations. I judgo that the Desert is steadily enlarging it borders and at the same time intensifying its bar renness. The fierce drouth that usually prevails throughot the Summer, doubtless contrib utes to this, but I think the violent and all but constant winds evince a still more disastrous potency. High winds are of frequent, all but daily, occurence here j within a dozen miles of the great protec frQm a fiftJ mncs eaatWBrd ting bulwark of the liocky Mountains, of this, they sweep over the Plains almost !jconstautly, and at times with resistless fury. A driver stated on our way up, with every appearance of sincerity, that ; he had known instances of tires being blown from wagon-wheels by the torna doesof the Plain; and hard to swallow as that may seem, I have other and re liable assurance that, when the Missouri ana' camp on the Express lload was swept by a hurricane, five or six weeks ago, i-o that, after the wreck, but three decent wagons could be patched up out of their fix, as I have already narrated, one of the wheel-tires was found not only blown off but nearly straightened out I There is almost always a good breeze at mid day and after, on the Plains, but, should none be felt through the day, one is al most certain to spring up at sunset, and blow fiercely through the night. Thus, though hot days, or parts of days are frequent on the Plains, I have experi not even a moderately warm night. And thus trees arc not; mainlv because the winds uproot or dismember them, or so j rocu and wrench them while young that their roots cannot suck up even the little nourishment that this poil of baking clay resting on porous sand would fain afford afford them. Thus the few shoots that cleave the surface of tho earth soon with er and die. and the broad landscape re mains treeless, cheerless, and forbidding. i But the dearth of Water and Wood on the Plains is paralleled by the poverty of shrubbery and herbage. Ihaenotseen ' a Strawberry-leaf for from me be the presumption of looking for a berry since ;I left the Miesoari three weeks ago; and the last Blackberry bramble I observed (.row fln f:hn T-.m a r a I !ii r n f nil annntii . .. i fu i -i t a i 7 ! tbe "ther S,de f th J3uffu, raDSe' A i Raspberry cane has not blessed my sight ' tbeso three weary weeks, nor aught else ' ' iuu.i juigui ve uupeu iu uear uu um-iasu-ioned fruit, fcave the far-off Blackberries n fXrociif inrl tirn r r fliraA rl -iti k t f n ! nrrann " t. i i. ! villus u ii f-timn cretK a cruaL nav n h c k . The Prickley Pear, very rare and very 1 gold, they never would get any of it ex green, is the only ecmblauce of fruit I cept by minding their own proper busi discovered on the Plains; a dwarfish Cac- i Dcss; which was quite other than mining, tus, with its leaves close to tho ground, 1 And still tho long procession ia crossing the bpanmh Nettie a sort ot vegetallo Porcupine a profusion of Wild bage, i Wild Wormwood, and other such plants, worthless alike to man and beast, reliev- ed by some well-gnawed grass in tho rich- er valleys ot Winter water courses ftne flora, usually very scanty and always coarse and poor) such are my rccollec- tious of the 300 miles or eo that separate I 1 1. T rr i . . r t 1- 1,10 present uunaio range irom me creeps lDa carrJ snow-water to the Platte and tne 'nc that herald our approach to tbe Rocy Mountains. And now all changes, but slowly, grad- ually. Tho Cactus, tbe Spanish Nettle, the Prickley Pear continue, even into and upon the Mountains, but the Pines though stunted and at first scattered, give varie- ty, softness and beauty to the landscape, which becomeu more rolling, with deeper and more frequent valleys, and water in nearly all ot them; the cottonwoods along u .vu&v,. or bide in casual hollows; you may build an honest cauip-Brc without fear of rob- , bing embryo county of its last stick of ting bights, which rise, rank above rank, to the westward, the more distant still white-robed with snow, grow largo and ably may be. stately some of them sixty to seventy! Mining is a pursuit akin to fiihing and feet high, and at least three feet in diam-! Hunting, and like them, enriches the few eter; the unwooded soil ceaBes tobe des-Jat the cost of the many. This region is crt and become prairie on a wave, but still in tho main a sandy, thinly grassed region, which oannot compare with the ' mm M T" 1 I 1-1 prairies ot Illinois, ot lowa, or pastern ivansas. There seems to be as rich and deep soil in some of the creed bottoms, es pecially those of the South Platte,, as al most anywhere; and yet I fear the hus bandman is doomed to find even this belt of grassed and moderately rolling land, represent theso diggings as yellow with which btretcb.es along tho foot of the gold. Neither will be true; yet each in Mountains to a width of porKaps twenty jits turn will have a certain thin substrat miles, less tractable and productive than um of fact for its justification. Each sea fertilc. It lies at such an elevation son will see its thousands turn away dis from 5,000 to 6,000 feet above the ocean ; appointed, only to give place to other level that, thouh its Winters are said to 'thousands, sansuine and eacrcr as if none be moderate, its bpnngs cannot be early. There was a fall of a foot of snow in this region on the 26th of May, when ice for med to a quarter-inch thickness on the Plains; and when Summer suddenly sets in, about the 1st of June, there are hot suns by day and cool strong winds by night, with a burfeit of petty thunder squalls, but little or no rain. Tho gentlo rain of last Thursday in the mountains foil for a short time, in sheets just at their feet say for a breadth of five miles and there ceased. Hardly a drop fell within five milos west, or for any distance east of of this place, though'tbe earth was soaked ten.miles west of this. Ilence tho enterprising few who have commenced farms and gardens near this point tell me that their crops have made no progress for a week or two, and can make none till they have. rain. I trust Wheat and Rye will do well here whenever they shall be allowed a fair chance; Barley and Oats, if sowed very early on deeply plow ed land, may do tolerably; but Corn, though it comes up well and looks rank, at present, will hardly ripen before frost, even should itcscape paralysis by drouth; while Potatoes, Peas and most Vegeta bles, will probably require irrigation or yield nut sparingly. let, snould tue Gold Mines justify their present promise, farming, in the right localities at the base of theso Mountains, even by the help of irrigation, will yield, to thoso who bring to it the requisite sagacity, knowledge and capital, richer rewards than elsewhere on earth. Everything that can be grown here will command treble or quadruple prices tor years; and be who produces antbing calculated to diversify and im prove the gross, mountainous diet of Salt Pork, Hot liread, 13eans and Coffee, now necessarily all but universal in this region will be justly entitled to rank with public benefact6rs. And the Rocky Mountains, with their grand, aromatio forests, their grassy glades, their frequent pprings and dan cing streams of the brightest, sweetest wa ter, their pure, elastic atmosphere, and their unequalled game and fish, are des tined to be a favorite resort and homo of civilized man. I never visited a region where physical lifo. could be more surely prolonged or fully enjoyed. Thousands who rush hither for gold will rush. away again disappointed and disgusted, as thou sauds have already done; and yet the gold is in these Mountains, and the right men will gradually unearth it. I shall be mistaken if two or three Millions are not taken out this year, and some ten Millions in 1860, though all the time there will be, as now, a stream of rash adven turers heading away from the diggings, declaring that there is no gold there or next to none. So it was in California and in Australia; so it must be here, where, the obstacles to be overcome are greater and the facilities forgetting homo .1 -t .ll All - . ?.. ! uec,0CU1J Deuer- A" meQ are DOt Uliea by nature for gold diggers; yet thousands will not realize this until they have been convinced of it by sore experience. Any good phrenologUt should have ben able to tell half the people who rushed hither en in n 1 1 o fliirlnrr tYit Inaf. fct?A mnnflia ttinF.i :e r i J u ! n lucoc muuuLaiua u uu ucc i uuu uiaut: ui i the Platte and Clear Creek, and pressing up the "Hill Difficulty" in mad pureuitrfriend from Lon" Island, nf Gold, of which not one-fifth will carry back to the States so much as they brought away. New leads will doubtless be dis- covered, new veins be opened, "new dig- cings" or districts tecome the rage for it were absurd to suppose that little ra- vine known as Gregory's. running to Clear: (jreek, tno sole depository ot gold worth working iu all this region and in time the Rocky Mountains will swarm .with a (hardy, industrious, energetic white pop- ' ulation. Not Gold alone, but Lead.Iron 1 and (I think) Silver or Cobalt, have al- ready been discovered here, ond other valuable Minerals doubtless will be as the mountains arc more thoroughly ex- 1 plored fof as yet they have not been e- ven run over. Those who arc now intent j on tho immediate orgonization aud ud- . . . .i mission ot a new btate may bo too fast, their immediate vicinity say between Fort Laramie on the north, "and Taos on the south will within three years have a to protect and govern themselves. Why not let them bo a btate so soon as reason - doubtless preordained to many changes of fortune; to-day, giddy with the intox ication of success; to-morrow, in the val ley of humiliation. One day, report will be made on tho Missouri by a party of disappointed gold-seekers thattbVRocky Mountain humbug" has exploded and ev erybody is fleeing to the States who can possibly get away;' the next report will had ever failed. Yet I feel a strong con viction that each succeding months' re searches will enlarge the field of mining operations and diminish the difficulties and impediments which now str.etch across the gold-seeker's path, and that ten years , hence, we shall be just beginning fairly to appreciate and enjoy the treasures now buried in the Rocky Mountans. Horace Greeley. Raised From the Dead Carious Case. A curions case occurred last week at Rome, in this county. Mrs. Peters, wife of a German of that name, after a short illness, wan supposed to have died. Her husband made immediate arrangement-) for her funeral, having procured a coffin in this city. On placiug her body in the coffin a general perspiration was observed throughout the skin, which was reported to the husband, with the suggestion that the burial be deferred in the hope of re- animation. To this the husband object ed, and bad her interred the same day, (Saturday.; Alter the burial services were over some relatives of the supposed deceased, who reside in this city, arrived : 1 :j at Rome to attend the funeral, which had already taken place, and hearing of the m W circumstances caused the body, which then had been four hours in the grave, to be disinterred, when, to their surprise and joy, they found signs of life still re maining: Restoratives being administer ed, Mrs. Peters gradually recovered, was taken by her friends to this city and is now well. We are informed that she re fuses to again live with her husband. The circumstances connected with the af fair arc strange indeed, and should un dergo investigation. Columbus, (Ohio) Fact. A Thrilling Romance. Chapter 1. She stood beside the altar, with a wreath of orange blossoms upon her head upon her back, the richest kind o' duds her lover stood beside her with wbito kids aud dickey clean the last "was twenty-ono year old, tho fust was seven- teen. The parson's job was ovor every one had kissed tho bride, and wished the young folks happiness, and danced and laughed and cried. The last kiss bad been given, and the last word had been said, and the happy pair had simmered down, and sought the bridal bed. CHAPTER II. She stood beside the wash-tub, with her red hands in tho suds, and at her slip-shod feet there laid a pile of dirty duds; her husband stood beside her tho ! crossest man alive. The last was twenty-nine year old, the fust was twenty- five. Tbo heavy wash was over, and the clothes hung out to dry, and little Tom had stuck his finger in tbo dirty baby,8 rn i 1 1 J CJ - om uaa occn spanKca, ana sup- the bride aud bridegroom went grum- bling to bed. Just So. botsV asked a Wall street broker of a "A pint of spirits of turpentine." Two days after the same parties met in lho etreet. S.iv. look o' here. I i?ave mv. mare ' lini.i T rtnva m T7 mum fi runt 0f turnentine. and. bv Jove.it killed hor." Rn if. did mine!" was the renlv. flgy-A clam merchant, meeting one of his own fraternity tho other day, whose pony might be considered as a beautiful specimen of an equino skeleton, romon- strated with tbo owner, and asked him if he ever fed him. "Ever feed him! Come, now, that's a good 'uu," was tho .reply; "he's got a bushel and a hulf of oats at homo nowt only he ain't got no time to eat 'emi"" 4 A VISIT TO HAYTI. Notes Hade at Gonaives. Cor. of The N.'Y. Tribune. Malden, Mass., April 30. THE TOWN. Gonaives hasa population of four thous- thus brought for landing. It is amusing and, or thereabouts; more probably high- to see the laborers working at the shore. er, I should judge, than less; although I watched a dozen of them rolling a log Mr. Darrel estimated the number of in- out of the water. They were all undress- habitants at between three and four thou- 'ed from the loius upward: one of them" sand only. There are only thirty whites' had only a brccch-cloth on; none of them, in the place; most of whom are English-jat the time, wore either shoes or slippers, men and Germans. i Intead of using a lever, as our laborers' The town is sitoated on a level, sandy j would do, each of them held the lo? with . i " Aiuuua iui ouviiui mui-a ue- hind it; its noblo bay, semicircular in form, affords an excellent and deep har bor, with a natural breakwater of coral reef; to tho right, in looking at the ocean from the land, rise lofty hills; while to the left for many a" league extends the flat fertile plain of Gonaives. The town is well laid out the streets both broad and regular; no traces here of earthsquakes or of devastating wars, for alfhniicrh tlio tniiaoa firo rrnnnrnlltr nlit i : r nnr! mrr"fl shplla frn mo Uikps nnnlnsfrr. ed and unceiled .till there is a look of civilization and prosperity which, coming from the Cape with its endless ruins, or from Limbe with its Central African as pect, is exceedingly pleasant and encour aging to the friends of Hayti. There are numbers of good two-story houses. TIIE SOLDIERY. Here, as in Capo Haytien, you con stantly meet band of the ragged, indo- , lent and undisoiplined soldiery, which are at once the curse and the folly of the na tion justly the jest of all civilized peo ple. The Haytiens are exceedingly sensitive to foreign opinion. Let them learn from their friends that their army is the laughing stock of the world, as it richly deserves to be. Hayti is impreg nable; no existing power could perma nently hold her; but her defense is not in her regular array. It consists of her mountains, corses, rivers and fevers; the bravery and self-sacrificing spirit of her people; the abuudanco of her minerals, and poisons, and tulnher miues. There; is nothing more ludicrous than tho ap nearance of a Havtien resriment. Such fearfully and wonderfully ragged troops; I Bucb extraordinarily dirty and ununiform j "uniforms;" so many barefooted, or old - slippered, or old-booted, or old -sandaled', nnnr fPtw u ; imnnsslhlp T ffinnv trJ r . ' r ji "ia see ;n al)y other country. At every corner oi the street you see tho lazy fellows loungining, their whole dress very frequently not worth a dollar. Tbeir arms nearly all of which were purchased by Christopher too often are as sadly in want of repair as their cos- tumeti. ... . ... . Ibey are kept under arms andjceived d - fc recenfc rfii wer& :ii r . i. . i. i : .-i. n a i o c weeKiy arm, wuuouc uic suggest neeu ior no loreigu poweri,i. (. (ai, ,..ii r has the remotest idea of conquering the Island all arc satis-fied with the disas - trous experiment of Napoleon; and, evenj if America or France, or any other na tion had such a design, better soldiers than the regular army of Hajti could be manufactured from the people of the mornes in less than a mouth at any time. THE RETAIL STORES. Here, as at the Cape, there is a large number of retail stores, tho greater por- tion with marvelously little in them, and- j generally kept by mulatto girls. Even the drug stores here, as at the Cape, are , kept bv women. Here, too, as at tbe Cape, there are not balf a dozen sign boards in town nor glass in tho win dows, nor that scrupulously clean appear ance, nor that assidous attendance which characterizes the shops at home. THE MARKET. The market-place, as at tbe Cape, is a large paved square, which, on tho regu lar day, is covered by black women, squattered on the ground, aud surrounded bv the articles thev offer for sale. JLhe shops at one side of the square are all I ... m 1 11 retail dry goods housesj and they di-piay their goods not only inside of their doors, but also cover the pavement and half of tho street with their stands. . I TnE CEMETERY, CHURCH AND , PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Tho cemetery is truely a dreray spot It is on tho outskirts of the town, and is, neither fenced nor divided with walks. : There are numbers of tombstones, and i head-stones, and railings around graves; but the Band, continually urniing erjraon lQiQ wb0 couid not 8fjor(J to go a everything, gives tho burying ground broad, and thus induced the natives to very sad and desolate appearance. I8awjavaij themselves of all the opportunities the graves of several Americau seamen. thejr own cout,try afforded them- Late- The Catholic Church is a large barn- jJ( Rrcat numbers had gone from Cape like struoturc, very rude, very filthy, aud ; jTaYticn, Port-au-Prince and Aux Cayes, very old. It has no floor but the black j to prance anj England for education. and uoswept earth j Three of them, last year, took tho higb- The military buildings I did not lest prizes of the Pari-ian Univer-ities-amine, though I saw them at n little dis-Tho juflUCDC0 0f Christophers schools, tancc. I was told that they are worse , whicl, werc admirable, he said, could still kept than tho forts and arsenal at Capo;be tracefj 0 lhe character of the people; Haytien, and tho lutter were so utterly theY were more intelligent in the North and depioraoiy auapiaamn auu iuuh-u-lous that I did not care to visit any nioro like them. I was assured that the arsen al at Gonaives was lttllo better than a vil lage blacksmith's shop iu America. Tbe same style of dress, tbo same mode of life, the same proportions of . . . i, ii i i i i ,t i mulattoes, tho same kind and character of street creatures as I briefly descrehed I at the Uape, aro uuuy iu uv ocuu m mo towu "of Gonaives. LABORERS ON THE BEACH. There is no wharf nor levee; everything discharged by lighters. . Tbo" water is so shallow near the shore that 'even lighters cannot como very near. So the men who discharge them wade in ;to tho water often up to the waist? " Bnd carrv out. or float and roll out tho cano' Dotu nanus and saog. Alter sincin" a? singing verse of four lines, they gave a half hoist,- theu sang again, and another half turn", and po on, very slowly, with execrable melody and more execrable indolence,' turning the log oyer until it reached the' land. A couple of Irishmcm would havo turned it in half the time. STRANGE RIGS. The wagons one ses are clumsy vehi-f cles, with uncommonly thick wheels drawn chiefly by little oxen, scraggy T ants nnn mtkrtj I noraCS, Or shaggy asses. on that rather astonished-me. It was drawn by six asses, which were all abreast One was in the trams, three on one id two on braided the other! A piece of broad, rope, made out ot cocoa-baric, served for the collar of each animal; and their only harness was white round roper of the same beautiful material. "When your mother's "dead," says a Haytiaff proverb, "go and be "suckled by your grandmother." This rigging must have surely been suggested by the quaint ad vice! Out in the suburbs of the town I saw' an equally unique and characteristic cos tume. It was worn by a boy of ten years of age. It consisted of an old battered up tin can, suspended around bis neck by a piece of native rope, which- was made out of cocoa-tree bark or some sim ilar material. His only other garment; consisted of & stick, which he held in bis hand, and with which, from time to time. i he beat his novel substitute for drum and ' wardrobe. RELIGION AND EDUCATION. There are from twenty to thirty, Prot estants in town. The more intelligent natives are neither Catholics nor Protes tants; they are chiefly indifferent to all j , igions. This statement applies eoaal- 7 Q ' B ' V . 3. en, and is derived from rrotestant miss sionary. There are three Government schools id Gonaives. All of tbe Government school are free, although sometimes, I believe, subscriptions are taken from the wealth' ier merchant", either to make up a dona tion to the teachers, or to induce them to in rcrnnin! for th nnlnr!i thfTr rf. ' - - - w - - ..-w ...... - ceeding,T smalK Que gentleman told me I LII Hi LUC LLaUUL O U II V all U I I . UU XUL O r tbeir insufficient salaries by taking pri vate pupils in these public schools, who paying from SIU to 8"i0 Ilaytian per month say one of our dollars on the av erage received nearly all of their atten tion; while the poor scholars, who cannot afford to pay anything, get along, or don't get along in the best way they may.- They are not very well attended. Only young children go, for "when a boy here," said a merchant, "is fourteen years old, he is a vagrant." There is an English Wcsleyan Mis sionary Station at this point. They hava a chapel and school. I called one day, and again saw Mr. Bishop, the excellent and exemplary English Misonary, whom I met at Cape Haytien, and was again to meet at Port-au-Prince. The day before my vi.it, there haJ been 63 scholars at the Wesleyao school; while this day, there had been 73 scholars in attendance. Mr. Bishop stated that tbe attendance at all the schools was very irregular. At the Wesleyan school they charge $1 25 (American) per month, for tuition. I think I forgot to say that there nre four public schools, supported by the Govern ment, at Cape Haytien. Although Soulonquo did nothing to encourage eaucanon, anu um bjqcq io retard the spread of intelligence, yet it b nMmillon that, orpn nnrinif nm nark rPltrn. , " ,J " i j e Ti. the people made considerable progress in knowledge. It became fashionable, said a native merchant at Gonaives, for the .,,.- :,: fo senA their children !tn T?nrfm ror an education. He himself jhad aent six of his own 'family. Their return to Hayti caused an emulation a- than at the Souths Yet, except at Port-au-Prince, he. added, education in Hayti was good for nothing. What the country " . wanted was foreign teachers such Cbristophe introduced. as j"IIas your son Timothy' failedlj? jnflQjred Gubbins of Stabben, tho other. day "Oh, not at all. Ha baa only, assigned over his property, and fallen back ioHjcl: a bctler jwsition" was the reply, ' ' - must be
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