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Southern Manners And Customs

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Day
3
Month
February
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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-Fewreople here at the Norib, who have nol tjmvelled throug-fi the southern country, are awa,-o ofthewide diiTerence bel ween the dome$tic habits tbere and here. The peculiar institutionsofthe Sonlii havo changed wholo face of society, and merced whatever oseo eristed of Purifan customs in the broad and marked disrtncfion3 of master and s-lav?. - A corrëipond nt, now reiidinof n the State of Georgia, frives a gmphic and lively picture of society iíierc. wliicij a so trac tu nature that we eannot re?ist (5e temptntiün to make an extrnct. He says: 'Afnny wpni'h}" planters in the country liva in lorr-IioDses, and freqnenlly. instead of window?, have merely a pqtjare aper ure closed willi shntler?, and in the i)ny time, to ob!nin they open the shntters on the lee sidc, snd keep upa brisk Sre. Often t he door isnlso kept open for the ramo pnrpose. It is a matter of ron rso fora southerner to Icavo lhed"ooTtfiroiTgïvhich ha passes, open. A merehant in Charleston told rne it was amusibg sometimos to watch tho manoeuvres of ;ñc rvn ' haclapoodfimen ivhen they coirne ro the fity. Srirnetimcs Ueir innomiity Ï3 put te the rack, ia gel iitto a store in the city, even when there is an obvious ihumb piece anl catch, tlicy wiÜóliietrtnéáOimble at the r:cor5 thcn Bt the Windows, an 1 peihnps stfrop il(yti to look nnder to contrivr how io gaui adrmttnnce. tt tltey are oblifjetf !o go up sfffirp, that business a!so is new to theai, and fhey will perhaps take from S to 5stairs ai a step. The place at which I as iiowvtesKling, ís (like' the gretit niajority of bouthern palaces) in the woods: we aresur roiuided !y noble oaknn! )tch pir.eFr the Jatter, by ihe ny, hetfr (.r more durable nud bitmninon?, thnn the Bortbern yellow pines, nnd kindüny Iii:e r.ii, with the sülitesl bh zo. Whhin a circuit of a (jurter of o miíe, resida severnl planters, ;vhose plantations, hftwerer are 4 or 5 miles distnnt from f bf ir residtnoez? as tt e ricfifit pnit of their groiinds liss in what is cnllcd the swamp, ik ar theüver, and of cotiFse is unhealihy in soaioricr. Henee tftéy cboose1 tlie Highet ïsiid &yt theip owa büusegj and geiiertOy Eesitie n or near lbo wf-otl?: cot uftea ou the aiain roa,(]v"- Lar. Pa er. Mr. i. H. ChtsiEN, the reformed gamb1er2 ís giviVig somc stviking illustrarions of the fraudü ppaetieed among gamblers Sórije g4tfenwö in Boston procured for hirr 3. new pae'v of earris; aud lij faces of eighieen eards bsing at hls request sbown to One of the company, ulr. Green. vfëgS abie io seioct tbem all by mercíy l(X)Iíing at thetr backs, mnd he soon calle-i the names of tho ñfty-two card? from seeing their backs nlonc. By sucli meons do g.imb-lers prey upon caoli Qttier.

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Signal of Liberty
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