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streets, and the chain gangs, in their white prison uniforms, 
while at work in the hot sun, exert a moral influence which is 
widely and deeply felt. A future punishment by hard work and 
not by fire is what makes an impression on the indolent mind. 
Nor should the peaceful and conservative operation of a very 
efficient Church—represented by a goodly variety of different 
sectarian organizations, from the humble Methodists with their 
untiring zeal and spiritual sledge-hammers, up, through the more 
pretentious cathedral, to the loftiest kind of high church, with 
its choir of colored urchins in holy vestments within the walls of 
“Saint Agnes,” in Grantstown, back of Nassau, be omitted. 
The extent of its salutary influence may be fairly inferred by the 
manner in which Sunday is here kept. The first day of the week 
is marked by solemn stillness, entire absence from all secular 
employments, a display of neat and tasty costumes, and by a 
general attendance upon the devotional services of the churches, 
as strongly as it is in any of the country towns of New England. 
In this respect the neighboring island of Cuba, with its Sunday 
theatres and bull fights in its chief city of Havana, furnishes a 
most striking contrast, and leads the seeker after the best practi- 
cal ecclesiastical system to ask, whether English Protestantism 
or Spanish Catholicism furnishes the most desirable religious 
foundation for a prosperous and well ordered community. 
’ It is apparent that the Royal Victoria Hotel is an active agent 
in demoralizing the colored boys who frequent its court. Nov- 
elty speedily degenerates into nuisance. To them the crowds of 
winter visitors are like the sugar hogsheads to northern summer 
flies. The ‘‘rich Northerners” constitute a great living tide, 
- with deep, broad currents of see wealth, and all are most 
eager to catch some of the drops of the golden spray. Not all 
of them who have a love of money are endowed with the gift of 
song, and as the choirs are not selected, and most of the black 
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