The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-23 00:00:00

NEGRO HIRE AND NEGRO CONSCRIPTION IN

THE SOUTH.

(From Um Richmond Enquirer, Jae. 5.)

Either the owners or their hiring agents are set
tog very much against common sense in the exorbitant
hires demanded for megrims this year. One thoessad
dollars and board and clothing are asked by some for negro
men. Is not a system of labour that thus extorts upon the
aseensities of the hirer rather expensive ? is a question
that we have heard asked an alarming number of times
mime the hires of megrims were doubled. These men
✓arely forget the state of the country, and do act
consider the fact that an earnest people are now
deliberately weighing the bearings and inflamer of
negro slavery upon the prospects of liberty and indepead.
mos. They surely forget that these exorbitant hires are
actual obstructions to production, and as such IT really aid
and comfort to the enemy, and consequently acts hostile to
oar cease. The effort of the country is to reduce the cost
and increase the quantity of produetioe, in order that the
currency may be improved and the cease sustaiosd ; but if
the owners of negroes demand hires for their slaves which
the farmer cannot pay, and continue to cultivate his farm
without increasing the price of his crops, they are acting
exactly as the enemy would have them act, and they are
jeopardising the institution of slavery ty making it an
incubus upon production.
An objection was raised to the conscription of negroes for
the army, because it would diminish the labour of the
country, increase the cost of production, and thus cause •
depreciation of the currency ; but negro men, at one
thousand dollars per annum, with food and clothing, are
too expensive for farming purposes ; and therefore they
may be conscripted without any damage to production.
Thus the owners of slaves are removing the only good ob-
jection to General lee's recommendation of employing the
negroes as soldiers. We hope that Gangrene will DOW GOD
promptly, and oonseribe every negro fee whom one Warmed
dollars is demanded ; for the price makes him the very
kind of negro wanted in the army—an A No. 1 negro eel-
dier--airl renders him too high and costly for the farm or
any other kind of labour.
Would it not be well for persons hiring 'stigma to have
proviso in the bond that if the negro is conscripted the hire
is to owe? Otherwise a man may have a bond of one
thousand dollars to pay, end yet the negro be seat to the
army.

The Kranz Zeitung gives an anecdote affording 1
good evidence of the salutary effects of the Bismarck I
Kyrime. The Berlin cabmen are beginning to forget
where the House of Deputies is situated. Partials"<
try government ham, in other words, been almost buried in
oblivion. The anecdote runs thus .—Oa the first day of
the session a deputy jumped into a cab, and said to tie
driver, "Drive me to the ROOM of Deputies.* Driver
an " Wlters to r Deputy, " Why don't you keep
your ears open!—to the Houma' Deputies.* Driver, "To
the Hones of Deputies !—Wherso's that r Deputy, "Yoe
don't know where the House of Deputies is ? Why, on
the Doehofs Platt, to be sum!' Driver (merateidwg hi
bead), "On the Dunhofs Platt'-ob, yes, to be awe ! We
bad gait* forgotten ell shoot that r