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London, England, 1864-11-15 00:00:00

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Artillery Experiments at Portsmouth.

turely under the ship's quarter. 10. Grazed at 90
Yards' distance, and burst close to ship.
But few words need be said relative to the above
ten rounds, the fact being that Colonel Boxer's fuses
proved much too sensitive for ricochet firing, and
gave Mr Whitworth's shells no chance of striking
the ship laterally and and exhibiting their maxi-
mum power in twat direction, as the shunt shells
had fortunately been enabled to do. Three more
shells, en ricochet, from the shunt gun concluded
the day's firing—No. 1. Grazed at 20 yards' distance
and burst in ship. No. 2, Hit direct. No. 3. Burst
at ship's water line, on the spot where the third
shell from the commencement burst, and entered
the ship the space of a timber's breadth abaft the
former shell, crushing a timber and slightly enlarg"
ing the aperture,
The firing will be again resumed this morning
with shells en ricochet, and some of Mr Whitworth's
21-inch shells will be fired with 51b. bursting
charges.

ineffective, as the results already developed and to be
developed before the end of the year will clearly show. In
truth, the nature of the negro cannot be changed by the
offer of more or less money: all he desires is to eat, drink,
and sleep, and perform the least possible amount of labour.
The difficulties in procuring a fair amount of labour on
plantations are insurmountable. In the first place, instead
of hating a family cook for the whole body of hands en-
gaged in field work, each separate family and each indivi-
dual bachelor and maid must have a separate fireplace and
cooking establishment going on—so that there are about 30
different cookahops on my place, consuming much of the
time that Gen. Banks's orders directed to be given to the
field, Again, I always had an hospital and nurses for the
sick, and a children's house, with a good motherly woman
to take care of the children, while their mothers were en.
gaged in the field. Now, all is changed —not one when sick
will go the hospital, or a child to the children's house, The
result is that many of them lay up for days and weeks,
when not sick, by hiding away, and when really sick re.
quiring a well nurse for nearly every one sick. Now, anyone
with the least attention can see that the loss of time must be
enormous, and this loss, independently of the total lack of
full time and faithful labour, when ostensibly performing
their labours in the field. I am safe to say that Ido not
receive more than half of what would be considered by any
impartial judge as fair labour from the labourers 1 have
employed. I have upwards of 100 labourers employed on
my plantation, including old and young, but it is seldom
that more than 60, of all grades, can be found at work. It
may be asked why I do not apply to the provost-marshal,
and have them brought to order. I answer that I have
tried to get on orderly and efficiently as far as it has been
in my power; but it would require the provost-guard to be
constantly on the move to bring and continue things in any
proper wet king order. Well, at the commencement of this
year, 1864, I fell in with General Banks's orders, and made
it the interest of my labourers to go on faithfully and make
a good crop ; but the work was an up-hill business all the
time. The result of the year's work is thus far known
—viz., From 300 acres in cotton, less than 20,0001 b seed
cotton; about one half, or at most two thirds corn enough
to support the place another year ; of cane, after putting up
for seed the amount ordered by General Banks, if I make
50 hogsheads of sugar, I shall be thankful. lam really
fearful I shall not make enough to pay expenses of working
the place, saying nothing of interest on capital. . . .
In my remarks above I have said that the ordinary labourers
engaged on my plantation before the war kept it in perfect
repair and 'in good working order, but under the present
order of things not a ditch has been dug—the old ditches
and draining canals are all' being fast filled up with weeds,
and grown up with bushes from 51t to 15ft high. The fences
are all rotting down, the buildings are decaying and going
to ruin, with no means of preventing or remedying the evil,
for I cannot get half labour enough performed to work the
apology for a crop as it should be worked. Such is the pre-
sent condition of things Wherever you look the eye rests
on nothing but the relics of former things fast passing to
destruction. No live thing can be raised with the least
likelihood of enjoying it when grown. Stealing is the order
of the day I"