Several sales which have come under our eye within a month past, afford an unmistakable symptom of the prevalence of a disease in the public mind on this subject. We are unable to give any satisfactory answer. But, so far as the effect which these high prices are to have in our own State is concerned, we think we can truthfully say the fever will soon abate in a very natural way. Men are borrowing money to day at exorbitant rates of interests to buy negroes at exorbitant prices. The speculation will not sustain the speculators, and in a short time we shall see many negroes and much land offered under the Sheriff's hammer, with few buyers for cash, and then this kind of property will descend to its real value.
Negroes are twenty-five per cent.
Men are demented upon the subject.