The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-09-16

gives over $4,000 for income. The family draw
Their support from the farm. They have every
luxury that can be raised on the place. have
only taken the two principal productions OF the
plantation-rce, potatoes, and all vegetables and
fruits, ale raised on u Tor home consumption Rye,
wheat, ard oats, are not estimated There il a
large income from other sources as cattle horses,
hoRs, NC which are raised aud supported on the
produce Of the estate The cotton seed is worth
hive cents, II ~ were sold. There - also yearly
increase OF full hive per cent the negroes, aud
hiteen years these negroes would nave more than
doubled Instead IL sIxfy there would be one hun
dred and twenty-five, bring an increase OF value
IN this respect, OF $3.50, fortune of itself ]
estimate four hundred acres of land IN cultivation
II j deduct frUm this Elk hundred not 80, IL re-
duces the capital the plantation $1,000
or 10. ..s.s.... ............. 50 700
slnves, go. 49,. '.''''..'ss.... =. wy
bth'f properly. LOU
Total. Observation-Disclosures. $40 $50
do not think there is any investment which pro-
duces go much as Southern agriculture and the
lite ct Southern planter ~ the nearest approach
to earthly paradise. lie has nothing to do but to
be happy himself, and make those happy about
hum, In the above statement underrate the real
result.
! am now speaking Of the farmers IN the upland
districts Of this State. A merchant, or minufac-
turer. would count to fraction the net income de-
rved from hrs business, without allnslon to his
nlshtd 10 the planter, who does not estimate
tbcm. Thirty thousand dollars invested IN bank
stock, N u paid six per cent, would be 81 800, the
house hold expenses would eat Al up, perhaps,
while on a plantation South, the greatest portion
supplied directly from IT, II also safe bust
ness and any man who u planter, and possesses
any prudence, must get nch llIs income from his
cotton furnishes him with funds for extraordinary
expenses, or to Increase his stock Of negroes OF
land. He give the best collegiate education to
his children. lie has leisure TO improve his mind,
spd enjoy himself IN travelling, and spending his
income. ] am satisfied that the great wealth Of
Southern planters is all moonshlne. Their in
comes are larg,-they hive bike lighting cocks and
~ IL owing to causes which have explained. /
know = hundred farmers in New York State who
,n,y III. " display when they com. to the srrisgs,
Who, VI they w"uld leave dslviug themselves, cell
ont for their go, 0t0 sad $4,000, and South,
could Increase tb.ir substance aud income, and be
equally lnoeysndeht-hav their carriages and four
h"Isss, ~ they hked, and the means OF living the
lite of INDEPENDENT grniismen. But to do this,
Ihsy would be obliged to come into the negro ar
! Taugtnsnt. have seen these slaves under all cir
cun.stunces aud the life Of q New York negro, OF
q tte Dtgps anywhere North, when compared
With The hh. Of The pour, benlgbted slave, Is
| bell rttsss heaven. Downing, The oysternan
\ fer Wall street brokers Chstters, the barber,
| ~ Nassau sucet, opposite your oihce-or Dandy
Cox, the slolbes clesner-who are, sulrose, the
Lt nsRitts At your ci'y -cosld not begin TO shine
altpgsioe 81 some II these South Carolina nrgrues
| They would Mt lonk at 'rnl, or associate with
| them. Wbs, they, the full blsoded negroes Of