The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-04-03
Editor g. Proprietor.
From die Richmond Wing.
The Richest Man An virginia

GENTLEMEN: have thought for some
time, / would write to your paper sometime
in relation to the richest man IN Vi,gjut
and the largest STAKEHOLDER in the Union,
and perhaps in the world, unless the scrfs of
Russia be considered slaves; and the wish
IN your paper, few days ago, To- know
whom 1t was so wealthy in Virginia, induces
me to write this now.
Samuel Hairston of Pittsylvania, Is the
gentleman When j was in his section
year or two ago, he was the owner Of between
LEGO and LOO slaves, in his own right
having buta little while before taken a CENSUS
Ne also has a prospective right 20 about
| 1000 slaves more which are now owned hy
smothcr-in-law, Mrs Ruth Harton, ho
haVhg married her only child lie now bas
the Management Of them, which makes ihe
numDeAof his slaves reach near Hyee HOu-
SAM. hey increase at the rate of near
l,VVU eVcv year; and he has TO purchase
large plantation every year to settle them ON.
a large nutber of his plantations are in
Henry and Pavick counties, Virginia. He
has large estate in North Carolina. HIS
landed property Stokes alone, is assessed
at 5000, 900. HIwealth is differently es-
timated at from $1,000 900 TO IS 1000 600.
and / should think Twas nearer the latter.
You think he has he'd lot; but ussurt
you MIR. HairstOn MANAGES all his matters
as easy as most persons would an estate of
$4,000. He has oversees who are com
PEELED to give him a written statement OF
what is made and spent on cac, plantation,
and his negroes are all clothed AID fed from
his own domestic manufacture and raising,
leaving his Tobacco crop, which is immense
ly large, as so much clear gain every year,
beside his increase in negroes, which is "a
fortune of itself
And now for his residence / have tray
eled over fifteen States of this Union, and
have never seen anything comparable to his
yard and garden, except some Of them in
the Mississippi delta--and none Of them
equal it. Mrs. IIairston has been
identifying it for years-and a good old
minister, in preaching near the place, and
describing Paradise, said 'it was a. beautiful
as Mrs. Hairston's"; or, as a friend who had
visited Washington City for the first time,
remarked that the public grounds we're near
Iy as handsome as Samuel Hairston's." Mr..
Hairston is q plain unassuming gentle
man and has never made any noise in the
world, though he could vie with the Bruces,
the McDonoughs and the Astors; and it is
strange that while their wealth is co-exten-
sive with the Union, he is not known 100
miles from home. believe he is now the
wealthiest man in the Union, as VIM i.
Astor is only worth about $4,000 900, and
the estates of city people are vastly oyeuated
while Mr.. Hairston can show the JsroDerty
that will bring the cash at any moment.
Mr.. Hairston was raised within a few
miles of where he now lives, in Henry coun-
ty. He has several brothers who are pretty
well to do in the world One of them,
Marshall Hairston, of Henry, owns moro
than 700 negroes: Robert uairston, who
now lives in Mississippi, near 1000 and
Hardin Hairston, who has also moved TO
Mississippi about 600 slaves George Hair
ston, of Henry, has given most All of his
to his children, rcserving only
about $50 for his own use. This ] believe,
is a correct statement Of the circumstances
Of the Hairston family.
COSMOPOLITE.