Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-03-04
From the United States Economist.

Prices of Labor. asss ss #1
Thefnf1ux of gold has impaired activity to every
species Of productive industry ana labor OF all ue
scriptions gets better price In relation TO labor
at the South, we take the following from the Wn-I
gton IN. c.. Journal -aa.4s
ssH1aH PRIcE OF NEaRoEs.-We extract the following
from the Ledger the D5h to the @
tate of the late S Beckham 22d of last month, and
somewhat astonshed a: the high prices paid for ne
Negro men brought from eight hundred to one thou
sand dollars the greater number at or near the latter p
One IA blacksmith brought 81 .43o
Alta hiring which took place here on the LIST INST neo
hands averaged from $lO, to $780, and blacksmith S|'
GA negro woman we had occasion purchase the other
We learn from the Winsboro' gister that Mon
day the 31 large sale of negroes was made by the
the property of Jacob Gibson deceased The negroes were
only toeraby likely and avenged about $500 each ne
likely field hand sold for the round of sixteen hundred
thirty dollars. The purchases however were prnc-
P Ca,y, mage by the ''s'rl000eS Oh INC
We copy the above paragraph with view of eomra f
ed request with list of number of negroes hired
and sold in this during the last fifteen days by Mr.
Crony. aUconecr and notice amongst those hired out
at public vendu man aged 10 years, that brought S52
not s5 and rsS IA 10 age anaSa
by aged 10 years 81 man oo a. Ts sa TIN fno sa 'me
woman with hree chden IS last year and
oldest child hired for I the present year man for slol
The above will shew the prices paid for negroes for II
months, public hiring in this town matter Of course
there others that brought less but we have
We viii give the sales Of few that have been effected
nsed from % to Is years brought from sss5 1895
ily mohcf and three children, very ordinary but young
man, no age given $lll8 and and four children
81 $50 The above sales either cash. day
These sales and hrns made at public auction others
hired privately ranging from 800 to $ooo as
1T is not likely that negroes will be lower, especially
while and naval stores keepup to anything in the
pec Of & me nU
again. the influx of gold from California, should both
and naval stores decline in price, will have poTe,
full tendency towards keeping labor to the present mark
The expense of maintaining a black hand, we believe
is usually rate at S75 to 500 per annum, and the
interest average investment of $1,000 making
$40, will make the cost Of hand Tl3 per month. II
will be observed above that rice field hand years
of age, hired for the year at STAT, which would
cost the s2l2 for the year, nearly Sl8 pei
t month for the year round. A Northern farmer vii
get a smart white boy indenured for many years
whom he will work, and frequently starve. giving hin
i his starvation and few cloths for many weary hou
and day OF severe and serviceabIe labor We have
frequently observed the cheerful and unremtng la
j. Dor which such young g apprentices, 1--WE beheV'
that is the West India term for compulsory labor.
render mp their energies, supported only by the hope
n of the future The Southern employer OF the youn:
black pay, however, for the labor, in the shap
of ntereS the purchase money or rent TO the oWr
ne !ltte black TO be sure, ike the White HICnn
= gets part of the pay. which their Southern employ
er must fork either in the shape of interest Of
e purchase money rent, TO the owner, while, like TIT
If phiIanthropc collector of donations to the poor, wha
N the Northern employer pays is nothing to no body.
4 1t will be observed that where families exist, the
!, let in lot according to their collective abilities
Il Thus female rice hand brought with three children
last year, 1873 The labor of the hands this yea
s. commands $2l1 that is to say, of the chlre
having reached the are when the law allows of sen
or than Who'll
family last year. the influence of gold upon the valu
y of their productions causing their labor 10 be wort
,e more. 1t appears that another woman with thre
children too young to leave her, sold for sl,525, tn
20 interest which would be ) 105 per annum
good deal more than the the sized family hire
Of for the last year. In this rising value we have tn
as best guarantee for the ameloration of those wor
1e people in whose welfare everybody has some dret
in pecunarY interest which their being duly
ID ed for. We wish we could say that the working poe
r. at the North in The road toward improvement
u but far expenses OF living caused by rising rent
ID and prices have swollen faster than the wages of Is
n bor the value of which is here exposed to constal
Il competition from abroad. From stricken Ireland EN-
IN grants yet flying, embracing the strong and tn
g active, while the Old and the young members of fam
ar lies left 10 the untimely separation from the
n relatives.
IT, We have mad recently in our employ widowc
oil woman, whose lhree infants living among sral
If gers in the novels of Ireland until she scrape
re gether Of rejoining and releemng them. TT
en- popular necessities resulting from BAD g vernmen
hn know how and scarcely susceptible of remedy.
i'd CONSUMPTION OF SPIRITS IN ESGLAND.-The fo
- lowing statement is published in English papers
ho the authority Of Parliamentary documents. aowir
~ increase of consumption of spirituous liquors will
' iH the last ten years -
-. In 1911 the total population of Great Britain III
IS reland--to wit, $685. 73 per<ons--consumed 81
i 1861 gallons Of spirits 9010O Of gallon eac
E in 1850, the people, increased to 81 1922 pc
- sons consumed 90, ,l07 gallons of Spirits lO4 ga
a. Ions EACH being 11-lOO, or rather less than the Sc
If enh part Of gallon of sprituous liquors
rt sumed on the average by every and chi
-, in the United Kingdom in 1850 than in 1911
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