New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-02

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pioymers N ste VARIOUS mills, in Agricultural lsbcr
sa3 in .usaDg, o. ribe sci sphtiug he wood which
is used for fael Common lsborers obtain from
dslar 70 twelve shilings 3 day. The houses inhAb-
ted by soe better class Of colored people are two
story frame buildings, painted white, for ths most
part surrounded by wellkept gardens, and quite
equal IN appearance % those belonging TO The same
Nsss q white residents. In one which We entered
the furniture was handsome, and nov piano o>
eupied one corner Of the paror; the master Of the
house, a eolored man (actng by the way ss land
sssnt), and represented TO me - man OF rare IN
teNsence, was absent. The poorer blacks 1--we
commonly in small detached cabns, sometimes
built of unbewD logs, consulting ordinarily OF one
room. The furniture WIS Commonly ona or two
bejsteads, with bedding, chest or two, chairs, t.
bles and cooking utensils sometimes lOOkiIg-
clock OF bureau. In the garden-spos about
tie cabin were grown corn, beans, pumpkins,
squashes, potatoes, &c their gardens, indeed
were quite as fourishiDg and well tended a. those
of their white neighbors. In every instance t'at
came under my observation the inmates seemed
comfortable, well fed and contented
In the market place, on the day visited it, the
greater number of wagons or carts with vegetables
seemed to belong to negroes. One large wagon,
drawn by two good horses and tended by an active,
Misunderstanding jt. black man, wss particularly
well supplied. Two of the wagons were each
dawn by mare, with colt running by its side.
One rickety old cart, drawn by hslfstaved
horse, and containing scanty stock Of vegstables
put me in mind of cid TifI's turn out at the camp
meeting.
The means Of education are not literally provided,
There is but one public school for the colored
people, and that is crowded, and two private
schools, ole attended by about fifty aud the other
by fifteen pupils. The wife Of the teacher Of the
larger Of these schools, New. England woman, tse
teacher himself being absent, complained that the
pupils frequently did not pay the small stipend
demanded Of them.
Beggary, we were informed, did not exist among
them, and could learn Of but two or three persons
who were assisted from the town funds. In regard
to sexual morality, could hear of but one case of
bastardy as having occurred in the last two years.
In the shop Of the gunsmith, who has been mon
toned as one of the cOlored mechanics Of the town.
we saw rife which he had Just finished, which
seemed an exceedingly Keat and handsome piece Of
workmanship, as it was, we have no doubt, a good
and effective weapon. The engraving upon it-sn
art in which he had no instru ,tiOn-was both well
designed and well executed. The gunsmith was .
dark colored mulattO from North Carolina; be had
been redeemed from slavery when twenty-one years
of age by his father, mulatto. He at that time
knew something Of the business which he after.
ward followed, and acquired some further knowl
edgh Of it at the North. Misunderstanding some
thing that had been said we observed, with some
surprise: "You surely know how to write1" He
answered, with smile, that he had somewhere
diploma constituting him an A. B.. On coming
North he bad entered Oberln College and grad.
usted from that institution; and in late cata-
logue of the same College he showed as the name
of younger brother who had just completed q
course Of instruction there He was one who, by
his good sense, intelligence and information would
have been marked man anywhere. j is not
singular instance in Chatham; indeed there is to
be found there much higher degree f education
and culture than among the same class ut Toronto.
In Kent the county in which Chatham is situ
sted, many of the coored people are sgriculturists
residing upon and culsivatins their own farms.
Many of them are represented IS doing exceedingly
well. One farm, owned and occupied BY oolored
man recently deceased, and still cultivated by his
family. was generally allowed BY those not disposed
to favor the blacks as well as by their wisbers
TO be the model farm Of the neighborhood. Some,
without eapital or skill and probably, too, without
sustained industry, do not succeed; but it is gen.
orally admitted that, on the whole, they make bet
ter farmers than the Irish, and fer better than the
French Canadians, considerable number Of whom
reside in the immediate ne;shborhoed of Chatham