New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-13

native and resident of one Of the towns In Western
North Caroline, under date Of March 49, So1' vn'e'
10 us f0ll0ws: 80.
"WIile pstroHipg few nights ago was forcibly
struck with the rutfuness Of the remarks contained
in your last letter. Here am poor but sober sno
industrious man, with family dependent on me 'or
support, and after have finished my days lnom;
am compelled to walk the streets from nine IN the
evening till three in the morning, to restrain toe owing
propensities Of other peoples property
Why should thus be deprived Of sleep that the slave
deb.edness to you for opening my eyes upon this SUD-
iect. The more think and Of Slavery the more
detest it. am becoming restless, and have
been dc batting within my miud whether had not
better euigrete 10 a Free State. IL 1--we,
am determined to oppose Slavery somewhere-here OF
elsewhere 1t viii be impossible for me to Keep my
lips sealed much longer. JUDGED, sometimes fee
tbsk | have been remiss in my duty in not having
rance that pervades the mass OF the poor, deluded
Savery. saddled whites around me- would not sup
press my sentiments another hour.
RATES OF WAGES AT TIE SOUTH.
Last Spring we made it our special business to as
certain the ruling rates of wages pad Tor LABOR nee
and .lave, in North Carolina we odha seoel, ene If
eetic white men, between twenty and forty years OF
zoe engaged in agricultural pursuits at sof
Der an1urn-includipg board only; gro men, sias1s'
tho performed little than halt the amount OF Ia
Dor and who were exceedingly sluggish, awkward ana
o.rs,ss in all their moyemeIk were hired out on ad-
Joining farms at an average OF about $lo per spuu'
including board, clothing and medical atenoan .h
Free white men and slaves were in the employ Oh the
North Carolina Railroad Company; the former mn S
services in our opinion, were at as vauape
a. services of the latter received only S2 per mono
each the masters of the latter received sio per mcnH
for every slave employed. Industrious, Idy
white girls from sixteen to twenty years OF age, nad
much difficulty in hiring themselves out as domestics
in private families for $40 per annum-board only
included; negro wenches, slaves, OF corresponding
ages, SO upgracefu stupid and filthy that no dseens
.f than Tn
threshold of his dwelling, wers in brisk demand at
from SOS TO $40 per aDnum, incNhg vletuals clothes
and me dica attendance. These facts and in con-
kderng them the students of political and SOCIAL econ
omy will net fail to arrive at conclusions OF their own
Notwithstanding the greater density Of population IN
the Free States labor OF every KIND 49, on an average
about one hundred per cent higher there than II Is Ia
the Slave States This is another important fact ana
one that every non-slavehoiding white shouid Keep
reaistered in his mind.
After these copious extracts our readers VIII De
inclined, we suspect, to the opinion that the South
will not always lack literature; that the Summer
rains have fallen of last; that new spirit is begin
ming to breathe over the South and that the resur'
rection of the dry bones is at hand. 1t would m
deed be strange, if the seed scattered BY such
sowsr az Jefferson assisted as he has been by 80
many Southern volunteers, who have prided them
selves 1Or the last tniee qu"i vi @@"'i' A
being bis faithful pupils, should not at last in
spite of hungry devouring fowls of the air, Of the
stony places upon which so much of this good seed
has fallen, of the heat of the Southern sun which
has scorched and withered its precocous growth on
spots where there was no deepncss of earth, and
of the thorns which have sprung up and chohedit-
We say it would be strange indeed if, throughout
the broad expanse of the Saveholdng States, some
good ground did not at length, as the season q
growth sets in, begin to bring forth fruit, some
thirty fold, some sixty fold, and some hundred
fold. In reference to this most remarkable book,
we soy in the words of the Gospel We have cited,
"Who hath ears to hear let him hear"