New-York daily tribune., 1857-08-24

0oeSbs 4. The general practice here, they
ecc oe'eI 20 SOW wheat on ground from which
sostsa ~ taken corn, without removing the corn
s1'y,ns sy ~ The weeds, or ploughing it at an; they
.s5 three pecks Of wheat To the acre, spa p,
,,shsd II in-that was all. They used too
gssdc' but had never heard Of reapng machines;
OF cotton, the ordinary crop was hve hu''r, c.ou,
rounds of seed -ginDed wool 10 the acre. vi ''''
ese 20 two bales TO ahand. ,,hols 10 the
Com. usually from ten to twenty bushels o,sht 20
e,1ex nst year not over ten; tb's Jra' "i''
4 would be twenty-five on good Hno'
NEGRO DOGS nm .bs
w, ..r .A,oir,tion of Jude brought up tnc
me seneI"i so.s agaip. and the clergyman toid
&C., xsbo hunted nlggers near "no.I NC
Wy !" MOI ont once with another man, "hon'
Hseo' &c o .ssrcb. they found the dogs barking up
~: o~,tanvood tree. They examiner Tue 'io1
c,ossly without finding any hegIG, anu ,hn~ s.sre
~ 4. dogs must have been fohed, ana they were
Ina, tSs. ,o se away, when Mr.. -, from some dis
go. off tbought he saw a negro's leg very hlgn uP
:. ,Le tree. where the leaves and moss were thck
.nonsh 10 hide man lying on the top OF limb wlth
Ma csst against the trunk he called out, as II he
really saw a nan, telling him to come down; out
nothipy stirred. He sent for an ak, and caneu oiS
again saying he would cut the tree to the g,ouud M
he didn't come down. There was no rPY', ho
1.n emf half through the tree on Oae SIDE, and was
heoippipp on the other, when the negro naiooeo GV
Shet if he would stop he would cene d0"h: iie
s.opp.d cutting, and the negro descended 10 inc
lowest LIMB, which Was still tar from tne elounu,
md asked the hunter to take away HIS uogs anG
uYomse they shouldn't tear nm. ne s"ore ne
make no conditions WIN nih' "i'ei n''hiS WIN o
~ cut the tree almost down. -, -,
The negro said no more, but retained hls position
until the tree was nearly cut in two. When 1t be-
pan 10 totter, he slid down the trunk, the dogs
Infringing upon him as soon as he was within Sher
reach He fought 'em hard, and got hold OF one by
the ear; that made 'em madder, and they tore hlm
till the hunter was afraid they'd kill him, and
stopped them.
Tasked if dogs were often allowed to tear the
egrces when they caught them!
WHEN the hunters come up they always call
them off. unless the niger fights. If the niger
febts em that makes 'em mad, and they let en tear
him good, said the clergyman. There were t"o OF
three young women present, ana Tue young men
were sparkiDg with them in the house, sitting On
The beds for want of Sofas the chairs being all in
nae outeide: the rest of the company sat on the
gallery most of the time but there was very little
Conversation. 1t was twice remarked to me,
Sundays dull day-nothing to do"
As the Methodist and were reading after dinner
noticed that two or three were pasuading the
Others TO 20 with them somewhere, and | asked
where they proposed to 20. They said they wanted
T. 90 over the mountain to hunt bull.
"To shoot himl"
"Oh, no, it's working bull; they got his mate
yesterday. There amt but pair Of cattle in this
neigbbOrhOOd, and they do all the hauling for nine
families" Thy belonged, together with the wagon
Hsed with thcB to one man, and the rest borrowed
Of bin. They wanted them this week TO cart in
their oats. The stray bull was driven in toward
NIGHT, yoked with another to q wagon, and one of
the women, with her family, got into the wagon and
was carried home. The bulls were fractous and
had TO De led by one man, while another urged
them forward with q cudgel.
Last night neighbOr came into the planters
Uncle Abrams MASTERY, and in the course of con-
yerration about crops, said that on Sunday he went
over to John Browns to get him to come out and
help him at his harvesting. He found four others
there for the same purpose, but John said he didn't
feel we'll and be reckoned he couldn't work. He
offered him dollar and q half day to cradle for
him. but when he tried to persuade hun, John spoke
out plainly and said "hed be ID If he was going TO
work anyhow;" so he said to the others, Come,
boys, we may as well go; you cam make iazy
man work when he's determined he won't He
supposed that remark made him mad, for on Thurs
day John came running across his cotton patch,
where he was ploughing. He didn't speak word
to him. but cut along over to his neighbors house,
and told him that he had shot two deer, and wanted
his hounds to catch 'ein, promising to give him halt
Che yenison if he succeeded. lie did catch one Oi
then, and kept his promise.
THE "COTTER" CLASS.
This man Brown, they told me, had large fam
ily and lived in a little cabin on the mountain. lie
pretended to plant corn patch, but never worked
H. and didn't make any corn. They rech0ned ne
lived putty much on what corn and hogs he could
steal and ON game. The children were described as
pitiably poor, "scrawny," bah.staryed little
wretches Last Summer his wife had come to one
Of them saying they had no corn, and she wanted TO
pick cotton to earn some. He had let her 90 IN
with the niggers aud pick. She kept at 1t for two
4. -, III ba
her little boy tOting il 10 the mill to be ground
a much too heavy load for him.
asked if there were many such vagabonds.
Eyes great many on the mOuntain, and they
make heap of trouble. There is law by which
they might be taken up Cft could be proved that
they have no visible means OF support ana SOFA
20 the highest bidder and made to work to support
their families; but the law is never used"
Speaking of another man, one sad Hell be
here to breakfast ut your house to dinner. and at
DIR. IS 10 supper, leaving his family to live as
they heat can" They "reckoned" he got most Of
bis living in that way; while his family had to get
theirs by stealing. lie never did any work except
hunting, and they "reckoned" he Killed about as
maDy shoats and lcarlnes deer aud turkeys.
They said that this sort Of people were not often
Incorporate; tley had no money to buy liquor
with; now and then, when they'd sold some game or
done q little work 10 raise money, they'd have a
spree; hut they were more apt to gamble ii of or
spend II for ne clothes and things 10 trick out their
wives.
Jue.--To.day am passing through valley
Of poor, sandy soil, thckly populated by po,r
mrmers. Plantations with negroes are rare, but
occasionally neat, new houses with other improve
nents, would argue tie increasing wealth OF the
people. Tie majority Of the dwellings are small
log cabins Of one room with another separate cabin
for kitchen; each house has well aud gardeo
inclosed with palings. Cows goats mules ana
swine, fowls and doves are abundant, and should
Judge that the people live very comfortably. They
are more social than the people Of the lower cOun-