New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-04

=. ..you will allow me to pay you for the trouble
have Given You 2" He looked little Disconnected
a. INV nuttine the question in this way but answered
=; = matter.ot.couise tone, 1t will DO dollar and
| quarter, Sir"
This was the only large plantation / had sn ep-
portunity Of seeing at all closely over when was
not chiefly conducted by an educated gentleman and
slave owner, BY whose habtual impressions and
sentiments my own were probably somewhat in.
Guenccd From what | saw Of others in passing
and from what heard by chance Of Others. | sup
pose il 10 have been in no respect IN unt,vorabe
specimen Of those plantations on which the owners
do not reside. Magistrate Of the district who had
often been the plantation. said in answer to m in
quiry from me- that the negroes were very web
treated upon it, though not extraordinarily 80.
His comparison was with plantations in general
He also spoke well of the Overseer.
Hehad been long time on this plantation Il think
he said, ever since it had begun to be cultivated.
This is very rare; it was the only case met with
in which an overseer had kept the same place ten
years, and it was strong evidence Of his compare.
tive excellence that his employer had been so long
satisfied with him. Perhaps it was stronger
evidence that the owner Of the negroes WAS man
of good temper, systematic and persistent In the
management ofhis property.t o..
The condition of the fences, OF the mules and
tools. and tillage, which would have been considered
admirable on the best farm in New-YOrk-t the dress
of the negroes and the remarkable ncatness and
spaciousness of their quarters" which were far
superior 10 those of most of the best plantations
on which the owners reside all gave satisfactory
evidence of a very unusually prudent and provident
policy.
| made no special inquiries about the advantag es
of education or the nurture ~ Christianity provided
for the slaves. As there is much public desire for
definite information upon that point, regret that
did not. did not need to put questions to the
Cyerseer to satisfy my own mind, however. 1t was
obvious that all natural indictments to self advance
ment had been studiOusly removed or Obstructed.
in subOrdnation to the general purpose of the en-
terprise of the plantation. The machinery was I'M
peared for day and a half week, for cleaning
and repairs; experience having proved here, as it
has in Manchester and New-YOrk, that steadily
worked operatives do better work very much II
thus privileged. A limited play to individual qualities
and impulses was then permitted in the culture of
such Injuries as potatoes and pumpkins, the repair
of garments, and other sOrdid recreatiOns involving
the least possible intellectual friction Regarding
only the balance sheet of the owners ledger, it was
very admirable / am sorry to think it is rare, in
most cases where this is the upperlnOst object of
the cotton-panter, that an equally frugal economy
ia maintained.
In Debow's Resources of the South Vol $50, table
furnished by cotton planter to show that the expenses OF
raising cotton generally greatly moderated It is to be
that they certainly not moderated IN the table
On well improved and properly organized plantation tho
expense of feeding hundred negroes as deduced from
fifteen writer asserted in this table
to be exactly $3.50 per snnum, dollars and half
each in THU. included heweyer the expense Of the
the expense the purposes if the
true Of the plantation above described Clothing shoes
bedding sacks gathering cotton, and forth estimated
by the authority to cost equal su-7 o for each
slave have paid account of day aboer farm
In New York his board BILL he being bachelor living at the
house another Irish laborer with family The charge u
times as large for the slave January 1857.
"Overseers changed every years few remain four
Eve years but the average time they remain Oh the same
plantation does not exceed two years"
fSouthern Agriculturst vol. w., p. 35l