Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1857-06-12

Immediately commenced to initiate an
emulate their Northern neighbors. II
result is beautiful and fertile cou'
try fertile and beautiful, too,
exact proportion to the preponderane
OF Northern population.
At Falls Church. seven miles fror
Alexandria. where colony of Norther
farmers settled, land is higher now tha
in any other port Of the country at tn
same distance from the city.
The Northerncrs first introduced gu
ano, now so uscfully employed in redeem
ing and fertilizing the farms in thi
State
This is the uniform testimony of ever,
one. white or black, that | talked with.
The Virginians have a GOO, deal. yet
to learn from the Northern farmer. | say
large farm, ci SO me two or three han
dred yesterday VII ch consisted Q
two fields only the road running hrougl
the centre Of the estate and - livi in.
it. There were patches If difer Mt pro
duce in these msmmoth fields, pasture
wheat, oats and clover.
| aske how they manasel - bat
their cattle on the clover past T., with
cut endangering the wheat
Why, send a Niger out to watch
thenl.'
Fifty acres of land, til &c or f,ur
miles from Alexandria, sold recently
for $3.50 per acre.
TALK WITH 4 sLAyE.
When within two or three III lcs o!
this place, met s,alwar: II go. yer,
black, OF whom asked tn nice OF
land,
He said some WIS as low a, $50 an
acre, an. that i, ranged from ,h,t price
to 500; that it had risen Wy high
since the Northern folks came in. 1h;>
he said without leading qIe> tor, but
he added instantly
'Dey soon learns rginnys tricks
What do you mean
why. dey soon's hard on eoHud folks
as Firsiuians.
4 have heard that saii ,bat wa,
unwilling to believe it.
Well. massr he said, it's a &c 'ley
soon hold, slaves, and sril, him, too
after dey stay here a while.
Are you a married man :
.Yes-l'se gwanc to nv wife now.
He told me she lived SOM five or six
miles off
"ls it true that the Virginia some
times ,eperate families of e9ioied pao
pie 2"
"Oh.' he said, vchemcatly, as if sur
priscd at such a question. Its as com
mon as spring water runs;
Quite common I!
AS common as water flows, he sad,
why, dey'll sell chile from its mode;' 5
breast. as it were-dey does do it I'se
seen it Gone, dat berry ting
What induced any one 70 DO that :
why sometimes favoratc colorad wo-
mans chile dc, and missus will buy an
mother Of somebody else 5.
How much do they 8 fer sucking
child ?
a darkcy's worth a hundred dollars
as sven as he ctn holler dat wat d
white folks say about here
AT the North sail when your
masters come there, they say they never
seperate families
Oh he calculated, just yon stay a
few months in Virginny, AMI you III soon
see it done hundreds of times.
| have seen it dons, Mr.. Editor, re-
peatodly y-ia Virginia, and many other
slave States.
must add one remark Of this nasrn,
which is sign Of the times. Talking
of the nortAcrncrs in this section, he
said
Some on 'em maybe, is ain SLAYER!
but .hcy's on the hgM side.
What do you mean 9y thai F: asked
why, dc Constitution is in ds cd
scale agn US. and de northern folks
here's too light agin it,
This theory--Garrison's Ethiopian
ICED probably gathered from som'
Only Wise politician speaeh or allN
sions to the Federal Constitution.
JACoBiUs.