New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-27
THE GERNAN FINE 0ROU'ERS or
MISSOURI.
.-e,s,ud-ne. STss N. Y. Trfsu,e

MARTBAsvILLL, Warren Co., No, Msy ~, ~"
The German element in the population Of Museum "a
becoming new 9 most important in determining tae
destpies Of the State. The German shopkeepes ms
chsnc and merchant are crowdisg one portion Of St.
Louis and Already form population OF nearly 1900.
TIE German peasant snd vinedresser and farmer are
sekrg I'll over the hllsides and the beautiful valleys
of the interior which the american pioneer bad neg
Iectsd for the rcb river bottoms. Villages spring up
where one heHs language, day siter day, but the
lapgrsge Of the old Fa,herland. Germsn Judges OF
the Peace are appointed in some Of the COUNTIES
newspapers are published laws printed, notices posted
school books s.utd-aIl in this foreign tongue. The
be-. agriculture Of the country is falling into the hands
Of this busy thorough people. Slavery mslts away
before the free Teutonic industry. The shareholders
find themselves competed with on the market, under
.oli AID far cuts,ripped in the yield Of the srabe
laHds. They sell their worn-out fields to these intrusive
foreigners and emgrats with their negroes in disgust
10 Texas. Besides, as German wei explained to me,
the Save is becoming too expensive an instrument for
labor. A healthy negro man costs now IN Museum
come 81 200. Capital is worth here 81 least III
per cent so that his cost to the owner. with
out reckoning expenses Of food. clothing, medicine
snd shelter is $3.50 per annum. Then there must be
added to this the cost Of his absent sick days, bis
" sulkiness' which is youknow s disease IN the med
;csl books his 'epcy to the "drspeto msnis TO
run away and his general deposition to shEk or DO
badly work in which he has no interest. Now agsiast
al these expenses ard snsoyances the sum OF sioO
vii procure the services for the yeH to tie new settler
of free intelligent efficient, careful German abser,
who takes care of himself and has no su.ks. Is it any
der with this statement alone that the rev comerS
whether American German, deest Slavery, ard that
he old saye-owners glad to get lid of theiE eSpea
1--WE labolers and either turn Free Sellers engTate
more congenial circumstances Lends, toe, are
ri:ing immensely in value under this species OF
labor whied comirg in, so that the 4ge propreto'
frd much more profitable 70 sell I'll 'ms farms rom
TIER etae OF to speculate in land THAI to trust TO the
wastefu system Of foced lsbor No doubt, too msny
of the slave.owrers were led into te system sganN
their better principles by oircdmstanceS-by tse dhi
Guilty which formerly existed OF procuring any GIed
| labor except thet Of hired slsves-And now
eelrg the pressure of the Ideas Ut the age, they
| ave gsd 10 be rid of the burden. Ths explains
| the fsct thst some of tue ssveholdes themselves
| are leaders Of the Emancipation pNty. Sui,
| the get iiautrc,s which are pushing forward
AT such rapd rate the cause Of Emancipation Ia Ms
sou,i are 10 doubt the industrial and to ec)uonics.
Amor these che Of the mo:t efficient 10 the develop
uert OF peculiar branch of agriculture, destined to
critic rine. Niregrow ng new could DO carried b!
slaves il never could flourish even in save society
II care Of vines the selection Of tho kinds best suited
10 this pecu,isr climate the working up Of new Sots.
the Experimenting rece,sary this country the minute
end intelligent labor demanded, and the judgment re-
ou,ed in the MAJ ufsctme Of the wine, are totally Uu
suited To tie tlrtlessresp waste dulness and care
lessfcss which characterize the labor OF DON mss
| ter ard slave in the American Save State' ME
| sonri a county wonderfully favored VITA tho
| advs;:syes OF nature, Is next, pethap', u
| is mineral resources most remarkable lor Us
adaptation to the culture CT the wire. Tue rocky,
Say hill aides along the rivers and through the int
rior-ebandored by tie Americans FOR their baTenness
Gle found under the skilled labor Of thcirse German,
to beer harvest richer than the richest Yell Of the
rive bolt ms though fetzeiby the deposits OF ages
| and gayirg with the most luXurisnt wheat. These
bill tops al d stony slopes ore still offered at merely
ncn rs price to the eDigrant, ant they attract, escn
wear more ard more of the best German labcrng poPn
| latiop. The German yinegrowsrs are forming coW
nuuit;ss By themselves, aud are ra,urauy III Zeal ny
| hostility with Slavery. Like good Democrats tHey
bste tie arstOcraoy Of the saye-ownersi IKE hohe''
Teutcns they love freedom snt industry, and cetesI
tysuny and laziness aud thritessneOs lnone German
| VILLAGE Of yine.growers lHERMAsS) OF which | shall
speak hereafter lounu OUT Vi u wv iunao''o'' inc
we've only thee persons "ho could be called COCA d.
charsn Democrats, ara that the others would vote
unarmousy for Republican candidate. The same IS
/ finn, Ct the other vine growing villages to such de-
gree het the more bgoted Of tue vulgar Pro slayer;
patty lcok upon them public uuissnees, and would
be glad to be well ride eff them, if they did not iod
| them 20 profitable in business way.
hope to show in my next more Of the details of the
| vire-growirg business in Missouri. It IS already
| attracting in numbers of Free-Sol Germans; viii
continue to Go With judicous arrangements, a
great stream of honest, Industrious, skl population
| might be TUNED utc that thriving State.
What bountifu snd cheap homes are there already
| there for our own needy German men and women in
| New-York Would that some poiticn OF that great
mass Of suffertg unemployed labor in our city nigh;
find it's way 70 these Sursy hlste' aAd fertile inter-
Wales Glib