The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-01-26

"Glory, hallelujah," but the "watchmen come"
and they ''run,' of course. The children of the
men who formed the beautiful temple, SO strong,
so durable. home for all. are beginning to rally
around it; and the beartIess wretches who would
destroy it will be hurled to contemplate and eter
nal oblivion. Enough of politics,
idyou ever live in the South, Did you ever
see the propriety of the arrangement by which
mules and niggers were placed sqcether9 A mule
is just made for niger. and IL Way they go to-
gether is sight. The mule is Z ugly the dar-
key, and between the two fights about an equal
thing saw niger at Memphis. the other day.
with two mules tandem to cotton dray, trying
TO drive them between two piles6f Railroad iron.
There room enough and ,he lead mule was
willing to go; but tie one in the shafts seemed to
have a desire to go into the Mississippi, and he
gratifed it, and the other mule and the niger
with him. Having accomplished his purpose he
was content to come out; but being like repub-
lican leader las he was, no doub<, with but one
idea, when he came around to the place again, he
went into the river as before. Then the niger
got mad like Seward, and an "irrepressible con-
| hict' commenced. The proves of the niger
was worthy ofold Brown; but the mule was "equal
to the emergency Six times the darkey brought
him out, and with the aid of Jne, whip and lead
mule he got into the right track, and six times did
the mule ''bolt the nomination." and take to the
water. The struggle was severe. and such swear
ing and talking and laughing as there was by the
| fighting darkey and the other hundred darkeys,
who stopped their carts and looked on. was never
heard in Flanders. Speaking of mules and cot
ton, perhaps you would like to know something
about this same cotton that is said to be "King."
Cotton plantations are like our farms-some larg
err and some smaller. One good negro will work
eleven acres of cotton and one of corn. The
yield is from one aud half to two bales of 400
pounds per acre, The cost of raising and mar
keting is about 81 per bale and the nett profit on
the bale is about S3'@S39. They are pressed
| into bundles of about 500 pounds, being about
| FIVE feet long and otherwise about three feet
square. At this place it is re pressed putting near
three bales in one and in smaller compass. Rol-
/ ling cotton (that is the bales) onto and off ship
board is science Two men, and sometimes one
will handle 500 pound bale as easy as | would
an empty barrel; but it has to be learned and men
get seriously burt sometimes ia learning. by be-
1 L.
The cotton plantations along the river look drcary
!, being deao level ard surrounded by heavy tim
her AID generally having more or less "deaden-
iug'' on anu around each place.
The Sugar plans., Sons are entirely different
| Splendid buildings, large sugar houses and en-
| gines, nice negro quarters, an. generahs eie-
CANT ornamental grounds around the proprietor s
| residence. From Baton Rouge to New Orleans
is perfect garden, and contains untold wealth -
/ Three nj wera cold for 010 0Q0 each
Some of the negro houses are long rows of brick
buildings, much nicer tnan many white people
have in the North, who are comfortable livers,-
The nggers themselves the happiest people
on earth. No care, no bother, 10 trouble. Nine
| ty nine out of one hundred would not be free if
than half the white families, and far better than
the white laboring classes. Negroes are high. no
good one being worth less than from 81 ,25O0Sl,-
500, and many of them more. They all get high
wages when hired out, and get part of it them
selves when hired out by their masters. Nearly
all have ''stInts'' to do. and they not hard;
and all they do over that they are paid for often
at the rate of 81 per day. Coed cotton rollers,
! firemen, &c, get S40@S50 per month and board.
Free negroes get good wages and orderly and
know theirplaces. Some ofthcfn get rich. There
is none of that aristocracy here that you find il
the North. No exclusion of colored people from
Omnibusses-nO refusal of recognition or con-
temptuous treatment of the negroes. Ladies and
| gentlemen shake hands with negro readily as
white man; and the negro voluntarily treats them
with the Difference and respect that is due to them
There are bad men and women who i'll treat their
negroes; so they do their children snd horses; but
there are less of that class of tcmpers among the
the slave owners than there is elsewhere; and the
cases are few
! As soon as have had time to look around this
fast-growing city, will try to tell you some thing
about it interesting. Amid the hurry and hustle of
travel. and the confusion of large hotels, one can
hardly eondense much interest into the space of a
small letter.
Yours, truly,