The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1862-06-18

Tie lsborers Lad hut very little confidence in tl.o
| proms.s OF payment made by us on behalf uf he
Government. Tho one per cent. a pound vhi,a In
boon promised on tie last years crop Q! c.ttor,
aud for tho hans and cal transportation cl which
tie laborere hal been employ ed In November and
| December last, had net been paid. Tie special
agent not provided with funds to pay for labor
on tls years crop untl Apill23. Then tie mod
crate sum Of per acre was pid for cotton planted
| Is Apr % being distributed among the hborers
according H. tho amount done by each. This was
paid o. account, tic qucs,ion Il the value Of tho
labor already done being reserved This payment
quickoned the laborers very much, and tho work
went rapidly forward until Nay To- when tho time
for closing the regular planting season arrived In.
deed, from the beginning. when they could clearly
see TINT they were N rece vo tho rewards Of their
labor, they worked with ccmmeudabe diligence
Thus thsy worked diligently on their negro
patches at the tin.o when he hgd tie most difficulty
In securing { iull amount Of proper work on the
Plantations, Not the leaft Among our troubles was
thst many able.l died mon lad gone h the camps
ut Beaufort, Hilton Head aud Bay Point where they
were probably employed on wages, occasionally
returning 10 the plantations, where their wives
mained, to display their earnings, aud produce dis
eoptent among the unpaid laborsrs on them. In
OIL, the sum Of S6,iIg 81 has been paid for $50
Iil0O acres of cotton, with $40 more for the garden
OF vegetables. -Four thousand and thirty persons
received their Proportions Of this sum. Small a.
u. payment wAa the laborors received 1t
with great satisfaction, as II nothing MORE
II was at least recognition Of their title to
wages, md to treatment as freemen. Accurate
pas rolls for each plantation, with tho name Of
each laborcr and the amount paid, and certified hy
the supcrintenien,s, are preserved. The cases OF
not have exceeded, a. they have oqnalled, fo ~ on
the islands, It ia not pretended that many these
lahorcrs could not have done rsore than they have
done, or that IN persistent application they the
equals Of races living In colder aud more brucing
lstitudes They generally went To their work quite
early in the morning and returned at noon, oacn
earlier, working, however, industrlously wh.e they
were ia the Acid. Ito In the afternoon, they work.
cd vi N ucr private patches. They protested
against wuIAins on Stturdaya.
EDUCATIONAL MArrERs.
THO educational statistics are incomplete, only a
part OF the schools having been opeu for two
months. Al present. according to the reports, p
hyO vcrsui,s arc being taught on week days, Of
whom Mt far from one third are adults fought
when their work ia done. But this does not COM
pleto tie number occasionally taught on week days
aud at tho Sunday schools Humane soldiers have
also aiccd In the Of their servants aud others
There nas boon great APPARENT esgerress 10 learn
among the adults aud Some have progressed well.
But rs the novelty wors away, many OF the adults
finding perseverance disairoeable, have dropped
of. IL Ia roper to state that while the memory in
colorcd cilr, Ia found IL be, a anything liycer
tLsn in tAe wlAte, II Is quite pr ahlo that further
along, when tho higher faculties OF coinpar son aud
comb lhtiou more 10 be relied on, their progress
may hu losa Willie their quickEess is alpartnt.
one isstruck With taer want Of discipline 1t has,
! Wherefore, been found not an easy task 10 make
eem quiet aud att utlye at tue schools,
RESULT OF THE MOVEMENT.
| The success OF the movement. now upon its third
! month"; .9' exceeded my most sansu,ue eSpccta-
rohs' A'I'fiy the high treason of s1uta Carolina
Las hsu 81 '.ne compensation, and the end - not
| ys. ihe suuSA.l which were closed have been
| opened. No inaster now stands between tie PEG
pie AMI the words which the Saviour spoke for the
consolation OF oil peoples and all generations. The
capacity OF race and the possibility OF lifting 10
civilization without danger disorder, even with
out throwing away the present generation as re-
fuse, 10 being determined. And thus the way Is
| preparing by which the peace TO follow this war
shall DO made perpetual Finally, 1t would seem
that upon this narrow theatre, and In these trou-
blesoIne tunes God 10 demonstrating agains) thoos
who would mystify His plans and thwart HI paS-
poses that n the councils Of His infinite wisdo -
has predesrned no race, not even Vie AfrieoaA =
the doom VI eternal bopdAgs.