Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1863-03-13
MISCELLANY.
A Suggestive REHABILITATION of Slave
PrOuerty.

We noticed recently come facts containe
in paragraph relative TO the win of III
late Charles Carroll, of this State; an
now we have some further information cor
corning the estate which is better calcula
ted to get the people of Maryland thinkin
than almost anything which has occurred i
nearly two years Of uninterrupted revolution
that has been upon US. 1t is contained il
paragraph under the head Of local new
in the columns of our neighbor, the San
and is as follows:
VALUATION OF SLAVE PROPERTY II
MARYLAND.-It appears from the record
Of the Orphans Court of this city that tht
report made on tho 18th of january. 1868
by the sworn appraisers of the value o.
slaves (of whom only 100 remain) b long.
ing to the personal estate of the late Charles
Carroll, Of Doughoregan Manor, Howard
county, assessed the value Of said slaves a,
an average of .fve dollars each! The
appraisers state that their valuation was
based upon the best testimony OF different
slave owners, and others, which they were
enable to produce. The ages Of the slaves
range from two months to seventy-three
years. The provisions of the will of the
deceased relating to said slaves we're pub.
lished in the San Of Friday last. The en-
tire personal estate of the late Charles Car
roll is appraised at s40,831.S4; his prop
erty having consisted chiefly of large
landed estate. inherited from his grandfath-
er. Charles Carroll, Of Carrollton, (perhaps
10000 acres) leased in parts to numerous
tenants, besides valuable mill property since
acquired, including the celebrated Patapsee
FIGURING Mills at Ellicott's Mills"
Here, now, are one hundred and thirty
negroes valued at only sir hundred and ftty
dollars, all told one Of the regular dealers
ofthis city having declared with reference to
them. when consulted, that he ascould not
give fire hundred dollars for the uhole lot."
Now, at this rate, it is very easy for the
slave interest of this State to estimate the
value of the efforts made by the Cotton
States to set it forth in the world; and the
valuation made SO formally, and positively,
will enlishten all who wish to know how
much, it matters are delayed, the State is
likely to get for an interest becoming more
prccarious every day. AS matters stand
at present, a negro 10 not of as much value
as good I" ducking dog; and if in such
revelation as this, made in one of the
Courts of Maryland. the most determined
follower of South Carolina here does not
see that slavery is indeed doomed, then ex-
amples are no longer of any consequence
whatever.
At different times within eighteen months
have we urged the slaveholding inierets of
the State to consult as to the best means to
be adopted for protecting their interests
for saving at least modicum of what has
been imperilled by the States South of us.
As things are working now. in view of what
we have given, it appears already too late
unless, indeed, the paternal Government at
can be made to repeat the Of
fers it has made.
Once more, in view of this most weightyl
revelation, we counsel the shareholders oil
the State to take some action to save them
selves, and thus secure to the State some
Thing of what is endangered. Baltimore
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