Washington telegraph., 1865-09-13

'AS eAAAAS III IoutS. uldIiY i've OY
fishing and shooting; and these wander
through the cultivated fields with their
dogs, in pursuit of game, regardless of
much injury done to the crops, and if
they cannot find game convenient, kill
each others poultry that may have trav-
eled out of sight of the owner.
Another year commences, (IS4Q.
The crop and loss about the same as the
last. Scarcely a planter had any reve-
nue. left after paying his expenses. Mr.
Premium loss was ef1 $40, ".Men (says
Mr.. P ) could scarcely believe in the re-
ality of their dreadful position. There
is something so extraordinary in our -po-
sition, so uncommon in the circumstance 9
of whole community going headlong to
ruin, that one always inclines to believe
it cannot last. and that. the consumma-
tien, after all, will not take place -
What rendered it still more provoking
and intolerable was the fact that this
overwhelming calamity was imposed
upon them by a distant government in
contempt of their petitions, needless of
their remOnstrances, and ignorant Of
their situation. What national calamity
on Gods earth can equal that of being
governed by your enemies Aud is that
the bitter cup which the south, too, is to
drink Already in the hands of VIM.
III. Seward, it is rendered to our lips, and
where is the courage or virtue to dash it
from the hands of the traitorous assassin}
Murders, and other atrocious offences,
rare before the emancipation, have now
become frequent, especially outrages on
defenceiess females and fem ale children,
and we daily see accounts of similar
atrocities now occurring at the north
the fruits of the same philosophy. The
spirit of insuberdination is taught to ev-
cry class, and the entire intellectual and
moral texture of society is grovelled and
diseased, aud men, as Lord Bacon says,
have become so sensible of restraint that
they go near to think their girdl, and
garters to be bonds and shackles. Mas
sachusetts, which, SO long as it was her
interest, authorized slavery, and even
maintained bloodhounds for catching her
runaways, is now too pure to tolerate
wrong done in any quarter of the earth,
and would rectify all the wrongs of Eu-
rope Africa and America | vol Hill
drsth's His. I. S, 372-393 l-lMais
recenir a nos mOutOn. .-...-
A planter. who made 700 hogsheads,
assured the author that it took his whole
crop vf sugar to pay the expenses of his
plantation; and he had only his rum
clear. That constituted his whole in
come. There might be, he says, nearly
score of such plantations cut ef 200
left i'll the colony Of the rest 'there
is not one that affords n revenue The
planters were living and supporting their
estates by capital possessed independ-
entity of the West Indies. or by the little
credit left them. Everything consumed
was imported. and mostly from England! !!
Estates sold in 1914 fetched prices so
per cent. below those Of 1910. One es-
tate, the Thomas, which was sold in
1889 for 100000, was now sold for
$4,000. Reserve and dependency
characterize every one. Reserve, to
avoid bringing down creditors upon
them or losing the credit any might have
let. A hint was enough to hasten on
ones ruin and to .consummate his silent
SORROW. The only purchasers were the
merchants, who are always creditors, and
they, even, often make luckless pur-
chases, that would be dear as present.
One man bought an estate for $4,000,
formerly valued at 10000, and thought
he had a wonderful bargain, but in two
years was brought to suspension of
payments. Many plantations formerly
worth half a plumb would not now be
accepted as a gift, on condition that they
should be cultivated! ,-.-ALG--
January, 1S4S.-Crops and circum-
stances pretty much as they were the
preceding year. The same steady,
downward tendency. Some hope was
inspired by the possibility of immigra-
tion from India. The issue of the Coolie
speculation will soon be seen The crops
and losses of 1916 were about on a par
with those of 1S45. The negroes began
to gather into the towns in preference TO
the country and few were willing to
work regularly on the plantations for
more than a year or two THE negroes
must be lords of all )" but they continue
to have the same besetting sins-want
of forethought, steadiness, and inclina-
tion to provide for She coming day
They, cannot think of waiting whole
year for a sugar crop. s.They will die
before the time comes.p They have no
Saxon fopdness for heirs and successors.
Well, the Coolies arrived. By lar, they
were to have ample accommodations
from the planters, and regularly edu-
Gated medical attendant, with hospitals
and proper attendants; such as the man
ufaeturers, ace oressme, are compelled By
lar to furnish their miserable operatives
in the manufacturing districts, of the
mother. country. Say, Monsieur, Leon
Faucher, Mr.. Kay or Mr.. Gaskill, you
who are SO familiar with European, and
particularly, British, indi gence, unsalu-
brious habitations, or no habitations, of
her starving poor. No ample accommo-
dations or regularly educated medical
attendants are provided for them, "at
home," by the law. But for these worthy
Coolies, and of those poor colonists, bet
ter things Were required. Attended by
their sirdars, they were there for weeks
before they settled to their work, prefer
ring to parade about in their long, flow
ing, white, or patty-colered garments, sa-
laaming in the oriental fashion, belong
ing to the class of old-school gentry.