Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-08-08

ca #HIANTEK.- Ho fOitOWlDS iCOIOiJ
saws the New York Herald, from q
gentleman of the South, who has
lived and travelled in the West
Ipdies, during the late rebellion,
was written to a friend, who hands
it to us for publication.
KINesToN, Ja., June 10, 1868.
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"Since," as you, say there is no
choice butt Ito accept emancipation"
] advise you to accept it in resoiute
| good faith. Think of nothing but
how you can make your old slaves
contented available laborers. Set
tie them on your land aspermanent
tenauts, with good provision ground
on easy terms, and you will find
that you have labor at your COM
mand. Had the planters Of Jamaica
met emancipation in a wise spirit,
| instead of deserving the country in
a panic, there would have been
years since the better order OF
| things In that Island, which is now
only beginning. To scatter the ne
goes about in little detached hold
| lugs is equally adverse to the true
interests OF both races. i have
seen the evil results in more than
one of the West India Islands,
The negro manages to exist, and no
more than exist, on such place !;
but he is too far from the plantation
centre to find employment when be
wants it v; and when this custom
becomes general, as il was in many
of the West India Islands, the plan.
ter could not depend on his bands.
They came late 10 their work and
left early, on account of the dis.
lance from their homes, and in the
severe press OF work they often
| would not come at all, unless at
wages which the planters could not
afford to pay.
The scattered and unreliable sup.
ply of labor was for years the bane
Of Jamaica, and still is one of the
chief drawbacks to sugar raising in
the still rich Island Of St. Domingo
hope you and all our friends will
take better measures on your cotton
plantations. Assign quarters to as
many good laborers as you can
possibly accommodate, together
with large productive, well fenced
provision field, suitably marked off
to the respective laborers, and all
at very. moderate, almost nominal
rent then shelter for the family,
with the work Of the woman and
children, and the rough plenty to
support active labor is provided for
your servants, and corps of ser
wants are planted Just where you
need them. Almost every man
worth having will stick to the cold
plantation" for negroes cling to ha-
bitual localities like cats.
If you and your neighbors take
counsel together, and agree all
aronnd on a fair tariff of wages,
with due provision for shelter, and
o bit of corn6eld, you will find free
labor cheaper than that Of slaves
The price Of one good field hand
will establish half dozen entire
families as permanent tenants on
some convenient section OF the
land, and they will bring up their
children to be willing and ready
lahorers, at low wages. II some
are led off under temptation of
higher wages, they will find they
lose home in which all conld help
to make the family comfortable.
will write you again by next
steamer, and meantime will only
say that the farm laborers in ia
maica, who have their little cottage
and half an acre Of garden ground,
are content to labor for thirty cents
| day, and find themselves, which
is much more profitable to the en-
ployer than buying slaves at former
prices.
FLORAL CLoCK.-Flowers could be
used to mark the time of the day
and the night nearly as faithfully
as the hands of the clock thus -
Lettuce flowers open at six in the
morning, those of the water lily at
seven, of the pimpernel at eight, of
the field marigold at nine, of the
|NeapoIitan marigold az ten, of the
ltstar of Bethlehem at eleven, of the
lice plant flower at noon, Of the pink
of Spain at one, Of the red fringe
Ittree at two, of the chinchona at
three, of the bean tree at four, of
tee marvel Of Peru at FIVE, of the
black and blue geranium at six, of
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