Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-11-09
RUTLAND VT, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8,

three hundred ana nIteen acres, owned
by negro who has purchased and paid
for 1t within the last two years. He
now employs twenty men as laborers.
He now employs twenty men as labor
ers. He showed me his clubhouse,
which, with its machinery, had cost him
over one thousand dollars then took
me through sixty acres of Sea-1sland
cotton, fifty. eight acres of corn, besides
other cultivated grounds; pointed me
TO twelve cows, yoke of oxen, four
horses, twenty swine; and, when in
quired how many chickens he had, he
shrugged his shoulders, and said that
Jenny (his wife) would have to tell me
that"
On this same island are two or three
hundred families, who have their little
farms of ten acres or more paid for, all
pretti,y cultivated, and each living in a
neat cabin built by themselves.
NEGRO TRUST IN THE YANKEE.
A correspondent of the New York
Herald, writing from Baton Rosge, La.
bears testimony to the willingness of
the negroes TO work for those in whose
ability and disposition they have ground
for confidence
Labor will be cheap in Louisiana for
a man known among the negroes as a
Yankee They believe in Yankees. They
will 90 their bottom dollar on them.
And, Notwithstanding the numerous
complaints circulated to the effect that
they leave their places of work out of
pure laziness, they will work steady if
treated right, and they believe that a
Yankee will treat them right. They
cannot comprehend that he is OF the
same make as seCesh, and they stick
to him.
A gentleman belonging to the military
was offered fifteen hundred dollars 9
year, and half the profits of a large
plantation, on condition Of allowing his
name to be used as owning it, and to
show his person frequently about the
| plantation, so that the darkies would
believe that they had Yankee employ
er. / suppose as soon as his resignation
can be accepted, the gentleman will ac-
cept the offer"
NEGRO ZEAL TO LEARN.
The Charlottesville, Va, Chronicle
thus graphically depicts the eagerness
with which the negroes of that place
embrace the opportunity of learning to
| read
Charlottesville is fairly entitled to be
called the literary center of the South.
There is first, the University of Virgin
ia, with its learned professors on all
sorts of subjects. Then we have two
| large female seminaries, where young
ladies learn thirty or forty things end
ing in -ology. Then we have some
! half dozen tirst-elass academies for hnys
| Then several select schools. Then q
number Of schools for the English
! branches. And then the whole Colored
| population Of all sexes and ages is re-
peating from morning to night alb alb,
e-b eb, Id 10, cat cat, dog dog, cup
cup, etc.-through all the varieties Of
the first lessons in orthography. There
| are some four or five Colored schools,
and little negro chaps darken every
| door, with primers in their hands. If
we pass blacksmith's shop we hear alb
| ab; if we peep into shoemakers shop,
it is alb ab if we pass by negro cabin
in the suburbs Of the town, we hear the
| Sounu a-D 40; II tne COOK goes OUT 10
suckle her infant, it is alb alb; the din
ing room servant washes up his dishes
and plates crying alb alb the hostler
! curries his horse, repeating alb alb; Jer-
ry blacks your boots, saying, with rapid
strokes alb alb, a-b abb the whole air is
! resonant with alb alb, The little yellow
boy who sleeps in our chamber awoke
us the other night by muttering in his
dreams alb ali. If you send a little ne
gro boy on an errand, he is spelling ev-
erything he meets in one syllable. The
little white boys look at them wonder
ingly and try to cork them. In
month or so we expect to issue an even
ing edition of the Chronicle in mono
sylables, to increase our circulation
perhaps a pictorial, with tubs, spades,
ants and COWS, and owls and bats, like
the primers"