Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1866-04-28

subjects touched upon ~ tho loiior
published In your issue Of oday
find hcro worry pretty glato Of.
things, 30 Ear aa labor and house
servants arc concerned AS 10 tho
tchy and, bccdn8e, IL may be best TO
say nothing at present,
IL is our own fault IL We submit
TO It's long continuance. Any num-
her of first,clAss lnboror8 IN every
department, aud of house servants
tan be procured from England and
Scotland. / have the arrangements
made to find and contract with
them, and to transport thom hilh-
or. Let those who want them come
forward and do the needful.
1t is safe to say that any required
number of good house servants,
women trained to the work, and
doing at all timos twice the intolli-
gent and useful labor about the
house that any negroes did even ms
slaves and five times rs much rs
they do now, and without their I'M
pudence, grumbling and filth. And
that, too, for a wage Of twelve to
fifteen dollars per month, and their
food. speak Of first class servants.
Eight and ten dollars would be sat
isfactory to the less experienced,
They would engage for one, per-
haps two years, their passage and
expenses being paid out, which
would amount in all to about $40.
This they would pay in installments
out of Their wages. An additional
sum of $40 would be required to
pay the expenses incurred, and to
be incurred in finding those people
in advertising, printing, circulating
information to agents looking into
their character and capabilities; re-
ceiving them in Liverpool, drawing
up the contracts, and seeing them
on board ship. This sum Of $40
must be paid to me before again
leave for England, about tho goth
of June, or, at latest, 1st OF July.
For mechanics, and skilled work.
men, tho same sum would be re-
1uircd. For mere farm laborers,
all over IA years of age, in families,
SIS each.
This latter class had best be engag-
ed for u term Of from three to five
years, to work under q manager
satisfactory TO themselves, and re-
ceive Il portion Of the crop.
| select in my own case, steady,
experienced farm manager; ono of
whom have satisfactory assurances.
He gathcrsup some forty and odd
families of laborers, mechanics, &c,
whom he knows and has confidence
in. All are engaged for five years.
They come out in November next.
/ put them on my plantation with
teams, implements, &c, tend them
the feed for the teams and the food
themselves required during the first
year This, with the price of pas
sage, &c. advanced, they repay me.
They bear all the expenses Of the
plantation, except the taxes on the
land. And return, at the end of
. their term, teams, implements, ma
chinery, &C., all in good order. And
receive, manager and men, half of
all the crops made, for their SER
vices. But, / do not employ them
merely to work certain amount of
crops of which they take half But
to work nv plantation, under my
general supervision the main OBJ
iect being a gradual and perfectly
practicable improvement of h e
place, and the making Of such crops
as can be made at same time.
permit them to- have gardens,
to raise poultry give them half Of
all the hogs raised and fattened
lend each family a COW, &c.
Now, the same thing can be done
for any number of other planters.
[ do not find the class of farmla-
borers in Scotland and England to
be fools enough to, first sec and ac
cept of the manifest advantages Of
such an arrangement; and then
come here and throw them all
away, ruin their future reputation
and lay themselves open to the
penalties to which they would be
liable under an act of Congress
passed in 1864, to enforce the full
filIment of such contracts; and the
still more stringent laws which our
Legislature must be induced to pass,
resembling those recently enacted
by Virginia and which ! would be
glad you would replenish in the
News.
Those people are accustomed to
work under managers; to tend crops,
the working of which is very SINH
lar to that required by cotton. The
old people would never become fast
piekers; but they would be sure
and careful ones and the children
and youths would soon learn to
pick rapidly.
cannot now enter into all the
items of the proposed working of
the system. But will try and do so
by and by, in pamphlet form, for
the guidance Of both planter and
manager.
1t is urged that none of those
people could be relied on for any
length of time, under the informed
ding and tampering of mischief
makers amongst us.
We must bring in enough to sup
ply every one, and make it penal
offence, punishable by fine and i'm
prisonmcnt to break such a con-
tract, or to tdmper nth or persuade
employees to break their contracts, be