New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-02

fvpon AN oCC AsIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF HE 'n'"o"'
JACKSON, Miss, Dec. 20.-Sad as 10 the con
ditou and gloomy the prospect" OF Lous'an"'
-, no, nc 1t ne,ghbor are sadder and darker STILL
The b,ov dealt her credit by the alleged repuolanon
...,- n.<o-~ en-. 49, $50 $500 49,
$500. - A.i. AGA Vs"ihu noi 'e'ei''
but she struggling up into power ana prosperity
when the new tide overwhelmed her. Like South caro-
lima the prepOnderance OF the colored over the whte
vote has given her absolutely into the hands OF the
blacks and the carpet baRgcrs and the result IL ono a
most impossible to convey TO other than an eye Witness
II makes strangers heart SICK The fertisy Oh her
so and her natural should make her second
TO few II to any of sisters Jackson her csptai
city when last visited IT, five years ago. was slowly
recovering from ravages Of the which has lett
ito traces on the shattered Of burnt dwellings, ana
general air Of decay peryadiDR the place ihosc raw
ages have since been repaired new ana sood awehES
fine Court house. and q substantial new botei nave
been erected and the external appearance OF the CITY
h heep improyed But the faces of the old residents
arc ssdder and their hearts apparently heavier now
than then In fact the most hopeless OF the
Southern communities and has good reason 10 Ieei 3d.
A rand reyiew of the material condition OF the state
may be embarrassing.
There can scarcely be said any regular organiza
ton of labor in Mississippi where series OF eHper
ments have been made with varying successno accom-
MEDIATE the changed relative condition ofthe races one
of the plans Of working the lands Is hs Tho landowner
rents say So 100 acres according To the size OF inc
squad of negroes making his contract win thc heau
man selected by thom; he pays 80 much per acre IN
kind which is almost always In cotton alone iho
laborers generally furnish their own teams ana sup
plies those have give their labor on share'
These teams and supplies often furnished through
their merchant at the rate of from to 100 cont
snnn,es tbus large margin pelig uenueu
In cover transactions uncertain In their nature, anu
with persons improyident and untrustworthy' INC
legislation Of the reconstructed Legislatures has
hIvnat tr,Ip
laborer and the merchant passing by and overlooking
the door landowner altogether. This credit gwen the
laborer being new HIM, tickles his vanity and newly
acquired OF independence and ne seems neither 10
know forhe prices he paws OF the eSto'io"s
practced uDon him by class OF advcnturers VINO nave
swarmed into the state This system s destructive both
10 the aborer and the landowner because 10 improve
uents can be made under it the farms depreciatg
wear after year with no attempt TO keep buildings
fences or implements in repair. Mhle the breadth OF
acres in cotton-alncst the sole money crop OF
Mississippi-may DO extending the actual area oi cut
waited land Is being given up to the broom sedge
and the bier farms are going to decay, no new
houses are constructed or old ones repaired,
and new ginbouses or barns are In process o'
erection Az You pass through the country, you nave
visible evidences OF the rack and rum into whcn these
once wellkept plantations are drifting Inc IaimS arc
going 20 decay, with falling fences ana dliapidaIcd
buildings, while the planting seems to DC OF the most
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stamped the face OF the country ana the negro
soeus In share IN the general decdence OF everything
| around him. With the exception OF McComOvliie ana
Meridian which seem 10 thrive IN spite OF oostcies tho
passerby only indications OF rerograde movement
poverty and decay, in place OF progress everywhere
Some small indications OF improvement NAV nc seen IN
the places above named, IN Jackson, and NJ railroad
staons but from this no benefit flows back TO a.addeh
the improve the condition OF aborers or and
| owners. -
In cases where rented 10 the negroes
who work they half of the proceeds after deduct
ing the expenses which usually leaves small surplus II
any, to he divided OF these the landowner
furnishes team and fo0d IN some instances lap"rcr
nd teams and gangs for his own food ana olothhg i"o
coored free laborer emancip.ed Save, has an geh
era rule OF with favorable exceptions Mite OF
no ambition to improve his condition socially. AZ q
class they now, they ever have been when lett
IN their own gndance and nstgated by evil and de-
signing white men, quiet and good natuFct, indocni,
improvdent careless Of the future, or OF ia; iu-
proyemeIt OF their condition In any way As Az lhel-
gent bent upon Improvement OF the possession
OF property and capable Of htin0 up hiS peops and
the country he lives in he has no existence IN the Sae
of Missssipp nor elsewhere for that matter IL the re-
constructed States. He merely eats, drinks sleeps
browses ike an animal and works only under the com III
sion of necessity sufficiently to enable him 10 meet MS
few and stInpIe wants most Intelligent and energetic
place. said seriously to fear We here arc destined
70 renew the experience OF the West Indian islands after
emancipaton nothing else IN prospect for VIC are
steadily going from bad to worse, and are po"eress 10
arrest it," - - .o.,
Outside the sparse native population white labor Is
not ia be had A spasmodIc effort made some time
SINCE to Introduce it from the North ana EIst put DehR
badly organized, paralyzod from want OF means 10
carry it out, did not prove success Tie few who were
brou ght placed on comfortless plantations
with il.provided houses, and would not stay. Consist
ing chiefly of the class known as tho jumpers
during the many of them enlisted as laborers on
the same principle which they enlisted ~ sodiersto
grab what they could at first and desert as soon az pos
| sble thereafter. A good, wholesome immigration OF
white laborers into Mississippi would be the salvation
of the State. Tie laborers from the busy and over
crowded countries OF the Old World, swarlnn2 TO
the wild West would nd in this fertile soil and bland
climate an III Dorado and of wealth. Here he
could acquire feesmplc title for laud at the price 1t
now costs Cor its hire on tae other side.
THE NEED OF COLONIZATION.
II has been suggested to that joint stock com
pany should he established. with headquarters at New
York 10 effect such colonization in Mississippi, the emf
grants TO DE brought down and settled in groups OF FAINT
ies with their teachers preachers, and artisans
accompanying them numbering not less than 800 III a
colony These should be settled In colonies on lands ac
CURED by the Company at cheap rates-and Is a drug
here-On alternate 1OIty aero tracts, lno cisTduts 10
pay work out the value VI these lots, their means
permitted An old resident after proposing his scheme
added Il have been n hopeful man. have most
honestly and earnestly desired and hoped that FREQ
negro labor would be success, and That the cO0fed
race would rse TO the level OF the responsibilities and
duties posed upon them by emancipation, and that
they would work for and vita for the common
good the STATE, which much theirs but
have been driven most reluctantly by what have wit
the conclusion that Is au idle dream
20 be realized. that the negro may drag us down,