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SOUTHERN BANNER: AUGUST 13, 1878.
Labor Question in Liberia. Affecting Incident of the
Rebellion.
In s-.witluT letter lu the C harli'Stou I
y'eir.1 and Courier of the 27ill, its
hiitierian corivs|n»iiilei»t, Mr. A. B.
Willi.iMi', ilesciilms the labor situa-
•d«iii then* a*; follows:
]• may lie more ot the “sareasm ot
fate,” lmt exactly the state of affairs
exists here mnv as I imagine made
slave ialmr necessary in America.
That is, every man is a landholder, an
owner and an equal. No lower
classes have yet come in to do the
manne! work. There are no servants,
and 'errant* are a iiecvs.-ily, except
in an imaginative j -ekasu’ Ut-q :a.
A few of the poorer Liberians hire
out, but they are as good as their
hii •era, and consequently matters
don't work smoothly. All such
“ s< rv.-m-s ” are address d by every
body as ‘Mr.*’ and “Miss.” It
sounds funny to bear tbe master of
the house say, “ Miss , a glass of
water, please.’’ When I called on
the President, I heard him ask:
“Mr. Boss, will yon bring in the
wine ?” This is, of coarse, a great
hindrance to the cultivation of land
on any extensive scale, especially
when there are no horses. It cramps
fearfully the sugar production, where
much and cheap label - is indispensable
at times. So, disguise it as they will,
the Liberia us have to
DEPEND ON SLAVIC LABOR
at las., f*»r it comes to that. They
hire from a native king a certain
Dumber of his superstition bound
slaves for so much rum, so many
brass kettle.', iron bais .md guns, and
so much calico paid to him. Th-
*• huu L’ work well and are faithful
and obedient until tiu king, through
caprice or having been paid, and
wanting them to cut rice, sends or-
•iers to them to coin - back. Then
tin-* leave in a body, ju>t, maybe, as
liie planter needs them most, and ti e
Lib -r an government i- too weak to
rntbree the performance of contracts
made with its citizens. Ouc secret
of my triend Sharp’s success 1 was
told is that i e makes an excellent
quality «‘l rum, with whi.-li he pays n
king lor “ kelp,” send as shrewd
enough to keep on good terms with
the jioteiitate by seuding him an
extra eask now and then In this
xay ite and a few others manage to
secure lr.bor when they want it for
their 50,100 and 150 acre farms.
One of a 1,000 acres, though, it
st would be difficult to work here.
There are some comparatively free
natives who hire < licaplv, but they
are unreliable and apt to “ knock
off *’ and go sit any time. Von call
pick up a few always, enough to mail
your canoe or do odd jobs, and if
you treat them kindly, they will hire
to \ou again, mid do any kind of
wm k. Til y ca.i not *be depended
upon in any considerable number,
however. These natives are objectly
afraid of the white mail, having sic*
q.tired the idea (probably from the
Liberians) that he is not only a hah*
kaul cheat, but a habitual cut-throat.
It requires several months of ac
quaintance to get them fairly recon-
riled to the Caucasian. Tlien unless
ie he si bastard to the time who doth
lot smack of observation, they likp
him above ill, and will give him the
prvfere. cc in hiring. These natives
will tsike anything, and the Liberians
(who “fled here from the slave-
Loider’s lash”) do not scruple to
administer unto them a thrashing
when provoked thereto. The native
frequently discerns '\fte 'augor in his
rmployer’s'tsicc and the'Stick in his
laid, and precipitately takes to
fight, leaving, if necessary, like
Joseph, his garment in the hands of
the pursuer. All the revenge he
ever takes is to quit and go home.
It must be
AX IXSPIRATING SPECTACLE
to see what was described to me in
an incidental way by the chief actor
himself, a free black Liberian mail,
soundly cudgeling a free black native
xuan with a slick, while two more
free black native men were flying
over the neighboring hedges to avoid
similar castigation, the three free
black natives hating been cavglit in
" tbe act of dragging* bag of race
through the mud. Such tilings make
aoe weep when I think that Wendell
phillips was not there.
Georgia in Paris.
! The corre3i>ondent <rf the Balti-
[Promthe Murfreesborough Enquirer.] | more Sutl has the following Upon
The authorities of our owu State . Georgia as represented at the great
were doing all they could to relysve ' Exposition:
the pervading want amid the families | “Georgia, proud Georgia.”
of llie soldiers, but the most enor- j The early relations of Georgia with
mous public cliairity could but reach , trading Europe when a corrupt king
a tithe of the needs of the many j « n 'i no less corrupt'land company »m
thousands of suffering women and posed upon her fertile domain, are
children. The case of Edward Coop- 1 not unknown either in France or'lin
er, tried before one of the courts' j ghmd. But a few days ago au in-
He site on tbe stoop : ’tie a bright moonlight
night,
Anil a kies from her lips be begs;
Bat bis trousers are not of tbe style that is
tight,
And the ooek-roaohes crawl np his legs.
He pauses a moment, then wildly ho grasps,
Simultaneously, both of his limbs ;
“ I’ve got ’em,” says hs. “Ok, good gracionsl"
she gasps,
** Don’t tell me, < ! etr George, you’ve the
jims.”
ifUSHBBlI MNIWR
martial ot the Army of Northern Vir
ginia, during 1863, will illustrate tbe
difficulty and frequency of desertions
at that and subsequent periods of
the war. The prisoner was charged
with desertion, lie declined the use
of counsel. The Judge Advocate
opened the case aud clearly proved
his guilt. The accused was lold to
produce his witness. He said that
he had none, and his only defense
was a letter from his wife, which he
handed to the President of the court.
It read as lollows :
My Dear I'M ward: I have been
always provd ot you, and since your
connection with the Confederate
Army I have been prouder of you
than ever before. I would not have
you do anything wrong for the world;
but before God, Edward, unless you
come home no must die. Last night
I was aroused by little Eddie’s cry-
ing. I called and said, “ What is the
matter, Eddie ?” A - id lie sm d, “ U
mamma I am so hungry.” And Lu-
oy, Ed.. urd—your uarling Lucy—
slit never complains, but s-.e is grow
ing thinner and thinner every day,
and before God, Edward, unless you
come home we must die. Your
Mary. •
The President, General Cullen A.
Battle, aud other members of tbe
Court were melted to tears, and asked
tbe artillerym in what he did upon
the reception of the letter, lie re
plied that he had made three sepa
rate and ineffectual applications for a
furlo gh, and then resolved, upon
whatever c st, to visit his home.
Upoq meeting his wife she was
brokeii'hcarud at learning his ab
sence without leave, and “I am here
gentleman,’’ said he “ not brought
back liy military power, but in obe
dience to the command of Mary to
abide the sentence of your Court.”
Edward Cooper was found guilty of
desertion, and sentenced to death, as
it was the - lain duty of the Court.
But the greatest aud most merciful
of men was in command ot that army,
and upon reviewing the case General
Lee approved the finding, but par-
doued the prisoner aud ordered him
to report f r dmv t«» his battery.
To Prevent Hydrophobia.
Tlie following advice is given to
the Medical Press aud Circular to
prevent persons from falling victims
to hydrophobia It says:
The great prevalence of this terri
ble disease is quite enough to qreate
much alarm among the public. Al
most daily we read in the papers ot
a death from hydropliobin, and there-
t’ore it would be as well for those who
come much in contact with dogs to
adopt some simple precaution that
will.at least enable them to go about
with a feeling of comfort aud saf ty.
This might consist in every one at all
exposed to the infection carrying in
his pocket one ot those cases of lu
nar caustic that may be purchased in
any chemist’s shop for rix.qxMice. If
the point-of this were thrust deep
into the wound immediately the per
son was.bitten by a do£, 1 be might
consider- himself as safe ns it he had
never been bitten. But the success
of this simple operation consists en
tirely in its being practiced when
the wound has been inflicted, and
there could be no better means of
doing this than Inning the caustic al
ways at hand.. The excision of the
part, rr tl e application of a red-hot
iron might involve much delay, and
daring this delay the virus is ab
sorbed into the system. It would be
as well, too, if-the person. bitten
sacked the 'wotmd befoie applying
the cam tic. ’ ' ; 1
• - — 1 ** ;
Col. J. H. Fannin, of Troup county,”
s-iyi he 'has one hundred hogs fat'
enough for killing now, that have
been raised on “ slops, waste and
cotton seed.” 2
t Uigeut Freneh banker showed me
old parchment deeds liberally adorned
with immense royal beeswax seals aud
ca rying many coupons or s -crional
wairaiit grama--to laud in Georgia,
sold aud resold here in days when the
savann dis were sought by the Huge-
nols of France and the burly loyalists
ot Briton. These “land grants’’
have been the bete noir of titles in
Georgia, aud served to reflect q^lhe
unquestionably good titles. “TSotv,
by the intelligence afforded hy^the
press more than by the Legislature
of Georgia, her laud titles are pro
perly understood. Her rich resources
of minerals, timber ai.d agriculture,
to say nothing of her streams- and
water power for manufacturing, are
topics the French and Euglidi take
no small interest in. The coming
week a lecture partly embracing the
v.-tlce of Georgia’s kaolin alone for
Ceramic anti China indu tries, will be
delivered here before a manufactur
ing scientific body, aud I hope to be
pr. Sell..
The woods exhibited liete iroin
Georgia are very attract ve. and. may
yet be the inducement to a new class
of immigrant* and industry. The
grain, seeds and fruit industries of
Georgia are very imjioriaut subjects
at home and abroad. Her whe -t of
sixty-eight pounds to the bushel and
some six feet high in stalk, her cot
ton, her tobacco, her timber and her
minerals to say nothing of her glori
ous men and women, make my quo
tation of “Georgia, prou-1 Geo:gia,”
more apt to-day than whet: 'he blind
old king iep< ated iu regret this
The star-spangled banner that
waved frem Fort McHenry during
the memorial fight ot the war of 1812,
and which, if history tells the truth,
was woven into Key’s anthem of the
Republic, was wrapped in a shroud
around the dead body of William
McPherson, the old-time warrior
who died, aged eighty-three, at
Cockeysville, Baltimore county, last
Tuesday.
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That Old Pear Tree.—The
Vtlle (Liberty county,) Gazette says:
The origiual Chinese Sand Pear tree,
fr m which all now in America were
propagated, is still green and growing
on the LeConte place in tiiis county.
Last week thirty bushels of this de
licious fruit were obtained from this
tree.
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Here is the pithiest sermon ever ence in this country was, comparatively speaking, in its ill-
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A society gossip writing from New
York of Miss Bennett’s engagement
auds by way of postscript: “ Ii ap
pears that we shall also have to
chronicle, at no distant date, the
nuptials of Mr. dames Gordon Ben
nett and Miss Carrie May ’*
Tlie reason a girl can uot throw
missiles with success is because her
collar-bone is too long. Gail Hamil
ton isn’t that kind ot a girl. She has
the sort of a collar-bone of a boy, and
she telescopes it when she slings mud
at the Administration.
THE SAVANNAH WEEKLY NEWS,
A Diplomatic Answer.
[Cleveland Herald.]
The old man Smith, of Richlicld, is
a self sufficient sort of old fell jw, and
prides himself upon his riding abilities
One d <y lie espied bis young hopeful
leading a colt to water rather ginger
ly, and remarked :
Why on earth don’t you ride that
beast ?
I’m ‘ fluid to ; * fraid he’ll throw
me.’
Bring that boss here,” snapped
the old man.
The colt was urged up to the
fence, and braced on one side by the
boy while the old man climbed on to
the rails and stocked himself on the
colt’s back. Then he was let go, and
the old gentleman rode proudly off.
Paralyzed hv fear the colt w.nt slow
ly for altout twenty rods wiuiont a
demonstration. Then like lightning
his four legs bunched together, hi
back bowed like a viaduct arcli aud
the old man shot up in the air, turned
seven separate and distinct soiner
saults and lit on the small of his back
in the middle of the road, with both
legs twisted around bis neck. Has
teuitig to him the young hopeful anx
iously inquired:
“ Did it hurt you, pa?”
The old man rose Slowly, shook
out the knots iu his legs, brushed the
dust tionr bis ears and hair and rub
bing his brui*ed elbows, growled
‘ W ell, it didn’t do me a dum bit
of good. You go home.’
Slid Prince Bismarck to a young
English lady, who remarked to him
that tbe Congress had not settled the
Eastern que-tion : “O i, no, it’s only
cobbled for tbe time, aud when the
shoo pinches it will break out again;
Yuii satiafiidl with lihe pausing. I
wanted peace.” ‘"And England!”
“Ob,.fflie.would be satislied also, for
she’s tJikenV’her' shaft of the spoil,
Bnd'witlfo'ut fighting for- it.”
;g- — -_i i Si. •>' •*
£l.Arkan »ts is *t4tippi»«S walnut »t>4
oaJ logs to Liverpool. * * •
Babies are twenty-five per cent
scarcer in France than iu Enlaud.
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spi
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