Extract From Mr. Russell's Last Letter

It is but a month eince I was dnving through magnificent uridulnting flelds, hemmed in 'by broad belts of foreét, and heavy with crops of Iridian comí and tobáceo. The rough wooden and bliek buts huddled tpgeüier in the neighborhood oí the country seáts peopledby trieé; tornen and children with black faces, but fur whioh thoy might have done dtity'cnpily ior Hunganan or 1uhuanian peasantry, a Ui red in urr'couUi cFothbB and great lumbenhg boot?, sbuffliiig and linlking through the tields as if in search of inoonstones. Their master, a good, easy, kin.l liearted gentleman, polish'ecl and well read, looked on thern very much ;s the Irtsb squi'es of the oíd timo rogarded squatters crealures vlni o;:ght to bu ïnaihuseful, who were not profitable, who bad no business to be where they ere, and who, nevertlieless, could not bo got viel without imputution of cruclty which would make him odious in the land. - He was perfeotlv satiafied the fiee labor of whites wouldbe more prolhable,but what was he to do with hiü bhu-ksV AVhero was he to get even the white la' hor he wantcd? With these sentiment, ho feit biüerly the dsults of the abolí' tionists, who ealled liim a slave-driver and a nigger-broeder'. ín Ibis case, most of the faíhers oí' these blácks had been transinitted to him by bis aneestors, and had lived as families on the estáte ft several generations. lo look attho fields, lu.xuriant weed and tilled vvith stones, waa to be ealisfied the system of igricultuie was patriar chai ií the system of labor was not. - Bnt, in fact, their eondition was very difterent ÍVorn that oí' the slaves on the southern plantations, The propriotor of these broad domnins is, bke rnany o the Maryíand gentry, a Koman Catho lie,' and a priest. belonging to a rehg ious and educational institution founde by the piety of bis í'orefathers, is en o-a'ed to look after the religious welfar of h8 liock, and I saw a full congrega tion of the slaves troopinp; througti the meadows to chapel, looking, in their gay dresses and natural groupings, verv unlike the beinga who ;,re oribbed up like rabbits in the hutcnes in me South. Tlicn, Atlèt service was over, oanie fiocks of woolly-headed children of both sexos to thu priest lor examination in the oatechism. Tho houses in vybich they lived were larger and better than tho slaVe quarters on most plantiitions, but were tnot cleaner nor more '.idy, and it pcemed to me as if the inhabitants woro a little lesa respected in their demeanor. In tho name of the crinoline, yellow shawls, pink and white drosses, wondei'ful bonnctryand quaTñt booting, how dii the proprietor afford to turn out suoh cay nymphs of África ? He did not af! ford it at all. Grtp that home-rearou cliickcns and pigs paid tor s"mo Of it, .still eruoagh eame out of his pocket, in addition to feeding und supporting theui, to loavo very littlc betwocn their labor and positive loss. It was no uso to cali tlicni early, for tlicy dawdlcd about tlic fields all the more. llore, in faot, was astate of tliings wbioli wou'.d sooa cure itself, if let alone. The greater part of the estáte, indeed, was farmed out to others, on the principie of one-half or one-third of the produce iu lieu of rent, and I suspect tliat was far the most profitablo modo of dealing with these wide spread acres. T am that the re are many estatos iu Maryland in tho samo cond'ition. It may be imagincd how their propnetors fresón the propaganda which throatons to ruin them ut tcrly, and how this last blow, dt-alt at tho Legislaturo of the State in wliioh they foei so nuieh pride. is feit by men as tenacious and haughty as any Magyar or Pole who ever Uved.