Free Versus Slave Labor

üreorge W. Adair, of Atlanta, says : j " Bef ore the war I kept four negroea on my lot - Wash., a man-of all-work, valued at $1,500; Sarah, a No. I oook, $1,400; Harriet, a house-girl, 31,200; I wid Nancy, a nurse, $900. The legal ! interest (seven per cent.) on the valué j of these sla ves was $350 per annum, and I had to feed, clothe, pay doctors' bilis, l etc. Now I havo the same service perioraed at $300 per annum. I feed these hireil servante, bat furnish no clothing nor pay doctors' bilis, and sret the sarne ! service per ïnonth lor leas than when 1 owned slaves, and if tho.v dw I lose QOthing. Now, when I acquire my capital lean put it in other, property, instead of loeking it np in sluves. TÍii-i, T think, illnstrates the whole .juestion. The landowner oan avail hiniself of negi-o labor to-day at less oost than when ho had to pay for the tlave and take ! care of him. This labor (ïannot be cuiitrolled so absolutely as slave labor, and ; more or less irregulariticH grow out of it ; still it is availuble and susceptible of being used to great piofit by the landowner. Planters who owiied slaves, who now remain apon their khd and ' give personal attieñHcln to thé crop, can make more olear nioney froni the w.)il than under (le old systeui. The South is becoining every year more familiar vith frec labor, and uuderetands better how to manage it. Sho i beootnina more Belf-reliant and eelf-Biiütobang.'-Zwttêvilte (fourlirJburneU.