A comparison of tlie mannfacturing- county of Hillsboroiigb, in New 

 Hampshire, in whicli are located Manchester, Nashua, aud many other 

 manufacturing to^ns, with the average for the State, furnishes a strong 

 confirmation of similar views : 



Hillsborougli Comity 



State of New Hampshire . 



Question 1. 



|40 00 

 32 66 



Question 2. 



$25 00 

 22 16 



Qtiestion 3. 



$45 00 

 39 83 



Question 4. 



?30 00 

 29 13 



If large and fertile districts are to remain purely agricultural, the 

 policy of certain southern men in opposing immigration may be wise, for 

 a dense population in such circumstances will exist in poverty and mis- 

 ery ; on the other hand, a true balance of the industries, in which the 

 minerals and timber, with other primary products, shall be extended 

 and perfected by the labor of man for the use of an advancing civiliza- 

 tion, can enrich a large population in a far higher degree than the most 

 nourishing agriculture, working alone, can aid a very sparse one. 



As a purely industrial consideration, enforced by the logic of these 

 labor returns, this system of manifold variety of labor, suited to the 

 utilization of every original product of nature, and adapted to every ca- 

 pacity, preference, age and sex, is to be recommended to the South and 

 West, as essential to their future growth and continued prosperity. 

 Neither exemption from taxation nor political combinations of sections 

 can avail to avert the ultimate consequences of a single course of exhaus- 

 tive cropping, or of failure to use the untold wealth of nature which 

 God has scattered in rich profusion, and to employ the varied capabili- 

 ties of human dexterity and strength which is so often left to the disor- 

 ganization and decay of idleness and disuse. 



In 18GG, an excitement upon the subject of cotton had made freed- 

 men's wages high. In the Atlantic States, where recuperation had ac- 

 tively commenced, prices were higher than in the more western cotton 

 States, which were slower in starting with reconstructed labor, but 

 more rapid in recovery, on account of the superior quality of their soil. 

 The result is now seen in an actual advance in prices in the following 

 States, while a decline is shown in the other cotton States : 



Alabama. . 

 Mississippi 

 Louisiana. . 

 Arkansas . . 



§15 19 

 17 11 

 21 37 

 25 25 



In Arkansas there is a large element of white labor, which increases 

 the average. 



