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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 7 



suspicion that might otherwise exist, that the facts had 

 been exaggerati d by the prejudices or self interest of 

 the holders of slaves. Such results as are here pre- 

 sented, of this experiment made in the free state of 

 Ohio, have been also found in more than one instance 

 in Virginia, when negroes were emancipated, and 

 provided by their former owners with sufficienl means 

 forpresenl i , and future accumulation ol 



property. We should be glad to be furnished by 

 some of our Prince Edward subscribers, with a par- 

 ticular account of the descendents of the emancipated 

 negroes in that county, which formerly 

 Randolph's estate. That experiment has be n in ope- 

 ration for some generations. The results, if coi 

 and minutely stated, would throw much light on this 

 subject.] 



From the Cincinnati Gazette. 



Some forty miles from Cincinnati, to the east, 

 are two settlements of free negroes — probably 

 near a thousand, men, women, and children, of 

 the true ebony color, with a very little mixtureof 

 the mahogany or lighter shades. The n 

 own the lands occupied by them; but without the 

 power to sell. Each family has a small farm. 

 They are emancipated slaves, and these lands 

 were purchased expressly for them, and parcelled 

 out among them about fifteen years i 



Their lands are not of the best quality of Ohio 

 lands; but, by good management, could be made 

 very good — they are particularly well adapted to 

 grass, either meadow or pasture. 



Having been formerly slaves, and ci 

 work, one would suppos e the} ought to have indus- 

 trious habits. They have fad every indu 

 to industry and good conduct held oul to them. 

 The experiment was to test the merits of the ne- 

 gro race, under most favorable circumstances for 

 success. 



Has this experiment succeeded? A~o, it has 

 not. In all Ohio, can any while settlement 

 be found equally wretched — equally unproduc- 

 tive! 



Farms given to them fifteen years ago, instead 

 of being well improved, and timber preserved for 

 farming, have been sadly managed — small, awk- 

 ward clearings and those not. in grass, but ex- 

 hausted and worn out in corn crops — the timber 

 greatly destroyed — wretched log houses, with 

 mud tloors, with chimnies of mud and wood — 

 with little timber for further farming. 



They are so excessively lazy and stupid, that 

 the people of Georgetown (nearby their 'camps') 

 and the neighboring farmers will not employ 

 them as work hands to any extent. They do 

 not raise produce, enough on their lands to feed 

 their families, much less do they have a surplus 

 for sale abroad. They pass most of the time in 

 their little smoky cabins, too listless even to fiddle 

 and dance. One may ride through the 'negro 

 camps,' as they are called, passing a dozen strag- 

 gling cabins with smoke issuing out of the ends, 

 in the middle of little clearings, without seeing a 

 soul, either at work or at play. The fear of star- 

 vation makes them work the least possible quan- 

 tity, while they are much too lazy to plaj . 



Why do not the zealous abolitionists "go there 



and see the experiment in all its beauty? The 

 slave changed into a free, but wretched savage! 

 Why not make something of these thousand ne- 

 groes? There are not more than two or three 

 families out of the whole who are improved by 

 the change from slavery to freedom. 



The two negro settlements are a dead weight 



upon Brown County, as to any productive benefit 



from the negro land's, orfrom negro labor, and that 



I ace of countrj might as well, to this day, have 



remained in possession of the Indians. 



If southern wealth can be applied to buy and 

 colonize among us such worthless population, 

 what farmer in Ohio is safe? Has he any guar- 

 antee that a black colony will not be established in 

 his neighborhood? 



Let any one who wishes to learn the operations 

 of emancipated negroes, visit the Brown County 

 camps. As they sink in laziness, poverty, and 

 filth, they increase in numbers — their only pro- 

 duce is children. They -want nothing but 

 cowries to make ihem equal to the negroes of the 

 Niser. 



Extract from Wood's Notes on Geology. 



STRUCTURES OF CALCAREOUS ROCK BY IX- 

 SECTS. 



From all ilu 1 testimony Ave have been able to 

 collect on the subject, it appears that the great 

 southern basin is no! so deep as the western. 



This would seem the more probable from the 

 fact, that the coral rocks and reels are more abun- 

 dant in the Pacific than in the Atlantic ocean. It 

 is known ili.it the animals which firm these struc- 

 tures, are scarcely ever (bund at greater depths 

 > or 30 feel beneath the surface, and yet 

 many of the islands and shoals in the former, are 

 entirely constructed bj die labors of these para- 

 fn tropica! climates they encircle entire 

 islands by walls and reefs of their own construc- 

 tion and thus dail) contribute to the enlargement 

 of the coasts. A single coral reefj in the vicinity 

 of the Australasian islands, is even seven hundred 

 miles in length. 



The quantity of carbonate of lim , furnished by 

 mad-repores and other polypous animals, together 

 with the testacea, almost challenges credibility. 

 Many have been at a loss to understand from 

 whence they derive the materials necessary for 

 the construction of such immense masses of cal- 

 careous matter. As sea-water contains but a 

 trace of lime, it is thought they cannot separate it 

 from this fluid, and as they are fixed to the spot 

 which gave them birth, it is impossible for them 

 to bring it from a distance. Lime is known to be 

 an alkaline metal (calcium) in union with oxygen; 

 and hence it is allied in structure, to potash, soda, 

 and according to Sir II. Davy, ammonia. The 

 chemist just named, thought he discovered a me- 

 tallic property in some of the salts of the fatter ar- 

 ticle; and hence he infers, that the others may be 

 compounds of hydrogen and azote, combined in 

 different proportions, which we, in the present. 

 state of chemistry, are unable to analyze. If this 

 were all tiue, the formation of lime by animal se- 

 cretion, admits of an easy explanation. Upon 

 this principle a world might, in time, be formed by 

 these minute workies out of air and water! By 



