THE SOUTHER 



on both is 24 percent. — on wools duty assessed 

 at a fair valuation, on broadcloths at two-thirds 

 the value. 



" The importation of the latter is engrossed 

 entirely by foreigners, and such men as Wilson 

 G. Hunt and J. M. Beebee, driven from the 

 field. 



" The importations of wool costing under 20 

 cents are considerable. At this port there have 

 arrived and are on the way from the Mediter- 

 ranean, 4,000,000 pounds; from Buenos Ayres, 

 1,000,000, and from Valpariso, 2,000,000. My 

 impression is, there will be from 2,000,000 to 3,- 

 000,000 in addition by the 1st of July. I have 

 not the statistics of the imports into New York, 

 but they are considerable. 



" This letter is longer than I intended, and I 

 remain your obedient servant, 



SAM'L LAWRENCE. 



" Messrs. G. C. Colt & Sons, Buffalo, N. Y." 



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Recommendations to Overseers. 



Somehow or other July has come . to be the 

 month in which overseers are engaged, or get 

 or give notice to quit at the end of the year. 

 This is altogether wrong for several reasons ; 

 but as it is established we presume we cannot 

 reform it, and shall not try. But we have a 

 word to say in the matter of recommendations. 

 It is a subject not without difficulties. This 

 world is so given to lying, as the old song says, 

 that if a man tells the whole truth, people al- 

 ways suspect that there is something still con- 

 cealed ; and so they afford the argument, but 

 not the justification, to those who contend that 

 as the whole truth conveys as false an impres- 

 sion as a falsehood, that therefore you may 

 suppress a part of the truth. The man who 

 tells all about the horse he wishes to sell, is 

 sure to depreciate him in the market ; and the 

 man who tells all the faults of his overseer, is 

 very apt to cut him out of business. He may 

 be a capital manager, but with faults incident 

 to his rearing, his calling, or to human nature 

 generally ; and if those faults are frankly sta- 

 ted, the suspicions of the farmer will exagge- 

 rate their degree or extent ; thus candour may 

 discredit a very worthy man. With this ob- 

 stacle to a proper recommendation we can sym- 

 pathize. But we cannot appreciate the other 

 reasons that some persons have, which may be 

 summed up in the common phrase of getting 

 rid of a bad manager on the best terms possible 

 from anticipation of carelessness, neglect, im- 

 proper treatment of negroes and other harm 

 that may result from maladministration oii the 

 part of a man who expects to leave your em- 

 ployment. 



It is obvious how this mode of recommenda- 

 tion, so common as to be almost universal, ope- 

 rates to the injury of the parties by rendering 

 it a matter of no interest to the overseer how he 

 manages, as he is sure of " a character" when 

 he leaves a place. The interest of the good 

 overseers requires that they should discounts- 

 nance the practice as injurious to them ; the 



