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The Daily Dispatch: January 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Yankee cotton Harvest. (search)
task, for which they are paid at the rate of a dellar for every hundred pounds they deliver. They labor with alacrity under this unwonted stimulus; various assistants and clerks have been appointed to oversee their performances, and though they need to be constantly directed and skillfully managed, yet a good degree of work is really gotten out of them. This is proven by the fact that, in less than three days, over $50,000 worth of cotton was put on board the steamboat which accompanied Col. Nobles; all this cotton had been baled by the negroes themselves, and the bags made by them; it was then conveyed to the various landings, at no one of which there is a wharf. The supply of bags having been incomplete some thousand sand-bags were supplied them, and these had to be first placed in flat boats, then rowed out to the steamer, and again removed to the decks, before the labors of the blacks were completed. The old drivers were generally retained to find out the hands and bring them