His father-in-law is clearing up some mountain land for a coffee plantation, by the labor of apprentices from neighboring estates.

The seasons since emancipation have been bad.

The blacks cultivate their own grounds on their half Fridays and Saturdays, unless they can obtain employment from others.
Nothing is doing by the planters for the education of the apprentices.
Their only object is to get as much work out of them as possible.
The blacks, so far as he has had opportunity to observe, are in every respect as quiet and industrious as they were before freedom.

He said if we would compare the character of the complaints brought by the overseers and apprentices against each other, we should see for ourselves which party was the most peaceable and law-abiding.
To these views we may here add those of another gentleman, with whom we had considerable conversation about the same time.

He is a proprietor and local magistrate, and was represented to us as a kind and humane man.