Just as we were about to proceed on our journey, a party of some half-a-dozen planters or overseers of neighbouring estates, mounted on fine mules, who had been searching for fugitive field-hands, rode up.

"A FIELD-HAND SHOT.A gentleman named Ball, overseer to Mr. Edward T. Taylor, finding it necessary to chastise a field-hand, attempted to do so in the field.

"A FIELD-HAND SHOT.A gentleman named Ball, overseer to Mr. Edward T. Taylor, finding it necessary to chastise a field-hand, attempted to do so in the field.

The others were nearly all of the true field-hand type, aboriginal black, with dull faces, short and thick forms, and an air of animal contentment or at least indifference.

He was of the lowest negro type, from which only field-hands can be made,coal-black, with protruding heels, the ape-jaw, blubber-lips constantly open, the sightless eyes closed, and the head thrown far back on the shoulders, lying on the back, in fact, a habit which he still retains, and which adds to the imbecile character of the face.

That is the place for your oligarchic pauper, where the elements themselves are field-hands, with Nature for overseer, manufactures superfluous and free-trade a blessing, and plenty of colored persons to raise the mischief with.

Yeshe was the offspring of a mulatto field-hand by her master.

" Testimony; 'Gubner poisened'; Field-hands; Parlor slaves; Chief Justice Durell.

To this there are doubtless many exceptions, but they are only exceptions; the number of slaveholders who furnish meat for their field-hands, is small, in comparison with the number of those who do not.

The preceding testimony proves conclusively, that the quantity of food generally allowed to a full-grown field-hand, is a peck of corn a week, or a fraction over a quart and a gill of corn a day.

Frequently a small quantity of meat is added; but this, as has already been shown, is not the general rule for field-hands.

" Testimony; 'Gubner poisened'; Field-hands; Parlor slaves; Chief Justice Durell.

The preceding testimony proves conclusively, that the quantity of food generally allowed to a full-grown field-hand, is a peck of corn a week, or a fraction over a quart and a gill of corn a day.

They often experience terrible inflictions; not generally so terrible or so frequent as the field-hands, and very rarely in the presence of guests House-slaves are for the most part treated far better than plantation-slaves, and those under the immediate direction of the master and mistress, than those under overseers and drivers.

The fact, of coarse, was unpleasant, and the loss considerable,a prime field-hand, with some knowledge of carpentry and a good performer on the violin,but evasions must be checked, and I cannot see why Mr. Mellasys's method was too severe.

Did any one every take up the New Orleans paper without seeing more than one such advertisement as the following? 150 NEGROES FOE SALE. Just arrived, and for sale, at my old stand, No. 7, Moreau-street, Third Municipality, one hundred and fifty young and likely NEGROES, consisting of field-hands, house servants, and mechanics.

Mr. Seal lamented the high prices of this work; but then, as he said, 'It was much better to have Irish do it, who cost nothing to the planter if they died, than to use up good field-hands in such severe employment,'" Russell added on his own score: "There is a wonderful mine of truth in this observation.

They knew immediately; there is nothing connected with the parish that a field-hand does not know at once.

He never indulged in any regrets for the Arcadian joyousness and irresponsibility which was a somewhat popular conception of slavery; his had not been the lot of the petted house-servant, but that of the toiling field-hand.

On some there was a sufficient force for the season's work, while on others there was scarcely an able field-hand.

The field-hand, however, will single one delicate shoot from the surrounding multitude, and with his rude hoe he will trim away the remainder with all the boldness of touch of a master, leaving the incipient stalk unharmed and alone in its glory; and at nightfall you can look along the extending rows, and find the plants correct in line, and of the required distance of separation from each other.

With her rude husband, she still shares the hard service of a field-hand.

A negro was crouching outside, his knees cuddled in his arms to keep warm: a field-hand, you could be sure from the face, a grisly patch of flabby black, with a dull eluding word of something, you could not tell what, in the points of eyes,treachery or gloom.

It was Nan, a pale mulatto house-servant, that the field-hand took into his dull, lonesome heart to make life of, with true-love defiance of caste.

Of course I except the cities, and speak only of the estates, where the house servants are neither better housed or accommodated than the field-hands.