The former produced at a cheaper rate than the latter, when, instead of letting his land according to the older system to petty temporary lessees, he caused it according to the newer system to be cultivated by his slaves.

The beautiful plain of Campania remained more populous; but the territory of Capua and of the other communities broken up in the Hannibalic war became state-property, and the occupants of it were uniformly not proprietors, but petty temporary lessees.

The cock-pits are open two days in the week, and the lessees of them receive half a real from every person who enters, besides the extra price they charge those who occupy the best seats, the owners of the fighting cocks, for the spurs, stalls for the sale of buyo, refreshments, etc.

Since that epoch the exploitation has been continued by lessees of the diamondiferous grounds.

The farming tools and other necessary property on the plantations were to be appraised at a fair valuation, and turned over to the lessees.

Dishonesty of Lessees.

In their eagerness to accumulate fortunes, the lessees frequently planted more ground than they could care for, and allowed much of it to run to waste.

Some of the lessees were captured; others, having timely warning, made good their escape.

Some of the lessees made open boast of having swindled their negroes out of their summer's wages, by taking advantage of their ignorance.

Every thing considered, the result of the free-labor enterprise was favorable to the pockets of the avaricious lessees, though it was not encouraging to the negro and to the friends of justice and humanity.

In 1864 there were thirty colored lessees near Milliken's Bend, and about the same number at Helena.

Some of the lessees declared they had been forced to promise a division with certain parties in authority before obtaining possession, while others maintained a discreet silence on the subject.

There was an earnest competition among the lessees to secure promising plantations.

This would be done, not as a courtesy to the lessees, but as a part of the policy of providing for the care of the negroes.

At the same time many lessees in our vicinity were unable to commence operations, owing to their inability to obtain working stock.

A few of the lessees suffered by the loss of stock, which was sold an hour after it was stolen, and sometimes to the very party from whom it had been taken.

All the lessees did the same thing, and partially protected each other against fraud.

Some of the lessees resorted to questionable methods for supplying their plantations with the means for plowing and planting.

From our plantation the robbers went to the one next above, where they were more fortunate in finding the lessees at home.

" These lessees were entertaining some friends on that evening, and begged the guerrillas to show them some distinction.

One after another of the lessees were driven to seek refuge at Natchez, and their work was entirely suspended.

Probably a dozen lessees were killed, and the same number carried to Texas.

Near Vicksburg, the chivalric guerrillas captured two lessees, and tortured them most barbarously before putting them to death.

Blanchard and Robinson, two lessees near Natchez, both of them residents of Boston, were murdered with nearly the same fiendishness as exhibited in the preceding case.

Two lessees of the parish are presented "for withholding the farm of two acres and a half of church land one year and a half unpaid."