The peculium of Southern servants, even on the plantation, is sometimes not trifling.  We make a few selections, showing—­

THE NEGROES’ CROP.—­A friend has reported to us a sale, on Tuesday, of a crop of cotton belonging to Elijah Cook, of Harris Co., Ga., amounting to $1424 96-100.—­Columbus (Ga.) Sun, Dec. 29, 1858.

Mr. J.S.  Byington informs us that he made two cotton purchases lately.  One was the cotton crop of the negroes of Dr. Lucas, of this vicinity, for which he paid $1,800 in cash, every dollar of which goes to the negroes.—­Montgomery (Ala.) Mail, Jan. 21, 1859.

Speaking of negroes’ crops, the sales of which our contemporaries are chronicling in various amounts,—­the largest which has come to our knowledge is one made in Macon, for the negroes of Allen McWalker.  It amounted to $1969.65.—­Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, Feb. 3, 1859.

Upon Louisiana sugar plantations, the exhausting work of the grinding season can only be maintained by a system of premiums and rewards equivalent to the payment of wages.  Under that system the negroes of the sugar plantations are among the most healthy and contented in the South; while the same labor performed in Cuba, under the most severe compulsion, causes an annual decrease of the slave population, and the product of the island is only maintained by fresh importations of slaves from Africa.

With the following Southern testimony as to the intelligence of the negro, I leave this subject:—­

Without book learning the Southern slave will partake more and more of the life-giving civilization of the master.  As it is, his intimate relations with the superior race, and the unsystematic instruction he receives in the family, have placed him in point of intelligence above a large portion of the white laborers of Europe.—­Plantation Life, by Rev. Dr. McTeyire.

We claim emancipation for the white man; it can only be secured by the freedom of the negro.  The infinite justice of the Almighty demands both.

If we now fail to accomplish it, to bear in the future the name of ‘American Citizen’ will be a badge of shame and dishonor.

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GENERAL PATTERSON’S CAMPAIGN IN VIRGINIA.

It seldom happens that the history of any series of events can be written soon after they have transpired.  The idea of history implies correctness, impartiality and completeness; and it is of rare occurrence that all these requisites can be obtained in their fullness within a brief period after the time of which the history is required.  The historians of this day write of the past; and the historian of our present civil war is not yet born, who shall emulate the completeness and conciseness of Irving’s Columbus, or Prescott’s Ferdinand and Isabella, or Motley’s Dutch Republic.  Nor can we expect an early solution to the ‘Fremont