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Show Negro ICiuigrul lou. j Nes? York, 31. World's New Orleans: Or-leans: Tho negro exodua continues in the northern part of the stale. Rudely estima;ed, it may be said 10,000 negroes will have left by the time the fever of emigration ends, The reduction reduc-tion in wages, owing to the low prices for cotton, is tho main cause. They have no yield for the labor of last year, and Bee no prospecta of improvement. im-provement. Seme, therefore, leave on inducements held out by railroad men from Kansas, and otbers act on the same species of animal instinct that impels one Bueep to follow the other. The fact is ctlamitous, and the lack of laborers will be keeuly felt in the cotton parishes. |