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Show A St. Louis manufacturing company, com-pany, fiudiiiR itself compelled, by tho condition of its business to eflecta reduction of expenses recently, lower-oil lower-oil tho wajjes of ild hands 1U per cnat. The men refined to accept the reduction, reduc-tion, were paid ell and their places wero filled with negroes from Virginia. Vir-ginia. Too Ulobo of i hut ci' j' regards tho innovation us a favorable one. Tho negro ia as quick and dcxterou in nny kind of manual labor as an; man, with no ea natural aptitude no lusa endurance, and no less goot will than liia white rival. Wliy ia i that he baa waited uptil tlio year 1S7 before getting a chanco for himself ? |