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turned; breathing short and hur- ried; countenance shows. much distress; pulse small and frequent and not hard; he complains of great weakness. Nothing justi- 6es the lancet but the pain and difficult bI eathing. l made him sit up, he appeared too weak to sit, and begged to be laid down. I opened the vain and then laid him down. After the blood had been running for some little time, the pulse became fuller and slow CT. I bled him until he could breathe easy. That evening he had a slight pain in the side, and l cupped him over the seat of the pain, and then applied blis- ter; a few purgatives and tartar emetic solution was all that he needed after this.

 In cases of pneumonia do not neglect them at all. More can be done to assist them in the first twenty-four hours than ever can be done afterwards. If with the pain in the side and difficult breathing, you have full and hard pulse, the lancet, all will tell you, is the proper remedy; but / bleed when there is pain, with hurried, quick or laborious breathing, and l have never had cause to regret 1t, when it is done on a strong negro when first taken. If the fever should assume any thing like intermit- ting or remittent form, give qui- nine as you would in those levers. Negroes here bear the lancet well. Then diet consists princi- palIy of meat and bread. Eve " field hand has half a pound of meat day.

 You tell me you want an over seer for next year. It is we'll; your force will justify you in get ting one. lam pleased that you have attended to your business this year yourself. You will now know how lab2rious the life of an overseer is, and will be able to appreciate one who does his duty. You will have more charity for their faults, for you will see how hard it is to act to please yourself. You will also learn what the duties of an over- seer are, and will know how to require of them to do you justice. It is one of the most official things in the world to get a faithful and capable overseer. 1 can only ad- wise you who to get, by telling You what one should be. In the first place, he should be a man of the strictest honesty and truth, he should possess the most untiring industry; he should be orderly and systematic in every thing; he should be firm, strict and humane; he should loUe home more than any where else; he should have sense enough to make just and sensible regula- tions for the government of the negroes, and frmness enough to execute them; he should be well acquainted with his business, but not so smart as to have mo- thing more to learn; if he knows so much that books and agricul- tural papers can't learn him any thing, do not, l entreat you, trust him with your business and lastly, if be drinks to excess, do not employ him if he has every other qualification.

 Your friend,

 T. M. TONNES