They have committed no depredation.

They peaceably obey the laws.

All this, up to the latest date, is universally admitted.

Neither does any one _now_ presume to prophesy anything different for the future.
INDUSTRY.
On the one topic of the industry of the Emancipated people, the West Indian papers give the most conflicting accounts.

Some represent them as laboring with alacrity, diligence and effect wherever anything like an adequate compensation is offered.