Clarksville Weekly Chronicle

That Exodus.
New Orleans Democrat,
Some of our northern exchanges possess the information that the exodus movement has again broken out among the negroes and that thousands of them are leaving Alabama and Louisiana pell-mell for Kansas. It appears that it was furnished by a West Philadelphia Quaker named Browne, who asserts that he has just returned from the states named. The Alabama papers do not seem to know of anything of the kind going on in that state, and if there is any basis for Browne's statement, as far as it concerns Louisiana, it is not visible to the naked eye. Perhaps the Philadelphia Friend made his discovery with the aid of a powerful microscope. The negroes who went to Kansas eighteen months ago have reported their experience to their friends at home and there is little likelihood of another movement of the kind, even if it was less pleasant and profitable to live here than it is. Ordinary plantation hands are not to be expected to flee from $2.50 a day. That is the price they now command in the sugar fields of St. James, and, perhaps, other parishes.