The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, January 12, 1866, Image 2
COLUMBIA.
Friday Morning, January 12, 1866.
The Hf'quired Guarantees.
The Tribune and other Republican
papers, on behalf of their party, de?
mand that new and satisfactory gua?
rantees shall be obtained from the
Southern States before they are ad?
mitted to equal rights within the
Union. In a recent article on this
subject, it says "that the States
lately in revolt are to be restored to
all their forfeited rights and privile?
ges is undoubted; but what safe?
guards shall be provided against
future rebellions ? This is the ques?
tion that puzzles the party in power,
and in the effort to answer it satis?
factorily to themselves they are put
to their wits end. They are prolific
in suggestions, and pile safeguard
upon safeguard, guarantee upon gua?
rantee until they themselves might
well be confused and bewildered with
their demands. The imperious aud
dictatorial manner in which those
organs of a faction speak to eight
millions of American citizens re?
quires no small amount of toleration
to endure. Here is a paper that re?
fused to be bound by the guarantees
of the Constitution, and which allied
itseli to a faction that denounced the
Union as a league with death and a
covenant with hell, calling for gua?
rantees from a people whose towns
have been burned to the ground,
whose dwellings are heaps of smaul
dering ruins, whose plantations are
laid waste, whose labor system is ut?
terly destroyed ! Guarantees de?
manded by a journal which scoffod
at the most solemn of obligations,
and which insisted that there was a
higher^w than that of the Constitu?
tion ! \Ve were told that the late
conflict was a war for the Union, and
and we had supposed that no other
security would be required but its
restoration; but now that it has been
restored there is to be no end to the
exactions.
If the Southern people had been
guilty of any crime against Constitu?
tional freedom, if they had struck
down freedom of the press, liberty of
speech, habeas corpus, in a word, civil
and religious rights, we would be jus?
tified in adopting such a course, but
tr^ie to the gre:?? charter
of freedom as when their fathers, the
men of '76, fought for self-govern?
ment and independence against the
mother oountry. They remained in
the Union until they were assured
that there was a rapidly increasing
party in the North inimical to Jieir
rights, until they saw that the securi?
ties which they had obtained for their
protection and the protection of their
property were assailed by this domi?
nant party, and until every overture
for a compromise was indignantly
spurned. In our estimation they re?
mained in the Union longer than they
were bound by the terms of the com?
pact, for that compact was nullified
by the passage of the Personal Lib?
erty Bills in nine of the Northern
Legislatures. Had they made the
issue at that time, the Confederate
States might to-day bo a recognized
republic-a new member in the family
of nations. But it was fated other?
wise. A Union which represented at
one time the free will of all its mem?
bers, has given place to a Union pin?
ned together by bayonets, and "the
just powers," which we were told de?
pended upon "the consent of the
governed,''--have been superseded
by the despotism of a party. Having,
s^wp^Said, scoffed at the most sol
of obligations, this party now
demands guarantees-"safeguards"
against "future rebellions." Why,
what stuff is this? Is the South to
have no safeguards, that its rights of
property in peace as well as in war
for we believe belligerents lui ve rights
of property-shall not be violated
or interferred with? What security
has it that this dominant minority, if
they should take it into their heads
to strike at other rights of tho South
will not repeat the outrages which
brought on the war ? Wliat guaran?
tee will it have that the Puritan ideas
of right and wrong will not be forced
upon its people ? Safeguards ! Have
the defeated no rights? Is the restora?
tion of the Uuion to bring with it no
tsaeurities, no safeguards for them ?
As the New York Metropolitan Re?
cord justly observes there is only one
way by which this controversy can be
ended, ??.nd that,is by establishing
??Jae Constitution in its entirety, with
ill its guarantees and safeguards. No
other can be justly required. As for j
the perpetuity of the Union, that j
must depend altogether on the future; j
and we are of opinion, that before j
many years shall elapse, the New j
England States will be very glad if
they are permitted to secede peace- '
fully. Guarantees piled as high as
Olympus will not save her against
free trade and the overthrow of a
one-sided, partial legislation, for the
maintenance of which the great ma?
jority of the people are unjustly and
heavily taxed. A combination of the
West and South for the protection of
their agricultural interests would
materially lessen the value of the
Union in har eyes, and we should
hear something more of State Rights
and State Sovereignty from that
quarter than wo have heard since the
Hartford Convention, and the,time
when the Yankee States protested
against tho transit over their soil of
an American army against their here?
ditary enemy.
Politic? and Religion.
The "war clergy" of Philadelphia
and J. W. Forney, of the Press, are
at loggerheads. The spectacle of the
radical A?tecii of the Press and the
Chronicle being torn and mangled by
his own peculiar "blood hounds of
Zion," is most refreshing to all honest
men. Maj' the contest be long, bloody
and exhaustive! Forney advertised,
a short time since, a Sunday edition
of thc Press, and by printing politics
on the holy Sabbath, impudently
poached and knowingly trespassed
upon the domains of the political and
war clergy of Philadelphia. They
were willing to allow Forney six. days
out of seven within which to turn
political summersaults, but having
dedicated the Sabbath to the preach?
ing of political sermons, and to the
advocacy of li nging and confiscation,
they claimed a monopoly of that day
for their own exhibitions. That was
their favorite and selected day for
hunting "rebels" and denouncing the
ungodliness of treason, and they
therefore greeted the Sunday Press
with a howl of sanctimonious jealousy
and hypocritical piety. Forney, how?
ever* persists in running his opposi?
tion line, despite the angry protest?
of clerical stump speakers, and the
din of their combat waxes louder and
louder, and more and more hideous.
If the contest lietween these hawks
and vultures could end in the exter?
mination of all the parties toit; if the
fate of the belligerent cats of Kilkenny
was to eventually wipe out Forney
and the "blood hounds of Zion,"
there would be great cause for return?
ing thanks to a wise Providence.
But as no such good fortune is
probably in store for chis unhappy
nation, we feel constrained to take
sides with Forney. It does not be?
come men who have again and again
desecrated the Sabbath, by preaching
the most violent, barbarous and inhu?
man doctrines, to object to the pub?
lication of a political newspaper on
Sunday. Do they not, Sabbath after
Sabbath, puliusii from their pulpits
the mosif danger ons aud radical politi?
cal heresies? Consecrated, ordained
and set apart to preach mercy, for?
giveness, good will, tolerance and
brotherly love, do they not advocate
the infliction on the Southern people
of punishment virtually as terrible as
those which the Holy Inquisition
once visited upon heretics? Sabbath
after Sabbath, many of the men who
are now denouncing Forney for pub?
lishing a Sunday paper, have for years
deliberately inflamed the passions and
prejudices of their flocks against their
brethren of the South on that very
day. _
TUe New Tori* Daily News.
This admirable paper in its greet?
ing to the public for eighteen hundred
and sixty-six, bases its claim for
general patronage on thc ground that
it has, through years of strife, ever
been a fearless advocate of the sanc?
tity of the Constitution. We not
only endorse the justice of thc claim,
but is gives us pleasure to add, that,
in uo journal published in the North?
ern States have we ever Lad the
earnest, honest, consistent friend
that the New York Daily Neus has
ever been, and is now, to the South.
In Western Texas the planters,
farmers and freedmen generally, are
making contracts for this year, which
are satisfactory to all parties. In
central Texas, the prospects are not
so good, and the planters are dis?
couraged, the freedmen refusing to
make contracts.
German emigrants are arriving in
strong force in Louisiana and Mis?
sissippi.
i
Tile President Attacked by a, Radical
Paper.
The following utterances of a fa?
natical radical give assurance that the
President not only means to stand by
his policy, but by Ids friends. All
others must get out of office :
We recently published tho state?
ment that the President had given
directions to the heads of depart?
ments to make no more appointments
at present on the recommendation of
members of Congress. It is well un?
derstood that this order originates in
the opposition of Congress to the
President's reconstruction policy.
The question arises, therefore, whe
\ ther the President is prepared to use
I the Executive patronage as a means
! of persuading Congress into aban?
doning what they deem to bc their
duty, and submitting to his dictation.
Such a course would introduce into
the President's policy the combined
' elements of treachery for his parly,
j bribery for its representatives, and
j contempt for its principles and power,
j Tiie policy uf regarding the Federal
? patronage as the spoils of the party
: is but another mode of expressing
: the political axiom that the same ma?
jority which elects the President
; should exercise and control tue offices
[ to which he has the appointing power,
j so that for the lower, as well as the
? higher departments of Government,
the same majority shall rule. But in
no party, and under no Government,
j has the doctrine been accepted that
; when the Executive elected by ?1 popu?
lar majority is so unfortunate ?is to
place himself in opposition to them,
he may use the whole patronage of
the Government, which, of right, be?
longs to them, to coerce the majority
into the views of the minority. In
principle, we see very little difference
between thc lobbyist who waits in the
ante-chamber with presents of rail?
road stocks, mining shares, or green
I backs, as compensation for a vote in
Congress, and the President who
withholds or distributes offices to a
Congressman's friends for the same
consideration. The most insidious
advances toward such a policy should
be spurned by Congress in thc; most
emphatic manner. The people will
sustain them in refusing the Execu?
tive bribe. Ii' the President's policy,
either as to the time when, or the
terms upon which, the States should
be admitted, or the portion of their
i people te whom the suffrage should
bc extended, be reasonable, safe or
wise, the fact can bc impressed upon
the minds- of an intelligent and pa?
triotic Congress by more worthy and
respectable arguments than the coer?
cive withholding or the corrupt grant?
ing of Federal patronage, based on a
log-rolling and essentially criminal
agreement as to the mode in which
the representatives of the people
shall vote.-Chicago Tribune, 30/7/ ult.
j But the point that tho J?vc5ltleiit
i makes is, that he tv,?7, in any other
? mode, impress his views upon the
I minds of Congress. They don't up
! precinte any other kind of argument.
BEN sim" BEATEN AGAIN.-It hav?
ing been announced some day-1 .siiice
that Edwin Booth was to appear at
Winter Garden Theatre, the New
j York Herald, whose quarrel with the
I theatrical managers has proved in
; jurious to itself in every respect, took
j occasion to denounce the managers
i as guilty of a grestt blunder, not to
' say crime, in engaging the brother of
an assassin, and to predict that New
York would show them that she would
not countenance such disrespect to
the late President. Bead the result :
"This favorite tragedian, after an
absence of over nine months from the
j stage, re-appeared last evening at the
j Winter Garden, before one of the
most brilliant and distinguished
audiences ever assembled within the
walls of a theatre in this city, and the
ovation lie received was such as has
I never beeu accorded to any actor in
: America.
I "This may bc justly regarded as
I the brightest triumph of Iiis career,
i and will give him every assurance that
i a generous public is determined to
sustain him against the dastardly
attack of the Herold and ks attempt
to destroy his reputation and profes?
sional prospects. His triumph is
that journal's proper rebuke, and
must satisfy the public that all its
efforts to do injury hereafter will
prove as futile as iu this instance."
Alas, poor Bennett.
[New York News, Alli,
EDITORIAL VALEDICTOBY.-The fol?
lowing farewell address of a Western
j editor to his readers is not a bad hit
of what is called freedom of the pi ess.
Each individual freedman will give
you perfect liberty to contradict and
controvert the notions and opinions
of everybody but himself :
"The undersigned retires from the
editorial chair with complete convic?
tion that all is vanity. From the
hour he started his paper to the pre?
sent time he has been solicited to lie
upon every given subject, and can't re?
member ever having told a wholesome
I truth without diminishing his sub?
scription list, or making an enemy.
Under these circumstances of trial,
and having a thorough contempt for
himself, he retires in order ty recruit
. his moral constitution."
Sixtv^Kp hoimcides occurred iu
No'? IftwV' 1805.
! Wathington IV ev*-? and Rumor?.
lt appears that the thirty thousand
dollars appropriated this winter for
refurnishing tho White House has
been exhausted by the payment of
bills contracted during Mr. Lincoln's
administration, and that another ap?
propriation must be made to render
the Executive mansion presentable.
Senator Doolittle has prepared an
elaborate speech Li support of the
President's poliey, which he will soon
deliver in the Senate.
Members of Congress arc already
arriving freely, and the notes of ac?
tivity, of fresh bills, new amendments
to the Constitution, and new projects
for relieving the Treasury of its sur?
plus, are already plainly visible. The
! restoration question, however, will no
! doubt be the first thing in order.
Tennessee occupying the foreground,
and being the first to pass the ordeal.
Senator Doolittle will make an able
speech when the question comes up
iu that body.
Some of the negro population ol
the city are indignant because of tho
fact that the President left them te
I gaze on the wall nd furniture of his
! reception room on New Year's day,
I instead of ou the Executive himself,
j The negroes, it appears, were left
I until the last before being "pre?
sented," but the President had be
j come too weary from the hand .shaking
: of the day to receive til em, and retired
to his apartment. It is not at all
probable that the President intended
any slight to his colored friends,
though certain mischievous peopl?
I are endeavoring to make it appear so,
I I am told that parties at thc South,
who have been in the employ of tin
Treasury Department, but who have
received no pay for their services, ot
the ground that, they could not take
; the "test oath," intend to press theil
; claims upon the Government, ant
j will use the pay of the Provisiona
' Governors as a precedent for th?
j validity of the amounts due them. I
' is true there was no warrant for tin
payment of the Provisional Govern
: ors, several of whom wert; unable tc
take the oath; but since Mr. Stantoi
I has confessed that they have boei
j paid. Mr. McCulloch will have to d<
I something to satisfy his own agent;
! as well.
George L. Little, Esq., a Specia
Agent of the Treasury Department
i wiio has recently returned from ai
I extensive tour through the South
reports that he iinds as much moue;
in ; he hands of Southern men now a
was ever before possessed by them
j Northern speculators are nunieron
! in most regions of the South, an
! have been and arc. now purchasin
largely of the Southern staples, a
well as of landed property, thu
placing in the hands of the peop]
immense amounts of ready money.
Senator Trumbull, just previous t
I the holidays, gave notice of his intel
j ttoti to introduce a bill, wh?p*? he hi
i since divided into two, and will s"l
! mit them to the Senate to-morrov
One of them is to enlarge the powe:
of the Freedmen's Bureau, and.-tl
other is to protect all persons in tl
Uflited States in their civil rights, an
furnish thc means of their vindie
i Hon. The first provides that in tl
insurrectionary districts, when, I
State law or custom, any of the ch
rights belonging to white persons a
denied to negroes or mulattoes, <
! when they are subject to diff?re
punishment than is prescribed f
I whites, the officers and agents of tl
Freedmen's Bureau shall, so long
I such discrimination continues, ha
I jurisdiction of all cases which affc
I all such negroes or mulattoes,
j It also provides for punishing, 1
! fine and imprisonment, through t!
j courts of the Fredmen's Bureau, ?
j persons who shall subject a negro
mulatto, in consequence or his ra
I or color, to any other or diff?re
! punishment than is prescribed f
I white persons, or shall deny him ai
j civil rights which belong to the whi
race. The judicial power convey
by the Freedmen's Bureau, is to cea
; whenever the States where it is exe
i cised are fully restored in all tin
; Constitutional relations to the Uniu
The other bill is of a permano
j character, to apply to all parts of t
j United States, lt declares that t
: inhabitants, of every race and cob
without regard to former slave]
shall have the same right to mal
sue and enforce contracts ; to sue ;
; parties ; give evidence ; to inlier
purchase, deed, hold and convey n
i and personal properly ; to enjoy f
; and equal benelit of all laws and t
I security of person and property ;
I be subject to like punishment, pal
'> and penalties, any law, regulation
? custom to the contrary notwithstai
j in g.
Other provisions of the bill ma
j it a criminal offence for any perse
i under color of law or custom, to (
: prive of any of his equal civil rigl
j and immunities, gives the Unit
I States Courts exclusive jurisdiction
! the cases of all persons thus d
i criminated against and all offene
committed against the provisiona
this Act; makes it the duty
the judicial authorities of t
United States, aided, if necessary
the military forces, to execute 1
same, and provides all the machine
for making the bill effective. Nea;
all the provisions of the old fugit:
I slave act are incorporated with t
bill, and the statute originally fran
' to keep men in slavery is now revii
j to secure their freedom. The sevi
I penalties once imposed for aiding n
' to escape to freedom are now to
! imposed for trying to keep in slav?
those who have just issued tho
from. J
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Tb? Empire of Maximilian-An In.
terestlng Strtcmrnt.
We clip from the Paris (7th ult.)
correspondence af the Louisville
Journal, the following paragraphs,
which may be classified as "impor?
tant, if true:"
j "The affairs of Mexico have come
at bust to the crisis anticipated by
j wise men from the first, but not ant'
cipated even by them to take place su
soon. The difficulties which have
arisen between thc Court of ta
Tuillcries and that of the Emperor
Maximilian, with the bold determina?
tion of the American Government
! with regard to Juarez, have renewed
i the rumor of the secret treaty ol
? Miramoar, which empowers the Em
I peror to withdraw his troops at anj
time from Mexico whenever Maxi
! indian's payments should be tw<
I months in arrear.
i "The pretext would be curiom
enough ou the part of a power wbicl
prides itself on conciliating for ideas
alone. Louis Phillippo, whose sys
tem differed from this ideal one o
Louis Napoleon, declared the country
rich enough to pay for any amoun
I of glory it might choose to purchase
; But, in this ease, tl ie pretext will b<
seized without scruple by the Em
peror, who, in presence of the irrita
I lion displayed by the United States
j is resolved to avoid a further compli
i cation ot" the difilculties amid wbicl
he has so thoughtlessly rushed. Tin
j cause of the coolness between tin
. two Emperors is the refusal by Maxi
millan to receive as Minister o
France the invaluable treasure sen
him in that capacity in the person <>
Mr. Langlais.
"Maximilian, whose whole life ha
been spent in dodging his duns, i
scarcely green enough to confide hi
purse itself to one of his most urgen
creditors. Tile message from th
United States, of which Genera
Schofield is undoubtedly the bearei
whatever the agreeable journals ma;
declare to tht> contrary, has cause
the greatest ire atCompieg'ie. Max:
milian has given orders for th
evacuation of the Northern an
Southern portions of the empire, i
order to remaiu as true as possible t
i the family tradition of the quadr
j laiere.
"The E?npress Charlotte, whoi
journey to Europe is ostensibly occi
sioned by tue wish to visit her fath<
in his dying state, leaves with til
j greatest regret; but Maximilian c
1 beholding tho war of exterminatic
j which is now commencing bo twee
? insurgents and tl ie Imperialists, i
\ the natural consequence of all th;
' has gone before, insists 0:1 placii
i his wife ont of danger. The Pat
?journals are strictly forbidden
j speak of Mexico, and yesterday ti
i office of Tlie Temps was visited by tl
j man in black, in high dungeon
: what he termed the "indiscretioi
j of which that paper had been guilt}
"i ile: .Hi i ?.U ii? Ij4j.i1 yji r.li,j rtt.lgni
\ cient jewels belonging to the Einprc
I Charlotte, nuder pretence of altei
? tioii and repairs, has givciii rise to :
j sorts of comments. People say til
a certain great financial linn has be
induced to lend a considerable si:
upon the imperial coronet, which w
composed of the whole of the weddi
i diamonds of the Princess Louise, a
? which was all the dower Ki
Leopold ever got with his wife.
KENTUCKY.- The Frankfort corr
j pondent of the Louisville Demoa
I says that Governor Bramlette 1
? sent in his approval of tho bill
i pealing the expatriation act, u
ladds: "This was not looked for.
j seemed generally understood that
I would return the bill with his ve
I He had intimated as much to me
I hers. Be it said to his credit tl
i upon looking into the matter a
I carefully considering it, he beca
. convinced cd' the propriety of i
; repeal, if not of the unconstit.ith
< ahty of the act."
The Governor has a clea" he;
? and upon the "sober second thong]
! generally arrives at correct cone
j sions; and we will do him thc just
I to say that we do not doubt but t
I he always acts from his honest c
j victions of right.
I Upon the announcement of his.
proval he was greeted by an invol
tory round of applause by the Hov
The work of restoring the State
the old order of things goes brav
ou. There will very soon be
evidences of the terrible war throi
which we have passed upon the ;
tute books. Let everything be :
given and forgotten which is
pleasant.
NEW COMBINATION.-We are
formed that Fernando Wood :
Horace Greeley intend to visit Wi
ington within the next ten days
the purpose of securing the appo
menc of a Collector for this p
This is a strong team.-New i
Herald.
A HUGE STEALING OPERATION.
is stated that John Scott, the col
loan agent of the Confederate Govi
ment, on the surrender of Gen
Taylor, tinned over to General Ca
120,000 bales of Confederate Gov.
mcnt cotton, with his lists, books
accounts in perfect order. The Mo
papers say that the cottoD has all g
some where, and that ali the Govi
! mont has received is about 10
bales. The Government is now I
in endeavoring to find out who
the cotton-with not much sue
as yet.
The sheriffs are selling large 11
I hers of plantations in Louisiana
. debt and taxes.
J
Local Items.
Advertisements, to insuro insertion,
should bo handed in by 4 o'clock p. m.
"THE CODE."-Tho Acts paused by tba
Legislature relativo to tlie freedmen, for
sale at this office. Trice 20 cents; by mail
25 cents.
CASH.-Our terms fir subscription, ad
I vortising and job work are cash. We hop?
all parties will bear this in mind.
TUE BUHNTNO or COLUMBIA.-An inter?
esting account ol the "Sack and Destruc?
tion of the City of Columbia, S. C.," has
ust been issued, in pamphlet form, from
I tho Photiiz steam power press. Order?
i can be tilled to any extent.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. -Attention ia eall
tcd to the following advertisements, which
arc published this morning for tho first
time:
Ordinance to raise supplies for 1SG6.
( len. Ely-Special Order No. 5.
Thos. Flannigan-Boot* and Shoes.
Davis A Co.-Prv Conds.
New Buggy for Sale.
Miss L. A. Sims - Scholars Wanted.
Parker A Fripp-Liquors.
F. Lance A Son -Furniture, Ac.
J. G. Gibbes-Mules and Horses.
A DEFUNCT BANKER ON BANKING.
The following examination of a de- .
funct banker in Cincinnati shows to
what extent the banking business can
! be carried on on "borrowed capital,"
or, in other words, on the deposits of
those who take no pains to ascertain
the stability of a concern with which
they trust their funds. The banked,
in the course of his examination,
said:
"I have been in thc banking busi?
ness since December. 1851; I first
entered the business with between ten
and twenty thousand dollars 'bor?
rowed capital;' I had no money of
my own invested in the business; the
'borrowed capital1 was in the nature
of deposits by several parties; I do
not know what amount of capital I
had invested in the business in 1860,
j or from that time to 1865; I do not
know whether my assets were greater
than my liabilities at any time be?
tween 1860 and 1865; I never balanced
my own books; the book-keeper did
it; I never examined my own books
except in a general way; I never asked
for a statement from my book-keeper
of the condition of my business; I
learned the condition of my affairs in
September, 1865, by the excessive
losses I had made in the purchase of
gold and stocks; the amount of my
losses i u myg' *" "id stock opera?
tions was between three and four
hundred thousand dollars; in my
operations, I used the money of
others as well as my own : I do not
know how much of my own money I
used in these operations."
SOMETHING ABOUT STAMPS.-The
contract for furnishing the stamps
was given 1861 to thc National Bank
Note Company, which now annually
supplies 220,000,000 more stamps
than in the first year of the contract.
Duriug 18G5, so far, the Company has
furnished Government 400,000,000
stamps, ?.nd the demand has fre?
quently exceeded a million and-a-half
per diem. The following will be read
with interest :
The largest number ever delivered
in one day being 5,923,895. The
consumption of stamps of different
values may be understood from a
statement of the proportions manu?
factured in the month of March last,
when there were delivered to Go?
vernment of : 1 cent skimps, 175,200;
2 cent stamps, 11,477,250; 3 cent
stamps, 85,933,550; 5 cent stamps,
275,340; 10 cent stamps. 10,100,640;
12 cent stamps, 322,900 ; 24 cent
stamps, 4S0.300; 30 cent stamps, 140,
650; 90 cent stamps, 19,490. Total,
i 102,926,630.
I The value represented by these
i stamps is $3,207,199.50. The same
writer says that the entire number
supplied by the National Bank Note
Company up to the present time is
one billion three hundred millions.
To meet a demand so vast, the presses
are sometimes run night and day,
and to avoid error in accounts, a
daily balance of the busness is struck.
In furnishing this immense number,
representative of a value of $10,000,
000, not a single lo?s involving
censure to the Company has occurred,
and the stamps ure printed, per
forated, gummed and packed
delivery from the Company's o
ajl the United States post o
12 cents a thousand.
PROGRESS OF THE NEGROES,
GINIA.-The Washington corre
ent of the Cincinnati (huelle thus
describes the social and mental eleva?
tion of the Virginia freedmen:
"Some three hundred of the freed?
men in Elizabeth City, Virginia, have
formed a combination, and have con?
cluded negotiations for tho purchase
of a large and valuable estate in that
county, "paying for it thirty thousand
dollars in cash, which amount they
have in hand as the result pf their
savings. Through all this section of
Virginia there is a most liberal spirit
manifested toward freedmen, which
is mainly due to tire enlightened
teachings of Senator Segar and a few
other loyalists.
"Tho large and valuable building
in the vicinity of Fortress Monroe,
known during the war as Hampton
Hospital, ha? been* pmvliased 1
Northern contribution, and"*?!
used as a freedmen's college.
Business is declining in ?
leans, and stores have been
?ess Limn the bricks were wort