The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, March 16, 1866, Image 2
Friday Morning, March 16, 1866.
Our System ot Agriculture.
We wrote a brief article, on Wedues
ftr, \ last, as to the mode, in our belief,
by which the lands in our State might
be most extensively cultivated. We
find in the New York Southern Ex?
change, a well-conducted poper, the
following article :
"We have already mentioned in
these columns that the way to open
tho South to immigration, was, in
our opinion, to divide the large planta?
tions into lots of from twenty-five to
fifty acres, and to advertise them for
sale on easy terms in this market.
Theso lands are now offered in large
tracts that require a small fortuno to
purchase them; and many who are
eager to go South are deterred by the
large amount of capital required.
"An instance has lately come to
our knowledge that illustrates the
fact.
" A gentleman, in one of the South?
ern States, resided on a plantation of
some 3,000 acres. He had built an
elegant mansion, substantial and con?
venient barns, out-houses, gin-mill,
and over one hundred comfortable
huts for negroes, fine fences, etc. etc.
The lands alone, when but little im
{irovement had been made upon them,
lad cost him some $70,000. At the
end of the war, but twenty of Ms
field hands were left, with a few house
servants-some had followed the
army, some had gone North, and
others were killed. Those who were
left were willing to work on his own
terms, but, embarrassed financially on
all sides, he concluded to sell. He
offered this whole property for $30,
000, and found no purchaser, and
when, at last, being in ill health, he
had nearly given up to despair, a re?
turned soldier offered him $500 in
cash for twenty acres in one corner of
?he plantation, which was accepted. '
This opened the way. He at once
divided his ground, except what ie
chose to retain around his horse,
into farm lots, to each of which was
added a small wood privilege, and
then advertised in the Northern
papers. It is stated that he has a
host of buyers, and a prospect of
selling his whole place at a f?r price;
having already disposed of o*or 1,000
acres of the arable and nearly 300 of
the forest lands at the avejage rate of
$28 per acre for the forner and $30
for the latter.
He iutends to worl his twenty
hands, to whom he lets cabins at a
rent payable monthly in work or
money, with a privilege of ejectment
in case of default, ard to keep part of
his reserved lund ir cultivation. Ilio
gin-house and machinery will answer
for his new neighbors as well as for
himself. The Dew-comers are gene?
rally industrious, and are likely to be
valuable citizens, and their settlement
has doubled already the value of the
unsold land.
This instance will show how speedi?
ly the South may be populated by the
best class of settlers. Of course,
some preliminary expenses are neces?
sary-such as drainage in low lands,
buildings for the reception of the im?
migrants, and also for advertising;
but if the settlement is healthy and
easy of access, and the land not too
dear, there can be no doubt of the
success of the plan. The experiment
has been tried in New Jersey on a
large scale, and as it succeeded on a
sandy and almost barren soil, why
should we doubt the result in the
South, when any honest, temperate
man, with a couple of hundred dol?
lars in cash, ought to be enabled, at
present prices, to achieve a desirable
position for his family.
NORTH CAROLINA.-The Legislature
of North Caorlina adjourned on Mon?
day. A bill wa* passed allowing
negroes to testify in courts where
they were concerned in person or
property, and when the jurisdiction
Khali be restored to the courts in all
matters where the blacks are con?
cerned. The usury laws were amend?
ed, so as to allow 8 per cent, interest
by the agreement of parties.
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THE TENNESSEE MEMBERS.-We
must confess the action of the Joint
Committee on Reconstruction with
reference to Tennessee is not very
.?r' If we comprehend the matter
rightly, it is proposed to admit Ten?
nessee into the Union, although it is
not intended at the same time to allow
uer representatives to take seats in
3hi*& do not look so
brigit for Tennessee as they did a
week since. A special committee in
the House of Representatives have
reported that West and Middle Ten!
nessee are disloyal, while only East
Tennessee remains lo , al. An effort
is also being made to pass a bill.de?
claring negro suffrage in Tennessee.
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It is estimated that $7,000,000 have
been spent in the 600 balls given in
Ne*f York this season.
Episcopal Theological Seminary.
We leam, from the Savannah
Herald, that Bishop Davis, of South
Carolina, has made an appeal, in be?
half of the Diocesan Theological
Seminary of that State, established
at Camden. The Bishop states that
the Seminary buildings and a large
portion of the library have been de?
stroyed by fire, and that the perma?
nent fund, amounting to nearly
$50,000, was all lost during the pro?
gress of the late war. He also states
that the effects of these misfortunes
have been alleviated in some measure
by a present to the Bishop and trus?
tees of a large and well adapted
building and grounds, in Orange
burg, for the use of the professors
and students. The liberal donor is
Mr. Trenhoim, of Charleston, the
ex-Secretary of the Confederate
Treasury. But the trustees have no
money with which to resume the
exercises of thc institution, and
hence the appeal of the Bishop for
pecuniary assistance. $4,000 are ne?
cessary to carry on thc work this
year; but $250,000 will be required
to put the institution on a secure and
permanent basis. It is proposed to
establish a preparatory school for
boys, vhich shall be of a liifrh order,
and ia connection with the church.
It is proposed also to carry out the
resolution of the Diocese Conven?
tion which authorizes the prepara?
tion of colored persons for the sacred
ministry of the church, and to pro?
vide for their education and training
tt schools or seminaries, that the
freedmen in our midst may have
their brethren of the same race to
teach and to minister to them in holy
things.
The Bishop closes his letter by
saying that in this vast country, with
its fast increasing population, a semi?
nary of this character is needed at
the South, to carry out these pur?
poses. That the church calls for it
and the country needs it. Donations
can be sent to Bishop Davis, at Cam?
den, or to A. Toomer Porter,
Charleston, S. C.
THE NEXT COTTON CROP.-In the
March number of DeBow's Review,
the editor, who has just completed a
tour through the cotton States, esti?
mates the next cotton crop at not
more than 1,500,000 bales. He says:
"These figures are not likely to be
increased by anything that is now to
happen, and iiiixy bo greatly reduced
by the ignorance, neglect or desertion
of the laboring forces, which, judg?
ing from the experience of all other
countries, is more likely to occur than
not, and reduce the crop to 1,000,OOC
or 1,200,000 bales. No account ii
taken in the calculation of the appli?
cation of white labor to cotton, be?
yond what was applied to it before
the war. The extensive mortality ol
the war has made white labor at* the
South very scarce, and so far as it ii
absorbed in the necessary pursuits o!
the mechanic arts and trade, whicl
have been furnishing most lucrative
employment. The wear and tear anc
frightful destruction caused by the
war opened other channels of employ
ment besides agriculture. The in
crease of white labor at the South, sc
far as the next crop is concerned
from immigration, is too trifling tc
be taken into account. The aggre
gate number of laborers introduced
is insignificant, and so far is largely
absorbed in the cities. "
THE TEST OATH DENOUNCED E
CONGRESS.-Mi-. Finch;, of Ohio
upon a motion to amend the Consti
tution, made by Mr. McKee, of Ken
tucky, on Saturday, proscribing
Southern men from office1, made i
speech, in which he denounced th
test oath, and closed as follows:
"This was not the hour for revengt
and hate, but for clemency and for
giveness. These people had dom
wrong, but we should show then
that we can be magnanimous ii
council as well as brave in war, arie
we should say to them: 'We welconii
you back. Let ns forget the past
prove by your fidelity to the Consti
tution that you know how to bo faith
ful to it, as you know how to bc brav
and heroic iu, a mistaken and mis
guided cause. ' The true principle o
Christian charity would be a safe
test than the principles of hate anc
revenge. "
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The greatest man is he who choose
the right with invincible resolution
who resists the sorest temp ration
from within and without ; who bear
thc heaviest burdens cheerfully; win
is the calmest in storms, and who*
reliance on truth, on virtue, on God
is the most unfaltering.
A lady advertises in the Hendersoi
(Texas,) Times, a reward of $100 ii
?old for the apprehension of her hus
band, who, after a marriage of tw<
weeks, robbed herself and family anc
absconded. His name is H. M. Beck
An English widow has recoverec
835,000 from a railroad company foi
killing her husband.
In Favor of th? Negro Bureau.
There ought to be a boreau to pro?
tect negroes. "We never could bear to
see that class abused. Wie never spoke
unkindly to a servant inlbur Uves but
once, and that was when we were a
very little boy, and the ?wise reproof
administered by our blessed mother,
showing the domestic relation to us
aright, cured us forever. There ought
to be a bureau for protection of free
negroes, who are iu muqlvworse con?
dition than when they had owners.
But the seat of operations of that
establishment ought to be among us
in the North, especially, at present,
in Indiano and Illinois. We extract
from our exchanges t?ie following
items, the first from th? Jownal, pub?
lished in Sprinfield, 111:
"A man named Salitbury, living
near Peoria, has had a regro woman
in his employ, who was taken ill. Her
master whipped her, and, finding that
she was totally unable to work, took
her in his sleigh, last Frdiay, and
started for town, where he put her
out and went back home. The poor
woman, suffering v-ith the typhoid
fever, was unable to walk, and sank
to the ground from exhaustion. Her
person was marked up in a shocking
manuer, and her head was greatly
bruised. She complained of it inces?
santly until she expired, on Sunday
morning."
This man whipped this woman fear?
fully and threw her out in the snow,
I with a fever on her, and she died.
Here is another:
"Several negroes, residing in the
vicinity of Clarksvillc, Indiana, were
recently attacked and brutally ill
treated by a pariy of roughs from
New Albany."
Now, when this article reaches
Washington, let Messrs. Trumbull,
and Sumner and Stevens bring in a
bill to establish this new bureau, and
let Gen. Hoke, of North Carolina, be
appointed superintendent. If these
members of Congress do not bring in
such a bill on this showing, then it
will prove conclusively that all their
harangues are instigated, not by love
of the negro, but by hatred of the
Southern white man.
[New York Watcliman.
Mr. S.-warri Sustained--Political
Prospects.
It is rarely that William H. Seward
does not carry his point with his own
party. In the State of New York, he
is a controlling power. When the
American or Know-Nothing party
seemed destined to overwhelm every
man who refused to subscribe to its
doctrines, Mr. Seward calmly con- j
templated the subject, saw that the
Organization was an ephemeral one,
took ground against it, went before a
Know-Nothing Legislature for re-elec?
tion to the Uuited States Senate, and
was successful. He knows exactly
how far he may go for or against any
political measure, whether the same
be popular or not, and yet sustain
himself. Ho is not. a political wea- ;
ther-cock, for he does not always !
shift his position with the popular
breeze. He is rather a political ba?
rometer, which indicates what the
weather is to be. A remarkable evi- !
dence of his power to control his fol?
lowers has just been given. Whilst
the Legislatures of all the other States
in which the Republicans have a ma-?
jority have passed resolutions sus?
taining Congress upon the question of
the Freedmen's Bureau bill, he has
managed to prevent the Republicans
in the New York Legislature from fol?
lowing the contagious example so
generally set. At a full caucus of the
Republican members of that body,
held in Albany, on Wednesday night
Inst, resolutions sustaining the radical
majority as against the President's
plan of restoration were defeated by
a vote of forty-four to forty-three.
The city of New York has always
beeu. Democratic and conservative.
It is, nevertheless, worth noting that,
although the City Council, under the
peculiar influences of the war, has
become semi-radical, one-half of its
members being Republican, yet when
that body was asked to endorse the
President's policy, only two of these
Republicans dared to vote in the ne?
gative.
These evidences of a healthy pub?
lic opinion in the Empire State are
peculiarly gratifying. They give the
Southern people reason to hope that,
as New York exercises a great influ?
ence upon other States, and will her?
self elect good men, the next Con?
gress will be much more liberal in
word and deed than the present.
Nothing more than the manifestation
of this kindly spirit in dealing with
the South is necessary to attach her
firmly to the Union. Nothing less
can secure that desirable result.
[Richmond I) isj> < tte li.
.'How tired Adam must have got
on his first day, ma," said an urchin
of six years to his mother. "Why
so, my sou ?" "Because it was such
a long day." "lt was no longer than
any other day, my son." "O yes it
was ma; it was the longest day ever
known, because, von see, it had no
Ever
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In the Missouri Legislature, tho
bill prohibiting returned rebels from
wearing arms was defeated for want
of a constitutional majority. The
vote stood thirty-nine to forty-five.
One more vote was needed to make a
majority-.
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The Fenians are enlisting men and
collecting money at St. Louis. Ten
thousand dollars were collected and
and five hundred men enlisted last
weok.
From Washington.
It is stated that Senator Sherman
and many . other Republicans are
going to start for Connecticut, to
stump that State for the radicals.
Party is stronger with them than just
policy or principle.
The advice? from New Hampshire
ar?, that the letter of the Postmaster
General, ^nd the going home of the
clerks of the Departments to vote, is
construed by the-people as a wish of
the Administration for the success of
the radical Abolition gubernatorial
ticket.
The speech of Thaddeus Stevens is
understood to have been a subject
of defiant comment by the President.
The Commissioner of Internal
Revenue has addressed a letter to the
collectors of the twenty-third district
of Pennsylvania, stating that inspec?
tors cannot retain for their own use
that portion of the spirits taken from
tho cask or package in order to ascer?
tain the proof. This is not only
wholly unauthorized; but is looked
upon as a positive fraud ?pon the
Government and dealers. The col?
lectors are instructed to adopt such
measures as shall effectually put a
stop to this practice.
The Assistant Commissioner of tho
Freedmen's Bureau, informs General
Howard that the number of helpless
poor in Arkansas and Missouri that
wilj be dependent on the Govern?
ment for support during the next
three months will be about 4,000.
In obedience to instructions from
the War Department, the military
districts of Northern and Western
New York have been discontinued.
The Redemption Bureau last week
stamped as counterfeits 418 fifty-cent
notes, 83 twenty-five-cent notes, 27
ten-cent notes, 1 fifty-dollar note, and
1 ten-dollar note. Total, $292.45.
The receipts from internal revenue
last week amounted to over $5,
500,000.
The Comptroller of the Currency,
last week issued as circulation of na?
tional banks $2,123.000.
Commissioner Sargeant, of the
Customs Bureau, is informed that the
late blockade-runners contemplate
going into the smuggling business,
and that thirty-five vessels have been
fitted out for that purpose. It is ex?
pected that they will attempt to land
goods on the Florida coast. Mea?
sures have been adopted, calculated
to interfere with this illegitimate bu?
siness.
The Old Capitol Prison is to be
thrown open to-morrow to the public,
when the curious will have an oppor?
tunity of inspecting the cells of the
many noted prisoners who have been
confined there at different periods of
the war. The picture of Wirz, pen?
cilled by his own hand, still remains
on the wall of the cell occupied by
that unfortunate.
A subscription paper is now being
j circulated in tho District for signa?
tures to the proposed new line of
Potomac steamers to run to the lower
Counties of Maryland and Virginia.
A clerk in the Treasury Depart?
ment, named J. W. Hasbrouck, who
is Secretary to the National Equal
Suffrage Association, has been dis?
charged.
Thomas W. Edwards, Esq., of Lou?
doun County, Virginia, having been
charged $5.50 by the bureau agent,
who handed him the order restoring
his property, General Howard re?
lieved the gentleman from duty.
Good !
According to careful computation
by members who are interested in
sustaining tho President's policy of
reconstruction, there are but fifteen
Republican Congressmen who can be
depended upon to vote against radi?
cal measures as they come up.
The Judiciary Committee of the
House have under consideration, and
will probably report next Tuesday, a
bill empowering the President, or
any military commander who repre?
sents him in the late rebellious States,
to reinstate loyal men in the posses?
sion of lands which they were de?
prived of by rebel confiscation during
the war, as everybody knows the Con?
federate Government indulged pretty
heavily in confiscation against those
who were known to favor the Union
cause. Since the war, many of their
decrees have been reversed, and the
former owners reinstated in posses?
sion of their property. The object
of the proposed bill is to keep the
loyal owners in possession by the em?
ployment of military power until the
Southern country has become so far
settled that the questions can be tried
before the civil courts. It is merely
a measure to choke off the lawyer*
temporarily.-New York lierait/.
MURDER.-On Thursday morning
last, some negroes in a field in Lex?
ington District, and not far from the
Court House, hearing au unusual
noise, together with the report of a
pistol, repaired to the spot, and there
discovered a dead body, which was
afterwards identified by Mr. John
Hair, of Frog Level, then on his way
to Columbia, us that of Capt. Chesley
Herbert, of this District-a most
estimable Christian gentleman. The
body was very mueh mutilated, appa?
rently from blows inflicted with a
club, while a ball fired nt the buck of
the head had passed out near the
upper lip. It appears that on Sun?
day night, the 4th, Capt. H. had a
horse stolen from him by a negro. Ou
Monday, he started in pursuit, mid
overtook the thief on Tuesday. On
Thursday morning, while on his way
back with the negro, he was most
foully murdered by him. The negro
has been arrested and sent to Colum?
bia for trial.- Newberry Herald.
Thrilling Tale or mn In-voluntary
-'"Krona ut.
In 1852, a famous oronaut adver?
tised that he would make an ascen?
sion from Oakland, California. It
was a total novelty to nine-tenths of
those he addressed, and the public
rushed to see lum in crowds. In the
centre of the space from whicli the
ascent was to be made, the huge
sphere floated, held down to vulgar
earth by a dozen ropes grasped by as
many persons elected from among
the by-standers. -The navigator of
the heavens had not yet made his ap?
pearance, and the audience were grow?
ing impatient, as was manifested by
their shouts and curses. He was pro?
bably playing freeze-out poker with
some flush miner, in some adjoining
tavern, a la Artemus Ward, and could
not be choked off. In a few minutes
more, the "machine" would have
been torn into threads, when, a gust
of wind arising, the balloon was sud?
denly wrenched from the hands that
held it, and rushed like a rocket to?
wards the clouds. Did we say
wrenched from all ? No, not from
all. A cry of horror rose from the
lately turbulent crowd, for there,
clinging to a slight wood cross-piece
attached to one of the cords, was a
small dark object, which every one
pronounced to be a human being.
A lad who had been selling papers
among the crowd was one of those
who had volunteered to hold the guys,
and not being sufficiently alert, had
been carried off with the balloon. The
spectators were appalled, and every
observer momentarily expected to see
him drop. But the young adventurer
had no such idea, and those who had
glasses saw him clamber up the cord,
and seat himself astride the cross?
piece. The balloon ascended upward
in the glowing rays of the sun, it
seemed like a speck; then vanished
altogether.
It would have been difficult, just
then, to have insured the life of that
boy at any premium. As for the in?
voluntary seronaut, what must have
been his feelings, as he found himself
thus severed from the firm earth to
which he had been accustomed. At
first, his little heart was in his throat,
and he seemed to have suddenly fallen
from some vast height into an abyss
of fathomless air. The world vanished
instantaneously from sight. The boy
had unfortunately wound the cord
about his hand in such a manner that
it was impossible to let go at once.
Yet, knowing the fate that awaited
him, should he fall, he had, by the
exertion of an amount of strength
wonderful in one so young, contrived
to assume the position of comparative
safety already noted.
There he saw the wind-driven
clouds of different strata rush post
him with frightful velocity, and look?
ing down could dimly discern the
landscape, and the ocean with its
ships, spread out as on a map. Dur?
ing the afternoon, the people of Be
nicia saw the car dash by, and little
thought of the throbbing heart that
from that awful eminence awaited in
cold anxiety the coming night. The
blood began to congeal in the veins
of the little traveler; the act of breath?
ing grew difficult; his muscles, in?
creased to such a fearful tension,
.rere beginning to relax; a numbness
seized on the fingers that grasped the
cord. A few minutes more must evi?
dently terminate his terrible ride
through space.
All at once, the rope attached to
the valve was thrown against the boy.
He clutched it in his despair as an
additional hold ui^on life. Joy! The
valve opens! the gas rapidly escapes!
the balloon is once more nearing the
earth! It rushes into the leafy em?
brace of a grove of trees, and, after a
violent struggle, rests.
When some ranchman, Avho had
been watching the descent, reached
the spot, he found the young adven?
turer seated on the ground at the foot
of au oak, looking the very picture of
astonishment, but none the worse for
his journey, except a few scratches.
We have heard of persons whose
hair from terror turned gray in a
single night. The hair of the lad on
coming down was a bright red, but
as it was red before he went up, we
do not know that this was anything
remarkable. We meet him-the boy
then, the man now-daily; he looks
like another mortal, and seems to
have forgotten all the circumstances
to which he was indebted for his ele?
vation.-California- Sunday Mercury.
MOKE COTTON BURNED.-A corres?
pondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer,
writing from New York under date of
March 7, says:
Cotton is once more a sufferer, and
insurance men fairly grow pale at a
bare mention of the great staple. At
an early hour this m Arning, fire was
discovered in the hold of the Danish
ship Earl of Shaftsbury, a new vessel
just about to sail. The cargo was
very valuable, consisting, among other
things, of 500 bales of cotton, 104
hogsheads of tobacco, 150 barrels of
potash and 45 tons of logwood. In
spite of the exertions of the firemen,
the fire could not be extinguished
until the vessel was almost filled with
water, and the cargo was damaged to
the extent of $100,000, the ship itself
being. injured to the amount of
Bl0,000.
The Shreveport (La.) Southwestern
lays Mrs. Cane has rented her mng
lificent plantation on Red River, op
>osite that place, containing over
1,000 acres of cleared land, to North?
ern men for three years, for the sum
)f $54,000-being at tho rate of $18,
M10 a year.
Local Items.
CASH.- Our tenus for subscription, ad?
vertising and job work are cash. We hope
all parties will bear this in mind.
THE WEEKLY GLEANER.-The regular
publication of this paper will be postponed
a few weeks. Persons desirous of sub?
scribing, will please forward the money ut
once. Terms $4 a year.
THE BURNING OF COLUMBIA.-An inter?
esting account ol the "Sack and Destruc?
tion of tho City of Columbia. S. C.," has
just been issued, in pamphlet form, from
the Phoenix, steam power press. Order?
can be filled to any extent.
We have received the amt number of the
American Cotton Planter, published by
that well known agriculturist, Dr. Cloud.
It is an excellent journal for the purposes
to which it is devoted, and is published at
three dollars per annum. Address A. B.
Cloud, M. D., Montgomery, Alabama.
POBTBAIT OK GEN. LEE.-The Phonix
office is indebted to Mr. James Brown for
a beautiful engraving of the likeness of
Gen. Robert E. Lee, tbe hero of the South.
It is elegantly framed in the "Rustic"
style, and will no doubt lind its way into
every parlor of the South. The engraving
is executod by Elisha Dexter Sc Sons, of
New York, and is one of the prettiest works .
of art that we havo seen.
THE TAUS.-In relation to the notice JR
James G. Gibbes, Esq., Collector for flBB
Upper Division of South Carolina, we ap^
pend the following information derived
from the Collector: Tho license to be col?
lected is that for trade, professions, A.,
viz: For doctors and lawyers, per annum,
$10; rotail dealers, $10; retail licpior dealers,
$25; wholesale dealers, $50. The fiscal
year ends 1st of May. The tax now de?
manded is for the first year, or rather from
May 30, 1865, to May 1, 18G6, or from the
time of persons beginning business up to
Miy 1, 1866. Gn May 1, license for the en
ing vear will be collected. Retail dealers
in all articles, except liquors, are exempt
from license, if their sales are less than
$1,000 per annum. Wholesale dealers,
that is such as sell exceeding $2,500 per
annum, pay $50 license; also $1 per $1,000
on all eales over $50,000; butchers, $10;
builders, $25; photographers, $10 to $25;
manufacturers, $10; dentists, $10. Licenses
will be required to be paid immediately;
say within the next ten days or two weeks.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.-Attention is call?
ed to the following advertisements, which
are published this morning for the first
time:
Austin, Andua Sc Co.-Groceries.
C. H. Baldwin-Beceived To-Day.
J. Meighan-Leather.
Jas. M. Beard-Estate Sale.
J. F. Eisenman-Removal.
Nomination for Aldermen.
Apply at this Office-Situation Wanted.
PEARLS AN? RUBIE?.-White teeth crop?
ping from ont of ridgeB of ruby, a breath
spicy as the airs from Araby the Bleat
who* can resist such fascinations? To
realize them-to perpetuate them-to make
the mouth a casket of pearls and rubies,
and every sigh a gush of fragrance-all
you have to do, fair ladies, is to use that
"matchless vegetable preparation, Fragrant
Sozodont. t
The Assistant Commissioner of the
Freedmen's Bureau, for the State of
Georgia, informs the Bureau that
"the condition of the freedmen is
commeudable. They are all at work
under Government contracts, no lazi?
ness being thought of by them.
There is a great prejudice against
educating the freedmen, and attempts
have been made to break up the
schools established by the colored
people. There exists a hatred deep
and bitter, coming from the bottom
of their hearts, among the whites,
against our Government. This feel?
ing they teach their children. We
see this feeling in ten thousand ways;
neither do they attempt to conceal it
from us." He represents that it ia
impossible for any people to be more
earnest and patient to obtain know?
ledge than tlie freedmen of his dis?
trict. "They also exhibit an anxiety
and watchfulness unparalleled in their
efforts not to be offensive to their
former masters. " In the opinion of
the Assistant Commissioner, "the
withdrawal of protection to the freed
people, who are now industrious,
energetic and obedient, would entail
much suffering upon the loyal refu
gees as, well as they."
In a trial at Charleston of F. G.
Stowers, of Anderson, before a mili?
tary commission, for the murder of
two Federal soldiers last fall, some
singular developments are made as to
the value of negro testimony. Two
freedmen, at the beginning of the
trial, gave evidence favorable to the
accused, stating on oath that he was
in his room, undressed, at the time
the murder was supposed to have
been committed. They now assert
thai the whole evidence was a lie, and
they knew nothing of h is whereabouts
at the time.
Which side of the story the court
will accept, remains to be seen. Whe?
ther this conflict of testimony arises
from a general incapability of truth
or other causes, has not transpired.
THE PRESIDENT ENDORSED IN NEW
YORK. -The Common Council of New
York city has adopted, with but two
dissenting votes, resolutions endors?
ing the President's policy. The Re?
publican members pf the New York
Eiegislature have also passed, in cau
3us, resolutions of the same kind, by
i vote of 4A to 43.
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A deficit of $39,000 has just been
discovered in the accounts of the
bounty Treasurer at Chilicothe, Ohio.
That official explains by saying that
die money was stolen from his safe.