The New York Herald Newspaper, May 12, 1866, Page 10

W NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1866.—TRIPLE SHEET. — ‘ted States exercises any contro! whatever over | brown for two barrels of white » and paid | the government to the establishment of far | their eyes about @ nh Ve Sots Catia’ Seca ct eneeeh ip the ether States of | Captain Hovekrana ave cent per pound er making the below what the labor is really worth. Dtlcers and coiton plantations of the ‘ the Union, so long the presence of military force will be | exenange. of the 's and Commissary Departments who | tage of the fear \ e indispensable. ‘The presence of both the Bureau and THB REVERAND WIRZ, are thus engaged are subjected to the temptation of | and purchased at a - maiitary force is unue ‘The officers commanding Opposite Newbern, on the south bank of the Tremt | appropriating to their own use quartermaster’s stores | best of terms Soon afterwards the army ‘the troops can discharge duties now performed by | river, there is @ settlement composed exclusively of | and rations to supply and pay their own laborers, Com- | uted throi —eeee both; but the officers of the Bureau, without the pre- } freedmen, and containing @ population of about four | plaints have been made to me by the planters that these inia to Texas, sence of the troops, would be powerless to execute even, | thousand, whose condition is truly deplorable. ‘These =— of the Bureau use the power of their positions to ra, Just ‘3 soon as their term 4 ort for the States “of | their own orders, wntortunate people came within our lines and were lo- in and control the best labor in the: State, ‘There is A} ir abode, Dai General Steedman's Repor RE Sa cated there during the war. Thoy are living in small | no doubt that some of the ill feeling manifested toward jE ems ono Manthernme of toe Segees Orleana, Ya; Springfield, Mo, Vicksburg, Miss. ‘ Y At the close of the war, in the chaouc condition in | huts, built by themselves of lumber manufactured by | the Bureau on the part of the planters is attributable to | nature—in spite of hostility and prejudice—took up the | Charleston, 8. C. ; gtony N. cad Virginia and North Carolina, wich socioty was lett We'tha eatin uboenee af ail Givit | hand; - these’huws generally containing but a single | thie fact. Of associating them with thomselves for the sake of | Washington, D.¢, Efforts in their ‘behalf have been: authority, judicious and sensible officers of the Bu- | reom, each of which is occupied in most cases by —_ ARBITRARY POWER OF THE BUREAU. control they could exercise over the negroes in free- and will continue, on the part of the benevolent pannnenne reau, pA ‘the mili exercised a good influ- | families, The appearance of this settlement, recently | The arbitrary power exercised by some of | dom, and for the sake of the little capital they could | and the government officers, Yes the field is large, and: ence, and did ‘much to aa rder and assist in the | scourged with the small-pox, ig well calculated | the officers and agents of the Bureau in | bring to the farms, In this way, or by purchase or rental, | it is better that it should be known and felt that slavery y ization of free labor. The restoration of cfvil law | to excite the deepest sympathy for the helpless | making arrests, imposing fines and inflict i is portoctly surprising how of our young men | is not @ very Sood preparatory | agency for freedom. The Removal of the Freedmen’s Bu- the recognition of the civil rights of the freedmen, | condition of its inhabitants, Tho decrepit and help- | ing punishments disregarding the local laws and | may be found already aitached to, if not | in, | When the -hoiding whi ts evidenced’ the ‘ch os made b ‘the Legislature in | less among them are supported by the govern- | espec! iy the statute of limitations, creates ene Southern society. Many Southern men, reau Recommended. the laws of Virginia giving them tho rignt to hold | ment of tho United States, and the remainder | against tho government, If the offloera were all honest | entorprising than others, visited ‘cites of Europe wad to sue a be ree to testify in the courte | procure an uncertain and scanty living from little jobs | and intelligent, with even limited legal information, it | brought back with them both capital and agents of mon- ion growing ae cases in which they may" be interested (a gratifying | about Newbern—from fishing with small boats, hack- | might be safe’ to trust them with this extraordinary | eyed associations, and have. sot’ thelr plans In operation slavery will be destroyed and the evils to & grout extent root of the erowivy fecling of kindness toward them on | atering,&c. The Rev. Mr. Pitz, formerly anarmy chaplain, | power; but in many instances the ofllcers do not possoss | with greater vigor thaw botere wie eae so | aevediod. Butt anticipate, r Re Bre art or the kites) oder the froedimon, in our | presides over this colony as Assistant Superintendent of | the slightest knowledge of law. | At Goldsboro, the } hastily glanced at the classes of men who claimed to be GRNERAL CLASSIFICATION OF YRREDMEY, Zee Military Autboritics to Under- | tbe part of the whi roe ig tho care of the law | the Bureau for the Trent river settlement. ‘This agent | agent, Captain Giavis, imposed a fine of $25. on one Poor, but really were not; they were only embarrassed; |, In an addreas which I have just prepared for another ss opinion, perfectly secure, J has exercised the most arbitrary and despotic power, | freedman for stabbing another so sevorely as to endanger | and’ have indicated’ the manner in which re. | occasion, I have. classified “the ‘colored populations 3 take the Protection and Relief eaahataabags a and practised revolting and unheard-of eruelties on the | his life, aud when interrogated by us relative to this | of has ‘been found: When’ ther Souther’ arms | ia the lode slave States thue:—" We will bude four pee : Tm x tobe « tontrariety of opinion as to | helpless fresdmen under his charge. The outrageous | caso he statod that ho did not know enough about law to | ios were ‘token “Up and’ 'scatived thread te | Hortion. Merhape one-half, intelligent, tadustsicus: seen of the Freedmen, whothor ee eheot cr the operations of the Bureau on the | conduct of this man was brought to our attention by a | distinguish a civil from a criminal case, men were thrown upon society without a cent of money | dont and self-sustaining; ‘another class, a third perhaps, Proodancr: has beon to promote habits of industry or idie. | delegation of freedmen from the settioment, who called THR RROOMMENDATION. One who had, before the rebellion, been in our army, | restless, changeable, careless of money, but yet able to arma hiniipiesy ee han sain bop hate F v r judgment the effect produced | upon us and made statements in relation to his oppres- We are satisfied that the recommendation which we | told me that the surrender found him at Shreveport, La., | get a living from hand to mouth, like many other poor een sens Tee, 3 a earacter of the officers, | sions and outrages which we could scarcely eredit. | mado in reference to the withdrawal of the officers of the | with only a single dime in his pocket, while his family people; and the one-sixth, very ignorant de- f the P has depended wholly Lay tn rarely call upon the | After hearing their ~ statements we visited the | Bureau in Vicginie, and the transference to the officers | were in Baltimore. rt |, comparatively or completely. helpless, In and. Seathing Exposure of the Poow= | Protest ana intustrious trestmen reel coll spon the | Siscment, oouvened the fiwedmen,, investigated | commanding ihe ops of such duties ee. 1¢ ay sill be redfeelsad Lah sto hear the large cities, for example, Richmond, Raleigh, Mi: duct of Boriitess whe took to it for support. Among these, | the charges against ‘this ‘man, and ascertained | necessary to perform in. conuection with the freedmon, | You will nd many of these mem now agents of ox. | henrthe,iagge cities, for example, Hlebmond, Raleigh, lations and Misconduct o: Seer as wn ook noan to include the infirm ad help, | that he had been guilty of even greater wrongs and op- | is equally applicable to North Carolina, press companies, conductors and workmen on railroads, | colored people, presenting every shade of color from Bureau Officers, Powe ore re io nor “the freedion have an ides that the | pression than had been complained of. In addition to ery respectfully, your obedient servants, manning steamers, clerks in stores, keepers of boarding | white to extreme black, for the most part incline to the e Bureau possesses some mysterious power to serve them, | the testimony of the freedmen we took the statements of AS. B. STEEDMAN, Maj.-Gen. Volunteers, honses and hotels, and some actually at work in the | first class as described. Those who have drifted in from. + 2 ig nd that if they fail to secure such a livelihood as they | four intelligent ladies from the North, who are teaching J. 8, FULLERTON, Brig. Gen. Volunteers, fields. A few im almost every county have joined them- | the plantations from fifty miles around, orig and sinee ch i sip oa desiro they cau fall back upon it with a certainty of sup- School in the settlement. Among the inany acts of cru: —— golves to, secret bands, called + lator” nigger. | the war, nclino to the second clase. Thethird clase ray readi elty committed by Superintendent Fitz we found that he ” *< Jayhawl or somethin; the kind. In jound everywhere, anc eir ment nts of the Bureau Shooting | eter: serscire eiaployment and to zunpart themselves | had in two instances suspended freedmen with cords | REEDMEN’S ANNIVERSARY. | Warreston tan sannt timelago, © bead of them, com. | moral condition will always excite oompaision. The or Age and their’ familie. They also regard the existence of sroape aan eer =r + not posuere “~ Tones need partly’ CA sons of muon of some note; and partly of | dinary plantation of the interior affords examples of every ept them in this position, in one case four, in the other rowdies, with stones other mi class, " Down a Negro. Cee he nae crihe Gini ieee otek a caso six hours; that ho sentenced a freedman to‘an im, | Speech of Gencral Howard before the | prove the winions cree mite Mone al peaeianiten DISTRICT OF COLUMAIA. eniculated to excite suspicion and bad feeling’ on their | Prsonment of three months for a trivial offence, that of | Freedmen’s American and British Ae- | New Belford, Mass, was touching a ccved voloct | Should your beeen Ce COLUMBIA. an inspector Lapeer a oniha part wrangling with his wife. He kept another man who | gociation=The Great Day of Jubi- | The citizens afterwards mot together and doprecated this | into the District of Columbia, he could. find a siinilar GENERAL BROWN'S ADMINISTRATION. was arrested for debt shut up in the block house—the al outrageous conduct, and assured the young lady of pro- | classification of the People to that your own city pre- HE ATROCITIES AT NEWBERN. | _ tre Aseistant Commissioner of the Bureau for Virginia, | prison—for months, while his wife and two children, re. | ee 18 Come.’ tection; but I learn’ that neither the civil power nor the | sents, We have in the District five churches, well fllea "| Brevet Brigadier General 0. Brown, is laboring faithfully | duced to abject destitution, died with the smallpox, and The anniversary of the Frecdmen’s American and | mora! force of public sentiment proved ient to save | with respectable, intelligent, well dressed colored people ; 7 Stect the interests of | took him from the prison under guard and compelled him ©o 1 Jeb 1 her from & second cowardly assault at hor lodgings. A | some forty day schools, and as many Sabbath sohovls, ~— Doth racen” We discovered: a bosulity ‘among the | to bury his ast child inthe cradio in which t-died, On | British International Commission was celebrated last | cinilar band ‘mot together In tho Grea sees: | eame forty day schools, and as many Sab regularly at: eerie Tete Of Ti ae ae tic ncdunetion “ot the freed: | another occasion, when one of his guards reported whim | evening at the African Methodist Episcopal chureh, | waylald a hrave teacher and ordered ‘him to eave the | lending, the majority bright, active and docile, ” Yee i ynch- | that a colored woman had spoken disrespectfully of him, | Sullivan street. The attendance was very large, colored ™ e declined to do, and the mean, unmanl: we we our ‘Mu -bay,”? ‘‘Swamp-poedie,”” and Cultivation of Farms by the Bureau Nee ee oe are eee eats eaatined |: without even ingultiag what the woman fad ead, be ort Je being largelyin the majority. At eight o'ciock | F2Wdies rushed upon him and beat him nearly todeatls | our hundrods of shaaties tox atrait aud toc tacgable for Off nto this subject the people were taking much interest | dered her to be imprigoned until the next morning at | Peo? ig largely! y- iB It is these that drove the lovers of peace from Randolph | human beings to dwell in. There are little alleys, very eure. tn tho establishtaent bf schools for thels education, giv- | mine o'clock, whon she should be brought. before him to | Genoral Howard, of tho Freedmen’s Bureau, entered tho | county, North ‘Carolina;. that ‘hive, utned noeeet | Meroe age? Gamal in mero are little, alloys, by TO — ‘ng as a reason for their efforts in this direction that | answer forthe indignity, In one instance he imprisoned | church and as he passed down the centre isle and up | Churches in Maryland, Alabama and Louisiana; that | three ‘times too many people, The day I wax educated labor was preferable to uneducated labor, which | Six children for ten days for playing in the streets on the | 16 steps of the preacher’s stand, he was warmly | }Ave shot negro soldiers in almost every State. Thoy [oo ey this lecture a poor see. without feet, Mincas we ballnce nrevatin tironationn thea’ Rint bath day. He imposod a fine of sixty dollars upon ps p ? Y | are poor, vile, whiskey drinking, gambling cutthroats, | wor er way from Freedmen’s Village to Wast- FREEDMEN’S ANNIVERSARY. | ree eee vobr or Tan orricEna. 4 an aged freedman for having told another fredman that | grected by tho assemblage, ‘The General wore the | who’ find their counterpart in“ the beak robbers, | ingion, two’ of ‘three tiles, and aited ewes ‘We made no investigation into the conduct of the | he was about to be arrested by Mr. Fitz. This poor old | the uniform frockeoat belonging to his rank. Peckpeckett fm gga fe ugerpen ang Fa meon my pnp at my gt hei ae ——_ cnn gia te Burnt in Virginie one of Wir oil | man, not having fae, money te ba fhe fo, ras ime Ty OPENING. PROCEEDINGS. Le a Ned bo hI Rd Leal with three dollars additional a8 jail fees, Rey. Henny H. Garver (colored) presided, and opened -_ ee incre, Fagg arog ag es bear eviiee a you,” eae one etd Firz’s TAXES, n r in their hate,” when they wuat BEEN DONE iN General foward Before the American OM pea ag 3 we pro. | The land upon which tho huta tn this settlement are | ‘¢ exercises of the evening by reading hymn, which | 1.) no riaat condition of Christians, and’ preach and | _Let usturnuow fora few. moments to the romedies, ‘ Fo ae eect oe ee eed serra | built is owned by certain heirs in North Cerolina, and is | "as then sung by the choir of the church. practise Christian love, these vile miscreants will not be | With regard to the poor whites who are now in such bad Freedmen’s Society. vies oe egy a ‘April orere dpa ‘the Assist- | held by the Freedmen’s Bureau as abandoned property. Prayer was delivered by the Rev. Sixazerow T. Jones | so bold; they will not assume the airs of prond, inde- | condition, the en’s Bureau is prepared to draw . x ant Commissioner of the Bureau for said State, Colonel | 4 \@x which Superintendent Pita says goes to the support | (colored), who prayed that the President might be what pane sristocrals. while hay as SalI of condueeian a Mee lay Pig Pred rs fmocen Sorppaen pine Faces iatehe atanar of Tatars foment tna ead ‘rent. If the oosupants fall to y this tax | he always professed to be, but has always failed to be—a " Too WHITES since its organization. yom may compare. these Review ef the Condition of the cones io fig onus Sauber el frecamen to | Promptly they are either turned out into the streets or | true friend of liberty. The forego'ng embrace the ruling classes who were | issues, I will read you a few items from a table in which Nem rations hace tine if Seti ‘and in some instances huts have been torn temporarily impoverished, but who recover rapidly just | tho suffering whites are embracod im the term ‘refugeo”’ : whom rations have been issued since the Grst of Decem STATEMENT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. st Fa gg Betpegersnnery norcross Southern People. Der last in said State. down by order of tho Superintendent for non-payment ag $00n ag peace spreads her mantle of protection over umber ot ions ugees juni — "1 *Gommissioned officers in the military service:—One | Of the tax, All businese transacted by these people ig | An abstract of the operations of the commission for | them, and those who are always Poor, because reckless | 1, 1865, to March 31, 1866... ‘ 1, OOOO OOO OTTO Peasy ‘one lieutenant colonel, two jors, seventeen | ‘axed for the same purpose. Five dollars per month is | the past year was then read by the secretary, William BG dissipated or criminal, The really pa ance te) arg as ——— worn aera ry Cae saplsine, six Ares nutenants, eight swoond “Wenten- | MoUs Whe: dollst on each ‘hores and care ka, Teg | Howard Dey. The principal work tnauguraled during | (an, Nays cca compassion, in| the heart of, the | 1, 1208, to March 81, 1008......-.4...... ‘The for Present Evils— ae eae failure to pay these taxes when due at once | H@ year and which was being carried on with great | Cratyerg:”? in South Carolina “and hillers,”” and. gen Total fullrations for ten montbs.......... arpa ~ ape bjects the taxed to conflecation, | Success, was the educational development of the freed: | sity elsewhere “white trash” and “poor whites.” ‘These ighte for All Siesetenis pusgecmi ak penncene We able to hat amount of money had | Men of the Routh, | Material aid had also been fur- | Deopie seldom fled on the approach of ourarmics. Often | Average monthly issues to hie 26 hospital attendants, at average pay each Per | | eon collectod by. Superinendent Fitz, oF ‘what diapon- | nished to tho Southern freedmen in many ways. The | Peoble.scidem tet on the approach of our armios. Often “ riage a = = a evvilina’ suployes, clerks, agenis, &e; at’ ax’ *) 7 | tlonhad been made of it, The Imperfect manner in which | *#tement was received with applause, turb them, I remember that after a short, sharp engage- aman ee 2 77 20 | bis books were kept would have rendored a lengthy REMARKS BY REV, MR. GARNETT. ment at ville, on Bragg’s retreat from his defeat at | Total for one month......... A laborers yy ave’ ’ per month of TI a1 90 | @nd detailed examination necessary to arrive at even Rev. Mr. Gannurr (colored) then proceeded to address | Mission Ridge, Lentered the house of one of these poor Generals Steedman and Fullerton, the commissioners | 4 HVOnih OM tre Teerciae enlisted incn’ exe detailen | 8 approximate idea of the amount of money collected, | the meeting. He sald since the passage of the Civil | families, ‘There were two rooms in tho house; one con- | Average daily issue to refugees. appointed by tho President to investigate the operations eal es he be eo: ‘ding officers of the | 12 answer to a question as to what justification there was | Rights bill to address his hearers as fellow citizens was | tained au old man and his wife, and the other a faxally of «oe " « freedmen oe ; Giderat matinee poste Whore athens at toe Brean sce | fer the oppressive burdens he had imposed upon these | no longer a presumption, but a fact universally ac- | eight—father, mother and six ‘ohildrem, In thelr Tree of the Freedmen’s Bureau in the Southern States, have iD ay Boe people, Superintendent Fits replied that Captain Seeley | knowledged. It was proper on an occasion like this | these poor people had torn up the floor and put two or | Total daily issu Presented the following report:— wi itede have bean lasuatiasi@ellowas told him, ‘I must have a thousand dollars a month from | that they should look back upon the fields over which | three of the smallest children beneath it, and had made | Average number Wriurscrox, N. C., May 8, 1868, via ea ae vcnan Onl Total, | that setilement.”” He also furnished us with a sworn | we have been fighting for thirty years and to behold the | barricades against our shells of bedsteads turned up on | men) assisted daily... Sp ova ; a408 | 36ND 6,603 | Statement, herewith forwarded, marked “E,” in which | victories which have been won. These victories have | their sides, supporting such atraw beds and bed clothing | As soon as the next crop re seed Mies, EM Stiwros, Bocretery of War:— 2'567 3112 6.831 | he attempie to defend his conduct by stating that he | not been few and inconsiderable. | (Applause.) We have | as they could get together. The whole air of this estab- | has been planted a large number of those now Deli as- ‘We have the honor to report that in obedience to in- 27 3.507 Bld acted in obedience to the orders of his superior officers | found in warand in peace an aeknowledgment of our | lishment was that of extrems poverty, with very litt! sisted will cease to be dependent. A deal has alsoe sirootions of April 7 last, directing us to “inspect and a1 red 3.408 940 | im the Borean, manhood. We have gained for our people what is sig- | clothing, and that in tatters, with scarcely any | b-en done in the way of clothing, and an equal liberality sane : sons that Pe for issuing rations to the CAPTAIN SEELEY SCRERNING WIS SUBORDINATE. nificant of the highest patriotism—a love of Cage @ | food, with faces seldom if ever washed, and hair | in furmshing medicimes, though the medical attendance Tae Lipa See Feenimnes's Daren othe einer te | | ie sen of Virginia, and the necessity for the continu. | _ 10 an interviow we: had with Captain Seeley that of-| love of liberty and courage and heroism. ‘The | uncombed, Fear had. aroused thom ‘from their | has necessarily been limited. partments of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, ‘ance of this relief, cl nly to freedmen ef North Carolina, | Cer evinced a desire to shicld Superintendent Fitz by | most sanguine could scarcely hope some years | usually biank, lethargic habits; but they soon STATE AID, ACTUAL AND PROSPECTIVE. @eorgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, Ar- Femina TOWARDS ‘THE BUREAU. stating that a great deal of what was eaid against him | azo to see in our day tho banner of our country wav- | resumed their habitual listless, depressed appearance, ‘rhe principle to be aimed at is that cach State or die- tf ” f ai Wo found the feeling towards the Bureau much the | Fesulted from prejudice, notwithstanding he had the | ing over a land entirely free; yet we have lived to | Want of wholesome food, and the excessive use of tobac- | trict shall support its own poor. Alabama has appointed ‘kansas and Texas," that we have performed that duty in en abat alvaaie aad as prevailing in Virginia, ex- | §Worn testimony before him that the charges against Fitz | see this—to seo all the homos of the American peo- | co, with the usual hopeless, aimless modes of living, in | a State Commissioner, who has co-operated hi ly wit he departments of Virginia and North Carolina, and | SOO nel thors appears to be & more usiversal desive ia | Were true, ple, occapied whether by whites or blacks, regarded as | filth and want, had produced here as elsowhere the most | General Swayne, She bas also made an sppropeiation to- submit the following report of our observations. We rs department fg the part of all classes to have it re- BUREAU OFFICERS SHOOTING DOWN A FRREDMAN. -| the castles of the owners, and for which they were justi- | pitiable objects of humanity. This family was a sample | help meet the extreme destitution, and before govern- ed, This feeling is no doubt attributable to the mis. | _ While at Nowbern, investigating the conduct of the | fled in giving all that 1s dear and valuable, their lives | of hundreds that I met with during our campaigning. | mont aid shall be withdrawn 1 believe this State will ar- Gone 6 prepay te commnione the eh Cee | REE, See alae ameae area such as | officers of the Bure, and the reported oppreseions of | and property, and the greatest, sacridces. ‘These have | Oiten the absence of the father and the elder brothers | range ® system suchas bas been spection in these States before proceeding farther im the | Soing biantations, running sawmills, manufacturing | the freedmen by this class of persons, our attention was | mot been in vain. We have lived to be enabled to travel | would deepen the gloom and despair that seemed to | county already, similar to \hat prevailing in the formance of the duty assigned to us. Torpentite and tar’ ken comorations which Dring thene | ealledto the alleged killing of @ freedman by a white | through the South, one end to the other, with | hover round their home circles. It was often a pomtive | States for tho care of the indigent. We hope, during the- at si armed with authority of thelr oficial positions, into com. | ¢mPloye of Colouel Whittlesey, Assistant Commissioner | more safcty—yes, the darkest man—than the whitest | relief to find a woman crying bitterly on account of her | next year, to exten this aystenr to the olive States Stas been our endeavor to ascertain, by 8 thereEgD eee ee ee ere ne ae oaam into com | of the Bureau for North Carolfna, and the ov. Horace | inan could,’ few years ago. if it was only supposed that | losses, for it was so different from the common lethargy TRANSPORTATION, and impartial investigation, the manner in wateh the | Detl#on with the citizens who are enploying em | James, formerly assistant quartermaster, on thelr | he was tindtured with a spirit of universal liberty. (Ap- | or mopish stupidly of this class of the poor. | We found | By the judicious use of transportation we may trans- ®@urean has been administered and conducted in ‘We have investigated some of the charges made | Plantation in Pitt county. Mr. James, while in | plause.) Last year I took a pilgrimage from the shores | such poor everywhere; in Tenn the line of | port orphan children to good egret the against ts of the Bureau, and in pursuing our in. | the United States service, was Superintendent of the Bu- | of Maryland, my native State, and had_ the | the railroad, at every post and town; in among | Country. Many have already gone to the England Sheso departments, and to observe the effet | assist agents of © mnced with the Ancisieat Com, | Feau for the district now undet charge of Captain Seeley, Privilege to’ travel through the Southern States | the mountains and valleys; in Georgia, on tho poor, piny | States and to the West. Families now so situated. ne- Produced by it upon the relations vetween the | Ticcionor of the State Colonel E. Whittlesey, to | SB is now an agent of the Bureaa, without pay, for the ] lying betweon Chesapeake bay and the waters | barrens stretching along the coast, and. throughout the | scarcely to subsist, nud.’ more or leas dependent on tire white and Bleck rece, In pureuing our iavestigition | Suen we addressed “the to [—"Do-’yon | County in which he is planting. The ciroumstances un- | of tho Mississippi, and 1 revisited my old home; | Carolinas, often on the farms of the wealthy, sonctimes | government and Your charties, can be removed to places pein! new “ot im “the miltary” sorvies. tow | der which this freedman was killed, as stated by Mr. | and though long ‘exiled from it, yet I cherished | as squaticrs and sometimes occupying the abandened | Sf settlement 1a lorida, or to’ houses and farms where wwe Dave endeavored to arrive at the truth, | or “Guty with the Freedmen’s Baroau inthis department | James himsclf, wore as follows:—The freodman was ac- | for itan uncommon love and affection. In my youth | buildings of the fugitive proprietors, “where they were | the able-bodied cau wet work and wages, Thm work wae and we feo! that wo-have succecded in doing go by tho- | Om “uly with the Freedmon's Baroau in this department | ‘cused. of stealing provisions from the store of Colonel | that hotue recived me not; that soll on which Twas | enjoying greater luxuries thau ever Botoce, being done, but want of appropriations checked it; Ie hetice doe Gb eitiaie aA Oflee, engaged oF interested, either directly or indirectiy, | Whittlesey and {c?Samen, was arrested’ tried and oon- | born was t0 me as an wnuataral rooth:r, who compelled TR-TIMONY OP THR ALABSMA COMMISSIONER, will be resumed as sgon as the bill that passed the Houee wensbiy examining and conversing with regeesemtettves |. ofies, etgased or interested, ithes directly or indirectlr, | Toa by Mr. James, a8, ageat of the Berens; and was’ ber acm topes a:bome among tbe hil’ of te sie, | Remeatriog ite medion tt Gan people every- | can become a law, | af all classes of people, white and black, as well ae | Fi ti verod, “No.” Subsequently he addressed us a | sentenced to dig ditches on their plantation, White | When I left home slavery was everywhere. Tho ciank | where, a condition then aggravated by the decolation of RMPLOYMEST OFFICER, Moers on duty in the military servico and im the Freed- | Hoxs"herotovapnended, in which Ire mated ther in cater | Working out this tentence he ran away, and was purstiod | of the chain and the crack of the whlp resounded overy- | war, aud ufterwards by ties short crote of the season, I | ‘The employment adler wherecer established, have men’s Bi in sald States, We have visited all the | to assist tho planters In hinng freedmen aud tryi fair! James and hie clerk, Boyden, who arrived | where, in the ears of the bond and free; but when I re- | am not surprised at the testimony of the Alabama Com. | subserved a good purpose, and found relief for great num— Se eee be bape sneer op rag tie Ii pyr pobenni’ sn Bap the bank df a river while ‘the froedman | turned to my native soil that carse had beon removed, | ruissioner, that the destitution is extreme and on the in. | bere of poor people.’ These will be continued towns and cities of any importance, and the head a feseen Beal pation aan tien incinecat ‘ind | WaS attempting to cross in a canoe, Boyden or- | and those who were formerly the largest slaveholders | crease; “ihat the suffering in some portions of the State | The National Savings Bank has uided those ling: quarters of each district of the Bureau in Virginia and | Cf'Morom in cultivating farms? On tecclving thic nan, | dered hima to’ return, telling him that if he did not | were the frst to give me welcome tomy old home. | i truly alarming, and well calculated to arpowe the apne, | with, poverty to. he be thee antl earnings. J believe Morth Caroli Sass Se os of wo addressed Colonel Whittlesey further intecrogations, | H€ would shoot, and 'the freedman disregarding this | (Applause. Slavery had been removed, and no power ies of every one who can be touched by the cry of | this institution is helping and blessing them. — The in- Br eee ae ee ery | copy of wich: i herete cinezed. te ThE A Beam | order, Boyden ‘Cred. Boyden salen himeelf that he | on earth could reduce them to slavery acain.. (ap- | Rudger or the sxtiering of his fellow aman” Ding ure | dustrial schools end toy veda ene ‘epportunity to canverse with and obtain the opinions | f.°°PY 7 Manication, also hereto appondod, dischising | tinks be bit him, and as nothing has ever been heard | plause.) Theso are the victories we have won, We can | month of March itappears that the Freedmen's Berean | for the poor. ‘These afford a double compensation: in tie with reference to the Buran of citizens whom we | the tact that ho is interested atau coral pasties with ine | of tho freedman 'singo it is generally belioved in the | educate our children; our children are our own. | gave food to these destitute whites, mostly women and | work accomplished and ii the ueetsl heel Fadia hapa ie agenesis captain | Beighborhood that he was killed and fell from the canoe | We can erect schoolhouses for the education of | children, to the number of seventeen thousand two hun- | In Washington, by fing up few old hospital baidinge: Mave mot on the streets, at the hotele, and while travel: | Rev. Horace James, of Massachusetts, Sormerly captain | 1015 the river, These fects were stated ina letter for- | our offspring. ‘But work is still before | dred and four. and barracks f 4 charging for them a. Ying on the cars See Winthro) Tappan, Of Mane: In, the anlteatins Ste | warded to Colonel Whittlesey, who returned it to Captain | us; that Is, a Conflict in polftics, a conflict of ideas, a con: |" TRSnMOSY OF THR ARKANCAS ASSISTANT COMMIBYOSER. the effect han’ bona to bring rents down Jarge farm in Pitt county, N. ©.« He also stated therein | Seeley, with the following endorsement fiict in which we must make the most of the cursed re- From Arkansas, the Assistant Commissioner says:— that that before cost from eight VIRGINIA, : that Captain F. A. Seeley, Superintendent of the Bureau Raveian, March 28, 1886, | beilion that has been lappily put down. God will aid | “These people, always poor, yet, na mild climate and fot three and four dollars. ‘There are on duty in Virgmia the following numbers ‘astorn Distric' G., is interested in the culti. Respectfully returned, as the affair seems to have occurred | them in the conflict till justice is secured to all, and all | during a time of peace, able to provide the simple neces- | The same result 1s also effected by Peducing this popula- af eficare tn tha military soryice and oF ainee peesens | Cmen®, rict, N.C, lf interested in the culti- | aenight, and, as the body of the negry hus not been discoy- | shall enjoy the rights of Amorican citizens. (Applause.) | saries of life, aroinow in a condition deplorable. in the offices which send servanis employed by or attachtd t0 the Hureau:—One Fae eee ae eet Nag lth ® | ered, it does not appear certain that the shot took effect. No | We had e Frecdicu’s Bureau bill which did hot extreme, If the testimony of the County Judge and ‘ two Heutenant colonels, three majors, one captain eee cane a nterenled WG a ae ee aus, | furtier ction in the case secin to be culled for, iy order | however, ihe gallant General that’ its here anpiaune loading ‘citizens of the différent counties were taken, ORK OF BENEVOLENT ASHOCLATIONS, ped commissary of subsistence, uine captains and assistant | Cultivation of a plantation in Pitt county, No ce” | “'Bexcuen, Aeeistavt Aa jner cereal ‘omr. | was our friend on thi That Froedmen’s Bureau bill | they would make the numbor in the State of Arkaasas | _ After wo shall have exerted ourselves to the wimort, | ermaaters, nineteen captains of the Hine, twenty. | Uvation of 4 Plantation in Pitt county, N. (. - + < dig. | Went through all the tribes of Israel till it came to Moses, | who would perish from starvation, without government | there will be work that no government agencies will be- Siive asst Uotienants, twenty second Reusmabann ite Seein| Raleigh we procveded to Baliat hi A.number of the froedmon at Newborn expressed dis- | and there it stopped. (Applause and iaughter.) ‘The | aid, betwoen 80,000 and 40,000 persons, and it is prov. | able to do, ‘There. will be y it cannot reach. fhundred and thirty-ree civilian cuigtoyen; aniline found Major Clinton ‘A. Cilloy, Superintendent in the Seen ores WORUET tavedigalon tee Shee work, was not completed, but they had an earnest of | ably true that nearly this number {subsisting upon a There is already a strong (eeling abroad against taxing and paid as follows:— Bureau, having charge of the Western District, em- | tion is quite remote froin any public line of communi. | CmPlete success in the fui re from wi “y very scanty supply of the coarsest and poorest quality People to su Southern poor; 4 BB clerks and superintendents of farms, paid ave- bracing fifty-one counties of the State. This efficient | cation, we were ‘nable, owing 10 want of time, to in- | sieved in the past, (Applause.) Tood. Very many fanaiion thet do not sek or " from cRjeceions ai ex by good men against efforts in bebalf rage monthly waxes. -$78 50 | and competent officer has administered the aifairs of the quire into the matter. ADDRESS BY GENERAL 0. 0. HOWARD. government have been for weeks entirely out meat Ce po x general government, = This ‘22 assistant superintendents, Bureau within hia district with much ability aud impar- APPAIRS AT KINSTON. Since the organization of a Bureau for the Relief of | Of auy kind.” To these whites in Arkansas, General | though on; the hungry, caring for the if for Goldsboro, and on | Refugees and Freedmen, the officers and thoee interested | Sprague issued during the last quarter somo 234,063 | is the means of feeding A the way’ stopped at Kinston fou enough to feaen that | in 1a work have been Taiuencsd by two apparenty op. | Fauone, bare never folt called upon to answer ihe | orphans and widows, protecting and promoting oi Ci ler, it for th at that point, is te principles, On the one han olding want ie work 5 ne secure woak ante weber s ‘Targe. plantation on bis own battering, often intensified by the war through which | Begrocs; yet, by such facts as I have mentioned it is rare Bryon = ppd the ee nee agen account, and employs thereon quite a number of freed- | we had just pene, they desired to furnish immediate | ¢Vident that the allegation is simply a political fiction, o all who are, caring for the negrecs. Tie friends are men. and gure reli: way of food, clothing and medical THE TOOR FRERDMEN. coz ng ice Foy eat yp Tan mg gee A Me pyiey At Goldsby perintendent, G. 0, Glavis, Chap- | wished to secure swift punishment for the guilty and lain United alas Aimy cultivating one form ta na p songen ee poor — pent jignotding, Gr penn bon] ry: ge ge pom Ad hehe Bagen nearly Tall — ae yeas Chand Wale tee ae sl = it it, terested in cultivati two large Masses: human ings wi ad never had even N1ses Christ fares on Bis Gwe’ asouuak, Than odkoer seated tn the ene | toe Fudimente of learning taught them, they wished to peng in Coons Boe irae Se ee | ae at ye, 4 58 OT gpd ngs pn ‘mination before us that he was not interested in the | secure and extend to all, beyond question, the ordinary thing ae Go sed—tl afrat sneored afraid of outrage 4 r ingle moderate-sized | that noble girl suffered at Warrenton, Va., not afraid 10 cultivation of plantations, except indirectly by loaning | privil of education. On the other hand, they have dee ad vag gine o ro p ted as b- poy erty » Brooks, @ friend of bis from the North, | adopted measures that have seemed to ¢ of offi- | Plantation, and you have the entire picture. The old, with | die—send as teachers, ners wan cin cnpeee in planting; but we ascertained from | clal coldness, Ratious for the destitute been re- | Sray heir and Dent forms and tolering steps, cresping | tions and as Christian missionaries, Mr. Carr and Mr. Lane, citizens of the vicinity of Golds- | luctantly dealt out; orders for reducing have been fol- | ‘-*#rd the grave. ave seen ther in dirty hy too INSTRUCTION. tality, We conforred with the leading white citizens, embracing both those who had formerly been rebels and those who had been Union men, and also with a delegation of intelligent colored people representing the freedmen, all of whom agreed in the statement that the freedinen’ wore at work, were perfectly satisfied, and that good feeling and harmony prevailed between the whites and blacks throughout the distriet, Major Cilley is not interested in the cultivation of any plantation, or in any other business not directly connected with hit 268 laborers, paid average monthly wages . IL In addition to the foregoing enlimted “mea ia ‘the mill- Aary service, are omployed as orderiies, guards, &e., but ‘we were unable to procure the number of those so em- ed. Nine thousand freedmen received rations from ‘Bureau im the month of December inst, 10,260 in } the month of Januayy, and 9,938 in February. The Prevision returns on which the rations were issned Total. abew -— Men, Women. Children. official dates, and he has prohibited all oflcere servin, Deomm - 1020 2789" 6,191 9,000 | ander him within his district from engaging in. any 5 10,280 | enterprise which would enable them to appropriate or Pebrucc?, 988 | control the labor of freedmon under their jurisdiction to advance their private interests. We attribute much of the A majo ty of the frecdmen to whom this subsistence | order and contentment of the freedmen in the Western has beer. fa rnished are undoubtedly able to earn a living | district to Major Cilley’s judicious and honest adminis interested and joi ith them incon. | lowed by orders cutting them off altogether, Clothing | lame and too weak to be removed, abandoned by ve | _ The only way to lift the ponderous load of poverty 4f they wera, Fomsoved. 10 localities whore taker compa be | Cunret tra:te forthe cultivation of tholr platatwous. He aud his | has been spartogly-auphfied and modical aitendanco has | OWT and Toft alone to ule Want and to dio. 1 have la epee nly pg Rd Se procured “® he necessity for issuing rations to thie eluss BACK TO RALEIGH, friend “Mr. Brooks entomd inte a coatract with Mr. | seemed hardly adequate to the wants of the people. | seen them limping along the army's line of march, happy tod Set sare eaet dee eeeenie Sf Persons rey ults frown their accumulation In targe-mum- | After completing our inspection of the operations of | Jane to furnish rattona aud pay for forty taborers, aud | Preedmen's courts have. not been permanent, and fre. | ae eee er ineiaga have sean te Jee ten tn pers Sag > followed. 0] — ia certain pisces mare ba eee we and we — in Major cure a. = returned to | to provide eight good mules. Mr. Lane offered to fur- eek < — Rg Pea a ee Mo es, Jiways they poo ot by i naa Se crates penny ms, Pp os yg letnand fee imited. As loi ‘these leigh, where we rema:! one day for the purpose of h the Ii d to rintend in person the cultivation | which have to do justice, il, even in the mat- Sabet, 7 hes—and [01 femal ny the p enené lvaltios, the ei sama oe | eae warren ie ten Whittlesey; but ne being | tabveot, the crepa tebe equslty aniocd, ome Lat ia he | ter or schools, the, aid furmuhed bes’ nor times Se AMER a schools ond our chore ved h fuse to provide % \T the able-bodied, and are unable tocare | absent we were obliged to address him eortain inter. for the beiplere And destitute among Chom, owing to | rogatories in writing, to which he afterwards replied as their great naw ‘and the fact that very few are reab- before stated. dents of the coum tes in wi thoy have congregated AVFAIRS AT NEWBERN, during the war, #i\ ¢ necessity for the rehef extended to un the 27th of April we left Raleigh for Newbern, the People, botk a ble-bodied and the ~ | headquarters of Captain F, A. Seeley, Superintendent of as lol im their | the Bureau of the Eastern district of North Carolina, wh are isaned to the | We at once proceeded to Mvestigate the affairs of the Bureau and the conduct of its officers in this district, Captain Seeley was interrogated as to whethor he was interested in any manner, directly or indirectly, m the In those districts of \ irginia w x cultivation of lands or in’ any other private Bareau have been faitht !!y ant impartiaily administer. | business requiring the labor of freedmen. He ed by men of sonnd fwd) discretion there has | answered that be was not, except indirectly in been no conilict between (sof the Bureau acd | manufacturing lumber, having purchased or being Lane and the other half to Mr. Brooke and Glavie, Mr. | prompt and decided, so that the friends of education have | _, Then there are the abl»-bodied, with strong Lane states that the euterprise failed after the freedmen } sometimes been pizzied and doubiful as to whether | Cheerful, — A Meer in s — a had worked over two months, they then left, Brooks | the government favored the education of its people peng 9 you work ; yy laugh at the and Glavis baving failed to pay them according to con- | OF not. On account of this apparent conflict of the prin- fan. ive whe. chance; give as tract. The freedmen received for thoir Iabor a little | ciples of action, the inhumane have sdmetimes struck epee ede ate oo nee ponte | Te Clothing, such as coats, pants, shoes, &c., furnished by | hands with the morbid humanitarians in denunciation of | from the ordinary characteristics of human betngs, | You Chaplain Giavis, and but little or no'mouey. A similar | our work; the one crying out, to use their own language, | have the riot aad the wawhss, the prusems And the im- contract was made by Glavis and Brooks with Mr. Carr, | against “supporting niggers in idleness,” and the Seotons the bright and sprightly and the sullen and stu- who stated to us that Chaplain Glavis is paying the hands | that the wants of the poor are not sufficiently exposed to | Pid. We find in that circle the ordi 7 in “a litle of everything, but chiefly in clothing. ”” the public nor fully met. There is really no conflict in | Characters and the ordinary exhibition of SELLING PRREDMEN'S CLOTIES, it of principle on the part of the government agents, | N¢8% There are the pious and the profane, ‘We ascertained by the testimony of Messrs. Barham & truth is, it would be as difficult to suit fauit-finders | ®”d the vicious, the trusting and the jealous, Ballard, auctioners at sea ro, that they had sold at 2 Ly nig oy in yen a Sie, for ~ a wee the auction fer Chaplai lavis forty blankets marked *‘U, titute, as in any ir. a are like 8." and a quantiy of clothing that had been sent to | travellers successively meeting the boy with a donkey | full o Lae eae een waerene these poor people @rament will cont. present condition, able-bodied they. wit v Ges to seok places whe Te th EVFRYTIUNG Im TENDS € ng as th je rat ole the citizens. In all euch cee the agents are acting | about to purchase with two of his clerks a sawmill about | Goldsboro for gratuitous distribution to the needy by a | Iaden; they would neither allow the poor boy to put the | You would pwnd tried. Tt would demand on fa harmony with the civil ficers of the State, and are | forty iniles down the river. Dr. Rush, medical purveyor, | Preedmen'e AM Society. at or In the vicinity of Hroches: | fond tipon the back Of the donkey. wor’ woon uke own, | Your part patience, forbearance and a constant supply of through the Qasistod aud supported 12 ti 1° petforinanoe of thelr dates | 17. 8. V., stationed at Newbern, and a Mr. Potter, a citi- | ter, N.Y. We learned also that he had disposed of a | without the snecring censure of “what a fool!” Grace to make any wg te a) and should you often “a "eat ‘ee By the citizens, But is, many pisces whero the agente | zon, were mibscquently examined, both of whom stated | large Amount of such clothing at private fale’. The AGAISST A PAMPERING POLICY. See eee NA a veatanee Wann Eee Gia with ail bumbl haber that ike afe not men of capacity cud integrity m very unsatisfac- | that Captain Seciey, Superintendent of the Freedinen’s | chaplain stated himself that he had received from such tis said that ‘‘men are but children of a theories might gain upon you, that the negro’s nature | may, all His poor, humbly remember wa This originates ndition of things arbitrary, unnecessary a: 4m the | Bureau for the district, entered into partnership with of the | them, about December last, in a contract to cultivate the nts of the Bureau with te relations between the | farm of Mr. George Collict, a cilizenef North Carolina, pene and their bired freedia th, causing vexatious de- | noar Goldsborough. ‘They commenced operations by wd I larger sales two hundred and sixty dollars ($260), though sub- ** and surely very much of the child’s inclina- | ! peculiar. Yet it is not hard to perceive, upon compart- “Children of God Inck nothing: ently he assorted that. he total Seah receipie of hie | {how to’ dependence is ound among, those, in extras | #08 and reflection, that these nea telanas ate precisely tke Ue pron Genre ie throng: office from ail sources, Coen one hundred and Poverty. = parents exact Both of their children, but the aad of the world, only restricted in size and develop- The ergs he | twenty-six dollars and cents ($126 60). He kept no | continue to pamper and indulge thom, it is the ral meni =, a yr vaste of mineys received and ex- | such children will be idle and mischievous, and will con- Feneues the sts Vs in the prosecution of planting seven hundred acres of cotton and some corn; | books or even memot THE CHILDREN, No creature Dut ts and « before t this work necessarily requiring the labor of a largenum: | pended. Unue their bad babite, ot least as long as they remain Borides the old and the middle aged no plantation is And The who feeds the ravens tha: usted by te friendly advice of @ | ber of freedinen. Dr. Rush stated that same two weeks THE WILMINGTON AG) under the parental roof. The same principle precisely | W!thout the young—the children. A planter with a host Wil give his children bread. {hy de action of this | since Ne ad conditionally purchased the interest of | On the 4th inst. we arrived at Wilinington, the head. | applies to a large number of the very poor, Give regu. | of theee around blo sald to me, in «moet forlorn tone Captain Seeley in this plantation, but had not | quarters of the Burean for the Southern district of North lar sapply of food and clothing and medicines, and jet | (‘What shall I do with these mischievous little scamps City Intelligence. yet consummated the contract. Mr. Potter lina, of which Colonel Rutherford is the superin- | there be a hope of its continuance, how very 'fow de- | The Freedmen's Bureau will not lot mo whip them, | Corcwns Couumde Law Scnoot.-The exanuinations« tendent, The Colonel has been here but a short tim pendent» lave the energy or the pride sufficient to en- | their fathors and mothers will not do it, so what am 10 | of the class of 1966 at this metitation, which havo been and ie not yet fully acquainted with the covteanal able them io strike out for themselves, This is true | 40!" 1 the novel expedient of hiring ® | taxing place during the present week, wore couctuded the Bureau ip his district, He was so unwell that he | vith regard to a large clase of poor whites at the South, | schoolmaster, for I could not forget how that func- | inst evening. The Law Committee contisted of S. B. was obliged to retire while we were engaged in examin- | and particularly so with many freodmen who have | tionary used te train us, when T was a boy; and he did | juggles, chairman, Gouverneur M. Ogden and George F ing bis office, and we have not since conferred with him, | reached middle life apd have never been accus- f unrebuked for it even in that free arr of New England. | strong" The clase consists of about fifty members, aué. ajor J. C. Mann, Assistant Quartermaster, and Onan. | tomed to take any thought for the future, A convention | 10 this case the plantor did not make wry faces; I think | Mr. Ruggles, at the close af the examination, ta addrvas- cial agent of the Southern district, is engaged in the oul- | of freedmen met in Augusta, Serrgia, not ‘ago, and, | be favored the ion. ‘These children are indeed tng }, Stated that the commnfittee were highly vratifiuc tivation of aioe plantation a short distance from Wil- | recognizing this inclination of a class of negroes to lean | Peculiar; almost always happy, whether in rags or | jn boing able to declare the whole class qualified to mington, ou which are employed fifty five freedmen, | upon charity or upon the government, they passed reso- pa ae Fostless, laughing, hearty, playfal, and yet not | he attorneys and counsellors at law; that they had ex ‘The Major stated that while he would not object to mak- | lutions asking the Assistant Commissioner to take strin- | Generally hard to bring into subjection. Gathered into | himited a degree of Pryicioncy which marks an era ic ing money, he menged in this business to convince the gent measures to set the idle and careless at work, that | Schools all over the land, they have surprised everybody | jhe history of the iatttution and reflecte bh Southern people that the negro would work, he colored people generally might not be disgraced in | bY their docility. college, and especially upon the learned prof stated that about a fortnight ago Dr, Rush, he himeelf and others had conditionally purchased apart of the Interest of Captain Seeley, and that Captain Seeley still owned am interest in the plantation, Without being able to determine, from the testimony, how far Captain Seeloy is int erested in this plantation, it is perfectly evi- dent that he prevaricated in his answer to our interreg- atory. FORTARR MEKoownter, Captain RosoKranz, Sub-Agent of the Burean et New. bern under Cap.ain Seeley, and Commissary of Subsist- by his | ence, as will be tern by reference to the paper hereto gnastor, and who was } « th tae Kindnees of | attached, is also ngaged in cultivating a large planta- ONR WAY OF INDUCING INDUSTRY, ther efforts to show to the world that they are entitled ORPHANS. municipal law, Theodore W. Dwight, The Com meuc Shie muster to make bis Wy Plantae 2 Wherever | tion mear Little Washington, N. C., with the labor of | Major Ovaries I Wickersham, sub-agent of the Bu- | to and worthy of freedom. Tt will be noticed that thero ix a ‘large number of col- | mont exercises of the law school take place Wednesday, ye chose vet up a cleim ¢ Loreat” Sround ® | freedwen, whom he supplies with fations as a part of | eau, whore headquarters are at Wilmington, is also in- PRIMARY REGULATIONS, ored children called “orpbans’’ in every section of the | the 16th inst., at the hail of the Historical Society, cor in ix edfor tom years, (he agent | their wages terested in the cultivasion of a rice plantation within his ‘We have been obi! to keep two objects clearly in | South. The peculiar theory and practice,there, on the | ner of Second avenue and street. decided acrns red uta oto the WISEING RATIONS. owners Tn one of onr tntesviews with the freedmen at New- ga (8 be | bern some of them, WAO were employed in the Commie. sub-district, aad he is to receive one-fourth of the eroy view: first, the benefit of the people, and, secondly, the | subject of the marriage of negroes, has necessarily very | varices —On Monday of the present from tho sate for compelling the freedmen employed | benetit of the government. ne prineipls te pet forih im | much disturbed the family relations. Ax a matter of wean cheer Ong Of are TERIA prociacy arrested Georye on said plantation to work faithfally, He explained the | a pri elreular in these w — "Relief establish- | fact, there are poor women with a number of children | ¥° Daniels at room 15, 33 Bowery, o7. fore {on pain Of impr, 0 | sary department of the Bureau, stated that rations 10 | manner In which he compelled freedmen to comply with | mente wil be discontinued an speedily as the ‘cessation | which thoy uv hot able ve feel undone, hanuenet 1 eeeaene oat iting teow engaged 1s the basins of ment k had b taken from the supply ware. ] their contracts by stating that he put them to work with | of hostilities and the return industrial pursuits will | ers may be living, but not now to be found; and there | barglarte entering some person's premises and carry A NBERO PVE ase fore the ball and chain on the streete of Witmiagion. permit, Great discrimivation wilt be observed in admin- | are children who are orphans indeed. Aaylums have | jor thereteurn property of value. Retweon the maetrensy These syents exert ty ‘ode tn the oxercis ° transaction of busines, and EVItA OF THE SYSTEM, intering relief so as to include none that aro not abso- | been established, and these children have boon gathered on their bed were fouttd a silver teny pitober and encer @f their judicial function questions involving | and wagon on ony occasion they had followed lthout attempting to discusa the propriety of officers | lutely necessitous and destitute.’ This regulation, as a | in, clothed, fed,’ and taught, Thousands have been ap- | fut marked with the \euer "Rams Bohemian ware title bo reat estate, cont vnd even actions " of the Bureau in the military service of the United | matter of experience, has occasioned a steady reduction | pronticed to good homes, yet there aro many everywhere | scent case, ornamented in . Th were affecting the marital rejetior nessed the trial of houwe. They ascertained that | States, who are paid by the government for the per- a~ @ saving of expense and promotive of | who get a subsistence, nobody can tril how. At Atlanta, committed for examination by Justice Mansfel. The & divorce cane before t harlottesville, | yt did pet, We investig: tiie particular case. Cs formance of their duties, engaging in priv.Ate business, | ii ry. ts Georgia, a correspondent writes, ‘jittie fellows from ten property may be seen at the Tenth tation howe ‘The trial occupted ni resulted in a | ta 0 Rowkrane stated that he knew nothing about it. | and employing froedmen for such purposes’ while con: CLASRES OF THE POOR, months to eight years old, living on ‘bard-tack’ and salt | Syer Kesox Market, Areree of divoree, Hie brother, a citizen, whom he vas employed to act as | trolling through their ofileial positions that cla of labor, Iwill endeavor to furnish a brief description of the | pork, with nobody in the wide world, b@t the govern — TRANSFEWENGE OF THY POWERS TO TH MILAPARY. acon nilwary serccant, stated that the four barrels of | we deem it our duty to state some of the etvets pro: | different classoe of the poor in the inte slave Sates, and | ment, to care for them. A sergeant from the Freed Hoboken City News. The'Assistant € of the Barean for Virg!. | pork a luded to were ordered by Nimeeif to be taken | duced, both upon the officers themselves and \pon the | then offer some suggestions as tothe means and meas. | men's Rureaa brings thelr rations; and some of the la Ms t ie ats having rermed i) coup eaenement th. storehouse to the building from whieh rations | planters with whom they come in competition, Ay mech | ures of meeting their wants, The clove of the war left | broken-down aunties, whe arc still lingering and waiting | Lanes’ Fam at Sr. Mary's Senco. —Tho indies ¢ eases in which ft * sous t to the freedmen, but that the driver of | comduct. Major Wickersham, in contracting to ;Wrnish | the majority of the planters with little else than the | to die, hobble about, and as they say, ‘nue them | west Hoboken are holding a fair in St. Mary's sehor Made preparations also to turn the cart nat Made a mistake aud took the pork to the | forty Inborers to work a rice plantation, becon ws at | land, and J have known many a man who had land | the best they can,’’” I looked in at one of the log | the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the erectior Yoaves no otter duty for the wrong place, ® provision store kept by: Mr. P. Merw! ‘once interested against the laborers, whom he compe Ws to | enough to require the President's pardon most wofully | shanties; no floor, a few rage aud blaukels for @ p nf M ForEH except to sipers ise contracts and to eare for | and that imina ately on discovering the ixistake he Inbor, perhaps wnjostiy, when unfairly featt with by we | to. bemoan his Poverty. He must either sell at | bed on’ the grovnd, and po other furniture or | of a new chapel of St. Michnel's Passhonate Monasters je aged, infirm and helpless. We therefore it reetified ‘he pork returned to the storehouse, ‘on the plantation; and on their r & sacrifice or mortgage his opened on the Sth, and will continue ope uni! the reon working Property, and in any case | comfort of any name or kind in the house. “Who lives | It Rising to work, he inflicts upon them unlawful, and, foi’ | become beholden to some hated Yankee or ign | here?’ I ‘asked, “We, ail,” said a little girl, seven years 1%theof May. abreach of coutract, unheard K puniehments, paling adventurer. Others, who had several large estatee in | old, standing beside her brother, four yearr old, who © of the officers of the | terwards d with, amd that their | about the fully recommend that the int Upon Mr. Merwin, who seated that at Bureau tm Virginia bo ¢ e Mr, Rosekrane said’ the pe. had been I John T. Hitdreth, of ‘ @utier be performed by ty Moers commanding the | sent by mistake to fa'% store’ he borrowed four barrels of y were convicted crimi. | <astody, have been almost in despair as tothe future, | was sitting upon the nd, holding between his feet A Grvenat Ronpep, —G: froope in the deparuioont. Such a ehange would relieve pt. Rosen ce ey h he had not yet 'y other officer of less rank | ¢ ‘ene were d to Uy new expediente, while others | another chil ten or thelve monthe old, nd. who are | Brookiyn, N. Y., was a few days a coe bond ‘the government of the large, and, in our opinion, wholly also state! that Capt, Rovekranz oi that engaged in work. | sac sldll and “The I! not work.” we, all?’ “Me and brother and baby.” “Where is Smocating to about ten panccessary expense of supporting a 8 gum- | day, and after his examin tion bofore Os called at bia | ing plantations ranted for cash or on shares, becomes in- ‘THK REMEDY. other?” “She. * Dr of officers and employes, while the duties can be 4 e@Morentiy and vatictort os ey Mitch we have rn erested In securing o low rat of wages ai ted that he | the most stringent labor regolations, to ( oat detr) | roldiere end officers of our army, a8 far beck as the time 2 two barrels of | mont of the <reedmen. They thereby give the sunetmn of | when Joltasion surrexMered to General Eherman. cast immediately. Mr. Morwin further ne performed to the manker tn exchanged with Captain Rove! 45 tome ae Oe and ; your 1» in"done dead. “And your | while stopping temporarily inl Lynchburg, Va | the ive 4 oy A 4 na + The correspondent gives a true cavuntng to snus Womnad Gillon werosubee pork immediately, re Merwin further watenires ‘making | Thist aort of poverty has nearly disappeared, First, te Tapia wtckane’ of Npndreds ot those’ poor chit | quently recovered, ibe thief burg throwu” thea loko "he sae Phere is po vrovision by the Staie for & robibich hean | aro