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4 ‘THE SOUTH. Observations of the Herald Spe- cial Correspondents. THE MOUNTAIN REGIONS. Peculiarities ard Poverty of the Inhabitants. * &e. Se, VIRGINIA. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Aggressive Spirit of the Free: ‘The Street Car Dificulty—Present State of the Freed- n’s Burenu—Progress of Registration— Hollywood Memorial Bazaar—A jarance of the Ladies, &e. Ricuxonp, Va, April 27, 1867, Several evenings ago three colored men, armed and ‘aniformod, calling themselves Hunnicutt’s Body Guard, called at the residence of a lady, near the old theatre, on Rroad street, and demanded from her colored ser- vant the names of two white men who had told her, no doubt jestingly, that Hunnicatt would be “very soon sent up for tbirty days,” the penitentiary being evidently implied. For white men to talk thus irreverently of the Ethiopian idel—at least the idol of @ class—was deemed a heinous offense in the eyes of the body guard, The names were domanded with much insolence of manner on the threat of the girl’s being brought before General Schofield, from whom they professed to have an order of arrest, though unable, when asked, to produce any such document. A gentleman boarding in the house, after considers!) » ultor- cation with the sable warriors, drove then from their Purpose. This fact is related in convection with the following items to show the spirit of aggression on the whites, stimu'sted, no doubt, by the teachings of demerocues in this eommunity, whieh, under the sow order of things, is gradually manifestin: (cif among our colored citizens, As you have been already informed, three negroes, as it would gow appear by preconcerted arramgement, mounted the platform of a street car on an evening this week, and against the regulation of the company seated themselves inside the vehicle, They stated in reply to the conductor, who requested them to retire, that they determined to test his right to put them off. Refusing to leave, they were ultimately taken in charge bv the = and brought the next morning before the Recorder. e Recorder said that the company who owned the cars, being a private one, was at liberty to say who should ride on them. He held them to bail, however, to answer for a breach of the company’s ordinance, From this starting point it is anticipated consoquences will flow leading either to what it must inevitably reach, complete recognition of black men’s rights, or to much trouble and possibly bloodshed. It was universally re- marked by the citizens in the neighborhood of where the difficulty arose that simultanoously with tho arrest of the intrusive trio, colored men, as if by signal, made thetr appearance on the scene from every direction, and for a time. riot was generally anticipated. The prompt action of the police possibly averted that result. Since then, have learned, the negroes “ho belong to secret organizations here are de- Dating whether to try issue on the question by force and stop, if denied the right, the running of tho street cars, ‘the occurrence of such an event, I fear to think, would produge no inconsiderable émeute, Those of the negro population who are arrayed against their conservative white neighbors aro singularly belligerent in their opposition, and are weil provided with arms. Last evening an extra police force waa stationed along the Broad street line of cara, but no disturbance oc- curred. However, it is difficult to calculate when some more determined than their fellows may defy existing Tegulations and bring matters to a crieis, Old land- marks of distinction between the races, like this oue of indiscriminate occupancy of public conveyances, will have to be swept away if political equality is to prevail. But the repugvance is till so strong on the part of the whites Lo concede social equality to the negroes that even in the present subdued temper of the south the immediate forcing of these minor measures of equality will meet with earnest opposition, Time is the great reiormer, and if the biack men will only patiently onter on their altered position the har- mony of social relations will hardly be disturbed. ‘The Freedinen’s Kureau is fast diminishing tne colored pauperism of Virginia. Where, in September, 1566, nearly twonty thousand freedmen wero receiving sup- port, only a little over two thousand remain as subjects of charity. Since the introduction of mutitary rule the operations of the Bureau Lave been vastly improved. It is working, in the words of its able ch ef for this disinet, General’ Brown, “like lubricated machinery.” The schools, espec ally, form @ most interesting /eature of the system. Over eighteen thousand white and colored children are receiving instruction througtout the State, A visit to any of its educational establishments in this city will well repay the time nera! Schofeld will shortly issuo an order, at present being supervised by Geveral Grant, giving Uetailed in- structions to officers of regisiration on the duties they aro expected to perform. The Genoral is still receiving numer- ous applications from different pdrts of tho State for the position of rogisteriug officers. Considerable difficulty 4 experienced in the selection of the proper class of men for the work of registration in the country di. tricts, the requisite qualilications boing somewhat strin- gent in the matter of lovaity. The General and his adjutant, Colonel Chaflin, are oc- cupied from moraing until evening in the large and en- ng business of the distr Applications arrive daily from all sections of the State requesting intormation oa topies of the most diversified character. One man writes to know if he is bound to pay Staie taxes when no such State as Virginia exists, Another wishes to inform headquarters he is recon- Biructed “right square,” and feels anxious for a license tokeep arumshop. Kindred epistolary correspondence, covering unlimited foolscap, keeps clerks busy reading, if not tn answering. Major stank of the ordnance and Major Elderkin of tho commissary departments have pecn assigued to this district, The Hollywood Momorial Bazaar is having a brilliant career ot stecess. To-day the throng of fair ladies a gay cavaliers was bright and glittering in the extreme, R 3 seldom seen so dazzling an array of assembled, or bas ever had a bazaar 1 yeneral sympathy and liberal patronage. The memory of the Confederate dead is cheristiod from the Potomac to the Rio Grande with @ fervor of sentiment that breaks forth at intervals with singular uvanimity. Each chern State has a table in the bazaar, pillared and canopied with flowers and twining evergreens, and presided over in every instance by a bevy of reflned and boautiful Indies, A gentleman of economic with fear and trembiing, {or as be pursues bis devious course through the tasi- Jouable assembiage seductive and irresistible eyes meet bis, and untess bis heart be hard orghis pocket light wily fair ones obtain a pecuniary sacriilce. The artic Of dyjouterre and embroidery are of a costly kind, and so when one enters the ‘selection ts seen at a ail of the vazaar, as Wituessed tron , Was @ panorama of rich toilets, loveliness, costly paintings, prizes ot silvery sheen, the whole made animated by the flitting to and fro of petite and graceful igures and the buzzing of laughing voices. NORTH CAROLINA, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. The Mountains of North Carol! Beaatifol Scenery and Landscape Views—The Mo taineer—The “Poor Whites”—Their Habits acd Castome—The MUitary Bill—Kebellion Dead in the Seuth, & Boom, Halifax County, Va, April 19, 1967. Bhat in by mountalcs on all sides, and traversed by purs of the rang form its boundaries, without a Taiiway or easy roadof any kind, that part of North Caroling passed through in going from the Tennessee line to Morganton, in Berke county, is with difficulty accessible, and, consequently, little visited. Its magnifl- cont scenery is looked upon only by the hardy moun- taincer, though it would well repay an oifort to see it on the part of the artist and lover of the beautifal. The road that lies through Madison, Buccombe, Mo- Dowoll and Berke counties can boast of charming Scenes, whatever else it may have to offer in the way of bard fare and hard travelling. Can anything be more labor repaying than a journey along the banks of the French Broad river, from Painted Mountain to Ashevilio? It wants the pencil of the master of his art 6 dolineate the variety of land- @eape that is presented as nature's panorama (passes in review. The river, arilvery stream, ts quite shallow, and its surface is often broken by the rough- ness of its bed into miniature cascades; often its course is interrapted by fragments of rock and ovteropping pebbly banks, Occasionally an island, covered with Pines, sits like an emerald on its bosom. Its banks for miles are the very mountain sides, descending sheer from lofty crest to river's brink. Now they recede and leave a level spot of verdure and fertility; now they part and show a charming valley nestling at their fect, and its murmuring stream in haste to pay its tribute of waters to the master river. Hero the mountains range them- selves in form of an amphitheatre, and look down pro. tectingly on green bills that seem to bave gathered there to be abielded from the harm that threatens them with. out. And there, far away, high above all the rest, aro peaks looking purple and violet in the distance, Clouds roll up their summifte and cast deep and ever changing MUMMeTF One el widen, walle Worongh the rile the NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, | APRIL 29, 1867.-TRIPLE SHEET. sun sends down a shower of cold, Now we see the crest of & long mountain range, Peak follows peak like the billows of ocean, Seemingly they i and sink away, as they @id tm those eval days before the hills were fixed and pr when the unstable earth surged like the sea, And now the scene is wild and fearful as of the traces of nature ip agony. A terrible convulzion has been here. The mountuin bas been cleft asunder; the jagged wound re- mains, Vast crags have been hurled in dire confusion, and now hang threatening, to all appearance inscoure and ready to thunder down the precipice, bringing swift destruction on our devoted heads, But [leave further description to the pencil of the artist. Itremains forme merely to map out the coun- try. At the Tennessee line the elevation of land is about 1,260 feet above tide, From this point there is a general ascent as far as Swananos Gap in the Blue Ridge, a distance of sixty-four miles, From this last point, 2,650 feet high, the desosnt is abrupt, and in ten miles we come to an elevation of 1,430 feet. ' From here lorganton is @ gradual slope, broken now and again by hills, with mountains in the distance, Throughout it are many fine le spots. It is Pleasure seats and landscape gard is entirely destitute of either Ind if we except a charmed circle around Asheville and Morganton, within which the amenities of life are ible. there are not more than half a dozen babitable ‘between the Tennessee boundary and the last Agrand and beautiful country. a well- if ! @ sufficiently fertile country, it has no can appreciate its advantages. The is net alive to ite beauties, nor even Teapacity, a good Physique, aad . & pl jue, at ty and shrewdness that have been cae to his mode of life, he lacks almost everythin that education can supply. He is without artificial appliances of any kind but of the radest, He has no contrivance. A piece of mechanism of the simplest doscription puzzles his wits completely. Itis doubtful whether any of the countries of Europe can show a specimen of humanity, representing a rural populati>n. more abandoned to the mere resources of nature —in from every kind of nr ifivial instraction. Rude primitive to the Inst degree, you find him, even wh is supposed to be in easy circumstances, enjoy ‘hat would be called comfort away- ive hills. Hospitable he is, and ready to ‘h the stranger who knocks at his door; but the fire, though abundant, is not tempting, and the «indly oilgred shelter is mot much between you and the canopy of heaven. It harbors the wind and the stranger alike, and the rain knows the way to the ingle side. To cullti- vate bis little corner of land and be proprietor of a hog or two running wild in tho woods, that in due time he may have his store of salt pork and hominy, is the mountalt "s chief and almost oy care. His house is good en@ugh for him as it is, and he lets good enough alone, And why not, when the richost farmer in county can boast of no bettor? The farmer may havea host of servants doing nothing and a boggarly account of jog huts trying to do duty as offices, scattered about his unpainted and half-ruined mansion, but once inside = — nage would enor Ga (ogy etes Regi, re AN} e same discom! the same inhaman fone ae Surely the mountaineer’s condition is pretty slim; but there is a slimmer. The wretched class known as the “poor whites” abound in the mountains, and are mot by the way side at every turn. Their case is bard in deed. They rove from lace to place, and never seem to have a settled habitation. In this reapect they are like the Gypsies, but unlike them in every other. ey have not the Gypsies’ force-of character. Thev are simply miserable, and are misorable because they hate to work—a hatred that is a tradition among them. Per- haps originally their fathers dospised labor, as an oco't- pation too mean for the gentle race ot white men; but that is no longer the idea precisely, They are lazy avd idle just to be lazy and idle, having not enough noble. ness of feeling left to make an excuse for their mode of life. In no point of view do they present a feature that can call forth more than pity and loathing. Their prac- tices are revolting. “How do they live?” you ask, and are answered, “‘By begging and stealing.” There are dexroes of them, poor and wretched as they are. The most abandoned seem to have no particular mame; the better class, if it is not gross flattery to call them 80, are most frequently known as “movers,”’ from their habit of moving from place to place. They are always running away from their reputation and from debt. They rent little bits of almost waste land, come prota sere es end of the quarter, and not having, by ir “taking” manners, gaived the regard of the people of the neizhborhood, they conclude “to get up and got”? to other parts whore they are not so jatimately known, Tins being the better there is not much chance left for the rest; and in fact they have not one redeem- ing trait, beine unmitigated tramps and paupers, lost to every ennobling feeling as aforesaid. Tho expression of their faces is totally brutal, especially in the women. With their matved hair, beetling brows and dall, rayieas eyes, from which nota spark of intelhgence or human feeling beams, these last look like idiots, No trace of womanly grace is there, In its place a hideous deform- ity crouches in *‘unwomanly rags” and asks piteously for alms, Now and then they work, at least the better dis- posed, when dire necessity forces them to it or the nature of the work suits their roving 8. Collecting ginseng is the favorite occupation. » as they call it, 1s found at certain seasons in Jarge quantities, and the whole community of mountaineers turn sang dig- gers and hunt the mountain side, through every loamy nook and “cove.” “It isa nice business for lazy poo- ple,” said my informant; ‘it is like sport, and they make three doliars a day at it, which makes it a very nice business indved.”” Three doliars a day! they only make two at the gold mines near Morganton; go it is better than gold digging, in North Carolina at loast Thore is vory little to be said in regard to the political of the mountaineers other than has been stated ly. Their notions on the subject of reconstructton are quite simple, and notwithstanding some cbtectiegs, which they urge from not fully comprehending @e question, perhaps, they are innocent of any intention that looks in the least like offering opposition to the carrying out of measures that have reconstruction in view, Indeed they do not have much to say against the spirit of the Military Dill; they merely assort that strict obedionce to the letter of it will both disqualify many of the best friends of the cause of reconstruction, who are too honorable to evade even the letter of the law, and will qualify the worst class of rebels, who will not scruple to perjure them- selves, It does seem as if there were some truth tn this; and when it is considered that there are no longer any really rebellious minded persons in sufficiently large numbers to constitute the remnant of a party, it appears strange that we cannot encourage to co-operate with us the best of those who were formerly in rebellion rather than the worst. There may b> a man now and then, whom nature has endowed with more passion than prin: ciple, who has not got over the fever of rebellion; but thore is nothiog more apparent, nothing more remarkable, jndeed, throughout the South than that rebeltion 13 a dead idea, It isremarkable,enoreover, to seo how: completely the emancipation of slavery is an accomplished fact; h its accidents and attendant circumstances are taken as a matter of course, and how, still more strangely, the South seem callea upon, from the necessities of the case and by the law of gelf-preserva- tion, to push this reform toan unlooked for extreme. Looking at this picture, fancy will curiously consider that the South, once started may go in the van of reform (t ings and revivals, and such s ay carry \ts banner into pions of a cause that shall F its object the righting of some real on fancied wi suffered by the shoemakers of Lynn or the have for its object the removal from the hand of task masters of those of tende! , Who ure picker tenders, warper tenders and t any tender that requires to bo bard and greasy, bellion is surely a dead idea, and the term rebel is wut to no good use now in the’ land. It is the ery of ‘action, I: bas no meaning in national economy— in Statesmans! Tho South cannot go negro is emancipated and can help himself, and the in dications are that ho ig helping himself, and is doing quite as well in the South as in the North. a3 HH il ALABAMA. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. A Trip Through Georgia and Alabama—The Political Feeling in ifferene re, &e. Ustos Sreunas, Ala, April 20, 1867, mountainous, the roads running along the ridges of the high land are comparatively good. The first day's jour. ney brought me to the town of Cumming (Georgia), where I stopped for the night at the hotel, tho habit tions of the country roundabout consisting merely of log- cabins of a single room and with no windows, and there. fore offering no attractions, in the poverty of their ap. pearance, to either weary man or hungry horse. The town was crowded when I entered, court being in e*seion and lawyers and litigants thronging the square, while the crier was bellowing like a fishmonger from one of the dilapidated windows the names of the parties called to “show cause.” Tempted by the strange show mado on the exterior, I eatered the building and made my way up stairs to the court room; here wasa strange wight; the Judge presided over the informal proceedings with his feet elovated on the back of a chair and a bat- tered plug bat on his head. The jary consisted of a lot of Georgia “buzzards” in homespun, lanky, lean, awk- ward fellows, wearing on their cadaverous faces the characteristic Georgian stare, which seems indicative of habitual surprise, ora state of nataral and ‘Perpetual brain vacuum. Tho case being tried was a mule dispute between two Confeds, who had made a swap during the war and had quarrelled about the terms. The counsel for the defence was a blear-eyed, lean individual, with doep set glassy oyes, and eyebrows that rose and fell in the tumultuous dow of his eloquence like the wares of tho sea in @ gala His argument was based on the sad proveness of man unrestrained by law t8 do evil to bis follow man, and the pororation brought out in glowing colors and exaggerated Agures of rhotoric, the saccod character 6f mules as proporty and ihe moral obligation of men to sand by their bargains, no matier whether the beast they buy be maimed of apavined, bund or troubled With the “staggors, Tho lawyer having charge of the plainti(?s ease wae somal, thin man, with avery small head, very sharp feavares, email pea-like eyes and a soraggy bunch of faded brown bristles on the-very point of his sharp chin, His face was seamed in every direction with wrinkles, large, smal, fing. agd broud, which were drawn out, however, when the speaker opened his very Jarge mouth, until his {aco was momentarily smooth, The countenance was an ultra type of the Georgia face, which hasno more exprogsion than a gutts percha countenance, whick one may squeeze into Soulless eem~ blance of emotional expression, This sooaker was great on gesticutations, using both hands and fret—the latter for severe emphasis, stamping first ove and then the other, and finally bringing both heels and hands into. reqnisition together, the former on the floor and the latter in prodigious thumps on tha table, by which means it was sapposed by the ignorant audience he ‘nailed’ his opponent in the argument. His peculiarity was that he never finished his sentences nor completed the ox- pression of an idea. While I was present (during fifteen minutes) he never reached a full point; his speech was made up of half finished sentences, with commas, dashes and exclamation points in any number, but not a single rounded period. His style was somewhat as fol- lows:—‘Gentlemen of the jary—It seems to me that you ‘uns must recognize the right of every white man to sell his mule, and—but I will of rights, because what we wish toget at is —. Weil, anyhow, this yer mule was taken over to the defendant in this yer case, and what did he agree? But it’s the law we want, and that’s just what we'll get in this yer court if you are men who 4 the value. And after all he don’t pretend that he didn’t, on the date namod—and besides, gentlemen, a man who has no honor in him—s man which will buy a mulo and then zo around and not buy a mule, When a man agrees, he agrees. It’s as plain as & wagon :Agall @® initio; and besides, don’t you see, that—at—. At one ofthese stumbling pointe I left the court room, where the ted crowd of mountain simple- tons were Y jer and grinning and chuckling fa ghastly fashion over the presumed their te lawyer. In the ing the la @ the judge with the “plag” hat gathered aboo! ‘cheery in the roughly furnished room of the hotel, and dis- cu fine points wand politics with the farmers who tape court, Two tig ne better informed mom than are generally fou: that Congress, dithough acting ‘and intensifying in too great a degree the working of principles of right and justice, was promoted by a just and necsssary motive. “Now, I'll jast say this yer one thing,’ said a farmor, “7 think it’s t for Congress to allow no man to ever vote again who once broke his oath of allegiance taken when he took office under the old government and the old constitution, I sepa eT him to hold office in nor vote 80 long as . srwho ts to vote, then?” simpered s hawk-faced law- yer. in a faded and seedy dress coat. ‘‘Are you in favor of allowing the nigzers to do all that?’” The other of the two men here spoke out, “The niggers voting ain’t even a tol’able consideration in this matter; it ain’t no account either way anyhow, beside the question of the Union and how we shall make it all right atween the North and the So’th. Congress is the supreme law of the land, no matter what the law of Georgia is, and when the So’th gots rid of the idea that @ minority shonid rate, then it will be all right with the whole country.’” This straightforward style of argument was too much for the circumlocutory rifle bore stvle of bringing out the truth or of covering tacts generally pursued by the lawyers, and they gave it up in disgust, and, seizing their candlor, hastened off to the sleeping apartment of the Judge in the ‘-plug” hat; and this room being near the ‘ono assigned to me, I heard them noisily debating and Jingling glasses throughout the night. ‘The next morning I started off at an early hour, but bad not gone over five miles before I lost my way in the woods, and, following an indistinct road, was finally brought to halt at the door of a log cabin, to which the foreat trail led, and was forced to ride an additional eight miles across the country to get back to the main road. On my way I passed through the town of Alpha- retta—a small congregation of houses and a dilapidated log church comprising the settlement. No one in tho place had any {deas to advance on the reconstruction subject, and one man whom I questioned answered that he didn’t care a d——n whether the niggers voted or not, go long as there was no more war, no conscription, and he could get plenty toeat. These seemed the prevailing sentiments of the incomparably stupid people of the town, so I hastencd on over a very wild road, through forests and over mountains, not meeting with a single human being until I reached the outskirts of Marietta, where I overtook a lazy ox team and its indolent driver, who drawled out his an- swers to my questions in @ most painfully slow and uncertain manner. As I was about ing on shead of after having all the information I needed, he in turn questioned me:—“I eay, stranger, whar bey come from? Athens? Wal, now, you've come through about the bushwhackinzest piece of country in the whole So’th, I reckon. Didn’t seo no bushwhacking Union men? Well, that is pertickler nay Mighty tol’adle sort of jenty of ride across that a-wav too. whiskey stills out in them mountains, I reckon?” T saw that this individaal had made the common mis- take, that I was a government inspector hunting after and seizing vhiskey stills in the mountains, so I rode on ‘without waiting for any more questions, for I bave no doubt he bad many others prepared for me, since he was by far the most inquisitive and in every way the epee aa have met as yet in my rambles through the Sout! From Marietta I made a fiving trip to Atlanta, distant twenty miles, finding there plenty of business activity bnt perfect tranquility ta regard to the roconstrnction measures, not the slightest excitement provailing on the aubject and the. people beng inclined to laugh at the idea of confiscation. All seemed avers, however, to talking on the t, and it was only with the greatest di Moulty that I suc- geeded in obtaning from those 1 conversed with even ‘a bare expression of opinion, A trip to Roma, Ga., de. veloped almost the same (to me) unsatisfactory state of affairs, although I found it more easy to draw out the views of the people, One young man with whom I coi vorsed—a ono armed man, evidently once a Confederate officer, though I did not ask him for fear of awakening sad memories—assured me that the people of that part of the State were satisfied to submit to all the measures im by Congress, because they wore satisfied that they could not do better und r the circumstances. “All that is to be don> now.’ he said “is for us and onr friends at the North to keep quiet. The South fs being thoroughly reorganized, and of course there is some confasion in ber affairs in consequence; but it will not last long, and you will see us come out of this dark day better, more prosperous and more triumphant in the dignified manner in which we have met adversity and have borne the degradation into which our enemies have attempted to cast ua, than if we bad won a great battle. There are many enemies among us, though, who ure doing a sight of harm. Thero are plenty of Union men, as they are called, who live a little north and east of this, who keep up a constant turmoil and ill feeling; and Desiites, there are mon who live here who. corrrespond for the Northern pavers under faise names, and make al sorts of misrepresentations of our sentiments and inten- tions. If ever men ought to be hang as enomies of their country and daneerons to its welfare it is these miser- able scribblere, who should meet that fate first, aud I would like to aid in doing the work.” My corofianion and guide in my Alabama ramble was colored gentieman, a splendid horseman, and, in his own esteem, a fine scholar, for he had just learned to read a little, and said, with a very great degree of pride, that he expected before long to be able to write his own name, which was Romeo—plain Romeo, and nothing more than that poetic designation, having been given him by bis master, But Romeo did not justify, in this {nstance at least, Shakspeare's raptures, for & moro homely, thick-lipped, bard-headod, big-footed, clumsily built African, of pure blood and coal black complexion, T nevor saw, For (hree days Romeo and I travelled together at the rate of thirty or forty miles a day, and I therefore abundant opportunity to learn from bis own lips the bent of his political beliet. In the first place he was a democrat, hated the Freedmen’s Bureau, and thought that ail the niggers who were joining secret societies through the country, ought to be hanged. When it came the time for him to vote he was going right up to a my: and he Me going to “ rm eee eee that he liked best—he was not go! hoe At the South- for any Northern dandy darkies nohow. ern property was coniiseated he ebaro, wouldn't bo afraid neither, “TI jas’ see de time once,” if Isaid jus’ dem words I say now, I" dat yer tree jus’ so quick—O, de Lor’ 1’ On being questioned closely as to the hatred to the oMfcers of the Froedmen’s answered that a Captain Slane, or Swain, of had borrowed from him when he ( drunk, $10 to stake In a game of poker, got sober, denied that he ever borrowed it. reason Romeo suspected and hated the Bureau and all its agents, Shortly after crossing the State line I met Alabamian—a wild-looking man, thick built, with biack eyes burning like coals of fire ty an] of his heavy brows, and a bullet bead covered with a Shick, bey i He — ome’ tt wore a ragged hat, wi ick wen necs been Mack and carried a rifle on his shoulder, I sup) he this last fact, and the additional kept Co ape Z whistling towards the woods whence had come, as if for his dogs, during the rents — oe, ‘with me, which ran pretty mach lows s— ‘cae Ege Sel in Deve fr 1h a So Cho Rags Naeem Re “ “hn ered F yore. ara iting into the woods.) RY nt ts there a stream ahead of us?” “1 reckon,” “Can we ford it?” «Don’t know, water's pretty tol’able flush thar,” “Has anybody crossed it during the last week?’’ «“Well—reckon yes, A horseman went down that two days ago and did'nt come back again. over. stand 08 politics?” “D—1 “You know the niggers are going to vote,’” “Lat 'om vote. ae jutler! Say he ia : “7 "spect he dargn’t.’’ With this the strange hunter went off and Lag age a his sbrill_ wi ~p Vi some time after, Wo *s horse i i & ta ford it tm meo" ill i § H i H git in the eaddie. He bad found a whiak Focgestat to Inquire for tue road, of if he co romomber nothing of the directions given bim, After mauy such m/abaps as this we Talladega over a better country further but where the mon wore the most stapid I ever met, had nothing at ali to say, pro or co, action of West of Selma tie the ‘von lands of thc State, aad among the E az 22 i E i 8 i E I region I found much intolligence, and remarkable po- jincal pradeace and prescience, which I will detail in a future letier, r ARKANSAS. ’ SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE WERALD. Arrival at Pine Biuf—Accommodations at an Arkansas Hotel—An Ancient Barroem and Barkeeper—Conversations on Politics—A Novel Gunbeat Exterminator—Death ef an Ex-Governor of Arkansas, We. Ping Buory, Ark., April 19, 1867, It lacked yot three hours of daylight when the steamer landed me here, and it had beon raining heavily during most of the night; the impenetrative darkness suggestive of the deeper depths of Tartarus, the mud over ankle deep, an autumnal chilliness in the air, afall half mile to the hotel, not a vehicle to be had, not ® porter or even juvenile negro to take one’s bag- gage, and only fow ‘straggling, dimly burning oil Jamps on the main street to lighten the way. By good luck and aid of the steamer’s pitch pine lights I found a night watchman. He was wrapped to the chin in s very shabby looking overcoat, with his wet hair streaking in matted looks all over his face, keeping guard over some cotton bales, ‘Where will I find a hotelj?”’ I inquired. © Jest go up thar,” he replied, pointing away from the river, ‘‘and turm the fust street yer cum ter, and then yer’ll hey to go on to ole Dave Newell's lumber yard, and beyond thar ig the hotel. It’s a right-smart distance, but thair's a light in front, and you can’t miss it” Guided by this information, I scoomplisbed at length safely the iourney to the hotel, banged at the door several minutes, routed en old darky, and gained admittance, I asked for a room and bed. “ Plenty ob rooms, sar,” said the dusky servitor, “but hab ter put yer in bed wid ’nodder gemman.”” * Are you sure there’s no bed I can have to myself?" “«Parfect sure, sar;.neber tells gemmen what isn’t ‘aaokly s0."' “*Woll, if I must stay with another gentleman, I pre- fer staying with you to any other geatieman in the house.’* “What, sleep down dar on de flo’ 'long wid me?" he inquired, glancing towards his blanket couch on the floor, and a look of the utmost astonishment gleaming from the whites of his eyes, “You'd be mighty onkum- fabel dar.” Somewhat to the relief of the perplexed Ethiopian, as I have no doubt, I explained to him that, as regards sleeping, I would attempt a practical illustra- tion of the moral of John G. Sare’s philosophical poem on euchre, and “go it alone.’ He accordingly built a blazing fire in the large fireplace, and, seated in a straight backed chair, with heels at a comfortable eleva- tion, I lighted my pipe. The crackling, cheery biaze erga nrckeal dying out of the flames till only the charred embers remained, and the full volumed smoke wreaths of my pipe lessening also, till in the bowl there ‘were only ashes, gave themes for revery, and opportu- nity for soariug into those ideal realms where soul, thought, fancy and feeling reign in a glorious quadruple alliance, that might have been a good thing for Ike Marvel, but it was not half so good a thing for me as a good bed. If my fancy had got into a versifying vein and the subject been an Arkansas hotel, I am afraid that I should have named a very hot place as the rhyming word. Iam only writing this toshow what travellers in _—e may expect and froquently have to put up with, Taine Bini, an wang bo.cendily-quewst:; gets’ ta iam from being situated on a high bluff on the Arkansas river and the great abundance of pine trees in tho vicinity. Tho bla is some thirty feet high, aud no overflow from the river has ever yet reached the town, Its present population is ostimated at three thousand, one-third being negroes, Most of the bulldings are small frame affairs, and there is really no handsome dwelling in the place, The stores are few and meagre in size, and business just now wofully dull. Yhere are four churches, a court house and a billiard saloon. Oniy one manufactory—that is to say, 8 saw mill, where logs are manufactured {nto lumber—can the town boast of; and this is on an extremely limited scale. But, dull as busi- ness and apparent the lack of commercial and me- chanical enterprise, there ts nv lack of other lively foa- tures that partially make up, such as oxciting horse races, oxtended of the two hotel barrooms, card playing and talking politics. A favorite resort of those wi te Fe) it thorr duty to discuss national affairs is the barroom of the hotel whero Iam stopping. This barroom is aniinstitution. Old age marked it tong ago as his own. A flavor of antiquity pervades it. In tho first place. the bartender is a little old man, who wears little old clothes, smokes « little old_ pipe, ‘and what little he says says it in an old fashioned way. He despises shirt collars, aod if ho has any portinacions weakness beside {t must bv for slip-shod slippers, for he invarinbly wears a pair, and as invariably they are much too large If he betieves in big slippers he also believes in big drinks, for he is a most liboral dispenser of his liquors, and if aman does not get drunk at his place quicker than at the rival establishment it is no fault of his. Bar, decanters and tumblers show a like similitade in age with their guardian genius. Lemons there are, which look as though they had been resting on the samo tuverted wine glasses for years There i a largo fire- place, which is bd old and cracked, and the wall above and about it black with smoke. Remnants of old circus advertisements of the ante-bellum period, a map of Arkansas of 1850, placards of New York and New Eng- land fire insurance he-grisvenrge Bno up a dozen yoars ago, and railroad notices dated before the war, are still on the walla. In one corner isa washstand, bow! and pitcher, which have evidently beon in use from the time that the momory of man runneth not back to the contrary, and, were one to jndge from appearances, the same his- torical fact would be predicated of the towei and soap. Last in this barroom inventory are nearly a dozen split bottom chairs, which not only positively shine with amoothneas, but seem to glory in their glossiness, whiie the tobacco stained floor has that lustrous hardness that only decates of years can impart. Not to finda crowd here at almost all hours of the day and evening won be an unascal event Drinking bad liquor and di! cussing politics in bad grammar aro indigenous with the Arkansians epping in shortiy after breakfast, on my first day's arrival, I found an animated discussion 1 é wor don't know nor care what others may think or say about this reconstruction business,” savs a large, burly, fuil whiskered man wearing a gray overcoat, witnout ‘any coat or vest under it, dark pants, with the legs in has boots and a light felt hat, and altogethor wearing the look of one always ready, if occasion required, to back up his views with a knock down argument; “but it's my opinion it’s all a damned humbug, an Imposition on tho South, and it is our bounding dooty mot to submit. Congress as has passed the bill is made up of a set of damned fools, and they think we are damned fools too. ‘Thar ain’t a bigger knave going uphung than that ole cuss, Thad Stevens. His own actaghows it. Jus: seo what he does. He puts in the bills ’demnity clause to pay loyal Union mon for their losses during the war. Why did he do it? ’Cause bo had hisself some iron works burned, and he wants to get ‘demnity for them. He's just working for bisself, and let the devii take the hinder- eh Dat the constooshunalty of all these ‘ar Congress acta are going to be tried by che Sapreme Court.” inter- rapted a short man dressed in greasy Confederate gray, and as ho began throwing an immense quid o tobacco in the fireplace, as if proparing himself tor an extended argument. “It's my view that the Supreme Court ¢arn’t go back on the constooshan. Any child reading the constooshun can see those ’ar acts can’t stand. They strike at the principle of our government. They over. turn jist what our revolooshunary forefathers fought and died for and won. They subvert the liberties of the y takes ali power from the ballot box. ‘hey pince us under military bayonets instead of undor free institooshuns. It’s robbing us of our ‘alionable mgbt thar,” broke in the first speaker. ‘As righta, I agroes with you; but how's the question about the Supreme Court? Aint that court made up of Northera men? Aint all North ern meo down on men? Is it not onreaso ble to aN ‘court will do justice to Sout are going to care for the it, I tell yer there's no got our niggers from us. confiscate our lands and not let us and do nothing but jist lay down and ee eeie omit cir feet on un” For ‘ime shan’t sab to “But what elee can youdo?” asked a small man with it and wearing a closely fitting thread bare qu and let matters take their bettor for us?” the small man further ‘end if ‘cle that oen deprived o¢ an of our just be a chance of gotting them back, bu man in ray overcoat; out sat. prenbesive, hense tes unfortanately here in- A race was juced and ended the discussion, and the has not since come up in my hearing with such vehomence. Ihave had the plessure of listening, however, s bearsals of Southern batiles and incidents of the Ei 5233 up the Arkansas river to take Little Rock. Hearing the romor, a certain Captain Brandeaberg prevent the fulfilment of this Yau! we Observing Leg Paps of i bry ciples of » gun carriage, he mounted a six pounder os ammunition prin- metal cannon, supplied a in lieu of other or six drivers | H i re : i j I i i | I il : i : H 4 8 $ af HH | g 3 i i i THE INDIAN EXPEDITION. ‘SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Movements of General Hancock’s Expeditton— A Talk with the Indinas—They Desert their Village and Retreat—A Child Brutally Rav- ished, found in the Village—Pursuit of the Indians, &c., &c. Camp Gangrat Haxcock’s Exreprrronary Foros, } Pawngw Forx, Kansas, April 16, 1867. My last letter was closed as the troops marched out of their camp ground near Fort Larnard, The purpose of the movement may be stated in a few words, though it may be best to make the statement aa clearly as possi- ble, ag there seems to be great reason to consider an Indian outbreak imminent. In order to have a talk with all the principal chiefs General Hancock sent word to the different bands of the Cheyenne tribe that he would be at Larnard at a certain time, whon he would be glad to see the chiefs and have a big talk. The Indians were exceediagly slow to come in, aud when they did ar- rive were not the full representation of the tribes. The fact that they did not come in before may be accounted for partially—they wore hunting and medicine making. They were averse to talking until they had been fed, enjoyed a smoke and arrangod their totlette, This is Indian stylo, and it may be woll to state, too, that the state of an Indian’s stomach has very considerable to do with the talk, The talk was not entirely satisfactory, the point arrived at being simply that the Indian would keep his treaty, but keep it after his own fashion. The writer of this has had Todian experience with these same untutored savages. It was after the follow- ing mannor:—Cheyonnes got him penned in a hole in the bank, ouo bright November afternoon, and found that the white man would not come out, but was quite ready to Oght any Indian that attempted to take him out. A half bred crawied up and asked if the treaty was signed, and received the in- formation that it was. The Indians tated that they wanted peace and would shake hands; the white men camo out, their fears were almost entirely romoved by the apparent friendship of the party. Five of the y escaped with slight wounds, ono was killed outright and two were taken prisoners. [hese had their tongues cut out and other portions of their bodies sub- stituted insteaa. Their bowels wero then burat out by these peaceful beings, who selected the occasion as one to be celebrated by a dance, — It is with those In- dians that we are at present dealing. They are known as the dog soldiers of the Cheyenne tribe. General Hancock, on leaving Fort Larnard, invited the chio(s that had calied upon him to accompany him toa place convenient to their village, where he would talk witb them, as soon as all the chiefs of the tribe were assombled. The first day’s march of ewenty- fivo miles brought him to a_ point ten milos distant from the village, which was located on the Pawnee Fork, about forty miles northwest of Fort Dodge. Just vious to going chiefs came tow the head of the were k.ndly greatod and invited to come to camp and eat and slesp, which invitation was accepted. The chiefs, who held copnil at Larnard continued their Journey toward their village, to toll what they bad seen ani General Hancook was led to believe that tho village was but a short distance away, four or five miles at the most. Withthis idea he made arrangements to hold the council at the camp, at nine o'clock. The Indians did not make their appearance at ten, when the troops broke camp and marched ou up the fork; when six miles were accomplished, Iadians were seen on the roiling ground in front. Colonel Wynkoop, the Indian agent, and Kd. Guerrier, the interpreter, advanced to meet them. The troops were marche! into line of battle and halted a quarter of a mile from the Indians, who wero also formed in an trregalar line, near the loft of gaudily gotten up chief with a white f on asiender pole. The Indians nem- two handred. Generals Hancock, Smitb, Cuater and Davidson, with a few officers of their respec. tive stails; Colonel Wynkoop had by this time informed the Indians tha: General Hancock would like to speak to them. The parties mot about midway between the lines, the officers dismounting, but the Indians remained ‘on the backs of their ponies’ The principal chief was “Roman Nose,” a rather ne specimen of the Indian, gotton np in a soldier's jacket with largo epantettes and ‘@ great plentitudo of brass buttons. His head was cov- erod with an otter skin cap, decorated with many colored ribbons, anda small mirror as front piece. One of the escort remarked that “ne just was a putty boy,"” and Roman Nose soemed quite aware that auch was his case, ‘The talk was short, eral Haucock told the Indiana that they had burned all the @ near, and he could ‘not go into camp to have the talk, but must go oo untit he could fad a more desirable location. assured should determine; he was desirous of having a talk—a Jong tatk—when he would show them that peac? was the spectable horse The Indians were all in fteadmess for a fight, their dows and revolvers and rifles ready. One 3 geEeee ti epee apo38 Hy E E H g j ii i : q EaEg E ant iis j ; i i ! ' i ii i id EE HY ise | i sha i Aad I i # Le E 3 } | rl b iH re 3 E uf ie f i ; E F E : i f i i ral E i | 5 3 a é 3 i i cf 4 i E 7 if H z & i g ‘| Pe EE i g i a s ft i : zle E i 5 a i F i & i ail i eBde led i seg | ire ell ial i i i i é i I ‘ i i & j 5 i sa id i Ly ds i i i 4 E f ul i E buat 4 EE and if so rf the Indian fires and found it excellent, until they ered that they were indulging ina dog feast, when each one that it gome one else, The Thirty-seventh and Thirty-cighth United States Infantry Expected in New Mexice— The Fifth United States Infantry to Guard the Line of Smoky Hitl—Major Bell, &c. Santa Fe, April 15, 1867. Orders have been received here regarding important military changes, As soon as the grass is sufficiently high the headquarters aud companies A, F and Cf the Thirty-seventh United States infanty will leave Fort Riley, Kansas, for Fort Union, New Mexica, Companies Hand K of the same regiment are to preceed to Down- er’s Station, on the Smoky Hill, and establish a post, erecting huts for two companies of infantry, Com- panies @ and I of the same regiment are to march to “The Monuments” on the Smoky Hill, and establish a post, erecting quarters for two companies of infantry. As soon as Companies A, # and Cof the Thirty.seventh U nited States inti reach Fort Union, New Mexico, ies of the Fifth United States infanury four com (which regiment has been on duty in New Mexico many years) are tobe sent as ft an Pomipie—oas to Reed's sel ‘post and build and the others to Smoky Hili, to relieve the companies of the Thirty-seventh United’ States infantry at Forts Harker and Hays and Downer’s station. Thé of the Thirty-seventh United States infantry relieved are #0 march to New Mexico. An equal number of companies of the Fifth United are to relieve the States more, if possible, States infantry to leave New Mexico, it is shall relieve company of the Third United States infantry at Fort and the company of the same iment at Fort Wallace. Tho narters of the Fit infantry, now ip teens teres will be, ‘the contemplated the com panies of the Thirty- seventh Infantry leave Fort Riley the Roe SS United States Infantry will take up tts march for New Mexico, where it ts to relieve the 125th United States Colored Troops, which regiment is to march to Fort Riley, Kansas, for muster out. The juarters of the ‘Thirty-eighth Infantry after {ts arrival are to be at Fort Craig, on the Rio Grande. A company of the Tenth United States Cavalry is to take post at Fort Larned; another company has orders to procsed to join Brevet Major Parker's company of the Third United states Infantry at Buffalo Creek; and the remaining companies, as soon as organized, are to pro- coed from Leavenworth to Riley for distribution. Captain and Rrevet Major Wm. H. Bell, Com: of Substatence, United States Army, has been ordered to the States. He was relieved Inst autumn by Captain and Brevet Colonel Chas. McCiure, but permitted to re- main at Santa Fé with his family until the weather should be more favorabie for an exodus, Major Bell gra- duated at Wes’ Point in 1857, in 1858, as a Lieute~ pant in the Third United States was promoted from first lieutenant in the line to captain and commissary.” The major has been an excellent and faitpfal officer. PARTICULARS OF THE DOUBLE HOMICIDE IN AUGUSTA, GA. A brief telegraphic statement of the double homicide ‘at the Augasta race course on the 22d inst., was given im ‘our last issue, The Chronicle says : “Never have we been called on to chronicle a more mel- ancholy affair. It appears that a picnic came off at the race course Monday, at which a number of persons were in attendance. During the afternoon it appears that Mr. Heiser. ogaged Inn, fod tet of irngth, nih leister, en: in a y. pie ~ seperated, but Ie tageieer salad 12 = jes were se} |, but came e when the quarrel was resumed. Not wishing injustice to either the living or the dead, we refrain from giving the different versions of the succeeding portion = this i if | H if z i i i : | 3 ! i § is x i i ‘ i i Hi H i 4 E o3 iit li H i e i} Bs fs : fh i i Eg SEF > FE i rk h Be ; ti ai &' 52 5 AF to facts whieh now stare us im the face, and wh all ative to common aoe The de struction and ighbors demand aid, immediate and your hands, itis asad fact that with Hale county there are many helpless who are at the very door of starvation. ae oe = men taonnd sons porished jccessful struggle, women children whose hust fathers gave their lives in defence of Property, who have net bad meat for months and who are now actually eu with hunger. A great majority of those would work, but they unable, They are to be seen on , begring, not fee ofler, sugar, meat, or any of the comforts bat