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»forflia gal rrliUi^uT Grcirap If
’ v ^- MiM Thomas in her novel, Walter Go-
. ..Women can make one another
is?- *•* {„ g U ch infinitesimally small ways
s'-* 1 * ‘ n caa rarely bo brought to compro-
t hc business is managotl.”
v Boston roan writing home from
,,n*l say 9: “Though I do not believe
gentlemen would wish to see
| ^ored, I am convinced that many
^blacks would prefer slavery to the con-
***- hich they have been reduced by
emancipation/^
... : uM r<> brought from Richmond, four,
. _ Fay, Burnham Ward well, T.
ji^and Burnham Davis, the New
^TnaiiyNcwa says, “were held during the
V ;*v the Confederate authorities as prison
**■’ a t Richmond, under suspicion of
0 ‘ ndence with the enemy. Wfmt their
'‘^Attributes may be, we know not, but
Th'jbP 10 fact tl,at - by nuthority of tb ® ' then
pli.lcntof the Confederacy, they were de-
‘ T ‘ d of liberty as supposed spies of the Fed
! ' n . /j ovc mincnt ought to have been sufficient
' the ej®* °f Justice, to render them incom-
^t«t to act even in the initial proceedings of
we have a nice mess indeed!
Soutli*Wc»tcrn Circuit.
tVc cannot better comply with the request
t Judge Clark, contained in the following
»„te received yesterday, than by giving it en
tire Eds.
Indian Springs, May 16, ’06.
jgt K. Sneed, Esq:
Dtar Sir: Will you please do me the kind-
tm t0 announce in your paper that either
jmlge Cole or Judge Speer will hold Dough-
(rtv Court, and perhaps Worth, forme.—
Thire is also a possibility that Baker Court
will be kid by Judge John T. Clarke My
health has very much improved within the
]sst week, and I have strong hopes that my
,tav here will complete my restoration.
Truly yours,
Rrcn’D H. Clark.
«. ■ ••h.iWKs’ Association to Commemorate
k ■ Tire Confederate Dead.”—Under the above
title the ladies of Charleston have formed an
gsociation to commemorate in u suitable
nunner, by momumcnts.and yearly floral offer
ing the Confederate Dead. Let our Macon
. ladies follow suit.
Front.—“A Georgia newspaper predicts
thc best crop of whea't in that State this sea
son that has been made in ten years.”
So says a Nashville paper. But wo know
that anticipated comparative failure of ( the
wheat crop has nlrcndy caused a rise in the
price offlour, and we advise house-keepers to
lav in a supply as soon ns they can.
Land Tax.—We understand that a United
States Commissioner, (or some ono represent
ing him.) will, before long visit every county
in the State, and that the people of each
county will have sixty days notice of the
same, all of which time (sixty days), every
owner of real estate, in each county, will have
to pay in, after notice is given, before for
feiture of property. Each individual will
not l>c notified at his place of abode, but the
notico will 1* given through the papers in or
nearest to the county.
Cnors in Florida.—Accounts from all
sections of the South represent much damage
to thc growing crops from the unfavorable
weather of thc last two or three weeks. The
Tallahassee Floridian of Tuesday says: “The
heavy rains for thc last three weeks have ma
terially damaged thc crops. Thc quantity of
gross in the cotton is fearful. It isimpossible
to kill it or keep it down. Wo have heard
of planters who have thrown away portions
of their crop in order to save the rest”
Missouri.—The following is an extract
■rum a private letter from a Baptist minister
to thc junior editor of this paper, but we
iletm the facts mentioned of sufficient general
interest to lay them before the public:
Columbia, Mo., i
May 10th, 1860. (
Dear Brother :—Yours of April 17th is
before me. Glad to hear from you. I left
town about March 1st and urn again in Mis
souri. I am now canvassing Missouri as
a&ent of D. M. B., S. B. C. Brethren and
churches give me great encouragement. The
people of Missouri are generally all right.—
There arc a fow Radicals in power who are
doing their utmost to oppress us. Some of
»ur Radical Baptists have organised a loyal
Baptist State Convention to tako the place
of the General A ssoeiation. They are aided and
encouraged by the Home MissFon Board of
y ew York, and said Board has sent more
than 30 Northern ministers into Missouri to
take tho place of Southern sympathisers who
cannot takoThnt abominable test oath. In
their great wisdom they are advising South
ern men toleaee the State. Such impudence!
The work of persecution goes bravely on.—
Almost every week we read of tho arrest of
ministers of the gospel without taking tho
test oath. One of these persecuted men writes
m c—“nomc of these things move me.” Wish
I had nn extra copy of tho minutes of
their Convention. Several will be tried very
““"i Wd I will take pleasure in giving you
the decision of thc Court.
®ur people are becoming adapted to the
new order of things rapidly.* The recupera
tive energy of our people is astonishing.—
The negroes are doing very well indeed.—
They are much more intelligent than those
of the cotton States, and therefore better pre
pared for freedom. Many of them remained
with their former masters and are satisfied. ,
an y of our Churches have been revived,
“dtnany hopefully converted. There la,
owever, a great destitution. Many of our
Ministers are not preaching and their flocks
ottered. Wo are passing through a flery
otdeal. Do not be surprised to hear of my
‘ rmt «nd imprisonment at any time. I shall
u° my duty and trust in God. Let me hear
&om jou often. Tho paper you spoke of has
®ot come to hand.
Yours Truly.
Col. Marcellus Douglas.—On Monday
««thc remains of Col. Marcellus Douglas,
were consigned to the tomb at Cuthbort, Ga.
A large number of citizens, male and female,
attended them to the cemetery. At the
pave a beautiful and touching tribute was
J* 1 ® wort h ®nd patriotism of the de
parted hero, by the Rev. Mr. Smith.
Captain Ap. Catksby Jones.—This offi-
«v, formerly lieutenant in tho United States
(Jv?® during the Into war captain in the
e,l navaI 8cr7ice > Das been nppoint-
.e Penman Government chief ot ordi-
, m to® navy of that country. During
fimrd i War , H®,,?* 8 lieutenant of thc
twJ!°L, ad Virginia, and participated in
Ml ,1* “gaperoents between that ves-
ftoatls in l8C^ mtCti ^ tatcs ^ eet in Hampton
winning the thoughts
FROM CARE.
This issue of the Telegraph will be v%id be
fore many of our readers on the Sabbath—to
morrow,—and wo feel satisfied that they will
be pleased to read a brief article which,* if it
does not instruct, may relieve from thc harrass
and perplexities of business, and from tho
perturbations of politics. In these times of
dread and doubt, anything that will quiet
the agitations of the mind, and give repose to
the wounded heart of the nation, should bo
accepted as a beneficent boon; and, there
fore, we tender a few thoughts, which are
neither new nor striking, but which, we hope,
will be found soothing and invigorating—
such as may inspire both fortitude and grati
tude. And, first there is the time-honored
and divinely sanctioned Sabbath itself—a day
of rest—rest to the over-taxed limbs of the
laborer, and to the overstrained energies of
thc business map.
The mandate of thc Sabbath to thc toiling
world, like that of the Savior to the waves of
the sea oi Galilee, is, Peace, be still. I*»
objects are worship, religious contemplation
and repose. Repose brings recuperation, and
recuperation brings renewed capacity for du
ties and for innocent pleasures. Thc sanati v e
power of the Sabbath is well understood by
statesmen of all civilized States; and they
would retain its observance, even if it were
not of divine appointment, ns greatly condu
cive to the-happiness and welfare of the peo
ple. If the experiment could be fairly made,
we liavc no doubt that the consecration of
one day in seven to rest, by individuals,
families, corporations and governments,
would increase the profits of labor and
capital, enhance the restraining power
of the laws, and augment thc virtue and hap
piness of society. In Christian communities,
how delightful and morally healthful are the
associations of the Sabbath—family reunions,
domestic love, personal retirement, the hal
lowed sound of the church-going bell, thc
worshipping congregation and the ministra
tions of the pulpit! Ail these associations
are hallowed and beautiful: the Sabbath
day—nay, its very name is beautiful. And,
there is beauty all around us—moral and
physical beauty. We do not speak now of
the grandeur, the majesty, thc sublimity of
nature, as she reveals herself in the rolling
seasons, in the placid or storm-tossed seas, in
the starlit-heavens, in thc heaving volcanoes
or in the revolving spheres: these create won
der—admiration and pleasure mingled with
awe; but we speak of nature, as she daily
and hourly reveals to the eye, and through it
to the mind, her simply pleasurable forms, as
in the “incense breathing morn.” Ah, thc
beauty of the morning! Rosy-fingcred Auro
ra, “fair daughter of thc Dawn,” heralds the
rising sun. Gradually, silently, irresistibly,
the coming light subverts the ebon-throne
of night, and neither kings, nor powers, nor
principalities can prevent its advent: come it
would, “were all the nations dead.” And
with it comes thc fresh, sweet air that cools
the fevered frame, expands the compressed
lungs, and adds thc charm of motion to leaf,
and limb and bough. Rise early, reader,
and behold and enjoy tlie beauty of the
morning, and the beauty of the morning’s
light! It colors the orient heavens in hues
of lovliness, and robes all earth in living lus
tre. It bathes the world in its own refulgeut
glory: it awakes all animate nature to cheer
ful activity; and inanimate things seem to
hail its advent gladly.
A vernal day at noon—so calm, so brilliant,
so genial, so all-embracing—is not that beau
tiful ! And so arc the concomitants of the
setting sun, and the twilight gradually merg
ing into night. At night, the combined ef
fect of the heavens is sublimity itself, but,
singly, tlie planets and stars and constella
tions are beautiful. The Pleiades distil fiow,
as ever, tlieir sweet influences; the bands of
Orion nrc yet unloosed; the little stars—in
reality imponderable and immeasurable
worlds—twinkle little gems; and our own
Luna sheds her softening beams upon the
the gloom of night Venus, so called because
she is so lovely, is thc impersonation of plan
etary affection, or rather, we should say, of
God’s goodness to our race: she illustrates
that “ God is love.”
Listen, this beautiful spring day, to the
music of the birds! Those little creatures
combine tlie music of figure, motion, color
and sound. They are eloquent ministers of
God’s grace; nnd so arc the streams of the
hills and the brooks of the field in their bab
bling beauty. But most touchingly eloquent
of all is the beauty of flowers—fresh flowers
for the bride—pale flowers for thc dead—fra
grant flowers for everybody.
They attract so unobtrus ively, gladden the
eye so invariably, and speak to thc heart so
soothingly, that we are tempted to think God
more manifestly revealed in them than in the
peal of his thunder, or the stroke of hialight-
ning.
Wo delight to gaze upon the grand old
forests of our land, just now regal in the
splendor of their beauty, with all the colors
of the Rainbow dashed upon a bed of green,
waving billowy, at the bidding of the winds,
or still os a Lake reposing amid uni/ersal
calm. Gaze castwardly from College Hill,
overlooking, as it does, such a broad expanse,
and you will understand what we mean.
The prattling, playful, curious child, aside
from all moral considerations, is on object of
surpassing loveliness; and so is manhood, in
its vigor; and so are the whitened locks and
stooping form and benevolent face of virtuous
age. But more beautiful than all is woman—
dear woman’s face and form.
Ten thousand other things are beautiful,
but wc can refer to no more, now. We have
but sought, for a few monents, to win thc
heart away from the carking cares of life—if
that object has been achieved, we are satisfied!
For the Telegraph. '
A contemptible cur from the Mash roam
State of Nevada, by the name of Nye, is
clamoring in the United States Rump Con
gress for tho blood of Mu. Davis, the agent
of the people of the Southern States daring
the existence of the Confederate Government
Mr. Davis, as President of the Confederate
States, was simply acting as the agent of the
people of tho Southern States. His pnblic
acts are simply the fulfillment of the com
mands of those by whom he was employed,
and as on agent of the people he was consti
tutionally compelled to comply with their
commands. Why visit the employee with
punishment for complying with the com
mands of his employers!'
Taking this view of the case, which is the
proper one, it would become the duty of eve
ry man who voted for Mr. Davis as President
of the Confederate States, to sign a petition
to the Federal Governnent (in case it should
be decided to execute Mr. Davis, of which
there is no danger) to have themselves exe
cuted in his s-tead : nnd wc hope the people
will do so without a disenting voice.
Vox Popcli.
THAT Iw, PUTNAM FELLOW,*
ACS AIX.
*• Putnam Countt, May 18,18GC.
Mixture. Editor*—Sirx: Wprd come that
brother Ebonylieart, and Professor Bryant,
was a coming to Macon to equalize the folks.
Hearn say they was gwine to chalk the nig
gers, charcoal the poor white trash,* then
turn ’em ovcrbawdaciously to the Jteeonstrue-
tion Committee for approvaL Did ye ever
hear Mr. Fox’s story about the buzzard a try
ing to enqleize hisself with tbc “Bird of Li!>-
erty !” He told it as how the buzzard—but
I done forgot the. pint Anyhow, I recollect
that the buzzard didn’t do it. By-tbe-by,
maybe that's the pint Better mind! I bet
them’s the same peddlers what sold me that
blue coat in 1859, what come to pieces ’fore
Td ploughed a week’s ploughing! Wouldn’i
wonder ef they wasn’t the same Puritans
what’s beer a equalizin’ and reconstructin’
the Memphis folks! I remember when I was
a boy, one of them critturs came to our set-
tlcmcnt, and after the Sunday School lessons
was done recited, he got leave “to tell us
about Jesus,” and then lie told us about a
poor father way up in Knew England, “with
a wife and one helpless child,” and how bis
“house got burnt,” and then he said, says he,
‘Tm that man,” and now my dear, dear chil
dren, I have written a book called “Rusticus
Putnam, or thc Charitable Sunday School
Scholar”—only fifty cents—beautiful pictures.
Won’t each, and every one of you buy a copy,
and help a poor, houseless father ? lie that
givetli to the poor loaneth to tho Lord.” We
all bust out-cryin’, and give him all wc had,
and didn’t have any money next day, (which
was Fourth of July.) to buy watermillions
with. I didn’t read the book, but them as
did say as how tliar teas a piece in the mid
dle of it, what told about a “ebony-liearted
slave-driver what fed his niggers on cotton
seed.” Worst of it was, he tuck part of the
money and give it to the Boston folks to buy
Sharpe’s rifles. One of thc 12tli Ga. boys
says that when Jackson captured Mr. Burn
side’s baggage wagon, tliar he wus— the very
man!—with a whole cargo ot white-wash
wooden nutmegs, religious tracts and Yankee
notions. The boys turned hitn over to “Ike
Nicholson,” “our colored friend and poet,”
who was cook and chicken stealer for mess
2—don’t you know Ike! Sorry for yon if
you don’t. I’d ruther know Ike t'lian many a
worse man of better color. Ike says lie tuk
him to a lonesome pine thicket and tried to
convert him by reciting to him 'one of his
favorite ballads:
Now, Boston man, “git up and git,”
Go homp unto your roar.
For fuityou know you nought get hit,
And that will stop the war, Ac., Ac.
But Ike says lie couldn't do nutkin’ with
him—lie was such a curious heathen. He
said tryin’ to soften that man was like
when they was up in the Valley, they
was laid up in camp, and Mars John
says, says he: “Ike, bile this blue
beef two weeks, and if you get it soft I’ll
give you your freedom. I didn’t git my free
dom that time, white folks, cause when tbe
beef come out the fire, bully! cf it want
tanned insted of softened. I do believe in
my soul that piece of beef was cut out of that
Boston man’s heart.
Heard about our election. ? Soldiers elected
agin! Run right over the old settled citi
zens. I told the folks in our district not to
vote for ’em. I know’d the “Central Direc
tory” would hear about it, and send some
body here to reconstruct this county. One of
the ticket said as how he’d “lost a leg, lost
bis money, lost his secession, lost Ike; had
taken the oath, was loyal, &c., &c.” “But,”
says I. “you lie low. wc want “loyal” men for
these plaecs. I know, you are all right, but
Mr. Sumner won’t think so. »It is our duty to
elect loyal men, sir, loyal men, loyal men.
How will all this sound when reported by the
reconstruction committee ? How git recon
struction ? How git back into tbe Union!
IIow pacify Stevens, when such a feelin is
showed in Putnam county ?” But it wouldn’t
do. They all got elected.
Sorry for you Macon folks. Ever heard
about the man and the sheep ? A one legged,
one armed man was a walkin down the lane,
nnd he met a drove of sheep. The old bell
weather jumped over him, says the drover:
“Lie down, lie down, you fool, they’ll butt
you to death. Don’t you know when Billy
jumps they all jump.” So he did lay down;
but when tho last lamb was over it was dis-
kivered that tbe poor fellow was trampled to
death in the mud. You all ain’t got but one
leg to stand on.' Ef you stand up to your
rights, they’ll butt you to death; ef you lay
down and let ’em all run over you, you will
be trampled to death. I tell you what, my
friends, human natur ain( a slop tub, can't
bold all tbe slops. It’ll run over bimeby.
As for me, I’m a mighty joky man: but my
laughin’ aint shore enough laughin’; it's a
sort of risus tardonicut, as the Eatonton
Docks call it
Good-bye. Let ns know about thc riot
when it comes offi
R. Putnam.
BEAUTIES OF THE FREED-
MEN’S BUREAU.
Cruelty, Swindling and Fraud by
tho Agents.
Its Practical Abolition Recommended
The Rebuilding or Charleston
Thc attention bestowed by the Chamber of
Commerce, at the last meeting of the Board,
on the subject of encouraging the rebuilding
of Charleston, is, says the Courier, an evi
dence of the determination of our influential
citizens to push forward all measures tending
toward the best interests of the city. Some
active movement, which it is in the power ot
thc Chamber of Commerce to devise and exe
cute, would soon set thc ball in motion, and
in twelve months hence a majority of vacant
jpaees which we now see would be occupied
and adorned by structures for various purpo-
. In this connection, however, It would
be unjust to omit mentioning thc fact of thc
preparations making by numerous parties
owning lots in various sections of the city to
erect buildings. On Meeting street these pre
liminary movements are especially observable.
For weeks past laborers have been engaged
removing rubbish, pulling down walls and'
cbimnies, and arranging thc bricks in squares.
In the process of rebuilding thc city we would
suggest that sight should not be lost of the
absolute importance of erecting a theatre. If
the old site is not available for the purpose,
some other locality could be easily selected,
and doubtless purchased. Nothing will give
more ossuranco to people in other cities of
the resolve of the merchants and business
men generally of this city to restore its past
greatness than efforts put forward in rebuild
ing the burnt district. The members of tho
Chamber of Commerce have not been obliv
ious to this fact, and it is to them that the
thanks of the community are due.
Gens. Steedman and Fullarton have made
an elaborate and startling report to the War
Department oftbe operations of the Freed-
men’s Bureau in Virginia and North Caroli
na. We annex a portion of it, which relates
to the latter State, with the remark that sim
ilar villiany doubtless exists in all the States,
and only needs to be exposed:
CONDUCT OF THE AGENTS.
We have investigate*! some of tho charges
made against agents of thc Bureau, and in
pursuing our inquiries on this point commenc
ed with the Assistant Commissioner of thc
State, Colonel E. Whittlesey, to whom we ad
dressed the interrogatory—“Do you know of
any person in the military service now on du
ty with the Freedmen’s Bureau in this deport
ment who is or lias been, since entering upon
the duties of his office, engaged or inter
ested. either directly or indirectly, in the cul
tivation of any lands within tho department?”
He answered. “No.” Subsequently lie ad
dressed us a note, hereto appended, in
which he stated that, in order to assist the
planters in hiring freedmen, and trying fairly
the experiment of free labor, l*e and some oth
er officers of thc Bureau had loaned money,
and thus indirectly had an interest in culti
vating farms. On receiving this note we ad
dressed Col. Whittlesey further interrogations,
a copy of which is hereto annexed, to which
he replied in a communication, also hereto
appended, disclosing thc fact that lie is inter
ested as an equal partner with the Rev. Hor
ace James, of Massachusetts, formerly Cap
tain and acting Quartermaster Freedmen’s
Bureau, and with Mr. Wintbrop Tappan, of
Maine, in the cultivation of a large farm in
Pitt county. N. C. He also stated therein
that Captain F. A. Seeley, Superintendent of
the Bureau for the Eastern District, N. C., is
interested in tlie cultivation of a plantation
in Wavue county, N. C., with a Mr. Potter,
and that Captain Isaac Rosekranz, Commis
sary Subsistence, is interested with a Mr.
Brooks in thc cultivation of a plantation in
Pitt county, N. C.
A UniOUT EXCEPTION.
From Raleigh wc proceeded to Salisbury,
where wc found Major Clinton A. Cilley,
Superintendent in the Bureau, having charge
of the Western District, embracing fifty-one
counties of the State. This efficient nnd com
petent officer has administered tho affairs of
Bureau within his district with much ability
and impartiality. We conferred with the
leading white citizens* embracing both those
whp had formerly been rebels and those who
ha«i been Union men, and also with a delcga
tion of intelligent colored people represent
ing the freedmen, all of whom agreed in the
statement that the freedmen were nt work,
Were perfectly satisfied, and that good feeling
and lmnnony prevailed between tlie whites
and blacks throughout the district. Major
Ciilcy is not interested in thc cultivation of
any plantation, or in any other business not
directly connected with his official duties,
and he has prohibited all officers serving
under bim within his district from engaging
in any enterprise which would enable them
to appropriate or control the labor of freed
men under tlieir jurisdiction to advance
their private interests. Wc attribute much
of the order and contentment of the freed
men in the Western District to Major Cilley’s
judicious and honest administration.
BACK TO RALBIGn.
After completing our inspection of tbe
operation of the Bureau in Major Cilley’s dis
trict, we returned to Raleigh, where we re
mained one day for the purpose of further
interview with Colonel Whittlesey; but he
being absent, we were obliged to address him
certain interrogatories in writing, to which
he afterwards replied as before stated.
affairs at newbern.
On tbe 27th ot April we left Raleigh for
Newbern, the headquarters ot Captain F. A.
Seeley, Superintendent of the Bureau of the
Eastern District of North Carolina. Wc at
once proceeded to investigate tlie affairs of
the Bureau and tlie conduct of its officers in
this district. Captain Steciey was interro
gated as to whether he was interested in any
manner, directly or indirectly, in thc cultiva
tion of lands, or in any other private business
requiring thc labor of freedmen. He an
swered that he was npt, except indirectly iu
manufacturing lumber, having purchased, or
lieing about to purchase with two of his
clerks, a saw mill about forty miles downthc
river.
Dr. Rusli, medical purveyor, U. S. V., sta
tioned at Newbern, and a Mr. Potter, a citi
zen, were subsequently examined, both of
whom stated that Captain Seeley, Superin
tendent ofthc Freedmen’s Bereau for the disr
trict, entered into partnership with them,
about December last, in a contract to culti
vate tlie farm of Mr. George Collier, a citizen
of North Carolina, near Goldsboro’. They
commenced operations by planting seven hun
dred acres of cotton ami some corn; this
work necessarily requiring the labor of n lnrge
number of frcediueo.
Dr. Rush.stntejl that some two weeks since
he had conditionally purchased the interest
of Captain Seeley in this plantation, but had
not yet consummated the contract. Mr. Pot
ter stated that about a fortnight ago Dr.
Rush, he himself, and others, had condition
ally purchased a part of tlie interest of Capt.
Seeley, and that Capt Seeley still owned an
interest in thc plantation. Without being
able to determine from the testimony, how far
Capt Seeley is interested in this plantation,
it is very evident lie prevaricated in his an
swer to our interrogatory.
population of about four thousand, whose
condition is truly deplorable. These unfor
tunate people came within our lines and were
located there during the war. They are
living in small huts, built by themselves of
lumber manufactured by hand; these huts
generally containing but a single room, each
of which is occupied in most cases by large
families. The appearance of this settlement,
recently scourged with the smaii-pox. is well
calculated to excite the deepest sympathy for
the helpless condition of its inliabitants.—
Thc decrepit and helpless among them are
supported by the Government of'the United
States, and tlie remainder procure an uncer
tain and scanty living from little lobs about
Newbern—-from fishing with small boats,
huckstering, &c. The Rev. Mr. Fitz, formerly
an ahny chaplain, presides over this colony
ns Assistant Superintendent of the Bureau for
thc Trent river settlement. This Agent has
exercised the most arbitrary and despotic
power, and practiced revolting and unheard-
of cruelties on. the helpless freedmen under
his charge. The outrageous conduct of this
Rian was brought to our attention by a dele
gation of frecamen from tbc settlement, who
called upon us and made statements’ in rela
tion to his oppressions and outrages which wc
could scarcely credit
After hearing their statements we visited
the settlement, convened the freedmen, inves
tigated the charges against this man, and
ascertained that he bad been guilty of even
greater wrongs and oppression than had been
complained of. In addition to tbc testimony
of the freedmen, we took the statements o*f
four intelligent ladies from the North, who
are teaching school in the settlement. Among
the many acts of cruelty committed by Su
perintendent Fitz, we found that he had in
two instances suspended freedmen with cords
around their wrists, their feet not touching
thc floor, and kept them in this position, in
one case four, in the other case six hours
that he sentenced a freedman to nn impris
onment of three months for a trivial offense
—that of wrangling with his wile. He kept
another man who was arrested for debt shut
up in the block-house—the prison—for
months, while his wife and two children, re
duced to abject destitution, died with the
small-pox, and took him from thc prison un
der guard and compelled him to bury his
last child in the cradle in which it died. On
another occasion, when one of his guards re
ported to him that a colored woman had
spoken disrespectfully of him, without even
inquiring what thc woman had said, he or
dered her to be imprisoned until tlie next
morning at nine o’clock, when she should lie
brought before him to answer for the indig
nity. In one instance lie imprisoned six chil
dren for ten days for playing in the streets on
the Sabbath day. He imposed a fine of sixty
dollars upon an aged freedman for having
told another treedmen that he was about to
lie arrested by Mr. Fitz. This poor old man.
not having the money to pay thc fine, was
imprisoned until the next day, when liis son
paid the same, with three dollars additional
as jail fees.
FITZ'S TAXES.
Tbc land upon which thc huts in thi > set
tlement are built is owned by certain heirs in
North Carolina, and is held by tbe Freed-
men’s Bureau as abandoned property. A
tax which Superintendent Fitz says goes to
thc support of the Bureau is imposed upon
the owner of each hut for ground rent. If
the occupants fail to pay this tax promptly
they are either turned out into the streets or
imprisoned, and in sonic instances huts have
been torn down by order of the Superintcn
dent for non-payment of tlie tax. All busi
ness transacted by these people is taxed for
the same purpose. Five dollars per month is
levied upon every little shop; two dollars on
each fishing boat; five dollars on each horse
and cart, Ac. The failure to pay these taxes
when due,at once subjects the property taxed
to confiscation. We were unable to ascertain
what amount of money had t>een collected by
Superintendent Fitz, or wliat disposition had
been made of it. The imperfect manner in
which his books were kept would lipve ren
dered a lengthy and detailed examination
necessary to arrive at even an approximate
idea of the amount of money collected. In
answer to a question as to what justification
there was for the oppressive burdens lie had
imposed upon these people, Superintendent
Fitz replied that Captain Seeley told him,
“I must have a thousand dollars a month from
that settlement.” lie also furnished us with
sworn statement, herewith forwarded,
■narked “E,” in which he attempts to defend
his conduct by stating that lie acted in obe
dience to the orders ot his superior officers
in the Bureau.
CAPTAIN SEELEY SCREENING HI8 SUBORDINATE
In an interview we had with Captain See
ley that officer evinced a desire to shield Su
perintendent Fitz by stating that a great deal
of what was said against him resulted from
prejudice, notwithstanding lie had thc sworn
testimony before him thnt the charges against
Fitz were true. <
BUREAU OFFICER8 8IIOOTINO DOWN A FREED-
Attoovals by toe Senate.—The Senate
has confirmed tho nomination of W. Calvin
Brown, of New York, as consul at Augsburg,
and Frank Snow, of Ohio, as consul at Na
ples.
FURTHER MISCONDUCT.
Capt Rosekranz, Sub-Agent of the Bureau
Newbern, under Capt. Seeley, and Commis
sary of Subsistence, as will be seen by refer
ence to the paper hereto attached, is also en
gaged in cultivating a large plantation near
Little Washington, N. C., with the labor of
freedmen, whom lie supplies with rations as
a part of their wages.
MISSING RATIONS.
In one of our interviews witli thc freed
men of Newbern, some of them, who were
employed hi the Commissary department of
the Bureau, stated that rations in bulk had
been frequently taken from tbe supply ware
houses at unusual hours,beforc the doors were
opened for transaction of business; and haul
ed off in carts and wagons; and that on one
occasion they had followed a cart containing
four barrels of pork, to see it it went to the
freedmen’s ration house. They ascertained
that it did not Wc investigated this par
ticular case. Captain Rosekranz stated that
lie knew nothing obout it. His brother, a
citizen, whom he has employed to act as a
commissary sergeant, stated that the four
barrels of pork alluded to were ordered by
liimself to be taken from tho storehouse to
the building from which rations are issued to
the freedmen, but that the driver of the cart
had made a mistake, and took the pork to
the wrong place, a provision store kept by
3Ir. P. Merwin; said that immediately on dis
covering tbe mistake he had it rectified, and
the pork returned to the storehouse. After
wards we called upon Mr. Mcnvin, who stat
ed that at about the time Mr. Rosekranz said
the pork had been sent by mistake to his
store he borrowed four barrels of pork from
Capt Rosekranz, which lie had not yet re
turned. He also stated that Capt. Rosekranz
on that day, and after liis examination before
us, called at his store and requested him to
return the four barrels of pork immediately*
Mr. Merwin further stated that he had ex
changed with Capt Rosekranz two barrels
of brown sugar for two barrels of white su
gar, and paid Capt. Rosekranz five cents per
pound for making the exchange.
the'reverend fitz.
Opposite Newbern, on the south bank of
the Trent river, there is a settlement composed
exclusively of freedmen, and containing a
While at Newbern, investigating tlie con
duct of the officers of the Bureau, and thc
reported oppressions of tlie freedmen by this
class of persons, pur attention was called to
the alleged killing of a freedman by a white
employee of Colonel Whittlesey, 'Assistant
Commissioner of tlie Bureau for North Caro
lina. anil thc Rev. Horace James, 1'ormely As
sistant Quartermaster, on tlieir plantation in
Pitt County. 31 r. James, while in the United
States service, was Superintendent of tlie Bu
reau for the district now under charge of Capt
Seeley, and is now an agent of the liurpau,
without pay, for the county in which he is
planting. The circumstances under which
this freedman was killed, as stated by 3Ir.
James himself, were as follows:
Thc freedman was accused of stealing pro
visions from tlie store of Col. Whittlesey and
Mr. James, was arrested, tried and convicted
by Mr. James, as agent of the Bureau, and
was sentenced to dig ditches on their planta
tion. While working out this sentence he
ran aw’ay, and was pursued by James and his
clerk, Bovden, who arrived at thc bank of a
river while the freedman was attempting to
cross in a canoe. Boyden ordered him to re
turn, telling him that if he did not he would
shoot, and the freedman disregarding this
order, Boyden fired. Boyden states himself
that he thinks he hit him, aud as nothing has
ever been heard of the freedman since, it is
generally believed in the neighborhood that
he was killed and fell from the canoe into the
river. These facts were stated in a letter
fonvarded to Col. Whittlesey, who returned
it to Captain Seeley, with the following en
dorsement : .
Raleigh, March 28,1860.
Respectfully returned, as the affair seems to
have occurred at night, and, as tbe body of
the qegro has not been discovered, it does not
appear certain that the shot took effect. No
further action in the case seems to be called
for.
Colonel Whittlesey, "
Assistant Commissioner.
BEEcnER, Assistant Adjutant-General.
A number freedmen at Newbern expressed
dissatisfaction at thc manner in which this
ease had been passed over without investiga
tion ; but as thc plantation is quite remote
ftpm any public line of communication, wc
were unable, owing to tho want of time, to
inquire into thc matter.
AFFAIRS AT KINSTON.
On the 2d instant, wo left Newbern for
Goldsboro, and on the way stopped at Kins
ton long enough to learn that Captain Wheel
er, Agent for the Bureau at that point, is en
gaged in working a large plantation on his
own account, and employs thereon quite a
large number of freedmen.
MOKE FARMING.
At Goldsboro’ the Superintendent, G. O.
Glavis, Chaplain United States Army, is cul-
Mr. Carr nnd Mr. Lane, citizens of tho vicin
ity of Goldsboro’, that lie is interested and
Joined with them in contracts for the cultiva
tion of tlieir plantations. He and his friend
Mr. Brooks entered into a contract with 3Ir.
Lane to furnish rations and pay for forty la
borers, and to provide eight good mules." 3Ir.
Lane offered to furnish the land and to super
intend in person the cultivation thereof, the
crops to be equally divided, cnc-half to Mr.
Lane, and the other half to 3Ir. Brooks and
Glavis. 3Ir. Lane states that thc enterprise
failed after the freedmen had worked over
two months; they then left, Brooks ami
Glavis having failed to pay them according to
contract. Thc .freedmen received for tlieir
labor a little clothing, such as coats, pants,
shoes, &c.,'furnished by Chaplain Glavis, and
but little or no money. A similar contract
was made by Glavis and Brooks with 3Ir.
Carr, who stated to us that Chaplain Glnvjs
is paying the hands in “a little of everything,
but chiefly in clothing.”
SELLING FKEEDMBN’s CLOTHES.
We ascertained by the testimony of Messrs.
Barham & Ballard, auctioneers at Goldsbnrq’,
that they had sold at auction for Chaplain
Glavis forty blankets marked “U. S.” and a
quantity of clothing that had been sent to
Goldsboro’ for gratuitous distribution to tlie
needy by a Freedmen’s Aid Society at or in
the vicinity of Rochester, N. Y. We learned
also that he had disposed of a large amount
of such clothing at private sale. The chap
lain stated himself that lie had received from
such sales two hundred and sixty dollars
($260,) though subsequently he asserted that
the total casly receipts of his office from all
sources amounted to one hundred and twen
ty-six dollars nnd fifty cents ($126 5ft) He
kept no books or even memoranda of mon
eys received and expended.
THE WILMINGTON AGENTS.
On the 4th inst. we arrived at Wilmington
thc headquarters of the Bureau for the South
em District of North Carolina, of which Co
lonel Rutherford is the Superintendent.—
The Colonel lias been here but a short time,
and is not yet fully acquainted with the oper
ations of the Bureau in his district. He was
so unwell that he was obliged to retire wliilc
we were engaged in examining his office, and
we have not since conferred with him.
Major J. C. Mann, Assistant Quartermaster,
and financial agent of the Southern District,
is eugaged in thc cultivation of a rice plan
tation a short distance from Wilmington, on
which are employed fifty-five freedmen. The
Major stated that while he would not object
to making money, he engaged in this busi
ness to convince the Southern people that the
negro would work.
ONE WAV OF INDUCING INDUSTRY.
3Iajor Charles I. Wickersliam, sub-agent of
the Bureau, whose headquarters are at Wil
mington, is also interested in the cultivation
of a rice plantation within his sub-district,
afid he is to receivo one-fourth of the crops
from thc same, for compelling the freedmen
employed on said plantation to work faithful
ly, He explained the manner in which he
compelled treedmen to comply with their con
tracts, by stating that he put them to work
with ball and chain on thc streets of Wilming
ton.
TELE‘GRA PHIC
DISPATCHES TO THE ABSOLUTED PRESS.
CONGRESSIONAL NJiWS.
Washington, May 17.—The Senate, to-doy,
passed tlie West Point Appropriation bijt." P
contains a prevision prohibiting the appbint
ment of any cadet who served in the army or
navy of the Southern Confederacy.'
Tlie Consul f and Diplomatic Appropria
tion bill Wh«. > passed.
The Hoc5* resumed the consideration . of
the Tax V
A let^ ,5as received and read from Gene
ral Gran jfecommcnding an increase of thc
regular, army, for the purpose of supply
ing the places ot those troops that
aee now going out of service. General
Grant says in his letter that a small
military power force is required fn tbp States
heretofore rebellious, and it cannot be fore
seen that this force will not be required for
some time to come. lie hopes that tbia force
will not be necessary to enforce the laws, but
differences of sentiment engendered by the
war render the presence of thc military ne
cessary to give a feeling ot security to the
people. He thinks that all peaceably dis
posed classes of the Southern people will
concur in this view.
EVILS OF THE SYSTEM.
Without attempting to*discuss the proprie
ty of officers ot the Bureau'in the military ser
vice of the United States, who are paid by
the Government for the performance of their
duties, engaging in private business, and em
ploying freedmen for such purposes while
controlling through their official positions
thnt class, of labor, we deem it our duty to
state some of the effects produced, both up
on the officers themselves and upon tlie
ilanteis with whom they come in competition
>y such conduct. 3Iajor Wickcrsham,
in contracting to furnish foriy laborers to
work a rice plantation becomes at
once interested against the laborers,
whom he compels to labor, perhaps unjustly,
when unfairly dealt with by the person work
ing them on "the plantation; and on their re
fusing to work, he inflicts upon them unlaw
ful, and, for a breach of contract, unheard of
punishments, putting them on chain gangs as
if they were convicted criminals. Colonel
Whittlesey, or any other officer of less rank
and influence in the Bureau, who are engaged
in working plantations rented for cash or on
shares, becomes interested in securing a low
rate of wages, and in making thc most strin
gent labor regulations, to the detrimeut of
the freedmen. They thereby give the snne-
mn of tlie government to the establishment
or wages far below what the labor is really
worth. Officers of the Quartermaster’s and
Commissary Departments who are thus enga
ged, are subjected to the temptation of ap
propriating to their own use quartermaster’s
stores and rations to supply and pay their
own laborers. Complaints have been made
to me by the planters that "these agents of the
Bureau use thc power of their position to ob
tain nnd control the best labor in the State.
There is no doubt that some of the ill-feeling
manifested toward the Bureau on thc part of
thc planters is attributable to this fact.
ARBITRARY POWER OF THE BUREAU.
The arbitrary power exercised by some of
the officers and agents of the Bureau in mak
ing arrests, imposing fines, and inflicting
punishments, disregarding the local laws and
especially the statute of limitations, creates
prejudice against the Government. If the
officers were all honest and intelligent, witli
even limited legal information, it might be
safe to trust them with this extraordinary
power; but in many instances the officers do
not possess the slightest knowledge of law.—
At Goldsboro’, the agent, Captain Glavis, im
posed a fine of $25 on one freedman for stab
bing another so severely as to endanger his
life, and wiicn interrogated by us relative to
this case, he stated that lie did not know
enough ubout law to distinguish a civil from
a criminal case.
THE RECOMMENDATION.
We are satisfied that the recommendation
which we made in reference to the withdraw
al of the officers of tiie Bureau in Virginia,
and thc transference to the officers command
ing the troops, of such duties ns it may still
be necessary to perform in connection * with
the fredmen, is equally applicable to North
Carolina.
Very respectfully, *
Your obedient servants
Ja8. B. Steedman,
Major-General Volunteer?.
J. S. Fullerton,
Brigadier-General Volunteers.
FIRE IN MOBILE.
FIVE HUNDRED BALES COTTON DES
TROYED.
Mobile, May 1C.—-The lightning struck
tbe City Warehouse this afternoon, destroy
ing the same, together with five hundred
bales of cotton.
NEW YORK MAH NETS.
New York,May 17.—Cot;o:: is firm ; sales
to-day 1,200 bales at 35c to 30c.
Gold quoted at 129.7-8.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
MORE NIGGER IN THE SENATE.
Washington, 3Iay 18.—In tlie Senate to
day. 3Ir. Sumner presented the petition of
certain colored citizens asking that the second
clause of tile pending constitution amend
ment be stricken out, nnd one substituted for
it. declaring that no Congressman from tlie
South shall be allowed a scat in the House
of Representatives, who is not chosen by at
least half tbe loyal men of his district, with
out regard to color.
3fr.-_Sumner also presented a petition for
the trial of Jefferson Davis by court martial,
and said in connection that the trial of Mr.
Davis at Richmond, at present, would be one
of those great comedies which would hereaf
ter excite the derision of tlie world. The pe
tition was referred to tlie Committee on’Mili
tary Affairs.
Tlie attention of tlie House to-day was
mainly confined to the Tax bill.
JUDGE SE3I3IES NOT ALLOWED TO
TAKE HIS SEAT. *
Mobile, May 18,—The Evening News pub
lishes the following order.
Headqr’s Department of Ala., )
May 17th, 180Q. (
In compliance with instructions from the
President ot tlie United States, it is hereby
directed that Raphael Semmes be uot permit
ted to bold or exercise the functions of Judge
of the Probate Court of 3IobiIe county, or
any other civil or political office or trust,
while he remains unpardoned by thc Presi
dent
By order of Brevet Major-General Charles
R. Woods.
A. Ramsey Winingeu,
Afes’t Adj’t General.
NEW YORK MARKETS.
„ New York. 3Iay 18.—Cotttonfirm; sales,
1,836 bales.
Gold quoted at 130.
Bold Attempt at Rape.—A bed room, fin
the house of one of the best citizens of our
county, in which three young ladies were
sleeping, was entered on the .night of Thurs
day the 10th inst, by a negro man with
villainous intentions. On his approach tc
the bed he awoke one of the ladies, who reso
lutely laid hold of him and would have kill
ed him. had not the fiend found and hid a
pistol which was iu the room. He was fully
recognized and in a very short time was ar
rested by some parties and placed, wc learn,
where he will receive just punishment for
such an outrage.— [Datcton Journal Ylth.
Reclamation for Fallen Women.—The
persons engaged in tlie enterprise for the re
clamation of fallen women, known as the
“Midnight Meeting Movement,'’ held their
annual meeting lately in London. Twenty-
six meetings have taken place in various
parts of the metropolis, and three hundred
women have been induced to abandon their
immoral course of life. It is believed that k
thousand have been reclaimed.
THE
“CHILD’S DELIGHT.”
PUBLISHED BY : : : S. BOYKIN,
MACON, GEORGIA,
L by far the best and neatest child’s paper pub-
Special Dispatch to thc Charleston Courier.
THE HAGUE 3IISSION—GEN. SICKLES
ACCEPTS.
Washington, 3Iay 16.—Gen. Sickles has
reconsidered bis declension of the Hague
Mission, and will accept it.
The Senate will undoubtedly sustain the
Colorado veto. A caucus of Republican
Senators having ascertained that they cannot
master a two-ti.ird? vote for the Constitution
al amendment proposed by the Kvo—tstruc-
tion Committee, have postponed lurtberac-
tion until next week,
General Stonema'a’s report to General Grant
blames tlie negroes hs the Cause of the 3lem-
phis riots.
3Ir. Stevens and his Democratic Assist
ants.—On Wednesday last, while the de-
• bate upon the reconstruction plau was pro
grossing in tlie House, Hob. Tliad. Stevens
was observed seated in tlie midst of tlie Dem
ocrats on their side of the hall, giving them
pleasant entertainment in thc way of jokes
and anecdotes, whereat tbe Democratic breth
ren were hugely delighted, and drew close
about the Radical Head Center. 3Ir. Stevens
having worked up thc social feeling to the
highest tension, and to the delectation of his
admirers, managed to slip in a little sugges
tion of a plan by which thc Radicals and the
Democrats could work together upon the
vote to be taken on the proposed amendments
to the Constitution. ,
It is understood that in this little seeming
ly impromptu gathering, thc plan was agreed
upon between Mr. Stevens and a few of the
Copperheadish class of Democrats, which
suited in carrying the joint resolution
umphantly through the House, the object
the Democrats being to send tho resolution
to the people in as odious a form as possible,
and the purpose of the Radical chief being to
present a proposition to the country that will
dc defeated before the people, but neverthe
less serve liis great purpose of keeping the
South out in the cold indefinitely.—N. Tort
Times. \
TO THE LADIES!!!
examination before us that lie was not inter-! illustrated by handsome pictures. It is printed on
pnlt; Vit inn ! white paper and published oucc a month at $1.00
ested m the culnv! n ot plantations, except fjr s ; u; ,i e CO pies and 50cts. for cacs copy when
indirectly by loaning money to a 3fr. Brooks, clubs of any number over live are taken,
a friend of liis from tlie North, who was cn- Address S. BOYKIN,
gaged in planting; but we ascertained from inayCO-w&d-tf] Macon, Ga.
Mrs. Anna E. Demrng and Mrs, Sarah Farrar
R espectfully announce to the la
dies of Macon, that, having received instruc
tion from the most competent and experienced
persons, they arc prepared to CUT, FIT and MAKE
all articles of LADIES’ APPAREL in the latest
and most fashionable style.
PLAIN AND FANCY NEEDLE-WORK
ot every description, done in the neatest manner,
at reasonable rates.
CHINESE, SILK Sc FRENCH EMBROIDE’Y
Ot any pattern, executed at short notice.
BRAIDING, of everr style or pattern.
LESSONS IN EMBROIDERY given t > Classes
or individuals at moderate rates.
Best of references given, when desired.
I 13TRESIDENCE—Upper end of \Y alnnt Street,
(last house), near tLe Cemctert". i an lo-tf
ot*. to drt ; > !-’■>•• •-»«« I *- a’