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NEGROES OWNED NEGROES. Perhaps everybody else knows that there used to be in the South not a few negro owners of negro slaves, but some detailed information on the subject given The Charleston News and Courier is the first we had ever heard of such a thing, and we are immodest enough to believe that not many people in the North will fail to share our surprise. It seems that in Charleston itself, just before the war broke out, there were not only many free ne groes with property running well up into the thousands, but the list of taxpayers for 1860 shows that there were 132 of them from whom was collected an impost of $3 each on one or more slaves of their own race. Os the colored Charlestonians, two had fourteen slaves each, ano h r owned thirteen, three owned twelve, and so on downward. How they came into possession of their slaves —that is, whether by inheritance, gift, or purchase—The News and Courier says it does not know, but old residents of the city say that the black slave-owners acquired their chattels exactly as did the white people and managed them in very much the same way, often hiring them out to other employers, and, of course, taking all their wages. They had no special prejudice against “the institution,” nor could they be expected to have, since to many of tin m, or their immediate ancestors, slavery had been familiar in Africa, a fact that is often forgotten. And there were negro slavehold ers in other parts of the Si uih—in Columbus, Ga., for instance, where one Bob Parker did a trucking busi ness with fourteen drays and the black drivers thereof included among his property, besides a number of negro women and children. And of a ceitain Dilsey Pope, in the same city, it is related that she owned her own husband. Him she hire d out until he offended her in some manner not recorded, and then she punished him by selling him to Col. Seaborn Jones for a price now for gotten. These well-to-do free per sons of color, according to The News and Courier, had no political privi leges, and, of course, such a thing for them as “social equality” had not even been imagined, but they were amply protected in all their civil rights, could engage in any bus iness they pleased, and their d - scendants are still the colored aris tocracy of Charleston. .ROADS JOIN TO FORCE STEEL TRUST TO STOP SELLING UNSAFE RAILS. Aroused by the enormous increase in the quantity of broken steel rals, resulting in an unusual number of wrecks with consequent loss of prop erty and life, the railways of the •country are making a determin'd and united effort to compel the I n t «tl Steel Corporation, which si p;ilie practically all the roads in the couu itry, to give a better and m re relia ible rail. The American Railway Association, composed of the executive heads and operating officials of the great sys tems, repr set ting 230,000 miles of irailways, has appointed a committee to consider the problem and deal with the Steel Corporation. This commit tee is probably the moat powerful ever named by the allied roads of the country. Ils demands will be backed solidly by the railroads. If has h Id half a dozen meetings, and will have another within a few days. It has had representatives of the Steel Trust b fore it and has practi cally delivered an ultimatum. The committee is made up as fol lows : G. L. P< ck. g neral manager Penn sylvania lines west of 'Pittsburg, chairman. J. T. Richards, chief engineer main tenance of way, Pennsylvania Rail road. J. Kruttschnitt. vice-president Sou thern Pacific Company. W. J. Wilgas, vice president New York Central & Hudson River Rail road. R. ntfort, consulting engineer Louisville & Nashville Railroad. E. C. Carter, chief engineer Chi cago & Northwestern Railway. William Garstang, superintendent m tive power Cleveland, Ci cinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway. R. L. Ettenger, consul ing mechan ical engine t Southern Railway. W. E. Fowler. master car build r Canadian Pacific Railway’. Previous to the combined action of the railroads all traffic men we: e keenly cognizant of the sinister meth ods «t the Steel Trust, but none felt strong enough to antagonize the pow erful corporation that directly or in directly furnishes si much traffic and can withhold from any ro ’d the rails necessary' for its operation. Agents Wanted Tn every town and post office to so licit subscribers for Watson’s Weekly and Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine Write today for Agent’s Outfit and sample copies. 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