The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-23 00:00:00

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AMERICA.

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•NSW YORIC, Ammer 11, Noos.
The deleetea to the National Union Convention
are arriving daily in large numbers at Philadelphia.
They comprise some of the most eminent men of
the country. Ex-Governor John Bigler is one of the
California delegation. New York is represented
in part by General Dix, Hon. Henry J. Raymond,
Hon. Sanford E. Church, and Samuel J. Tilden.
Hon. Reverdy Johnson, and Ex-Governor Pratt
are among the Maryland delegates ; and among the
lifamachussets delegates are Hon. Robert C. Win-
throp, Hon. George Ashman, and John Quinoey
'Adams, a son of Charles Francis Adams.
It is believed that General Dix will be elected
chairman of the convention.
A serious riot has occurred at Helena, Arkansas.
The accounts thus far received are very meagre,
but it seems that a coloured regiment became
mutinous, fired upon white citizens, and threatened
to burn the town and kill all the inhabitants.
Great alarm prevailed, and people were flying to
planes of security. The President has ordered an
immediate report of the affair from officials on the
spot.
General Baird has been superseded in command
of Louisiana by General Stoneman.
The cholera has greatly abated in New York
and Brooklyn, but is increasing in other places.
There were 49 deaths from cholera yesterday in
Cincinnati, and 24 deaths in New Orleans.
The Loyal League, which organisation has been
partially abandoned since the suppression of the
rebellion, has been revived in Illinois, for election
purposes, under the auspices of the radicals, who
have n 3ev entire control of the organisation in that
State.
General Logan, who is a radical candidate for
Congress in Illinois, is stumping that State in his
own behalf. In a recent speech at Springfield he
violently abused Pre3ident Johnson, who, he said,
had been made President by Booth, and who was
anxious to carry out the principles of his only
original constituent. Logan declared that Mr.
Johnson had a black heart and brain, and only
desired to serve treason. He (Logan) was in favour
of making negroes citizens. He would never for-
give the rebels, and thought they should be treated
with a torch in one hand and a sword in the other.
He, for one, would never forgive those who had
fought against the Union.
The final report of Generals Steedman and Ful-
lerton of their investigation of the affairs of the
Freedmen's Bureau in the Southern States has
been published in full. Its substance has been
from time to time previously furnished. The re-
port says of the present contract system of labour
at the South :
The system now enforced by the Herten is simply
slavery in a modified form. What is the difference to the
negro whether he is sold for five dollars or for five
thousand, for thirty years to thirty masters, or for
thirty years to one master I It is involuntary
servitude in either case ; and • practical defeat of the
emancipation proclamation of the lamented President
Lincoln. If the freedman leaves work to seek better
wages he is waded as • vagrant and put to labour with
ball and chain. If he leaves the plantation to visit a friend
it is made • penal offence, and a fine of 50 dole. is im-
posed. If he refuses to work he is arrested by the Bureau
Marshal and sold for • few dollars to the nearest planter.
The only remedy against a white man for a breach
of contract is a snit for damages, said we
can see no reason why the same remedy should not be
applied and conceded in the arse of the black man. The
freedman has nothing to sell but his labour, and we are
strongly of the opinion that he ought to be permitted to
obtain for it the highest price it will bring. If he is a
free man it is neither just nor lawful for any person to as-
sume control of him, and certainly not more just or lawful
for an officer of the Freedmen's Bureau to do so than for •
Southern planter.
The report shows that negroes working inde-
pendently of the Bureau contract system receive
generally three or four times as much for their
labour as those who work under the contract
system.
The planters always give the preference to ne-
groes hiring under private arrangement.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

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