Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-06-14

ally at night Some are fresh from the
plantations, oftsa Jagged, hungry, aud dirty
from long travel through woods, marshes,
aud dusty roads. Many little children
come with their mothers. All these have
FIRST to be fed next, shelter provided aud
soon, work and occupation. have over
seven hundred ablebodied men entered on
my books, and, with their families, upward
of three thousand men, women, and child.
rem have reported themselves. Five hund-
red of the men are employed on Govern
ment works, and, we cannot get sixth
part of the number we could most proita.
bly use. Two hundred are employed as ser
wants in the hospitals an in the Quarter
masters department, unloading ships, &c.
The women soon learn TO earn their own
living, selling pies, cakes, &c, aud doing
washing for the soldiers The negroes far
exceed my expectations as to their intelli.
geuce and capacity for usefulness and self.
government. They are orderly, well be.
haved, Industrious, cheerful, ceanly, and in
every way, often to the risk of their lives,
ready to serve us. We employ them at
every kind Of labor, as carpenters, masons,
lhl ulONFg kolhNhCiot NAAhpNA
hewers, home servants, laborers, &c, and
in oil these occupations they are equol to
the work we give them to do. As TO hav-
ing any anxiety about their ability TO take
care of themselves, or thought of sending
them TO any other country for usefulness, or
safety to ourselves, it is simply absurd
Only let them alone, and give them fair
wages for their work, with intelligent, sen.
Sble men over them TO direct their ener'
gies, and instead of dangerous body OF
men, they will prove most valu iGle com
harbors aud protects them.
But it is understood that Gov. Stanley,
after looking iuto the operations among the
contrabauds, has announced thai he is re-
quired to govern North Carolina according
to the laws as they stand on the statute
books of that State, and that those laws
forbid the education of slaves, which must
therefore be discontinued.
According to the law of North Carolina
enacted in 1881, to teach slave to read Of
write, or sell or give him auy book Of
pamphlet, is punished with thirty-nine lashe
or Imprisonment, if the offender he fret
negro ; but if a white, then with iue o
5000. The reason for this law, assigned il
It's preamble, is, that teaching slaves t,
read aud write tends to dissatisfaction il
their minds, aud to produce inSurrectiOn anc
rebellion
Gov. Stanley is Indignantly repudiateC
10y Secretary Stanton. 1t would, indeed
be hard to believe that the Governmcn
would make such arelurn to the loyal black
for their services in the cause Of the Union
1t would show purpose as we advanced
toward the overthrow of the rebellion t
recede from the course of justice and ben
evolence which had little earlier been en-
tered upon. For at Fortress Monroe ant
at Port Royal, as well as at Ncwbern, tb
blacks have been treated as freed men, ant
have been superinteuded in their labor, ant
instructed in the rudiments of knowledge
under the sanction of the Government, will
results that must be emnently satiSfactor,
to every candid mind that will inform itsel
of ali the facts.