The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-01-01
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WEDNESDAY MORNING -. JAN. 1, lAa
A BaIcHr IDEA.-Nething sssus - give
oar good fiends, the Ysnfsss, 8 mack fron
BILE ~ the 'contraband s--or, IN other ~ords
the negroes they have Stolen from sca.S4sn
plantations. They are utterly At . loss whas
- do with them. They cannot send f.smtc
Liberia, for Liberia has set up fer hsrssl,
and will soon have an Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Pieniposensiary Of her agra Z,
tho Court Of the White House, and her con
cent must be obtained before 20 many lazy,
ignorapt vsgabcnds can be packed uposs hSSr.
They cannot turn them loose in Csp.Tsi OF
South America, for they own no land there,
and John Bull, backed by France and Spain,
10 determined that the 'tarsa Of freedom
shall not be enlarged IN that direction. They
win not let them settle In Yanltsedons, for OF
Gil things in nature, negro 10 most ds,estas!e
to Yankee. la this dilemma, "certain pro.
minsnt members Of Congrsss,' a. we arc as-
sured BY that mirror Of truth, the Washington
Star, are coming forward TO solve tho daa-
Guilty. They are considering," says the Star,
"a new proposition for the solution Of the
'eontrsband' question in order to aroi1 ii.
erpease Of supporting erec4s Of slasss sn
sAleRsss, and TO furnish tie American mills
scsaA cotton"
The latter part Of the sentence IL the key
TO Ill Yankee movsments They have fouud
cat that cotton 10 king after Vii. They art
mad for cotton. Put bale in their sight ano
they fall into convulsions, a. . Yabid dog
when he sees vessel Of water. They can,
get cotton, and they are prepared to go eli
lengths for it. Their present scheme is y very
wise ones They take tho ground" Gays the
Star, "a that the Ineiaa territory west oi
Louisiana and Arkansas was coded 20 the
United States by treaty, and on certain con
ditions." The Indians having violated the
treaties and spurned the obligations, it IL pro
posed by these long headed congressman t.
occupy their territory and put the contra
bands 10 possession of it. The plantations oi
the Choctaws and Chickasaws alone, the STA.
tells US, could fully supply the American naiiis
the tirst year, and, US CUT ia famous for making
cotton only when he is compelled, a ~. stem
of apprenticeship is TO be established, to take
the labor that is in him out Of him. The
country il approached it seems, . from ST.
Louis through Springfield, distance Of three
hnndr ed miles" 1.-The remainder Of the rail.
road from Rolla to Fort Smith can be com
plsted in twelve months The country
thus revertiag to The Government embraces
the vallics OF the Red, Arkansas, and other
Gtt Of
surpassed fertility, capable Of producing
Is, U0U, DOC bales OF cotton per ailnum.'
This il certainly grand scheme, and does
credit to the prominent. members of Con
gress' who concocted it. AS there will be
some difficulties il carrying it out, we venture
70 point them out ~ the prominent members
of Congress" that being iorewarned they
may be foresrmed; Let, There is a NAH
named Sterling Price livi0g out in Missouri
ON the line of this railroad, who will be sure
to object to it, and, if not summarily deal
with, will be very apt to thwart it. He is n
man whom it will not do to despise. Son a
time ago body Of Federal troops were t.
tempting to get to Arkansas through
this very Springfield, when this fellow
Price fell in with them there, and cut
them into ribands. We are not sure that what
were left Of them are done running yet
Nay, he followed them up, and took whole
army Of them prisoners wiihin week after
wards. 1t il not altogether so certain that he
will not have st. Louis in possession before
the prominent members can start the frst
cargo to the promised land of cotton and i-isry.
Now it is certain that Price will raise his sck
against this scheme, wise an it il ; and as lie has
something like fifty Thousand men at his beck
and call, and is a desperate fighter, there is
shance that he may cause trouble In the
second place, after disposing of Price, it is
but too probable that the Choctaws and Chick
asaws may not be willing to give up their
lands At the bidding of prominent members
They number some eight or ten thousand
warriors, and would have at their back all
Arkansas, all Western Louisiana, and all
Eastern Texas.
This scheme will not do. We can put the
"prominent members en- better. Lesthen
drive out the whites from Louisiana and Mis-
sissippi, aud plant the contrabands there.
TheyIwill only have to walk over the bodies
Of some hundred and City Thousand men, and,
to abloodthirsty Boil Trotter this would hardly
furnish food for a breakfast. If they obieet.o
this a. an enterprise too easy of accom-, iish-
mont, let them take in Georgia and Alabama,
Or Arkansas and Texas. or all Of then to.
gsther.
II Yankee were not 20 notoriously blood
thirsty, we have yet scheme in reserve,
which we would submit to the prominent
msmbere" In doing 80, we betray confi.
dsnce, but We feel justified by the occasiou.-
A great English astronomer has made discov.
cries through the great telescope of the Earl
Of Ross, which throw all others-eyen these
revealed BY Lock twenty. five years sgo--isto
the shade. He has found that there are rsag.
nifssnt cotton lands in tho moon, and not a
Choetaw or a Chickasaw anywhere near. Lot
the prominent members" forthwith seize
them for the benefit Of the " contraLsnas.''-
It Will be much easier than it il t. take the
iands Of the Chickaeaws and Choctaws
Professor Lowe can furnish them with trans
Porsasion. Let them apply ct once. They
VIII give him an opportunity Of doiay some.
sains really usefal.
TIE YANKEE BACK DowN-MEesRs. Ma.
son AND 6LIDKLL RELEAsED.--As will be
sssn by . telsgraphic dispatch, the Yankee
Governme which has been threatening at