Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-06-12
Washington. June

Washington, June 10.
Col. Roselof, Charge DAbdre of Den
mark, has addressed letter to the Secre-
tary of State, upon the subject of the ad-
vantages offered by the Island St. Croix
for the employment Of persons Of this coun-
try of African extraction and negroes found
on board vessels captured by our cruisers.
The Island, he says, has been checked in its
progress for the want Of manual labor, and
he invites the United States to enter into
convention, whereby contemplated migra-
ton may be placed under the protection and
guarantee of the two governments. The
Governor of the Danish West Indies has
also appointed Especial agent, who has ar
rived in this country, to make the necessary
arrangements. Free transportation is Of
| fered to all who will engage to labor on the
| sugar plantations for three years, at the same
compensation as the native population. Re-
| captured Africans, however, being semi
savages, must undergo an apprenticeship.
Secretary Seward replying, says he is not
| authorized to accept the proposition at this
recaptured Africans is now prescribed by
law. III is probable however, Congress may
be disposed so to modify the existing legisla-
tion upon the subject, as to meet the wishes
of the Danish Government. ea aHsdus8
He has submitted copies of the correspond
ence to the chairman of the Judiciary COM
mittee in each House OF Congress-. t7ia81
Col. Raselof in esponse, says the plan ne
had furnished, would be entirely satisfactory
from christian and humane point ofview,
and would moreover relieve the United States
from great moral responsibility, and from
| the very large expense which, If he was cor
rectly informed, is connected with the pres
ent arrangements for the transfer OF recap
tured Africans to the Republic OF Liberia
| The President has sent a message TO Con-
gress, saying that it is desirable the necessary
| legislation to carry the Seward-Lyon~ treaty
into effect shall soon be enacted.
Dispatches from Com. Prentiss state that
he with the gun boat Albatros, recently sailed
| up the interior waters of South Carolina to
Georgetown. He crossed the bar the 21st
accompanied by the Norwich, commanded
by Lieut.. Duncan, entering Wyman's Bay.
| A redoubt near the light house was passed,
and a larger one on South Island, the latter
with large number Of" Quakers' mounted.
Both were deserted and another deserted
fortifcaton was found on Cat Island. On
the 22d he stood up the Bay for Georgetown,
entered Swampit Creek and steamed past
the city wharf, but not being prepared to hold
the place, abstained from landing, knowing
that contest with artillery and cavalry
would compel him to destroy the town. be
afterwards assembled the Waccamaw River
to point ten miles above Georgetown, thro
fine country, and meeting with no resist
ance. He brought off eighty contrabands
The rebels were leaving their plantations
and driving their negroes before them IN all
directions. og aaassN &
A hundred and fifty-nine reDels, captured
at Front Royal, we're to-day put in the old
Capitol Prison. @
| Surgeon Thomas Welch is ordered to the
bark Fernandina.
e Henry E. Rhodes and James L. Doran ar
appointed acting Assistant Engineers, ant
ordered to the gun boat Sonora at Forts
mouth.
$ Information received at the Post Ohic
Department leads to the belief that the mai
for the Pacific coast by the overland mail VI
st. Joseph, between the first and twenty
third of April, have been lost also those ser
from the Pacific to the east by the sam
route between March eleventh and Ap,-.
twenty-ninth by the depredations of the Ii
. dians. An agent is to 60 over the route I
recover them if possible. ss4i