Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-11-07


s free negroes. as they and 1vhite pe9p
don't cost anything, and, if killed, nj
g body is the loser. The leaders of tb
c rebellion, being shareholders, of cours
could not afford to make soldiers
i their slaves. Every slqre killed was
: dead loss of 81, 500. But rchae me
= cost nothing, and it was no matter ho,
many of them we're killed, in upholdin
E slavery. And hence slaves were nc
enlisted in the South at first. But her
, in the North the poor dupes of the trait
r ors had to be reached through thei
| stupid prejudices, and hence, instead o
stdoes, the tune was turned to niggers. :
And by shouting niger, men were ao
!, tually made half frantic, and swore nj
"nigger" should join the Union army
They thought, poor fools, that they
were initiating the SHAREHOLDERS, and
were, consequently, very CONSERVATIVE
and in fair way to favor when compro
mise could be effected. The slaveholder
would not let his slave join the rebel
army, because, if killed, he would loose
81 800. So he, compelled the poor
whites to go, and save his slaves. In
the North, those suffering with the ne.
grophobia were told by their leaders
| that they would be ''Abolitionists" if
they allowed the 'niggers' to ightf.<sad
On this argument fifty thousand strong
men, who offered their services, we<e-
rudely repulsed, although, they could
stand the deadly climate of the South
better than white men could, and fifty
thousand white men were required to
go, and did go, by voluateering or by
draft, as the substitutes for these ne
groes, who were left to enjoy the com.
forts of home, while they (the substi-
tutes) we're dying by thousands in the
Southern camps. /.
Is it not questiona ble whether d peo-i
pie who can be SO utterly bsfooled by
set of unmitigatsd knayes, are worth
saving? ... ....>..;
---- Information of u reliable charac-
ter has been received by Maj General !
Curtis that the rebel Major General
Joseph e. Johnston has taken command
of the Confederate troops in Arkansas,
and is now bending every energy to
bring as large force as possible into the
coming campaign there.
IA mass of copper, weighing
twentys-three tons, 1923 pounds, has
been unearthed at the Mesnard mines,
Lake Superior. Traces of Indian work
ings were discovered about it. The |
average dimensions are: Length Is
feet Z inches; width, feet z inches;
thickness, foot6 inches-giving S7,135 |
cubic feet 81
The New Orleans correspondent
of the New York Herala writes that
the Presidents emancipation proclama-
ton has caused no excitement in that
city, and that after the first day or two
no one talked about it, Hesfsays tha.
has been made so practi-
,al by the slaves leaving their owners
n such numbers, and the work is pro
crossing SO rapidly, that before the time
for the procla nltiod to take
Eject it seems likely no one will have
personal interest in it, -
Iowa is truly patriotic State
The Thirty ninth regiment is now
qupped, and no day has been set for
lraft within her borders. None will |
'e needed, unless another large call for
roops should be made The Republi.
an State ticket has majority of at
east 5000, which wiH be swelled to
20, 900 by the soldiers vote.
IA Newbern correspondent of tn e
I. Y. Tribune, argues that city is not
n unlikely spot for the. blishment
f camp Of instruction foran army of
90, 600 Of the new .levies, as urged by
he Major General commanding the Be
arsmeut. The district is very healthy,
nd "a force there would place the rebels
etween the upper and neither millstones,
18th chances of having all their sup
lies, which now reach them over. the
Iorth Carolina railroads, cut off at any
our. i,