The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-11-10

SOME CURIOUS DEVELOPMENTS or How THp
YANKEES DISPOSE OF THEIR CONFERENCE.-The
ST. Louis Republican (Ah0litiOn) contains sonre
rich exposures Of what the Yankees do with the
negroes who fall into their hands nut West. The
article must read wei in Boston, where the man
and brother elevateth his horn TO the utmost. We
make an extract from il:
1t moi true philanthropy which has inspired the
AbolitioLists in their course with regard to the
Southern negroes. With them the question has
been, NOT how many slaves would be benefited by
abolition, but how much it would irritate and ha-
rass the shareholders and contribute 10 the grat-
cation Of a sectional malice. Daring the present
war thousands OF negroes have been released from
servltude to their masters, hut We say unheSifat
ingy THAT I'm hnc cases ont OF ten, ID moi In far
gr eater fatiO, iha change has heen positively nm
rious to their condition, morally and physically.
How many Of the cOntrabands are better provided
for than they were in slavery? How many are
more useful 10 society? How many are happier!
1t has been developed during the progress of
military events In tie last two years that trading
in negroes H. not uncommon Kind bf speculA-
ii0n among Northern men III Federal service
There Ia ease OF "A superintendent Of cont'a-
bands at Cairo, who was discovered 10 be extep1
sveiy engaged in this business, and was finally al
rested for selling young negro for $50 to his mas
ter In Kentucky. On being detected, uis sharper
dIvnlged upon Others. among whom was chaplain
whom he accused of having sold eighty. Contra-
hands have been exchanged for cotton. A Massa-
chusetfs Republican paper relates, In the following
language, an instance Of the sale OF milafto boy
for q pig:
ssA few days ago Were at a place whore q
pretty coored lad, about fifteen years old and al
most white, was busying himself. One man'ask-
ed Whose negro IL that 2 He belongs 10 such Il
man. was the reply. Where did lie come from p
"A member of -- regiment gave him 10 - for a
pig. that was worth five dollars Such talk in
Massachusetts sounds badly. hut we have reason
to believe that 1t was literally true.o
Officers In the army, after having enticed ne
groes from their Southern homes, and kept them In
camp until they have found them Indecent and
wHihiess, have taken or sent them North, and
turned them adriIt 10 starve or beg. abundant
cases of this kind have occurred. Some oi the
Northern cities are t4errnn with ''ireedmen.''-
MANY, prrhaps, disposed 10 work but such are
kept In the same meniai condition AS when they
were slaves and few Of them are SO well treated
fed, or clothed. Few receive wages like other
hired iaborers Ii rhsy get sick they are shifted
off upon the corporations. II they break thelaws,
to do which they are SO tempted, jail doors ny
open 10 receive them. They are employed wlAn
they are profitable, bur if useless no more regard
II paid 10 them than to other panpers. Ii Is fact,
apparent and undeniahle that there Is less sympa
thy for the negro at the North than In the Southern
States.
The contrahand camps, established hy the Gov
eminent, have been little else than pens OF idle
ness, sq,ialor and disease. We shud,ier 10 think
of the scores Of h0ndrpds of black men, women
and children whose miserable deaths are atlribnta-
BILE solely to the change in their condition produced
by the war-to their own helplessness, and 10 the
neglect and indifference Of those whom they in
their Ignorant and strange faith looked upon aS
their benefactOrs and friends. In the cities they
wander about In poverty and despair until they
sieken, and the cold ground shuts them In from
colder world. The negro is finding freedom tn be
ialiacy, aud himself . sacrifice to the pftIiess
piiunthrnpy of the AbOlitiOnists.