St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1863-08-13

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to be got: ssBoserdinssis ns1ners,.s pro-
VISIONS are mostly brought from distance
andrthsre appears sosbe 20 city rsspia-
ton to&eshss edla.s whe sba - and
retail, at their own prices, completely con-
trolling the market. IL getas TX,
1t is said that the Co, fscation Act has
been strictly enforced in some cases, and
will be in future. If the lands of rebels
in this immediate vicinity were con6sca-
ted and offered for aale vithsthe assurance
of permanent d.les the 4 r.ssnt state of
affairs would son ol,ange for negroes and
eastern farmers would psrch.s, cultivate
and supply sbena.ket long as the
lands just around the city are barren
wastes, and our potatoes, cabbages beets,
lettuce. sbstter, sggs, &c, sntsst take a rail-
road or steamboat ride to get here, SO long
will living in Washiugtea7 be expensive
and poor at that.
l know men with fine appointments
here who are at present, paying their en-
tire salary for board for themselves and
families, yet there appears to be general
belief, through the country, that if q man
can get place in Washington, his for
tune is made; and, so they come crowd
ing, crowding, and stand begging, begging
hat in hand for clerkships at 81 200 or
81 400 per annum, when they might get
plenty of places, with western farmers, at
SIS per month and board It'isperfectly
surprising the number of people, general
ly women, who write! to me even, to get
them Places people r never saw, never
heard of, will refer me to people I never
saw, never heard Of and ask as confident
ly as they would ask for "a glass of water
of one who stood by a pump-send their
letters marked sin haste bidding ME get.
their places Immediately and drop them a
line when they, will come on at once. If
[ undertook to answer these letters l
should be obliged to give up my business
or hire Secretary. Yet it is very pain.
full to disappoint their expectations.
The draft will begin here tomorrow
and will be apt to pass off quietly. The
Contraband Camp is guarded by heavy
detachment from the black regiment sta
toned across the Potomac. y As the in-
mates OF the camp are principally infrm
~on1en, children andsick ner stAstshovs
that the government appreciates the spirit
Of resistance to the draft, as it has shown
itself in the burning of the New York
asylum and the butchery of helpless peo-
pie -Alr.lJoseph Holt, formerly of Cham
pin opposite Auoka, is Superintendent
at the Contraband Camp aad his wife is
one Of the teachers. they have a very
large school and the teachers are paid by
Frecdmen's associations All the Govern
ment does is to furnish miserable barracks,
built IKE elongated railroad shanties~ On
the st siteh y n~oH graveyard, ID I'd aImatshy
place, without, any means Of ventilation,
without shade or yetdure and With. water
so impure As d smell badly These ac-
contradictions with rat1ons Of bread, meat,
beans, &C., is what our government pro-
vides for these destitute recipients of lis
bounty. Even the right to commute IA.
tons, i. e. TO draw what they needed and
get money for the balance so as to be able
to buy milk fer the ehildrea has been de-
MED them. Secretary Stanton gave: tie
order for this right Of communication as
soon as the case was laid before him; but
some ,1underling, who ancied his manhood
depended on showing his superiority and
the superiority Of white men generally to
what such folks call "niggers,P continued
to, defeat bis Intentions and the case went
en*until7 a, week or two ago when some
arrangement was made by which tho old
people and children can have suitable
food. When one remembers; that these
people have created SO great portion of
our national wealth, that ttey have been
rendered perfectly, destitute by this war,
Ewaged to rivit the chains which have held
them for centuries, and that all the able
bodied are sent to work aud support them
selves almost Immediately after arriving
at the camp, VIC may estimate the mean