Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-05-05

the labor wages regular work Compus
70 force them from these places and such
shmen bankss system embraces 10 necessary make
them perform their regular work They will in due tine
under such treatment with the sducaion 4 their youth,
the of free At the time their
ployers would ils profit and the Government
ud amply repay the expense Of protecting the plana
| lions ana enfo cling the sgulations .l stH Ia @Aa
The result Of my experiment last year illustrates, on
small seale the truth Of my state cot, aed four
hundred and fifty negroes and turned into the Treasury
ten thousand dollars the tax the cotton raised more
in lines cultivate million and capital TO put the
whole machinery into motion if Bankss syst were adopted
home farms in Meen's system have completely defeated
the working of these plantations by lessees The negroes
collected and kept upon them fed ex
enrich the officers in charge Of them These
officers Of opposed giving the laborer and
ten thou and acres this season We have permits to
the home farms and take four hundred negroes that may De
single hand although thousand ORA wing rations from the
Government in reach Of vent myself the other
crowded. living in filth and squalor spent VIII lie day
canvassing them The uvariable stays with
the Lieutenant. pse dom berry well here
"We have very inadequate protection here and no police
Many plantations have horde of negroes upon them who
and keeping the whole district in constant alarm dread
them far than do the guerras The plantation am
ips hsy have @
things and work well would now. have had half dozen
plantations running smoothly this could Banksa brains
have worked this high up the river"
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, MARCH III, leb4.
DEAR SIR: that the fight has commenced in earnest
between President Lncolns friends and the Chase Clique
Things have turned out Just as when Chase went
death the Administration that has given hm his impor
As you are on the sme of Treasury permits and contra
band trade can put you on the track OF case the test
nSny Of woh is IN presume SUN in the War
The investigation took place before Rg Gen Mason at CO.
umbu Ohio in April and May 1861 from which appears
that lawyer named Cobb to Coumbu in the winter
Of that and showed from the jeff Davis Govern
to trade in cotton in Texas aud supply the rebels with
merchandise to John Baker who thereupon got
company which himself and divers others
cerued, among them T Stone Cbases Collector of In
nal Kevenns The vess bought aud loaded with
plies and about to via Halifax to Matamoros under
The British flag It seizd Cobb escaped and on .xami
nation Stone admitted he subscribed $4,000 in the of
Youag banker Piqua Ohio Powerful parties have since
been trying to hush up the affair Gen. Joseph Gsgsr
my Miller Esq of Columbus, Ohio, represented The
after Chase and demanded stones removal but he put
them off, and there the affair yet Write to b. T. Mar
Stone has alw4ys beer one Of chsses cSef Presidential
fugles in Ohio aud if the proof fastens guilt him Old
Abe should pos cd removal made then friends
will have nducement wok in Ohio tell you
will go under une the President backs his friends and
then the people and army will whip out all the Washington
| Hon f. p BLAIR, Jr.
BEAUFORT, South CAROLINA, FEBRUARY o.
SIR congratulate you upon having the courage speak
against Secretary Chase and his army
that now sucking the blood from our people.
other islands Hilton Head exceptedb have pay ve
upon all goods that here from the North
Carolina upon these slands This tax put on to the &C.
the goods and in this way the Union soldiers
the conrabaads have to pay the tax for the support OF
Goods are only allowed into Port Royal free
when they landed of harbor the
other side they pay per Secretary
Chase arbitrarily decides that the port OF Port Royal inc uies
only the territory within Notifications Hilton Head
island winch the Army hsadqua but immediately
opposite the island where the Navy ha quar-
ter and there similar Notifications to protect the
hlrbO
tax. The soldiers get their goods without the tax,
wharves in this port of which you can land your
goods Free while at the other the special supervising
the follows the flag but until has paid the
taxes. Your obedient servant.
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, MARCH 9, 1864
DEAR GENERAL: Just have been put in possession Of
important information concerning the Treasur
J. That Col E. H e Jameson, who is a member of the
Mi souri, Legislature got IS 900 for procuring per
nit from the Treasury Department at Cincinnati do
know who the purchaser of the permit bat Mr.. 49,
will probably give you his when he writes to you.
This letter is from gentleman Of New York who is at
the head of OF the largest moneyed institutions in that
city t4.
DEAR SIR: Are You OF the that afoat
here regarding Secretary of the Treasury au
First have you heard that he gave young Graham son
John L. GRAHAM, of this ciyJ cashier of the National
Bank New Orleans permit to take New Orleans cargo
of iskey by which he poets to make clear profit Of
from sky eighty thousand doars' Thsfor Mr. Grahams
Have you heard that he has given to his sonn law Gov
Sprague permit buy the South by which
he will probably make the little of 81 000i Ask
William H. Aspinwal, Of this city but without naming
Have yon heard what is the fact that this 81 O0O 90 Of
veweny bonds asked of Congress- make good the
of sale the authorized by law
much given the ring, Jay Cooke a. Co That is to
say when Mr. Chase asked Mr. Cisco 10 buy Sill 900
par make good the excessive subscription with agents
Jay Cooke Co., Mr. Chase told that impossible for
the simple fact of his buying at all would put up the
market The Secretary also informed that there
need of taking notice of the advised subscription,
money had been paid
The wa, 1t managed by Jay Cooke a. Co. under
telegraph ba them u " Cooke g. Co to subscribe
much Of the fve-twenty loan That bin. DONE
the loan all taken it appeared in their Office thst
much had been actually bona fde applied by
side parties when In fact was contvance to to
them elves and their immediate friends the profits this
900 Ask Mr. il Cisco, Assistant Treasurer
Ia this III this Ia But again ask
in this inquiry The Secretary told that he
under obligation to furnish the bonds money
had been paid aud this from lhe Assist ant Treasurer in
,hi, city But still "the ring had power enough the
sock out Of Mr. Chase and ne out OF Congress- presume
Hon. FRasK BLAIR.
This letter 10 from the writer Of the have just
quoted:
NEW YORK MARCH T. 1854
DEaR Sra in Washington last week, but could not
you, my taken up with the Sub Committee of
Ways and Means the subject of Mr. Chase bank bill
trying the abominable taken
enclose editorial Of the New York Evening Post
Of she I'd instant Please read IT, ma IL corr what
alb that sxcess asked make good Jay Cooke a. Co
speculation Il The fve.t ~enty loan
Yours respectfully.
Hon. ". y. BLAIR, Jr.
PHrLApELpHrA, MARCH ], 1864
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