Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-09-18
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WAsHISGToS,z Sept 15-Extensive
and vaIuable discoveries of copper and
other minerals are said 70 have been re-
Gently made on what is knoVR as the
Tyler farm, in Homes District, Frederick
county, Maryland The copper resem-
bles the virgin ore Of Lake Superior,
and j often found remarkably rich in.
large blocks. y
Prof Henry Erpe, Chief Chemist ia
the Agricultural Department Of Wash
i1gton, has visited the locality and con
siders them sufficient to Justify explora-
lions to determine the nature and value
of the deposits Should this prove salts
factory, the location viii soon command
capital, aud the wealth Of the State be
greatly augmented
Lient Col Williams, Of the Freed
men's Bureau, was, il June last. dis
patched on a tour Of inspection through
the States Of Arkansas and Missouri,
reports ex,endedly, from St. Louis, Of
operations, under date Of August 9th
The main facts Of general interest
con aimed therein are that there is no
lack Of employment for negroes, az $40
per month for males and SIS for femsles,
with board IN addition; thar a large
plumber are engaged IL eating wood for
The yards along the Mississippi, river, on
which they are allowed Considerable.
pro6t, the residue Of the proceeds going
to support the destitute Of their own
race. Negroes who have lands for cul-
tiEaiion are required 10 pay the same
rental as parties do Who spply directly
30 the Treasury Department
In one locality three Freedmen's
Schools. With three hundred pupils, have
been increased 10 Eve hundred, with an
average attendance OF FIVE hundred
scholars. The number OF negrosz
curing support from the Government is
reported everywhere diminishing The
teachers are paid BY Northern societies,
and receive from so 20 $50 per menth.
Many inhabitants who have plenty Of
food are scAntiiy Supplied With clothing,
and can scarcely get through the com
ing winter in this regard
| The Times Washington special says:
The Bureau Of Rebel Archives, under
chazga Of that well known scholar and
writer, DR.. Francis Lieber, is nov fsirly.
| organized and 81 work on The examina-
lion and Classification of the ave hun
bred boxes Of archises Of the late rebel
government These documents relate
to-every department and period Of the
rebellion, and cover the larger part OF
its history, civil and military. Their
| Classification aud compilation BY such
an able and discriminating gentleman
IS De Lieber, will put the hssoryof the
/ ecnfederacy in a eeTrect light before the
public. The titia of tbs bureau has
been changed, and II Is new called the
Archives Ofies Of the WsF Department
which have been forwarded 10 the De-
partment There aEe now deposited in
the Department, the. Official history OF
eight or Ten army cgrps, Eled BY their
Adjutants. The Archive Oiics now oc-
cupies spacious rooms on Z street while
awaiting The preparation of Ford's the
atre, which will be In readiness about
January lst Ii addition t0the archives,
there will be deposited about 700 cap
tured Gags and NUMEROUS other trophies,
which will render il the historical nuedi.
an OF the rebellion.
The Post-ofice Department continues
| it, work of restoring asep,hern mai
routes A dozen more post Offices we're
reopened to-day. Among them ere Dial.
ton, 0glethorp, and A merscps, Ga, Okla
Iona and Berthesu, Miss.