Journal of freedom. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1865-186?, 1865-10-14

make a lecturing tour this autumn in the
Western States, going as far as St. Louis.
The colored Odd Fellows of Baltimore
paraded IN the 9Th in large numbers
A stand was erected and speeches deliver
ed in Monument Square.
DR.. Mudd, of the assassination conspi-
racy, recently attempted to escape from
the Dry Tortugas on board a steamer.
He. was found secreted in the coal bunk
ers and put to hard labor wheeling sand.
The Raleigh National Bank of Raleigh,
North Carolina, and the Second Nation
al Bank of Baltimore, Md, have been
designated as depositaries of public mon
eys by the Treasurer of the United States.
Brownlow would make a pretty mess
of Tennessee. He would disfranchise all
the small rebels, hang all the leaders,
and DANISH the negroes. This would
leave about four thousand men to do all
the voting, hold all the offices and vote.
Brownlow would be sure of reelection
for the next ten years.
During the month of September
sstwelve white refugees were subslsted by
the government in Alexandria, Va, the
total number of rations issued to them
during that time being 217. Twenty ne
gro dependents are also reported as hav-
Ing received partial rations during the
same month.
THE Catawba and the Isabella Grapes
are both natives of North Carolina. The
latter is supposed to be a hybrid between
the Burgundy, introduced into South
Carolina by the Huguenots, and the n
tive fox grape of the Carolinas. They
were named as a compliment to Mrs.
Isabella Gibbs who took seme of the cut
tings to Long Island.
A WASHINGTON letter contains the fol-
lowing significant paragraph
There is no particular news about here
President johnson is going on with his
experiment of trusting the traitors a little.
to see whether they have, as some OF their
brethren in the North say, been whipped
enough to keep them straight and the
experiment will have been tried long
enough when Congress meets, to show
it's results. / think [ see that Congress
admitting to seats any members whose
lgarments are stained with patriot blood
The New York Tribune in a scattering
article on the apathy of the "peor whites
of the South, says that from every sourct
it hears that the Freedmen are fockin
to school tottling children, mother
with their babes at their breasts, working
men after their days tell is over, agec
patriarchs and white-headed g~randame
all may be seen porting over theil
primers wherever the teachers of the
Freedmen's Aid Societies are stationed
They learn with wonderful rapidity.-
This is the uniform report-from Louis
lana and Virginia, from Tennessee anc
the Carolinas. Their eagerness to lear1
has been described as "almost a disease
There is no checking it, no controlling
it, it is as fierce as a fever at its hight.
A. J. DoHELsoN OH PAID NEGRO LABOR
The Nashville Union publishes the fol
lowing letter from Andrew jackson
Donelson, who gives testimony ia favo
of the system of compensated labor in tn
| South
s MEMPHIS, Sept. 5, 1866.
: EEI am here, on my return from tn
t plantation, where [ found affairs in tn
= best possible condition. There is bette
> discipline on the place than there ha
ever been. No grumbling, no disobe
: dience, no disorder among the negroes
. q as SOOu clOP as NoUAN
pected after so great an overflow.
"'The people are greatly cheered up b,
: the good conduct of Governor Sharke
IL and President johnson. Underthelr IN
structions there will be no collision wit
the Freedmen's Bureau. The negroe
on my place say they never wish to lea'
. it. AS a general rule all the plantation
n will be proftably worked and the n
ut groes will be compelled to falhl the
contracts.
is accompanies are forming, and payin
re as high as fifteen dollars per acre rel
, for open lands on the Mississippi. 1t
- also believed negro laboFers will build
the levee."
% A LOYAL MAN IN THE ALABAMA CoNvE
{. r1oN.-The Montgomery (Ala.) correspo
dent of the Chicago Journal, gives t
~ following account Of an original Unions
J. in the Alabama State Convention. y
wish there were more of the same XII
e. there: ts1
- Among these the most remarkable
:? the case Of Mr.. G. G. Sheets, of Whist
Ii county, who entered the Convention
1851 from the obscurity of the wllds
ne Northern Alabama, ayouth of tweni
~ one. He battled nobly against the p
petration Of the secession apostacy, q
y earned a dangerous prominence by
lag hardihood and, after doing all that I'M
nuity and fortitude could suggest,
alone. in the face of threatening Cow
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