The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-14
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'Tne south Carolina Election.-.A
DelegatiOn from Miasissippi---
Freedmen Affairs. etc.
New YoRE. Sent |

Ine south Carolina ElectiOn...A A
Delegation from Miasissippi.-.
freedmen Affairs, etc.
New YoRK, Sept 49,
The Herald s South Carolina correspondent
gives further particulars regarding election
OF Convention delegates on the 4th inst and in
reference to arrangements between General.
Meade and Gilmore and Governor Perry, 70,
q restoration Of civil authority in Charleston
The Union ticket was totally defeated, and
apparently it has been generally the resul,
throughout the State, though the returns are
yet very limited.
Wade Hampton, the original secessionist
nuliifer, hre- eater and rebel cavalry chief il
one of the elected Delegates in Columbia,
though 1t Is not yet known that he has been
or will be pardoned by the President The
election passed oH very quietly. No soldiers
were allowed TO be in the vicinity of the poll
ing places. The secession citizens are very
much pleased with the result, claiming that
they are all Cnionist, while those who were
loyal throughout the war regard it as virtual
surrender of the State to the control of the
secessionists.
Gov. Perry has issued q proclamation an
nouncing the result of his conference with
| Gems. Meade and Gilmore to be the restora-
ton OF the authority of the old judicial and
other civil officers. All the legal matter in
which colored persons are concerned are to
| be adjudicated in Provost Marshals offices.
1t was presumed that Gen. Gilmore would
| issue an order OF similar purport. hut he has
| not yet done 50. and it is now thought that
until he returns from Washington no further
| action will be taken in the matter by the mil.
itary authorities.
The Times Washington special ofthe 18th
says: To-day delegation Of Mississippans,
consisting of the late rebel Gen Tupper and
Featherson, and Rev. DIR. Murdock, of Co
lumbus, Miss, waited on Gen Howard the
Freedmen's Bureau. DIR. Murdock made a
speech, in which he stated that when the Bu-
reau was first organized, the people of the
South had not made up their minds fully to
accept the status OF TIE negro as a man, hu. a
few shott months had made q wonderful
change IN the sentiments of the southern peo.
pie on the subject, and he was gratifed now
to say that as far as his knowledge extended,
they universally accepted the conclusion of
the war and freely and sincerely acknowledg.
ed the freedom of the colored race, which had
resulted from It. DIR. NJ. believes the negro
should be educated. as it would be better for
ths south to have slaves of intelligent labor
ers, thanto have them groveling in Ignorance.
The two races nlast live together ia ;i,s south,
and the more widely education is disssmina.
ted tie better fur all concerned.
Gen. Howard expressed himself much
Pleased at the remarks of DIR. Mur,lock. aud
the delegation were some time in a friendly
conversation relative to the operation of the
Bureau, which the Southerners commended
very cordially,
An examinotion now gong ON at the vari-
Gus Custom Houses throughout the United
States, has been commenced hy The Treasury
Department with Il Wow of reducing the ex-
Eelise of collecting the revenue for customs,
hy the discharge of all officers found TO be
more detrimental than useful Wherever
there Is sinecure situation. il Ia to be abol
lshed, and where one clerk, or inspector can
perform the duties performed by two. one will
be discharged and every officer will be re-
qulreG u eain MS salary wherever il is posi-
ble to make him do So
The HFaid's Washington special says tie
forthcoming report Of Gen. St.ana Inspector
IN the fleeduei. s Rureau. will be very in
tetestlng document, inasmuch as it will be
the candid statement of an officer who has
spent three months or more investigating the
condition of the negro race along the Missis-
sippi riyer, With y view 10 determine the ca
panility of the negro to support himself in
state OF freedom. Gen. Strong went down
among these people with prejudices rather
unfavorable to them than otherwise. superin-
duced perhaps, by the report constantly how
ing into the bureau hon. interested parties
South relative y the utter worthlessness ofI
the negro, and the total un6tness for any
other state than that of servi,ude. He Wait
ed many Of the settlements and plantations,
incog. and no single instance failed to discov-
er evidences of advancement beyond the mos, |
sanguine hopes. They are industrious, and
their highest aim is to get possession of small
parcels Of land to work for themselves. In |
cases where they have accomplished this they |
have fairly amazed their old masters the cot |
ton grower, by the heavy crops they have got
under way. OF course there are individuals |
in every commua,y in whom idleness and |
vice can be overcome by the influence afford |
ed, yet these vices are fewer in number than |
name. Meanwhile, schools are plenty and |
hourishing among them.
Gen. Strong says the ease and eagerness
with which old and young freedmen wade |
through elementary text books is astonishing. |
The 1ritune's Washington special saws the |
letter of Gen. Howard, Commissioner ofI
Freedmens' Bureau, to Assistant Collector |
Brown, of Richmond, relative to fears Of |
negro insuIeciipn, entertained by many citi. |
zens of Virginia, says he did not contemplate |
the employment of rebels for the purpose of
patroling the country where an outbreak was /
was apprehended, while Gen. Bell SAYS such |
are groundless. He thought |
it best in order to quiet the fears of the timid |
to suggest to Collector Brown the propriety |
of patroling certain regions of the country |
with small force detailed by the different |
military commanders, and in case he (Brown) !
did not have sufficient number Of officers,
to select through careful inquiry citizen who
is willing to aid in preserving order, if such Is
to be found, and one who will do So without
He also adds in his letter to
Collector Brown that these citizen agents
should be selected by an officer Of tact, who
must take only such as are fully willing to
support the Government with heartiness.