The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-08-18

| laid IfeIhnd and Germany to come 10
America, the proportion the Sou 4 would
receive would not supply one-thnr pert
Of The demand. Hepce, they Wvst held
on to the inevitable negro, and 6y trea-l
mr. him properly and paying hi easQR
able wages, they will be able IN mi
Ii Ii. M Ok quite as as useful asRAe Wy hits,
One thingthey seem t016se sigW Of en-
tirely :: them gro they had to clothe and
feed and keep through all seasons of the
year, in sickness and in health, and pro.
vide for his famiE,besides / toItSke care
of his aged and decrepit parents; pay
taxes on him, settle his doctors bills,
and q hundred other little. expenhsesTin1
CURED duringothe yedr--which would
make a Northern man, did he know all
the cost Of the Institution, open wide his
eyes and exclaim with old Ben Fran X
lin: ''.Bhis is paying too dear for the
whistles Free labor frees yop, from all
these clainsrwhen y6a have paid the fhe
hired man the stipend agreed Hpops yoa
I are "duits."l Heihas mo further claim
upon you, NOR you, upon him Such Such is
the course in futi1eto be adopted ;iobtiIt
tain all the white labor you IGan, en- the
best terms, but hold on to- the blacks
ana educateltheln to the customs Of free
labor the .pEinciple that nbirrd in the
hand is worth two in the bush 3'i3EIa!5
.laHilE 744-t7rsfSs>7--o5 .rrrT- - s5nSha
- iaa ii CHAMP FERGgsON.1ua 40 uoi1,
They have got another Of those 'tin-
sane cases'' on trial out in Kentucky.
"A poor unfortunate fellow, named
Champ Ferguson, who had lost his Wits
has been for the last year or two rushing
hither and thither in tbhts State, playing
tsguerilla7l lcutting and shootingi and
burning folks at random. . One Of his
eecentricities was 70 enter the houses Of
people, accompanied bN a band ofraving
maniacs, kill all the male inmates, open
their breasts, and ripe ne blood of his
6owajiie7kaya on He HIedft ddf'he gfettt1l,
This was alfunny way to clean knife,
and decidedly original. He performed
various .otler curious tricks, which are
being developed in the course of an in
vestigstionInow going on in the poor fel-
-low'scase before q I'M ilitary commission.
The last joke he perpetrated, that has
come out is related BY the wife Of tile
victim, Mrs. ,Fogg, who says in her tes-
timonyss ...
am the willow of William rogg. He killed fiic
LIST day Of Nov ter 1851 et miles ,tbcys ALBANY, in
Clinton county Kentucky Feffaebr cs,ie into the
house and said ..iHow ID y5udoa f,iseda him 10 have
chair; he sab he hadss asked hla, to have
some apples Lie said liz hadiesn eating aoine Hesaked
for Mr.. Fogg said he vas ll bed diyIseAi II sg9
son walked to he bed. where bir was and aid How
are YOU, Mr.. Fos Nj husiIddd replied qaia yer tisdk
- haye had HE ard havrs taken Al ilbrss'
e1 gsol, sfd, ydu c,tgit the meas Comp
pci, Robi,non rbgg t51f hid MI never, @asthefe.
Then FetyusoIshot hin with ptste, as ststSed ont
of the household st IS rot out irettd another shot
Nv husband ltSeI spoke after the first shot, went
about twenty lizards rom me hoh*e, and returned in
about fifteen iapu,es At that time sergts was start
ing to his horss when got into the l.bse nay hSaoand
MAS ,pjne de in The led. lie vas shot twice once
asr The let pS5Sst, tha' ai|6 il tht'Hghtsieeb III
lThere einnot bf 1h la aB!f doubt ltt Of this h
unf5rtunale mans insanity i and PIE
eor}missidnwill ofo6urse sd decidesit ii
not, however, we ali'upohn the Harris
| on ms, SprrattonI41s, and kindred
| 'pb ilanthrppists everywhere, to petitionn
the President for ai9full pardon. He
must not Ebe. confiied4ttn q nhadhotlse
either, fol- that wepld be fgltell: H. Poor
fellow, hdw he must have suffered DUR
ing his iniprisonment4o !ie9 sdf j