Journal of freedom. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1865-186?, 1865-09-30

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| overlooked the civil war which has been raging
in tne little negro republic of Hayti for some
time past Yet, allowing for the thinness of the
population there the contest has been proper
honably IS sanguinary our own Ge6rad,
the ruling President, is man of good repute to
the outside world but large minority, at
least, of the Haytians profess to believe that he
is minister of libertinism aud cruelty. Ashp
has declared himself President for life, 'therei
no way of getting rid Of him, except by revolu--
ton, and this is now being tried. By the latest
reports 1t seems the insurgents have gained i'm
portant military successes, aud there was fair
chance OF their hnal success in clearing Geffrard
out of tho country.
The revclutiOnists are led by committee of
ten chiefs, who have se0t commissioners TO
washington to lay Lheir side of shs question be-
fore the United States Government, so that NO
action prejudicial to their interests shall be
taken. As the Geffrard minister has been duly
recognized, Of course the rebel commissioners
must be received informally, if at all. @
The MARTYRS GRAvE.--A correspondent
writing from Springfield. ILL.,, says:
The tomb of Mr. Lircoln has been so often
described thai. no fresh words of ours will In
crease the vividness Of the ricture The re-
mains are still unburied, and lie in the reception
ed by the tears of'a nation. A guard tent is
pitched opposite to this house of the dead on q
rising knoll, surrounded by trees. Three sem
tries guard the sacred remains night and day,
a0d the stone doors are kept open, so that the
air may circulate freely through the place. An
IRON gate protects the remains from a close in
trusion, although one can see the two cofins-
those of the father, and of the dear little son, who
was carried here from Washington with him, to
their final resting place. The grounds are very
wild and beautiful, and capable of the greatest
Improvement, as soon as the tree landscape
gardener shall appear. 1t is laid out in roads
and lots, and interspcrsed with patches Of green
cry, and fine shrubs, and beds of flowers
Streams of delicious water run through it, aud
birds sing in the grand old forest trees-the abo-
rigines of nature. It is altnge her as beauti ul
as the vale Of Tempe, described by Auacharsis.
ALL WILL BE WELL.-General Howard
takes issue. directly with General Cox, Of
Ohio, in regard to the arbitrary separation
Of the races. In an address before the
Freedmen's Relief Society of Maine last
week he took occasion to speak definitely
against this attempt to revive the exploded
folly of colonization. He said IL think
that all we have to do is to aim at absolute
justice to whites and blacks, watching the
signs of the times, and keeping steady
ffign ri gnis sbra am quite sanggne ofthe result"
ting the best work that is now being done
in this country.
PRo-SLAvERY AGENTs.-The man who
killed Rev. E. p. Lovejoy, the first martyr
to anti-slavery faith and practice, was
killed in bar-room fight, and the man
who set fire to the roof of his building
died in the Ohio Penitentiary, to which he
had been sentenced for eighteen years for
hiehw robbery Sylvester Irwin, the
| young man who recently killed his father
and step-mother, near Darrtown, Butler
county, was the leader of the mob who
drove the negroes away from Darrtown,
some time ago.
GEN. GRANT.-It is not long since the
Democratic papers claimed Gen. Grant as
Belonging to their own party. Now the
Hartford Times abuses him with its
choicest epithets, accuses him of making
an election tour, and says he is inferior
looking, and that he makes no speeches be-
cause he cannot. The Democrats are vel.
come to all the party capital they can make
by abusing General Grant, Loyal men Of
all parties honor him.-Springfeld Mass
Republican.
Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota vote on The
question of granting suffrage to coIored men thil
; Fall. Wisconsin has refused once to perform
this act Of justice and it is to be feared that she
will repeat her refusal. The regular Unior
convention ignored the subject entirely in their
platform; but seeding convention is to bt
held very soon which has been called expressly
10 correct this error. Colorado has alreadv
voted on the subject but the result Is not known
FOOLISH SPEcULAr1oNs s.-Speculators are en-
gagged in buying up rebel currency, in expecta
tation that eventually it will have an apprecabl.
value. The assertion is openly made in Wash
ington that inducements will be brought to bea
upon some future Congress that viii secure
recognition of the rebel debt. That il the COD
perhead programme.
The number Of men furnished by the Soutl
to rebel armies amount TO 1,124, 900, Of whou
CSC, 900 are dead or disabled. These feure
exceed by many thousands the number of mcr
between the ages of 18 and As.
Both the new State Conventions Of Soutl
Carolina and Alabama are in session. A serie
Of resolutions expressing discontent' were votet
down in the South Carolina Convention.
3 A cargo Of corn arrived at Providencs recent
ly from Virginia, the first quantity impOrtet
from the South for many years.
Mrs. Nancy Blanchard, eighty-four wears old
hung herself ct Northbon, Massachusetts, las
: week. nsg -a m
Q Light gymnastic exercises are to be introduc
ed in the public schools Of Philadsphia.
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