Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-29
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GEN. SrEEDMANv ON COMPULSORY LA.
BeRs-A good story is told. of General
Steedman, now in command Of the De-
ment of Georgia. 49, = = !, -, 49,
A railroad contractor came to him
one day and asked for military force
to compel the negroes to work in repair
ing the line from Savannah to Augu. ia
They won't work." he said. !" How
much do you pay them z" asked the
General, who had been a railroad con-
tractor from his boyhood up. % Ten
dollars a month" g The deuceI" said
Steedman; "you go and give them
thirty, and see whether they'll work
then. l never gave man, less. than
eighty seven and half cents a day in
my lifeE I think could get brigade
at that price here. You 60 and try it''
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Charlottesville Charleston Cour.
Ter says ofthe condition of that city:
On every street and thoroughfare the
marks of energy, industry, and enter
prise are plainly visible. East Bay, six
weeks ago, was almost barren of open
business places, while now it is aext to
an impossibility to rent building COW
cred with a roof Owners OF buildings
are actively engaged repairing damages
occasioned by Ere and water, and long
before the repairs are completed appli-
cations are received to occupy the prem
Uses. The same holds good with Meet
ing, King, and other principal streets
There is great demand for stores and
warehouses all over the city In order
to meet this demand, it will be necessary
for some measures to be taken toward
restoring the burnt district to a habita
BILE condition. The rents in Charleston
are increasing daily, which is aaother
evidence of enhanced business activity.
Stores which three months ago could be
obtained for FIVE hundred dollars per
annum cannot be had for less than
fifteen hundred and two thousand dol
lars per annum. ga .z1e fsH p
OPINION OF AN OvERsEER.---h cores
pondent of the Boston Advertiser,
writing from Georgia, says,
While my acquaintance with some OF
the better class of citizens hereabout
furnish no cause for the assertion that
there is usual hostility to the Govern.
ment or to people from the North, the
every day language Of the lower classea
is clear proof of what I have denomina-
ted as surface hatred. Possibly some Of
the dennnciatory words have overheard
in the hotels and on the streets were in
tended specially for me, on the supposi,
ton that am from the North; but / am
tcon6dent that very little of this lang
uage could have been used for that pnr-
pose. As a curious specimen of what
one hears, take the following little speech,
made by an apparently intelligent man
to a group of half a dozen persons, of
whom I v as one.tni ~
I've sent an advertisement to the
paper for job. of overseeing some
plantations next year. I reckon I could
do that quite lively. Oh, tell you I
can do some tall cussin' when i git
started Can't lick free niggers, but
don't know if there's any law agin
cussin' 'em, and believe it does 'em a
heap of good. Its next best to lickin' .
Jest cuss one o 'em right smart for
about five minutes and he'll play of
part Probably the Yankees don't like
| that style, but hain't no use for a
| Yankee, no how. 1 had lot of likely
negroes, but they're all gone; had Con-
federate money, but that's all gone; and
I've got a heap of Confederate bonds,
but they amt worth q damn. / reckon
God Almighty fought on the other side
in this war. He used to smile on us,
but He hasn't given us anything but
| frowns lately. don't care a damn, but
/ don't like to see my friends all so cut
up about it. can get along we'll
enough. I should like toslick hundred
free negroes just once all 'round--ii ]
didn't bring 'em to know their places.
I'd pay ten dollars a piece for all failed
on. Bat the Yankees give US our orders
we mustn't lick the freedmen, they
say Free damn cusses, call EN-. !
reckon 'ta'n't sg'n no Law to swar at
'em, an damn me if I can't do that ar.
Yes, sir God Almighty was agin us,
but low 'twont be wrong to cuss the
free niggers Yes, sir, God Almighty
was sgin us. Wasl, havn't no use for
a Yankee, they're low down, trifin'
| fellows any how, and / reckon shall
have TO play a lone hand, and git long
the best can BY myself
SUFFERING IN ARKASsAs.-An agent
of the American Union Commission
thus writes to the Chicago Tribune:
With your permission / will say a
word to your readers on behalf of the
loyal sufferers of Arkansas. Ten thou
sand have already been officially report
ed who are in immediate and pressing
want of shelter, clothing and food to
meet the SHOWS of winter. The Bureau
of Refugees report six hundred and forty
widows with families at Fort Smith
alone, besides there are many thousands
In the country adjacent to that post and
scattered over the State. These have
never been. in therebsl army. They are