Journal of freedom. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1865-186?, 1865-10-21

the jackson district, u. Il. Potter, the
candidate for the Court of Appeals oppos-
edto the admission of negro testimony,
is elected BY 5000 majority.
The Richmond Times SAYS the Swedish
emigration experiment has worked to the
satisfaction Of all parties. The farmers
are much pleased with the Swedes, whom
they find to be industrious, efficient. hon
est and orderly. They do double the
work OF negroes, and require no looking
after.
The Commissioners of Agriculture has
received from illinois a specimen of loaf
sugar manufactured from the beet. The
sugar is of snowy whiteness and beauti-
fully christallzed, ~equaling anything pro-
duced from the sugar zane 1t is claimed
that this beet sugar can be produced at
less cost than that made from can
On Saturday last, a negro woman nam
ed Patsey Eldy became engaged in an
alteration with a drunken overseer of a
plantation near Lynchburg, Virginia,
when the latter seized a gun, loaded with
buck-shot, and fired upon the woman, in
stantly killing both herself and an In
FAINT which she held in her arms.
Mr.. j. Stellifer Moulton, the New York
correspondent of the Boston TyaUeler, wa>
lurned over by Justice Dodge, on Satur-
day afternoon, TO the Commissioners OF
Charities and Correction, to he committed
to the Lunatic Asylum. Mr.. Moulton
styles himself "Stelltfer, the King,
Reigning Prince OF House of David, anu
Guardian Of American Destiny"
The Chicago Tribune, which does not
believe in Senator Summers theory that
the anti-slavery amendment to the United
States Constitution has already been adoP-
ted by three-fourths of the "querum OF
States" suggests that a case be made up at
once for the decision of the Supreme Court,
by a Kentucky slave claiming his freedom
under this amendment.
Information has reached the Bureau OF
Freedmen's Affairs that parties in Charles
county, Maryland, have circulated reports
among the freedmen in that locality to the
effect that they must be bound seven years
to former shareholders, and receive but q
dollar per year compensation for their la
Dor during said apprenticeship. This report
naturally creates great excitement among
the freedmen.
General Conner has. issued a circular
announcing war to the knife against thu
| Indians. The officers commanding the
expedition are ordered not to kave a trail
f when once struck, until they have overta
: ken and punished the savages +; and, to &C
> complish this, the command will be sup
piled with an extra amount of salt will
which to preserve game for subsistence
, after the regular rations may be exhausted
e The information sent by the American
d government TO England in reference tx
the FenianS seems, to have been mos
: thorough. Many arrests have been mad
e ard the conspiracy is by this time broker
up. By this act of international cour
s tesy, Mr.. Seward has forever put Eng
land on her good behavior. Rarely ha
it become the lot of a statesman to hea
such Goals of fire upon a nations head
d A Richmond letter says there is a gen
e tleman in Virginia indulging in the viii
speculation OF buying negroes emancl
pated by the caving in of the rebel GOV
eminent, at ten dollars per head, IN th
hope that the United States government
will ultimately pay the full price to
Q them. He offers ten dollars 10 gold fo
right of property in each negro, and ha
'e it is stated, made some purchases an
q paid the money.
1t The vote of Connecticut on permittin
n negroes to vote (Which is the only COZ
s~olatory fact for the Democracy in tn
:, years history is not looked upon by tt
70 friends of the proposition as so dreadful
~ ly disconraging, after all. They all
r about 1000 majority. In 1857, upon
o similar contest, the adverse majority VIZ
81 nearly $4,000. And 50 they propose
pick their fints and try again.
: The Mayor of Vicksburg having gi'
~ en- satisfactory assurances that the free'
men should hereafter receive the san
treatment by the civil courts as that a
corded to whites, Gen. Howard has /
Fstructed his Assistant Commissions
ne that point not to interfere with the m
US nicipal regulations of that city, so Ior
re as the negroes right to testify before I'll
~ courts is recognized.
~ A gentleman of Madison, Wis, Civ
a it as the opinion OF a resident OF Miss
,w sippi, that if the United States troops a
he Withdrawn from Mississippi, a perfe
reign of terror will commence, and Sout
ern Union men, Northerners, and free
,ot men, VII be compelled to leave the Stat
.sb The people of that State appear to che
ish a sort of fendish hatred toward tbs
20 former slaves. Screen. Slocum thong
" when he was at Vicksburg.