The New York herald., 1865-09-13

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In this view, has not tA'e time arrived for
voice from the city of New York!
The Freedmen's Bureau~ The Freedmen
and Other H~iDless Aoersons-
The war has left great many niggers un.
provided Observation-Disclosures, gigantic Sam.
bos, we'll developed, greasy wenches, and
pickaninnies indescribable and innuluerable.
1t is said there are four millions of all sorts and
sizes. They are scattered over the whole
South, from the Potomac to the Mississippi and
the Rio Grande. They are herded in cabins
and camps in Tennessee, and hidden in swamps
In South Carolina; they are hunting the 'possum
and the coon in Old virginny, and have squatted
and made themselves at home on the old plan
taton in Georgia, Alabama and everywhere
else. 1t is feared that they will not be happy.
Somebody is afraid that somebody else win
oppress them; that they will be made to exert
their immense muscle in little labor, such as
hoeing in the cotton and the corn, and that
when it is all done the little white man who
makes fifty or sixty big niggers do this labor
won't pay them more than fifty per cent Of what
it is worth. And 80, to guard against such la
mentable result, we have established Freed
mems Bureau to watch the interests of the mig
gers, to see that they get their rights that they
are not imposed upon, and that white men be-
have themselves
Now, there are also In the country another
four millions Of very helpless persons, who are
constantly in danger from the tyrannical spirit
of cruelty and injustice of others-four millions
whose lives are in continued misery by
reason of the injuries they have received
and the injuries they fear, and for whose
protection the laws and social usages
now in existence are utterly insufficient. These
four millions are white-they are the women
and young girls who are poor and depend upon
their own efforts for living. They are at the
mercy Of every one; and though it is pretended
by some imaginative writer's that woman holds
an elevated position in Christian countries in
the nineteenth century, these poor wretches do
not receive respect or oven deceny usage.
They are the victims of the gimlet-eyed trades
man, who wears their lives out by hard service
and poor pay-the victims of landlords, who
charge them fifteen dollars month for privi-
lege to sleep in some dog kennel, and they are
the victims of brutal husbands and fathers, who
come home at night seething with rum and
oppressed and wronged by every one.
Shall we have bureau also to take care Of
this latter four millionss Will the government
erect a tribunal Of summary Justice to hear and
determine in all oases that relate to wrongs
done to these women and girlsf Will it pro-
tect those who cannot protect themselvest
VIII 1t feed them when in want, provide them
comfortable clothes, and see that they receive
no harm from whatever sOurces And il the
government will not do this, how absurd is it's
act in making its immense provision for the
protection and assistance Of tho gigantic nigger
and his broodl Can he not fight his way in the
world as we'll as these faint-hearted and feeble
ones! How and in what respect are they better
able to endure the battle of life than he isY
The AMERICAN MsTTUTE-THE WARLKE Re-
SOURCES OF THIN C0UNTRY.-The annual fair OF
the American Institute was inaugurated last
evening with great sclat. The opening address,
delivered by Major General Sickles, which we
give in our columns to-day, was an able and in
many features most important intellectual
effort. General Sickles very judiciously de-
voted himself to an eucidation of the valuable
contributions Of American art and science to
the purposes Of war, as illustrated during the
recent rebellion, and he has put upon record
many curious and interesting facts in relation
thereto, which will doubtless strike the world
with astonishment and admiration.
Taking all the different departments OF the
service, he shows how the skill OF the mechanic,
the inventive genius Of our people and their
wonderful adaptability to circumstances unfore-
seen and occupations in many instances
foreign 70 them, effected things which to ma
tons trained in the school Of was would have
: >hssa- inpomibilities. He refers to our Mon
itors--a purely American lnvendQn--and the
extraordinary revolution tAey edected in naval
warfare; to the rams and torpedo boats that
bafied the skill and deied the bravery Of the
enemy in our harbors and rivers. The number
Of mechanics employed by the government dur
ing the war exceeded that Of the victorious
army at Waterloo. But it was in the
Quartermaster's Department that the most
wonderful examples Of energy, precision and
force were displayed, for which there is no
parallel in military history. "If," said the
speaker, "the trains Of the Army Of the Poto-
mao had been put In motion on q single road
toward Richmond, the head Of the column
would have entered Richmond before the rear
was out Of sight Of the Capitol at Washington.
In the Qusrtermaster's and Ordnance Depart
ments at Nashville, in the summer Of 1864,
more than fourteen thousand mechanics and
laborers were employed in providing material
for the armies operating in General Sherman's
department. The storehouses of the Commits
sary of Subsistence at the same post contained
provisions for one hundred thousand men for
eight months, or twenty-four millions of ra-
tions. besides forage for Rftv thousand horses