The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-14
Yesterday Evenings Edit on.
sOTTHERN NEWS

SOU1hE8H NEWS
NEW YORK, September I3.
Inc Heralds south Carolina correspon-
DENT gives further particulars regarding
the election OF Convention delegates on the
4tn instant and in reference to the ar.
rangoments between Generals Meade and
Gilmore and Governor Perry for restor-
alton OF the civil authority in Charleston.
The Union ticket was totally defeated, and
apparently it has generally been the result
throughout the Slate though the returns
are yet very limited.
Wade Hampton, the original secession
st nulliher, fire eater and rebel cavalry
chief, IS one Of the elected delegates in
Columbia, though il is not yet known that
ne has been, or will be, pardoned by the
The election passed off verv ouietlv- No
soldiers were allowed in the vieinitv oftbe
polling places. The secession citizens are
very much pleased with the result claim
ing that they are all Unionists, while
those who were loyal throughout the war
regard It as 3 virtual surrender of the
State to the secessionists.
Governor Perry has issued q proclama.
a1e-T ~e.S~eossS the reeult of his eonfay-
ence with General Meade and Gilmore to
De the resumption of the authority Che
o.d Judicial and other civil officers All
the legal matters in which colored peraonq
are concerned ara 10 be adjudicsted in the
Provost Marshal Courts. 1t was exnactod
that General Gilmore would issue AZ or
der of similar purport but he has not vet
done so, and it is now thought that until
his return from Washington no further sc-
tion will be taken in the matter by the
military authorities.
The Times Washington special saws: To-
day sdelegstion of Hississippisns. consist
ing OF the late rebel Generals Tupper and
Featherstone and the Rev. DR.. Murdock.
OF Columbus, waited on General Howard
at the Freedmen's Bureau. DR.. Murdock
made speech, In which he stated that
when the Bureau was frat organized the
people OF the South had not made up
their minds fully to accept the status of the
negro as tree man, but q few short
months had made wonderful change in
the sentiments Of the Southern people on
the subject and he was gratifed now 70
say thRt. 40 far ss his knoSSledpe exte,'5aS
tney universally accepted the conelusions ~
the war and freely and sincerely ocI<nov,I-
edge the freedom of the colored race which
had resulted from it. The Doctor believed
the negro should be educated, as it would
be better for the South to have 3 class of
intelligent laborers than to have them
groVelling in ignorance. The race must
live together in the South. and the mora
widely education is disseminated the better
for all concerned.
General Howard expressed himself much
pleased st the remarks of DR.. Murdock.
and the delegation were some time in
friendly conversation relative to the opera
tions OF the Buresu, which the Southerners
commended very cordially.
The examinations now going on at the
various Custom Houses throughout the
United States have been commenced BY
the Treasury Department with view Of
reducing the expense of collecting the
revenue from customs by the discharge of
all officers found TO be more ornamental
man useful. Wherever there is a sine
cure situation 1t Is to be abolished and
every officer will be required to earn his
salary as far as it viii be- possible 70 make
him do 30.
The Herslds Washington special saws
that the forthcoming report of General
Strong, Inspector in the Freedmen's Bu-
reaus will be very interesting document,
lnasmuch as it will be the candid statement
OF an officer who spent three months or
more investigating the condition of the
race along the Red River with the view to
determine the aapAhility rf tha- ua0ro To
support himself in state of freedom
Gen. Strong went down smong these
people with prejudices rather unfavors-
bic to them than otherwise, superindueed,
perhaps, by the reports constantly flowing
to the Bureau from interested parties Of
the South relative to the utter worthless
ness Of the negro, and his total unftness
for any other state than that of serVitude.
IA of
plantations Hincog," and in no single in
stance failed to discover evidences of ad-
vancement beyond his most ssnguine
hopes. They are industrious, and their
highest aim is to get possession of 3 small
patch Of land to work for themselves. In
cases where they have accomplished this,
they have amazed their old masters. The
white cotton growers buy the heavy crops
they have got under way. OF course there
are individuals in each community In
whom idleness and vice can not be over.
come by the influence of freedom, yet these
drones are fewer In number than mean
whites. Schools are plenty and flourish
ing among them.
Gen. Strong says that the esse and ra-
pidity with which old and young freedmen
go through the elementary text book is as
tonishing.
The Tribunes Washington special says
the letter of Gen. Howard, Commissioner
of the Freedmen's Bureau, to Assistant Gel
Brown, Of Richmond, relative to the fear
of negro insurrection entertained by the
citizens of Virginia, did not contemplate the
employment Of rebels for the purpose of
pstroling the country where an outbreak
was spprehended, while General Hunter
believes such appFehensions groundless.
He thought it best in order TO quiet the
fears Of the timid to suggest to Colonel
Brown the propriety of patrOling certain
regions of the country with small force
desailed by the different military COM
and, in case he Colonel BrowD)
did not have q sufficient number Of officers,
to select through careful enquiry, ciIi-
zen who is willing to sid in preserving
order, if such is to be found, ard one who
VIII DO 30 Without compensation. He also
adds In his letter to Colonel Brown that
these citizen agents shall be selected by
an officer Of tact, who must take only such
IS are fully willing to support the govern
ment with heartiness.