Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-25

ton of labor will cease to be vexing one.
The General believes in system He has q
system, and he has besides the faculty Of infus-
ing into others a belief in his system, and a
willingness to give it a fair trial. knowing
something of his ideas on this matter, we are
confident that they will comment themselves
to the right thinking, sincere, and honest men
of all shades Of opinion and color. The men
who have committed themselves irreversibly
to the declaration that the negro won't work
and can't be made to work, except as slave
will yet suffer the pains Of the stocks-the
laughing stocks. The last issue of the West
Tennessee Wing. published in this town, has
an article on the demand for white labor, in
which the following captious judgment of the
| negro character is put upon record:
IF a Freedmen's Bureau was established in
every civil district, work could not be got out
of the negro, without corporeal punishment
or the fear of it. Knowing the negro charac-
ter as the Southern people do, they salts
fled that under the new order Of things, no
dependence can be placed in them as laborers. -
Now it is evident that a man who has made
up his mind as to what the result of an expert.
ment will be before the experiment has been
fairly tried, is not in the best condition to as
certain and report impartially, the truths which
the experiment may develop.
There are persons who have observed the
negro character under other conditions than
have existed for the past two hundred years
in the South, and lis it not strangely have arri-
we'd at an opposite conclusion. 1t is not appa-
rent why the latter class should be any more
interested to misrepresent facts than the former
The truth is, that it will be best for the parti-
zans on both sides to ''keep shady" for the
present, and not interfere by proclaiming
what will and what will not happen We
shall see what we shall see, but it may hap
pen that we shall not see what we want to see
or expect to see.
= Your opportune criticism on the Memphis
BUeutan's late extraordinary railroad article,
gave much satisfaction to the people of this
vicinity. One or two facts respecting that sin
jured innocent yclept the Memphis & Charles
ton Railroad, have been reported to me. The
party who chartered train for
bringing out GoOernment cotton, to
run over the NJ. & O. R. R., char
ged-F am informed of this by Mississip-
pian-only tsoeray-ons dollars per bale for
freight Now this charge to the chartering
party by the NJ. & O. R. R., the road guilty of
the awful crime of extortion with reference to
Memphis interests-was five dollars per bale.
l don't know whether Government complains,
Of extortion on the part of the NJ & O. r. r.,
but have heard that some pripate parties
grumble because the NJ. Il c. K. R., charges
SO high for the privilege of shipping cotton on
the Government train.
Sunday evening occurred in Jackson cere-
mony the like Of which has not happened for
some time, so long, indeed, that It seemed more
like the resumption of an old tim" custom that
had fallen into dsrse, than an ordinary event
in the progress of a community. The cere-
mony we refer to was nothing else or less than
a wedding. The event afforded all classes of
the community much satisfaction, and now that
the ice is broken, 1t is probable that others
will venture. Such an event may fairly be
considered an omen Of returning prosperity.
The clergyman who performed the ceremony
evidently considered it in thatlight, since it is
ported that he publicly lauied the example Of
the brave pair and exhorted the young people
present to hasten to do likewise.