Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-09-11

dations. Found that they had becons
80 much Yankseized" as to have
white girls to wait on the table, showing
clearly thai the Kentuckians can adspt |
themselves to the nimbIe shilling
principle as well as q tve Yankee, for
whom they profess to have such an alb
horrence. H
The negro question Is huge one in
Kentucky. Under Gen. Palners last
order giving passes to all eolOred Peo-
pie, every mode Of conveyance Of a pub
lie character is perfectly crowded With
them, of all sizes and conditions l
If some of the people that ara 30
alarmed about negro equality would only
take trip in this direction they weald
see a great deal more Familiarity with
the negro than they can End north. Of
the Ohio riSer. Te see tohite lady and
three negroes in one carriage is conuabH,
or man aud his wife and suitable
amount of servants in one vehicle; but
it is all right, as pe 'iEhs wsas used to
them before the war. u EriT q
l remarked to gentleman as load
of the above passed by, that in nay State.
they would mob any man that was seen
in carriage with that amount Of ne
groes, and they vould call himl . btaek
Abolition, Gnsalgamation seoundrsl and
one that wanted to rain the country.
Common here, sari seed the like all
my life"
The military are still Of use in Ken
tucky for preserving order. II it we're
not for the soldiers, the negroes would
have hard time of it. The spirit that
charActerizea the oligarehy to OPpress
the black nam is as rampsnt IS aver
with many
Well, the next day found us It Camp
Nelson, Of which have mnch 70 say,
but not much in this letter. Camp Nel-
son contains about 5000 acres OF land,
admirably selected for defense, on the
Kentucky river aud Hickman creek.
Black soldiers, black men, black women
aud black children of all ages, are in
every place and under every shelter that
can be found. ....,.- .-.F
Reports for the week / was there
showed 1400 women and 427 children
at Freedmen's Hall, or Africa, as it is
familiarly called.
They draw their rations from the
Government About 5000 ra,ions
(contrabsnd) we're issued ia the month
of July to the Freedmsn's camp. 7
Some ladies are endsavoring 70 teach
the freedmen. Several large schools are
in operation. The hospital is in charge
of DIR. Rankin Of Illinois, and shows
meatness and good order in all the wards
l examined. There is some fatality
among them, but the health of the ckmi
is improving, as am informed BY DR.
| Rankin. lrss
. Old orders we're revoked and Reu
!. ones came, sending me TO Cumberlan'
: Gap, and here l am. OF the incident
of the trip, l give you few. Th'
i. Quariermaster'a department farnishe.
transportatiou-an ambulance and fOn
# mules We left on the afternoon of tht
# Oath Of August. Made Danville tbs
g evening, passing camp Dick Robinson
3 over beautiful road and through d.
E, Eghtful country. Danville is one OF th
d most beautiful towns that was ever il
1t is the county seat of Boyle county.
Next day We made Crab Orchards q plsc
st of come notoristy as g watering-plac'
But visitors are there now, and mos
= of the buildings have been destroys
ID during the war.
u Got an early start next morning, bi'
= ding goodbye to the turnpike road,
:. l thought, for the mountains, passiu
". through Mt Vernon. As we wer
e. descending one of the spurs Of Il
"a Wildcat Mountains our ambulance broA
AZ down, and we had to call on the nativ
" for assistance. Luckily for Us, we we
be close TO blacksmith shop Sent for
., pair of tongs; the old man had gone
:. town; old lady said abe would not Len
Of them to any RUinS man. Sent out
nd scout in another direction for auoth
9. shop; found it; old mGR at home, a
70, We got his desired assistance, but "
n compelled to remain all night, where
for were kindly treated and well fed.
IN. little incident occurred at this hon
re- which 1 desire to relate. There was
ma ~, pert little negro boy, called Bob6ts Ii
to coin. His mistress was in favor
ng slavery, but her negroes had all left
except little Bob. She said she despis
.,f an a6olitionist; that there was once
be man from Ohio came ont "thdr" a
oot bought sone negroes TO set them fr
ur, and that some of her neighbors had be
AZ. out to Ohio and found him eating
nv. the same table with negroes, and d
ely. the people had elected him to the Leg
lature. Hard up for Legislators
, nee send man that would eat at the "a
ali table with niggTs, think"
All Of this time she held little ~.