The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-01-30

and closed moderately firm. Gold closed At l4oK Gov
ernments were dull
The rise Of gold to 10 and upwards impaired moro
Armness 70 the merchandise markets yesterday; bus
herc Was mot much activity and badness tho whole
was light Foreign goods qqiet but Arm for nearly
every Descriptions. Groceries were dull Cotton was
dull and mostly noninaL Pstsslenm was quiet On
and nominal. Corn was In fair demand and steady
PORK and lard were duh and lower. whskey was dull
and nominally unchanged
Tho Frcodmcn's Buroau-Tho wild Lcgls-
lation OF Congress.
We have already ohronicled the fact that the
bill charging the powers of the Freedmen's
Bureau has passed the United States Senate by
large majority. II is therefore now before
the House of Representatives, and to that body
must the people look for the rejection of the
scheme.
Prepared as the American people must have
been for almost every kind of wild and reck-
less legislation, under radical rule in Congress,
we believe we express their unanimous sent-
ment when we state that measure having the
ramifcations of this Freedmen's Bureau never
entered their minds. What does this bill pro-
tend to refugees and freedmen in the section
covered by the rebellion; that this section
shall be divided into districts those districts
into sub-districts, not exceeding the number Of
counties or parishes in each State and that
each district and sub-district shall have it's
local agent, at salary of fifteen hundred dol
lars per annum. Now that the war is over,
we do not see what the government has to do
with refugees, supposing them to be white, any
more than it has to do with the paupers in our
almshouse at Bellevue. We therefore, in con-
sidering the subject Of this Freedmen's Bureau.
throw them out of the scale altogether.
Now, how will this measure operates BY the
provisions of the bill the Secretary of War is
authorized to "issue provisions, clothing, fuel
and other supplies, including medical stores and
transportation, as way be deemed needful," DO.
In other words, 1t is establishing gigantic
government poor-house for the emancipated
blacks and those who have plantation ex-
pericnce Of the negro character know that he
will no. be slow to avail himself of the benefits
of an eleemosynary institution like the one
proposed The measure b not only bad, tuta
wicked one. 1t demorLfizes the negro it encou-
RACES him In habits Of laziness II offers pre-
MUM to Incidence and affords shelter and pro-
lection to the black man which have never
been, and probably never will be, accorded
man in the South. 1t will place q use
lees government official in every county
and parish In the late revolving States, consti-
tuting altogether an immense army of greedy
ofHce-holderA II will saddle the country with
an enormous expenditure, say fifteen. perhaps
twenty millions of dollars year. 1t will force
upon the government million Of negroes as
perpetual dependents and pensioners, all, no
doubt, perfectly contented, because they have
all they want-plenty Of rations, abundance to
eat and drink, and no work. II will foster the
hiving Of drones. II will make the idle more
idle and the lazy lazier. Briefly, II will para
lyze the industry of the South, and is nothing in
tic and preposterous scheme of government
charity. And what will make 1t more interest
ing TO our overburthened taxpayers, they will
have to pay for it. II the bill Is intended as an
experiment, II may serve the purpose Of an en-
abling act to permit those congressman who
have single idea-and that about the ne
gro-to ventilate their oratory. In that light
it may be regarded as furnishing bureau, es-
tablishcd TO serve up food for radical and de-
clamatory speeches. But If il be intended as a
serious liter, it is calculated, not only to en-
barrass President johnson In his restoration
policy, but to entail o vast amount Of mischief
and injury on the country. The people Of the
South do not want any measure of the kind.
They dread Its effects. They are ready TO do
what they have always heretofore done-take
care Of their sick, aged and decrepit servants.
The servants themselves, as a general thing,
are doing very well under the peculiar circum-
stances Of the situation. Many who left their
former masters, and came North, have returned
home and been kindly received and taken care
Of The former relations between master and
servant having been summarily sundcred, Il
will take little while before the relationship
or anything likened to II Is restored. But the
well fed and kindly treated colorcd servant,
after having tasted the benefits Of liberty in
the North, and received the cold charities
Of his bawling Northern sympathiEers, Is prone
10 return 10 the old homestead in the sunny
South and resume the easy life he once led
free, to be sure but still having an irrcpressible
yearning for the scenes amid which he WA
domesticated. Things are gradually becoming
tranquillized in the South, especially with r.
spect to the uses and obligations Of labor and
capital, and all the tinkering and hammsring
which radicals In Congress indulge in, and oil
the bills they propose like the one before u.s.
are only calculated to keep alive feeling oil
irritation and resentment, and prolong to On
indefinite period the restoration Of good order
and amicable social and business relations
aush ,~t,h ths North and With The Southeru