The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-04-18
FROM RICHMOND.
operations OF ;he friedman Sm,
Condition 0f ihc Ncgroes in VIZ
.;uia-GHyerhOr Vice Opinion.
Core spondence of the World)
RICHMOND, April H.

RICHMOND, ApiiI IL
The stranger arriving in thi, place is
! he>et l,y Il crowd oi hotel runners. hack
mrn. and sharks Of every description.
! who fl~trm ON him aud haug with de
! termination that j., entirely beyond the
most pertiulriud. uf New York gentlemen
al the anne class.
The hotels are very much better than
of old aud qntr clean. The :"od FUR
ni.hed il rood AMI well cooked the only
objection that one might offer J. the
simple style Of serving it.
Almost lhc first impression that one
g,ts ~ he walks lhrourh The streets, -
that oi satisfaction. The change ia
Richmond is prrceptihly ia, the hotter
The new structures that are being
erected on the sites of those destroyed
hv tire ut the time of the rNIcuaiiuu,
are not only more elegant rs specimens
of architecture, but are more subatau-
tial and commodiouS The negroes are
working with more energy and industry
than | have ever seen them exhibit be-
fore
Much OF the rebuilding Is, am TOLD
being done hy Northern capitalists. who
expect Ia make haul,nmr profit by
the investment.
The people seem more courteous than
in times gone hy, and certainly less dis.
pospd 10 quarrel with a stranger Tor hay
lug been born North of Mason and Dix
onS line Another Improvement - the
police force, which Is effective aud cred
liable. rather great advance 81 five
years since when il one c0uld lind =
policeman in II day ) " ak about the city,
he was fortunate man with very nonl
cyeSlght.
One thing that am glad To say is y
good word for the darkies They have
entirely discarded the idea that freedom
means mo work and plenty of grub, ~
and are disposed to he extremely indus.
trous One darkey that | saw picking
MP old bits of IRON among the Tuius dis
covered to me the fact that he got i If =
cent per pound for the iron, and could
sometimes get as much as thirty or forty
pounds OF 1t for his day labor. Ia reply
to a query as t.. the plentItude OF y orE
he said that there was no doubt ah0ut
the work being plenty but the hands to
do ii wire as plenty aS the work He
had had good Job, but that was flash
ed, aud fifteen or twenty cents pc, day
was better than doing nothing.
If all the darkeys in the Snnth .yuld
be brought to that way of thinking
it would not take long to recover the
damage and loss "cca>inncd by the late
wal.
The arriya! at General, Sterdm1u aud
Fullerton has occasioned considerable
activity on the part If the agents OF the
Freedmcns Enroan, who seem 10 think
that the sole ohj-Cr Of their mission IS
the INFINITE Investigation Oftheir affairs
Yesterday the working OF the hngcan
was subjected to little scrutinizltInn,
AMI some reports We're ordered prepared
fOr The inspection aud information OF
General Steedman. This morning Gen
erals SteeamalI and Fullerton visited
the bureau and entered into more close
inspection fite affairs General Browl
the officer III charge, seems to be "A man
Of capability. and exceedingly c0nsCien-
tious IN the administration nf the atl.urs
of his office
He says that about Que eighth Of all the
negroes III the Southern States are .iu
irginla, ca lbGHt half million--i he
COUNTIES containing the largest per ccnt
oelh NottaWay and Amelia, wheTe he
negroes compose nearly seyeuty-fonr per
cent. OF the inhabitaute. In Carroll