Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-01-05

Colonel Oscar J. F.. Stuart, commander of the Mis-
sSsppi militia, in his general order No. |, directs
the arrest Of all white men who go about "trou-
bling, shooting at or killing freedmen on their own
account or who participate in negro balls aud
then raise quarrels upon questions Of social equality
with the blacks"
In Augusta Georgia, and the fourth division of
the department of Georgia, the sale of firearms and
bowie knives is prohibited, except upon an order
granted at headquarters.
General Tillson, of the Freedmen's Bureau at Au
gusta Georgia, has issued circular regulating the
labor of negroes in that State. He directs that IN
upper and middle Georgia, where the land is poor
that rst.class male labOrers shall receive twelve
dollars TO thirteen dollars per month, aud eight dol
lars to ten dollars for full female hands with board
and lodging III each case Along the coast and in
Southwestern Georgia, the rates are fixed at fifteen
dollars for full men, and ten dollars for women, with
board and lodging. He also provides that if the
freed people who nave 10 visible means of support
fail to make contracts by the tenth of January 1876
the agents of the bureau shall enter into agreements
for them, in order to keep them from want and snt
iering during the year. All freedmen who are able
10 take care of themselves need not work for en-
blowers or find masters. The aged and inhrm to
be taken care of by their former owners, unless they
have children able to work for them and take care Of
them.
The - Chronicle and Sentinel" of Augusta pa
per which has never been very Southern in its senti
ments or sympathics even during the war, says that
the surety of the freedmen must be found only in
their Willingness to labor. Former masters are
willing and anxious to make contracts with the ne
groes and yet the latter very much averse to
doing although they know that it is their only hope.
Some phantaSmagoria, as silly rs it is imaginary,
deters them. Haucmated they cling To the chin.
era of extraordinary providence, i'll the future
which is to work out for them "a far more exceeding
weight of glory and ease
An outbreak among the negro soldiers occurred at
Bladon Springs, Alabama, on the 22d ultmO, during
which they killed one white man and fired several
dwellings. The officer in command sent to Mobile
for detachment of white troops to quel the dis
turbanCe
At Louisville on the Doth ult. negro riot occur
red, which the police attempted to qucll. In the
srui'le that enSued, police officer McFadden shot
through the head with a Spencer rifle ball and in
SANITY killed. The negro soldier who shot McFad-
den was arrested and subsequently ten other arrests
OF negroes engaged in the melee were made. On the
previous night a free negro was shot and MORALLY
wounded by a negro guard.
On Christmas morning, about % o'clock says the
Savannah ga Republican, quite II serious disturb.
ance took place in Robertsve, between about 100
United States soldiers and an equal number of citi-
2cns the trouble originating in too free indulgence
in Liquor by both parties. Fists were freely used as
arguments and about half dozen Of the most be-
lgtrcnt of the two parties received black eyes and
damaged noses but no more serious injuries as far
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