The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-02-03
Times i'm New OrIeaus-An Inter,
eSting Letter

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esting letter.
A correspondent writing. from New
Orleans, under date Nov. Is, 1865, says:
Poor Sambo is beginning to experience
in a very practical, and to him, a very
unsatisfactory manner, the burdens and
obligations of freedom. Hitherto, under
the administration of the parsons of the
Conway school, they had been led to re-
gard freedom as state of utter idleness,
with the right to wander about the
country and pick and steal all that they
wanted for subsistence and luxurious en-
| ljoyment scorn all honest employment,
and to regard and treat all the old citi.
lzens with hatred-refusing to work for
them. It is generally believed that this
last idea was instilled into their minds, to
help along the Z Yankee lessees of .planta-
tions, by enabling them to get hands
easier and at cheaper rates than the old
planters. But it was 'sno CO." The
Yankee lessecs have been nearly all
broken up. They went into planting too
hastily, and found they not only did not
understand the business, but that the ne
Igroes wouldn't work for thom as we'll as
they did for the old planters. This is ons
of the causes of the disgust of Conway,
who, see, reports affairs in the South as
very unsatisfactory and unsettled. Gers
Itainly they are, and no one has larger
responsibility for otir present condition
than this mischievous and dishonest little
4 1demagogue. But matters have improved
visibly since his departure, and they win
continue to improve, if the present policy
initiated by General Fullerton, and now
being carried out by General Baird, is
continued. To be satisfied of the latter
officers resolution to execute the new
policy promptly and vigorously, you will
have only to go on the levee and see what
was never before exhibited in this city,
i legitimate negro pen. An inclosed lot is
there established, in which all the negro
vagabonds, wharf-rats, all who can't give
an account of their what-abouts, are col
lected and imprisoned. Attracted by
such an extraordinary spectacle, / stopped
and asked the negro soldier guarding this
pen what it all meant. 'sDem's loose
rats, sir, what won't work, and want to
live by stealing" Meantime planters
and others waIiting negro help, have only
to call upon the Proyost-marshal and get
as many as they want for domestic or
plantation service. They are generally;
however, a sorry set. Freedom and the
mode in which they have been introduced
to it, have thoroughly demoralized them.
Stealing, idleness, drunkenness and filth
mess have Under these influences devel-
loped to degree which you Northern
people can not conceive. Those that are
honest and industrious do we'll; they gen.
orally remain at their old homes. Instead
: of encouraging them to do so, the radical
q demagogues are warning them not to
trust the planters, but to look to them
and the Yankee schoolzmarms, and to
: : stand by their rights, especially the right
= Of suffrage, which WILL give them bready
6 meat and whiskey. One Of these dema--
gogues, an empty-headcd, loud-mouthed-
youth, who rejoices in the name Of War
. mouth, the same who got up the election
for Congress to which the negroes Were
, all invited to come with their ballots and
a dollar each, for the privilege of voting;
told them in aspeech few nights ago
that they ought not to work for the white
people until they got their rights, but
that they could live upon the spontaneous
, productions of Louisiana, and starye the
white people intoa concession of the right.
of suffrage. The spontaneous products of
Louisiana, bull-frogs and alligators, didn't
seem to be very attractive fare to poor
Sambo, who is always glutton and
, somewhat of an epieure.
. There is great scare and tfemor here
among certain Federal officials who have
grown suddenly rich during the last four
years, by intimations of suits which are
about to be instituted against them to re-
cover the property of citizens who have
recently been amnestied, which property;
it is alleged, got into their hands in an
t irregular and Illegal manner. 1t IS
/ charged that the United States Marshal
and the late District Attorney were large
buyers of property sold under confseation
judgments. The property of Hon. Chas.
9 NJ. Conrad, Secretary of War In Fill
j more's Administration, is said to be held
! by the Marshal; and the residence of
a General Harry Z. Hays, with his library
and furniture, is now occupied and pos
: sessed by that immaculate patriot and
martyr, NAPLES, the late District Attor-
e ney, who, at the commencement of the
war; used to live in a loft of an old storey
: and board at the markets and lunch
: houses. Though the law under which he
Q held his Office limited his emolumenss to
2 a certain sum, and required him to pay
! over his surplus to the United States
|. Treasury, he is now worth 100000. He
; never had dozen suits from private in
dividuals during his whole professional
8 career.
9 The city is exceedingly lively, and l5dsi-
!; ness seems to be very active. The stores
j are all selling largely, and the hotels are
crowded. More produce, especially cot.
e ton, comes to the city than was expected.
y OF sugar, only few. perhaps t@eney or
Q thirty hOgsheads Of this years crop; have
reached our wharves. The whole crop
I of the season may reach 10000 hogsheads.
: There is still a deplorable lack Of cani,
I tai to operate with: It is especially
d needed to enable the planters to provision
! their plantations and buy stock and agri-
q cultural utensils. Cotton is lively, and
: buyers find difficulty in filing their
). orders. All sorts Of Western provisions
! , are high and in good demand Coal is
/ two dollars and a-quarter per barrel, and
d has an upward tendency. A large lots
which was put up for sale by ths United
o States Quartermaster, was Withdrawn az
Y 81 78 per bushel. !.
n fen Ganhv hoe or1