New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-12
Traxelers, stories. :,

goou aeal OF Inc southern people in the course of
ms travels. He speaks increasingly of St. Peters
burg, which our readers will hardly recognize as
the heroic Virginia city which suffered SO severely
from federal shell and shot; aud gives the follow
ing remarkable account of Southern ex,slave-
, holder:n
There was talk of bales and hogsheads in the
saioon as also of that all important question negro
labor. One gentleman was positive that nothing
but severe measures could keep the hands on a
plantation. Another ex-slavehetder, who pro.
tessed his Willingness to accept what had been
done as tinal and to make the best of existing
n lows, told ME how valuable preaching had been
found 4d, in Keeping the negroes steadily at work:
why, sir, said he, "long before this emanci-
patton knew hard old sinner that was run
ming place with several hundred people on it
A and he found Furnishing them seemed to do no
, good. Well, he bought fiddler and gotta dancing
room nxed up 50 that every Saturday the niggers
. might have ball. They're mad on dancing and
this fiddler made the hands more cheerful like SO
as only few of them would go off to the swamp.
But that warn't enough. The old man wanted
ms place to be perfect so he bought preacher
an ignorant colored man, you know, sir. Well,
them darkies are death preaching. The old
man got chapel fXedup for his pious niger
anu o{ e., sir, he found his oyerseer might give
them III before they'd run, with dancing and
1 preaching going on together.n My informant
paused; but as felt by his manner that there was
4 more to be heard, muttered, Pray proceed, "
4 or ttyour story interests me,' do obliging
theatrical characters when the hero is allowed a
moment to recover his breath oval, there is
more Of it f" he said with marked emphasis; that
| Ga man would sometimes step in to hear the
preacher himself. He was proud of owning a
Niger that could keep it up just like a real mia
lister, and, sir, one day the darby converted him
AFTER fhat old nassa would sit just as regular as
samhQ 10 near the preaching, and he swore if this
one died there should be another bought for ii
did them all good. BY, sir it was a hard
place, and they wanted some enjoyment, can
Another glimpse Of Southern life and manners,
and we have done with Mr.. Skinner:
From where K lives, in a comfortable
wooden mouse, mounted on wooden piers, it is not
lar to a doctors office, grog shop and 4 smitby,
us three institutions thus classed together had
that is to say, each hada group of loafers collected
before it-grave at. the medical department, i'm
pduent at the smithy, and iovial at the rror shon
. f1uLlo' mister, hold on there minute p was |
shouted from this last, my footsteps after ling
erlng near the smithy, were turned toward ks |
abode, and two gentlemen of haggard appearance |
staiked up to me. . In what can 1 o6iige YOU,
az slr was my question to the Wildest-looking of
the pair. He hestated, as though embarrassed |
ana d9ubtlng how to proceed; but his companion
remarked huskily that they'd got to do it, 50
mere eva vas l. no 9, use making long Speech"
may have seemed surprised and inclined to |
refuse any further concession, for the wilderlook
ing man observed, with grim smile No offense.
mister; only there's a treat depending on the size
q your nat, and were the committee to measure
property in question, Kench & Son would be
Plo 3 70 thlnh they nave astonished you The |
husky gentleman mathematical all hatters for the
prices they were charging whilst he of the wilder
LOOKS LOOKS measured my hat with an air of triumph
my then mqttered some indistnct thanks, and
quilted me abruptly to make their report at the /
grogshop door.
VI course the Northern journals commend
BOOK replete with such pictures as the foregoing
n tho favo, oF o1--o |
~ r = ~ Sts1eia'
Ex.ceuarol . A II'S.S,sr- = -.
:. a. Oh Illinois, recently
uafessea aFaalcal meeting at Freeport, in that
tate, in which he made the following explo.
i've" assertions
That Andrew .rof,,so,, ,,,o- 4,.:..-
er and only held The pIes %hs a 1, a4a asnT
msSIf aI 2e"ra only lived to disgrace
art of the man Who attempf f to ao o on the
That a, Johnson had conspired with rebels
,al i ana e9Pperheads to establish govern pl
si The 9pstoh % the representatives chosen
That he {Hurlbut4 stood ready in head on a,.r- re
10000 men to 90 from Illinois to WashiIstt go
clean out the White House which sertiIo eI N N
as loudly applaudea by the radicals NJ
That the voice OF the people was tba voioa ~ -