New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-01-20

TIE whole attention Of the officer has been devoted to
Ae div sion Of the crops II Is Thought that the num-
- planters will turn Of those who cannot work.
This will probably apply In greater OF less degree 10
the whole State.
WILLIAMSBURG DfsTRIcT-HUSTISG AND WHIPPING
NEGROES.
A freedmen states that the 2Jth OF November he.
with eight others were hunted down and caugut by 10
white men carried 10 plantation. kept under guard
m night, and the next morning baeksd and NhRPta'
OF them nearly TO DEATH Gfter which they we're
complied % promise never 10 dynlge the outrage IN
Ger penalty Of being shot.
Others OF the party who escaped from their torment
srs shOt at
The man who makes this statement reeeired tire
AlHdTti aud serenity Gshss the bdck which now pears
witness Of the whipping it having been seen by stan
ehlcer
LASTING OLD WOMEN.
The stepYnother OF the complainant, az Old NORdH
sscer,d three hundred Lasbe while others OF the pary
received 900 and 800 il appears that two days prey
Gus 10 the outrage two willie men representing them
selves as " Yankees" come 10 divide the crop among
the freedmen made their appearance in the District
The freedmen beng glad 10 have their crops divided
treated them well and believing them TO be friendly
deeeanted freely upon their wrongs and sufsrngs and
expressed themselves willing 20 die for their delverers
The white took their names aud respective loeah
lies, and were thus enabled afterward to trace the"
eat easily.
The names OF all the whites are known, and the Cen
ersl commanding the Department has been requested
30 bring them u Justice
Wiling 20 contract with their former masters as they
intend at the close of the year TO seek oher employers
and IN many cases they still entertain the hope thal
land VIII be given them Those who were in tie pat
of Shermans army say that they were told so by the
soldiers Every endeayor has been made by addresses
and cir uars TO diSabuse their minds of this impress
sioD and IL is believed that these endeavors are surely
abongb slowly producing their proper effect.
" Most Of the planters, says report are deslrOus
Of renewing their contracts fearing that disturbance
would otherwise occur the close Of the year. but they
are not cOncihaOry as they might be- nor as Just ~
they should be, in the rates OF wages offered. Inc
colOred people without exception aud many OF tne
whites desire the troops 10 remain The ladies' OF IL
hamsbnrg hearing that the troops were 10 DC VITA
drawn sent petition TO the commanding oioeF, asking
that the troops might BE retained The freedmen pc
bsye that in the absence of United States troops they
would have redress in case 81 outrage ana oppression
by their former masters and the whites seem 10 appe
hend awlessness on the part OF the ree'eh besiues
the whites Say. aud they ere undonbl al correct IN
saying that hone out United States military officers or
agents of the Bureau or Northern persons have any
snuenee on the freedmen the negroes have no con-
6dence in those who have been Shareholders"
MANY cases OF violence 10 freedmen by white resi-
dopis have occurred in different parts Of the STATE
which DO not detail because the particulars OF them
have not vet been received by the Bureau.
Gen. Anes has sent a small garrison 10 Hamburg
district on account OF the many outfaGes cOMhltVcu
there.
In some parts Of the state militia companies have
been organized under the sanction of the Provisional
Governor and there the whites woalc IKE To have the
United States troops Withdrawn lhey ues!fe 10 take
HE police duties into their own hands In other words
they wish 10 rule the black loyasts without check OF
hinderance; or IN their own Dal DlTOlS tongue, 10
"teaeh the MIG ger his place
The ourages which still continue in the interior, not
outstanding the restraining influence Of the military
cover demonstrate the necessity for the continuance
III the Federal forces and the Freedmens Bureau.
Wherever the arm Of the United States military law
cannot reach AMI the whites therefore can act as they
please the OutrGges inticted on tie negroes hpy IN
aumber and increase IN cruelty.
More teachers needed everywhere in me interior
Of THIS State which has been laid of as the range
N.uyN Nat ErsnI 4
hon LET the Society be generously sustained. We
must work here while II is called territory for the
state cometh when can work tor the advance
sent Of the negro, unless Congress-Dui i1fbe7r'
BERWICK.