The Portland daily press., 1866-04-05

ing OF annAdlly ViSltlng the Guy naNc- eNei
seen or even heard ola panoramic view well
worth long journey to be enjoyed.
If any of our home friends will cross over
the Courtlandt st. Ferry, and take the cars OF
the Northern Railroad of N. Jersey for Eagle
wood, on bright summer day, they VIII tnanA
yours.- ...- VIAToR.
Reconstruction of Society in North Carolina.
If any of our readers are in doubt, whether
the LEGISLATION of Congress is needed to define
and yindicate the civil rights of the freedmen,
we invite their attention to the following aft
dayit and exhibit, published at Norfolk, Va,
in the True Southerner of the Goth ult.: 90
s olsy o1'N v" To '0it:. ta.9 M .,
On this, Goth day of March. 1866, personally
appeared before me, a Notary Public in and
for the city and State aforesaid, John Carter,
aged As years, noao a resident of Nansemond
County, Va, but formerly of Gates Co., N. c.,
who, being duly sworn, doth depose and say,
that he was held as slave by a white man
named Alexander Carter of said County, until
Z freed by the rebellion and the Presidents
Proclamation of Emancipation. grI -
+ Deponent states that he was forced,by said
Alexander Carter to work for him on his farm,
in said Gates Co., against his will, for which
work deponent has to this time received no
- compensation whatever Alig b3SiEaggo
Deponent states that about the 1st of Janll-
airy last past, he was forced by said Alex. Car
ter to make his mark to a so-called contract
+; fsee copy of so-caled contract hereto annex
, ED in presence or man named o. B. Savage,
formerly Sheriff of said Co., but who now pre-
q tends to be an attachee of the Freedmen's Bu-
reau, and who states that he is work. un-
: der orders from the Freedmen's Bureau. at
Edenton, N. c., and that said Savage acted as
witness to the so-called contracts as win be
seen by reference thereto. Said contract was
written ous by said Savage at the instance of
said Alex, Carter, and the name of Penny
Carter inserted therein as employer. moi
Daponent states that he offered his services
for the sum OF SIS per annum. to be paid
monthly as each month expired. Deponent
states that said oder was not acceded to by
the so-called employer Deponent states that
he was forced by said parties to work against
his will for the sum OF So per month as stipu-
lated in the so-called contract. Depopent
states that he, supposing the, contract to be
according to the rules and regulations of the
Freedmen's bureau, went to work and per-
formed his part OF the contract for the months
of January and February of this year, (1S06:)
that he worked faithfully, lost no time by idle
ness or absence, but for said time received
from said Penny and Alexander Carter no paw
whatever, for his above mentioned service and
has not even to this day.
a. Deponent states that seeing that his social
ed employer had failed to comply with the So
called contract, that he (deponent) left said
Jenny and Alexander Carter and proceeded to
said Nansemond Co., Va, and is now support
ing himself and family. Deponent states that
said o. E. Savage, has been visiting many of
the colored people of said Gates Co., and has
forced them to sign or make their mark to
contracts purposing to bind said colored peo-
pie for small compensation to the white peo-
pie. their old masters, against their Will
Deponent states that none of the above
named colored people Gas far as his knowledge
eXtends) have received any CONDENSATION
whatever for then work of last wear, nor for
the months OF January and February last past.
Deponent states that the colored people makes
no resistance whatever to the proceedings of
said Savage, they supposing that the so-called
orders enaaate from the U. S. Militery Gov
eminent or Freedmen's Bureau, at Edenton,
Deponent states that some is persons COM
posed a patrol or mounted military police
armed and equipped; said patrols still wearing
the rebel grey and are part of rebel cavalry
company formerly commanded by Capt. Dick
Barnes OF said County. Said patrol are the
same as referred to by a colored man in his
statement of the 18th OF February last. (See
True Southerner ofcMarch 9Th. Deponent
states that said patrol is commanded by
white man named Capt. Dick Briscoe, late of
the rebel army. vDeponent States that said
Briscoe took from him his daughter named
Mary AnniCarter, against his, deponent's will,
and still retains her to this day, at the same
time giving to deponent no satisfaction what
ever for his, said Briscoe's, proceeding. Depo-
nent states that he had thus far been unable
to recover his said daughter from said Bris-
coe. 81 .-~'' - ~ 'a'SH"
vi Deponent states that the above named pa
/. troll are visiting the houses of MANY of the
colored people OF said Co., and are taking
therefrom all arms and other weapons of de-
fence, and all books, even to the Word of
O. Deponent states that they are afraid to hold
any public Religious Meetings for fear of be-
ing disturbed by the white inhabitants of said
county. Depohent states that no schools have
ri been established in said county, las far as his
Il knowledge extends) Deponent states that
he is afraid to return to said Gates "a. while
such state ofthings exists. Deponent states
Il that. the same state of things exists there now
Z as Gid before the rebellion; if anything, they
r. are worse. f-
Deponent-states that two colored and one.
WHITE Union men were shot down in the
woods, murdered, their bodies completely rid
dled, by some unknown person or persons in
said county. Deponent also states that MANY
OF the coiored people Of said county. have
Deen notified by the above named Capt. Briscoe
that they would be taxed ten dollars 1,er wear
70 support the so-called State and County
government, said tax to be deducted out Of
their monthly wages. Tx shi
BE 81 sua4 Dsl Jordan I'D Carter, e d
b. s -.t3 s....i, . To-. sd. Mark
Witnesses Joseph t. Wilson, William
Warren. lt.A '.J'
Sworn to and subscribed before me this Goth
day of March, 1866. T. L. r. BAKER, al .-4
lin .r......-. a...i q Notary Public.
This Indenture made and entered into on
the LIST day of January, 1868, between Penny
Garter, OF the County of Gates, and State of
North Carolina, of the first part, and the un-
derslgned, free laborer, of the second part:
Wine ,satn that the said laborer has agreed to
WORK Tor Penny Carter from this date to the
Isl Jay OF January, 1867, at the following
lises, VIZ; Three dollars per month, to do ali
MUS VI TABOR common to farms of the collp-
: ta 70 work ten hours per day, to do his work
1871 ana to be respectful in his deport-
nent, And further agrees that one-half his
monthly pay shall be retained bv the said
rshhy carter till the end of the time shecifi-
GU anu Onat me amount SO retained shall Id |
iorieitea oy a violation of this contract And
ne lurtnef agrees that time lost by idlenees nv
aosen Di Wltnout leave shall not be paid tor
And the said Penny Carter has ol p.e,u II
she viii furnish said labofer with 'nst
nons ana good clothing and one half Of the
paid monthly,-that she will treat him III En-, Ge
ly, and encourage the establishment of Schools
for his children 10 SO-'oois
-as z Alexander Carter, Iseal.l
--- .,.... ..lt- His
Jordan ID Carter, lSeall
-n- Mark |
Witnessed. D. Savage. isL
SANDER Refutod. -7gtg -tssI