The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-21

Austria, and 1t IS still commonly De-
lieved, that soon after an outbreak OF
war between Austria and Prussia, the
Diet will declare a Federal war against
Prussia. eaL Er'z1ts 1L
All parties in Germany, Austria,
Prussia, the Minor Governments, and
all the political parties among the peo-
pie, are in favor of establishing Cen
trail National Parliament, as a step to-
ward the ultimate establishment of one
German Empire. The point is there
fore likely to be one of the results of
the impending war.
Petroleum E.NaSby ON the Freedmen's
Bureau. ..-s--r
The Toledo Blade publishes this epis-
tie from Petroleum ". Nasty: 7Tr
"CoNFEDERTr x ROADS, lwich
is in the Stait of Kentucky)
To HIS EggsteRcy the Dispenser 40 Post
OT.ifceS, 4ndrOO johnson, President IEU
The United States: 1i.
ssIn akordance with yoor esteemed
request, dated the 25th, and received
this morning, I to wunst proceeded to
make doc inquiry ez to the working NV
the Freedmen's Burow and the cOndi-
shin NV the Afrikin citizens Nv Ameri-
kan descent in this vicinity. The fact
that Ablishnist still holds the Post
Orifice at the Corners (wich place by
the way 1 hev been solicited to accepD
interfered materially with the bizness
l he'd in hand. to wunst footed the
the horn, eZ Is the custom when we heV
religious servis, and called my congre-
CATION together. They cum runnin in
from the different groseries, and here
another difficulty ensood. The grosery
keepers wanted to know what we wuz
n goin to hev meetin on week days for.
They wuz willin to shut up doOrin
meetin time on Sundays, ez they re-
spected the church, and it give EN- time
to sweep out the terbaeker, ct settery;
but they'd be ID If they wuz agoin
to hev the people pulled away from
their nourishment on week days.
succeeded in passifyin EN-, and went in
at wunst examinin the leadin citizens.
Their testimony is ez follows:
"CAPTIN sKELPER
wuz nigger owner afore the war, and
durin the late fratrisidle struggle WIZ a
captin in the confedrit servis. WuZ
with Ginral Forest at Fort:Pillow. Hez
Bleeves them to be adapted to the eli
nit NV kentucky and much more able
to stand the hot sun than the whites.
When they wuZ slaves never knowd EN-
to refooze to work-know they alluZ
did work becoz he generally stood over
EN- with a niger whip. Since they hev
bin free hez notist a change; not much
NV change, ontn the Niger Burow
wuz establisht. Before that they'd
take sich wages ez yoo chose to give EN-
since then-the id heather viii
stand out bout ez the white men do, and
wont work at all unless 700 meet their
views, which made heap NV trouble
and materially retarded the develop
ment NV the country. The Burow he'd
corrupted the female niggers, eZ they
he'd all been legally married by the
chaplins to the men they'd lived with,
and wuz so sot on livin with EN- that
there's no yoose NV yoor trying to get u
house wench unless yoo TOOK her nus
band also. His wife wuZ now doin de-
gradin work at home for want Nv help.
Strongly urged the abrogation Nv the
Burow and the removal Nv the Abo-
lishun Postmaster at the Corners.
"DEAcoN M'GRATH
wuz eggsamined. Wuz convinst in
his own mind that the AfrilSin wuz
now out NV his normal speer, and that
the Internal Burow wuZ at the bottom
of it. The nigger, afoEe the Burow
come around, wuz docile and easily
controlled. His boy Joe wuz wunst =
model nigger. He'd get up every
mornin at 4 A. NJ. (Which means in the
morning), and work every day till af-
ter dark. EZ soon eZ he wuZ emanci-
pated, ez they called it, and the Burow
come, told him to get up one morniH1
concluded he wouldent. l undertook
to chastise him with n fence stake,
whereupon he sailed in and whaled
me, and the BuroW to which applied
for redress larft in my face. He left,
and is now draggin out mizerable ex-
istence in Ohio, on the beggarly pit
tance NV two dollars a day, and my
farm is runnin to weeds. He conclood-
ed by given il ez his solemn opinion
that he never Good be reconciled to the
government so long ez the Burow wuZ
tolerated, and that Ablishnist held the
Post Orfis ut the Corners.
GENERAL DINGEs
Considered the Burow inkubus upon
the State. 1t intertered between master
and servant. Good git along better eff
the nigger was left to the material laws
witch regulates capital and labor. Tried
to keep his niggers, and did keep EN-
the past summer till after the crop wuz
in, and then tried to settle with em for
four dollars a month, with sich deduc-
tions for food, sickness. and braking
tools ct settry, ez wuz just. Brought
the niggers all NV em in my debt and
generously proposed TO let EN- work it
out chopin cord wood dooring the
winter. Hauled me up afore the Burow
and was forst to pay EN- each SIS per
month. Considerin the Burow ez all
that stands in the way NV rekonstruc-
lishun Postmaster at the Corners and
the appointment NV sound Constoosh-
mel Dimekrat wood grately assist In
conciliatin the Kentucky mind.
al tried to get some nigger testimony,
but Good elicit nothin worth while.
One nigger who spends the heft Nv his
time at the Corners wuz opposed to the
Burow becOz it Stopt rationS on him,
and Lucy, u octoroon, who formerly
belonged to and still resides with Elder
Gavitt (who is now absent ez a delegate
to a southern religious convention at
Louisville,) testified that the Burow
'wuZ no CRATE shakes becoz bein ez
the Elder wuZ widower and the father
NV all her children, and bein she's
free woman, she asEt the agent to make
the Elder marry her, and he woodn't
do it, But sich evidence is irrelevant,
and didn't consider it worth while to
bother your Eggelency with it. Both,
however, strongly insisted on the re-
movaI NV the Ablishin Postmaster at
the Corners.
ss.aI .'ABsLUM PETTUs. a1a itL
wuz conyinst the Burow wuz agin the
prosperity NV the state, and wuz under
minfn the moral and physikle welfare
NV the nigger. 1t made him impudent.
He'd sum NV em workin fur him, and
ut moons and mites he'd find EN-
with a spellin book and reader.
Didn't bleeve in readin. Coodent read
hisself, but he'd cousin Wunst who
learned, but ez soon ez he Good read he
moved off to Injeanny, quit the Democ-
risy, and becum a loathsum Ablishnist.
served him rite. Wanted to know what
he wood do when the niggers Good all
read. SpOsed we'd heV 70 'lect em to
offis, eZ the peple alluZ selected Sich