Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-05-03

Gov. Plerpoint Of Virginia has re-
fused TO allow the hall of the House of
Delegates at Richmond to be used for a
eulogy on Stonewall jackson by Ger
Colston, lately Of the rebel army.
kentucky rebels are In the habit of
visiting Casswell, West Virginia, and
abusing the Union men, and they ask
the governor of the state for force to
protect them.
AT Memphis, on the 25th of April,
the women generally visited the graves
of confederate soldiers and strewed
them with flowers, and an address was
delivered by Rev. Mr.. Ford in the GENE
terry. Quite extensively throughout the
South the custom was observed on the
same day.
The Richmond Enquirer makes q
statement as to the gold claimed by the
Richmond banks, and still withheld by
the government, going to show that
none Of it was loaned to the confederate
government, but to the state government
and the city of Richmond. If this eau
be made out doubtless the money will
be restored
Since the establishment Of freed
mems savings banks throughout the
South the deposits have steadily in
creased every month until the present
time. The total amount Of deposits
held by the various branches OF the
Freedmens Savings and Trust company
on the lst Of April was Sl72 800: since
which time this sum has been largely
augmented.
We regret to hear, says the Missis-
sippj Post, that some Of the colOred pe0-
pie are refusing TO pay the tax of 81 lev
led by Gen. FISK for hospital purposes,
andso prepare them for the cholera, aud
have subjected themselves to heavy
fines. All who have not paid had bet
ter do so at once. Gen. Rnnkle is deter
mined TO execute his order. He has Sc.
lected the most trusty OF our cOlored
citizens as tax collectors, so as to remove
any chance or suspicion OF fraud in the
bureau.
"A negro doctor, a protege of old DR..
Breckenridge Of Kentucky, has located
at Enterprise, Miss, He lately made an
address to the COlOred men there in
which he told them it was useless 10 ex-
pect equality with the white race. He
had Travelled much over the North and
Europe, and nowhere was the negro on
an equality. In the city Of New York
he was not allowed to ride iu the same
street cars with white people. He told
furthermore that it was a mistake to be-
lieve the Northern people were auy bet.
ter friends to the negro race than the
southern people. The southern man,
he said, would prove to he their best
friend.
The Boston Post prints a letter from
a Massachusetts man travelling 10 the
South, in which ne says:
II never should suppose by associa5-
ing with the people down this way, that
one year ago we were at war with them
The North would not have been so sub.
missive If they had been similarly sit.
uated. The darkies deserve credit for
their good behavior, also TO think that
so great number Of ignorant people,
suddenly taken IRON bondage and made
Tree, Sh"n'd 80 peaceabFv adam them
selves Z" Their new c0ndrion, is i won
der I" the world And then more Than
three nurths OF them ar. working for
tn.lr old masters and living in their same
Old cabins. Let the radicals fire away
truth and justice must prevail, and I see
more plainly every day that the Presi-
dent Is right; he knows the people, and
nothing could make me believe they
would ever restore slavery here in the |
south II they could. Anybody and
everybody comes South now, and any
lear Of nolestatiou is all sheer non. |
sense