The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-30

: LOUISVILLE, January 29.-Sales to-day 81 hhds
WHEAT ns s. Sbesd eorn oo bulk
&c. Oats III bulk Csc. Mess Pork $21 90. Baco
t Shoulders s11 so; Clear Sides s13 ~; Hams 16c
: Lard, prime tierces s12 r. Bulk Shoulders IS Y
l Raw Whiskey So %.
RELIEF FOR THE SOUTH.
, Meeting at Cooper Institute-Speeches o
Peter Cooper, DR.. Bright, Henry WAR
; Beecher, Horace Greeley and Others-Ap
pointment Of a Relief Commission.
The meeting held. at Cooper Institute on th
25th inst, to take measures to procure relefor th
starving people Of the South, was not very large
but the character of the attendance was highl!
favorable to the object OF the gathering. Addresses
were made and plans Of action proposed which vii
doubtless have q very successful result
Mr. PETER. COOPER presided, md delivered
short address explaining the call for the meeting
The people of the North Were he said, determined
to show the people Of the South that We are not
and never were, their enemies. When We had done
our duty in feeding the hungry and clothing the
naked, the Southern people would see that it was
proper for us all to insist upon every possible
guaranty against the recurrence of the causes o1
the misery the meeting now deplored.
Other officers were then elected. There were
j one hundred and ffty Vice-Presidents and seven
teen Secretaries.
Rev. DR.. BRIGHT editor Of the Examiner and
Chronicle, explained the manner in which this
movement was begun, and how it extended, and
the following resolutions we're then adopted
Resolued That the intelligence which reaches us
of the suffering brought upoa large sections Of the
Southern States by the almost total failure of
crops, in addition to the deyastations Of war, ap
peals with irresistible force to Northern men and
women to come promptly and generously to the T
relief. and that, in thus meeting the claims of this
appeal the people of the North will perform SER
vice hallowed by Christian principle, comprohen-
sive philanthropy and elevated patriotism.
Rtsotued, That Southern Relief Commission
be. appointed consisting Of. thirty men, with
power to add to their numbers, and to elect their
officers, together with an Executive Committee;
and that it be the duty Of this Commission to do
all that they shall believe to be necessary in rails
/ ing contributions and in distributing supplies
among the destitute, Sithout respect to race or
opinion.
Resolued, That the history OF tho last six years
has proved in thousand forms Of patient and he-
man in alternating human suffering, and that their
cooperation with our Southern Relief Commission
will be one of the best assurances of its largest
| success.
= HSS0tUGC, luHG Guc PQuhuIuEOplC tu6C Htlu WO-
men Of other cities and communities throughout
the North be respectfully and earnestly invited to
| share the responsibilities and the blessings of
| a work which calls for universal sympathy and
/ effort.
Rev. HENRY WARD BEEcHER then delivered q
speech, referring at some length to the war;
whish he characterized as punishment of the
nation for tho sin Of slaveholding, the rebellion
being the lesser crime. He closed as follows:
! I stand. tonight to hail in the future reiu-
venated South free with free labor, FREQ schools,
and free papers; free in conscience, FREQ in under
standing; no need of darkness any more no need
Of shackles or of whips, but which, animated by
the divinest spirit OF truly Christian liberty,
bound in the bonds Of common brotherhood,
full Of prosperity. And now, I say again TO you in
this hour when they are still suffering, relieve
them; and as you rolievc them do not think that
are going down into the pit as if they were in
their death-throes and anguish. 1t is their Gcth-
semane, but there is before them resurrection
and glorifcation and the day will come when
South Carolina will shake hands with Maesachu-
setts not for political effect but because they love
one another. The day will come when New York
and Alabama will know no difference between each
other. The time will come when there will bo no
more Earring States, and this nation shall be one,
and your kindness and your mercy will have help
ed to bring on and confirm that glorious day"
[Great applause
dORACE UREElIEY utllfcToC tue uoAG SpeCCu IL
was comparatively brief: He declared he did not
desire to reope!. any question of difference be-
tween tho North and the South, but urged the
duty of tho people to come forward in the present
crisis. He said:
In tho first place, there are to-day, I think. q
quarter Of o million of orphan white children i'll
the'SouIh, and widows whom this great war has
made-women and children who were not accus
toned to earn their livelihood. They are not I'M
willing, they are willing and anxious to work for
living; but tho ,aeans Of doing it do not rightly
million and more in the South Of MANNED and
crippled men, most Of them heads of families
families whom they once we're able to support
but who, because of their affections, because Of
the manning, the mutilGti0n which they received
during the war, are no longer help to !heir faml-
lies, but rather burdens upon them.
Mr. GREELEY closed by saying that New York
could afford to begin with o subscription Of ono
million dollars to help these people, and tho other
great and small cities of the North would initiate
the example.
Mr.. GREELEY afterwards moved that the clergy
of the city be requested to present the object to
their congregations, and the meeting approved.
| A Southern Relief Commission, consisting Of
the following named gentlemen, vas then ap-
pointed:
VIM. A. Booth, B. Frank Butler, George Cabot
Ward, VIM. E. Dodge, Jr., Archibald Russell,
David Crawford, James NJ. Brown ]. Pierrepont
Morgan, R. II. McCurdy, 8. D. Babcock, Seth B:
Hunt, Edw. Bright, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert
B. Minturn, Cornelius Agnew, Wm. N. Vermilye,
Nathan Bishop Frederick E. Foster, Leonard W.
Jerome, John Taylor Johnston. James III. Bruce,
Jr., Frederick L. Olmsted E. C. Gowdin, VIM. n.
| Osborne, W T.. Coleman, David Ioadley, SALON.
Humphreys, Robert L. Kennedy, Howard Potter,
Robert Potter.
Mr. BnowN, of the firm Of Brown 4 Co., was
appointed Treasurer of the Commission.
Short speeches ,were made by Mr. COLEMAN,
General ANDERSON, and Rev. Mr.. KENDR1cK, and
the meeting adjourned.
BRILLIANT SrAEEsMANsH1P.-In the Legislature
Of West Virginia (so-caDed), last Saturday, Mr.
MANN, of Greenbrier, submitted the following
joint resolution We quote from the Wheeling
Register:
Resoloed, BY tho Legislature OF West Virginia,
That our Senators in Congress be hereby instruct
ed and our Representatives, requested, to take
4 such measures BY law as "in prevent the manu-
! factrre, sale, circulation, and exhibition OF The
pictures of General Robert z. Lee, Colonel Thorn
! as r. Jackson deceased, and all other military
/ and civil officers of thu late pretended Govern.
mont Of which Jefferson Davis was chief; and
that Andr NJ johnson, the my policy dictator.
4 be, and he is hereby reques cd not to have any
more OF his pictures taken, and that ho be further
requested to take measures to secure and dest1 cy
4 all such pictures as above referred to.
Mr.. Bdrennn moved to lay the resolution on the
table. The question was taken, and IT beng dl1l'
| cult for the Speaker todecide, a rising vote was
& determined upon. Before fhc vote could be taken