The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-05-23

SPECIAL Correspondence uf THE HERALD.

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More or the Mobile ots-sIisrepresentation ions
of the Rebel Press-The Colored Schools Of
NI0ntgomery-Party Movements In Ala
cry, &c.
From the window OF my room in the Exchange
Hotel-a house OF many historic memories-can be
the State Capitol, standing on an elevation. It
hero that Jef Davis was inaugurated president
OF the Confederate states; 1t was from this house
that the order sent the Alabama delegation to
withdraw from the Baltimore Convention OF 1860; IL
from the balcony OF tho hotel that the Declaration
OF Independence OF the confederacy read, and it
WINS from one Of the parlors now occupied by General
Swayne. United States military commander OF Alabama
that the official order rebels at Charles
ton to commence the attack on Fort Sumter, which
opened the war; The first flag hoisted in the confed-
eracy was raised by the wife of the proprietor.
Nothing can be more ingenously false than the ac-
counts which the Mobile and Montgomery papers give Of
the riot In the former city Monday night. They per-
sis in calling 'negro riot although the fact Is that
the negroes made stance except that it might
to strike the murderous hands that pistols
at them. witnessed the whole scene, from the firing
Of the first shot till the last in the conspicuous po
sition at the meeting-the very front Of the stand
which the chief object OF attack-and assert that
the statement or voey being fred from the stand by
body OF blacks is untrue The negroes stricken
with panic, both on the stand and in the street. The
Mobile papers say II was an accident and not premed-
tated. fail to find the individual who not believe
that the attack melted by such articles this which
ter which were published for several days previous.
quote from the Mobile Tnps owned by Of Mr. John
sons officeholders Colonel MANN
"There is rum0r that certain notorious radicals rav-
cling through the country In the interests OF faction
are In our midst their way. We deem that ignor
ing these mon and their mischicvous objects is the
fho
chivarc feelings OF the South should be illustrated by
the utter Indifference manifested the presence of
bent upon creating civil and domestic dissensIons and
the security which surrounds them forms bright
trast with the mobs which, after having torn up alive
enforcing the Fugitive Slave bill. were waiting on Bos
ton Common for the arrival Of Brooks, whom a certain
Massachusetts, Senator bad chivarously offered fight
in Canada II he could succeed in running the gauntlet
of the friends OF higher law to reach the appointed
place We feel satisfied that the longer the rope allowed
these agitators the they will trip themselves
and rid the country OF their dangerous influences
The appeal 70 the passions OF the Irish is palpabe
although the facts are wholly untrue The Irish ee-
ment controls the elections in Mobile, and the rebel
journals have been for long time striving TO bring
into collision with the negroes and create bloodshed.
But will quit this unpleasant theme to touch upon
more agreeable scenes here visited the coiored
schools Of Montgomery to-day OF which there are nine
or ten enrolled branches and six hundred enrolled schol
ars. found wonderful development OF intelligence in
the pupils, who range in ago from six years twenty
The number Of adults Of both quite surprising
and the eagerness to master the mere rudiments OF
spelling side by side with the youngest Children was
evidence that they in earnest The schools are
under tho care Of the Freedmens Bureau, specially
directed by C. W. Buckley, Superintendent OF Educa-
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when we remember that there is no common school
system 10 Alabama and that the private schools for the
education OF whites all closed during the and
have not been resumed since. Thus Elk years in the
educational life of the white people have been lost We
cannot wonder that the shows thirtythree thou
sand whites in this state who cannot read nor is il DIM.
cult within n feW md
muattoes will be the dominant class in intelligence and
education In every quarter OF the city in tho morning
meet groups Of little coored children Of all shades
from the white octoro0n to the darkest Congo trudgng
school with their books and slaes This sight charm
to the white population when the bureau estab
shed that they protested they would not submit the
rather az @ sdnau sse
men Of the negro; for they that they depend
upon the labor and industry Of the blacks unless
grafton should increase, and they convinced that
labor based intelligence the most available after
In this regard, therefore note revolution in South
Ono OF the negro school houses In Mar
ket street had been for auction
the sale OF negroes The basement. with Its heavily
barred windows was the pen into which the unforta.
mates were crowded tho sick and the healthy together
Possibly tho parents OF many OF these little sold
in this very room But whore the auction block stood
the teachers desk and the walls that echoed 30
often the fatal stroke Of the auctioneers hammer that
separated husband from vito and mother from children
pated ones syabng those words which are the step
ping a knowledge Of Gods word and the laws
Of tho land which rs now their own.
There seventy thousand coored voters In Alabama
OF these the radical politicians calculated all
but ten thousand, which may DO lost by the
uences brought TO bear upon thom the plantatons
but they think that they will carry the State handsomely
at the next election. l have couversed with many
negroes In the South and have not yet found
one who is not devoted TO tho republican party. The
violent and senseess OF the rebel press which
here elsewhere Is stupidity disloya has done much
ALLEVIATE the freedmen from their old masters In this
city there rebol papers, and loyal sheet just
revived by Mr. Hardy, who q staunch Unonist all
through the war, and had 70 shut up his paper and
leave The place.
Montgomery was never . commercial city. It's In
habitants we're chiefly planters, who lived on the pro-
cecds Of negro labor Ther houses in the suburbs
models OF elegance and comfort cxteTioriy, but the
wealth that furnished luxury within has departed.
This class IL miscrably poor now, and you
will frequently be told that the owner Of some OF
these mansions bad . princeiy income before
the war; but now his house Is owned I'm the OF
his WIFE," The hotels doing . poor business, and
such as Il is comes from Northern travellers principally
still Of che country around inviting 70
Northern capital and the influx Of industrious popu-
lation Within few miles Of the city there ID abun-
dance Of coal and iron direct railroad 70 that district
Is projected and when completed Montgomery viii loom
up OF the most promising GILES Of the South that
u.s. II the class Of whom gentleman here describes
people 'swho they held the highest seat In heaven
would be DISCONTINUED" do not discourage Northern
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