Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-10-26
washington correspondence.
WASHINGTON, D. c. Oct. 90, 1863.

ern matters In general, and those OF VIZ
ginia in particular, with Miss Francis,
daughter of the late Harvard Professor Of
that name, the other evening. Miss Fran
els is exceedingly well qualified to speak
of the spirit of the Southern people. She
has the advantage of all that the best
educational opportunities, and the most
intelligent and cultivated surroundings
can do, and of an excellent intellect and
character to be stored and wrought out,
for the beginning, and then she has been
almost ever since the breaking out of the
rebellion at some favorable point of OBJ
seryation, or in communication with favor
ed observers, of Southern matters, that
has given her extensive information there
on. She has been army nurse, and agent
of the Massachusetts Frcedman's Aid
Society, through all the year have IN
dicated--always, by the way, drawing
upon her patrimony in both capacities
to supply any need for any of her charge,
not otherwise provided for. She is now
in charge Of an elementary and an indus
trial school of freed people, the latter OF
women exclusively, in Richmond, Va,
under the auspices of the Massachusetts,
society. The industrial school aims to
teach the poor unskilled women the use
of the needle, principally, as source OF
permanent Independent support, and,
meantime, to obtain the necessary mater
ias to get both their lessons and their
living out of.
Miss Francis says no encouragement is
given to either school by Virginians. All
the money and all the materials furnished
and orders given for work, come from the
North. She regrets the course of the
Tribune with emphasis. She was very
decided in her conviction that the rebels
were still, and that they would do all
they had the power and dared to do to
Cypress the loyalists among them of all
colors, and ncutralise, as far as possible,
all the legislation of Congress. Power
over the rebels to intimidate them was
the only preventive for some time to
come. She gave illustrations ofthc dlsloy-
al and murderons spirit, as testified to by
a witness for whom size vouched =
A Virginian met negro and demanded
of him how he was going to vote. The
negro, instead of replying that it was none
Of his interrogator's business, told him,
For Wells. Then III shoot you! draw
ing his pistol on the word. Ono, you
mustn't shoot that man!' interposed a by
standing white man, and he threw him
self in between them. But the pisto
was that instant discharged, and the
white man was murdered instead Of the
negro. The murderer was tried-proba
hiu eolnls- Lo,~"en of tho Federal militar,
power still maintained theiG--and ac uit
ted, on the ground that tho murdered
man was not the intended victim. Fur
Their, the negro was sent to Jail for thre,
months for not being murdered wa
the only reason Miss Francis could con
ceive Of.
Miss Francis, it may be interesting It
know, is niece of Lydia NJ Child and, i
= the internal make true sign on the out
side, there is decided family rcsem
bIance of character between them. This
by way of vouching, not only for my in
formant's incapability of beirg imposes
upon, or disappearing what she wa
told, but also for superior breadth Q
) view and dispassionate candor,
Another case she gave. A farmer wa
shot down dead by one of the rebels
There was but one explanation possible c
this murder. The murdered man was a
old resident, if not native, and through
out the rebellion had at least acQuiesce
in, and apparently sympathized with tn
: Confederate cause; but since the surrende
he had endeavored to adapt himself t
the new situation had hired negroes q
stipulated price, and paid them wha
he agreed, and got along very smoothl
and prosperously. That was the onl
alleged or conceivable proyocation he hs
given! Now mark farther. He was al
rested and placed in Jail in Charlottesville
}. the seat of the University Of Va, who's
: inhabitants will average better cultivatic
n than those of any other place in the STATE
n and which has the consequential duty {
!. educating and directing the minds {
: those who are intended to perform til
leading parts and exert the greatest Unfit
cnce in constituting and fashioning the
States future work in the worlds civilizi
ton. Well, in that place, where tt
IS best things are to be expected, the mu
n derer was furnished, in his confinement
e with all the nice things to eat and drin
If which they could procure with money an
d household art, by the ladies' +; and instea
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