The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-10-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[Corregpondence Fremont Journal.l

the late Harvard Professor of that name, the
other evening. Miss Francis 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 sur
roundings can do, and of an excellent intel
lect aud character to be stored and wrought
out for the beginning, anI then she has been
almost ever since the breaking ont of the
rebellion at some favorable point of observa-
ton, or in communication with favored
observers, of Southern matters, that has
given her extensive information thereon.
She has been army nurse. and agent of the
Massachusetts Freedmau's Aid Society,
through all the years have indicated-
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 industial 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, IS a source of
permanent independant support and, mean
time to obtain the necessary materials 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 stu, and that they would do all they
had the power and dared to do to Oppress
the loyalists among them of all cOlors, and
neutralize, as far as possible, all tue legisla-
ton of Congress- Power over the rebels to
some time to come. She gave illustrations
of the disloyal and murderOus spirit, as
testified to by witnesses for who she vOucb-
ed colo sroA BOZ 1
a Virgiaian met negro and demanded
Of him how he was going to vote. The ne
gro instead of replying that it was none of
Of his interrogator's business, told him, For
Wells. "Then III shoot youl" drawing his
pistol on the word mo, you mustn't shoot
that mani" interposed Outstanding white
man, and he threw himself in between them.
But the pistol was That instant discharged
aud the white man was murdered ihstead of
the negro The murderer was tried
probably solely because of the Federal
military power sill maintained there--and
acquitted, on the ground that the murdered
man was not the intended victim. Further,
the negro was semitic for three months
for not being murderedl was the only reason
Miss Francis could conceive Of
Miss Francis, it may be interesting 10
know, is a niece of Lydia Maria Child; and
if the internal make true sign on'the out
side, there is decided family resemblance
OF character between them. This, by way
of vOuchipg, not only for my informant's
iucspability of being imposed upon, or his
representing what she has told, but also for
superior breadth of view and dispassionate
eandor.
Another case she gave. A farmer was
shot down dead by one OF the rebels There
was but one explanation possible of this
murder. The murdered man was an old re-
sident, if not native, and throughout the
rebellion had at least acquiesced in, and
apparently sympsthized with the Confederate
cause, but since the surrender he had en-
des7ored to sdapt himself to the new situa-
ton; had hired negroes at a stipulated price,
and paid them what he agreed, and got along
very smoothly, and prosp erously. That
was the only alleged OF conseivable provoca-
ticn be had given! Now mark farther. He
was arrested and placed in jail in chalotte-
vile, the seat of the University of Va,
whose inhabitants win average better cult
7stion than those of any other place in the
State, aud which has the consequential duty
of educating and directing the minds of these
who are intended to perform the leading parts
and exert the greatest influence in consti-
tuting and f4shioning their States future
work in the worlds civilization. Well, in
that place, where the best things are to be
expected, the murderer was furnished, in
his confinement, With all the nire things to
eat and drink which they could procure with
money and household art, by the ladies; and
instead of shuddering at the mention of his
name, they feasted and petted him, and
made him the centre of their intense interest
for the timel And he was let Offl
| Gov. Walker and his party, according to
Miss Francis, are bending to the wishes of
the people Of whom this spirit is character
istic, and. helping them to the power to be
as bad as ever; and she did think it terrible
that Horace Greeley should take side with
them, and with the same party in all the re-
construeting States, at the head of journal
so widely circulated and SO highly respected
as the Tribune vas. She was not advoca-
ting unkiudness to the rebels, but profession
for the unoffsnding lOyalists. &
The President and the Mayor of Washing
ton ordersd their respective governments to
/ suspend business Monday, the day of ex-
/ President Pierce's funeral. lgoG
The Government has adYices here OfIndian
troubles in Arizona, IDacotsh and Montana,
Tbey are a miserable, worthless race. By
the time. they became extinct science will
1 discover that they are some ofscourings of
humanity, left bshihd in the process OF
general civilization, incapable Of being made
anything of at any cost that viii pay.
President Grant. and Mrs. Rawlins are
lmade, by Secretary Rswlins' will, his
executors and guardians of his children. He
leaves a house and lot inithis city and lands
in Cheyenne and Golden City, Wyoming
Territory, between bis wife and children
equally; his library to his son James Brandon.
and the 'Rawlins Homestead" !" Guilford,
ILL.,, to his parents for their lives, and at their
death to be divided into parts, for the
benefit Of his two brothers and two sisters,
and the remaining three plrts to his own
family, +
The projected scientific society, of which
1 have before spoken is not yet completely
organized. A constitution aud bylaws
have been adopted. 1t is named "The
, American Union Academy of Literature
Science d Art" The association with thii
institution of similar organizations in al
the State capitals, as branches or acxsiilaries
is provided for
The President gave US another surprise il
the involvement of Gen. Belknap Sec'y o
! Wor Indictment waits his t,ioI JE