The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-11-03

ders of the South from which 1t s possible to obtain
considerable addition to the labor now employed in
our cotton and sugar fields a gentleman has Just
arrived from Virginia, bringing with him twenty or
more freedmen whom he engaged for plantation work
at the rate of fifteen dollars per month. We under
stand that he had but little difficulty in engaging
them or in transferring them from that State this.
There is no question indeed that the drought which
was SO bghting the last summer the crops OF Vir-
ginia has pinched the black population more than any
other class. tendency to emgrate is tile natural
consequence, for want is the master motive in all *
tensive emigratons. The opportunity which this state
Of things offers plain. Numbers of eolored people
in Virginia are doubtless ready to to Louisiana
for the purpose of beterng their condition But their
very alacrity in this direction argues their desttuon
of the of making the journey The way to get
them therefore for plantation service here to send
for them make contracts with them and pay their way
out.
Almost the same thsg is true OF many Of the freed
men in North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky. The
natural tendency of the race is southward they
drifted that way before emancipation because they
were at once healthier and more pro6tablein low la
tudes It reasonable to suppose that better pay and
| a more genial climate will now operate to stimulate
! and maintain a similar movement. En- O. Bulletin
| "A ROMANTIC CUBAN WAR SToRY.--We copy as fol-
! lows from the Courier Journal of the 21st:
NEW ORLEANs Oct. 90 lS69.--A gentleman who
arrived in this city last night the brig Rosas from
Porto Del Rey, states that regiment OF black horse
cavalry nus Deen recently oFStHiseu uuuet ue Jof-
dan, and that it is creating havoc among the Span
iards. II s:commanded by Col Lawrence Orton Will
lams who has been for the last six years believed to
have been executed a spy at Franklin, Tenn, in
1861 by United States drum head courtmartal. 1t
seems that he was not executed, having been Snug
gled out Of the country by old army friends and con
yeyed to Cuba where he settled and married wealthy
creole and has since lived in affiuencc. His regiment
Of patriots is made up Of negroes mounted on black
horses and is said 70 be nanferior to Forests origi
nal squadron. Col Williams is known as DON Imman-
uel Orton.s His rank is Brigader General. He sent
his wife to Europe in September, and has enlisted for
the war; contributing his entire fortune which IS very
large. For six years he has lived rancho
santo Malo, which his wife inherited soon alter her
marriage.
THE PR1vATEER CUBA.-A Wilmington, N. G., dis
4 patch Of the 10th, says:
i The Cuba was beed day, and the United States
1 Marshal boarded her and demanded the surrender of
the ship into his hands Commodore Higgins declined
to surrender his ship except to All officer OF the United
States navy, and under direct order from President
EGrant After some delay, Lieut. Persoa, commander
of the United States gunboat Frolic board and
demanded the surrender of the vessel showing or
der from the President for the Cuba to be turned over
4 to him.
Commodore Higgins then surrendered his sword and
4 vessel to Lieut. Commander PiersoD, and himself q
il prisoner of war to the United States navy The Gu
ban Gag was then hauled down by the United States
auhorites, and the entire seat ashore in PEN
niless condition. The affair, in some aspects, is re-
garded here as an outrage especially the turning loose
in our city of over hundred sailors and marines
entirely beyond the restraint control of officers
UNDER DISABILITIES. Virginia paper says it has
been discovered that the newly elected Senator from
Virginia Mr. Johnston is still labering under dsabil
y tt:o, II