The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-02
s.THE PROMISED LAND"
low Kansas IL Pictured to the Negro
Emigrants.

HOW hMmB&n ~ ev UNIV AsSeA~
Emigrants.
Washington Correspondence N. Y. Heraldl
Mr.. King, representative In Congress from
louisiana, has received q letter from q lady
in Concorda parish, in that State. well known
IN the North, and who owns several planta-
lions In Louisiana, and who writes from Con-
cordla, underdate Of April 81, as follows:
emigration of the negroes they being driven
and bulldozed away by their leaders, even
those who do not wish to 60, and they are
told that the government 10 to give them ~
Kansas lands and mules, ETC.; that the gov
part Of the country; that the Indians will be
brought In to kill all who remain at the end
/ 81 eighteen months. An agent passed through
] here last week telling this story, and another
told them that the Queen Of Spain has
not clear out she will have them slaughtered.
/ Every few days some Of these agents come
Along with these lies. The negroes are far
rom hiding this; they come to us for
protection and tell as about Ut. 1t, and
meat they say, tells them that they must no,
y ma that they are In mortal danger. Never
sMere thinRE more prosperous than now, but
SerY much fear that we have great trouble
h6d md the more public YOU make the
- md do not Hish to leave bur are being
lRie North the better 1t VIII De FOR them. 1t 10
4 told here that money Is being raised to help
nn tell. II ID evidently to injure the plant
ers suppose the captain has written you OF
the man who left Spokan, selling his five
mules for $40, and numerous hogs for fifty
l cents each, and leaving splendid crop Of cot
ton and corn, with the hardest work OF the
season already done.
MORE MEANS OF DECEPTION.
A. 49, raln &{~rY
gorgeously illuminated acknowledgements
Of Kansas scenes have been distributed
among the blacks. "A gentleman who has
seen some OF these chromos writes that the
most ravishing presentiment OF rural life In
Kansas Ia depicted. The negroes look on the
which old Canaan Ia Florida swamp. One
Of these pictures, entitled "A Freedman's
Home represents fine landscape with fields
Of ripening grain stretching away to the set
ting sun.
THE FREEDMAN's HOME.
In the foreground, Illuminated by marvel
Gus sunset, stood the freedman's home. Ii
was picturesque cottage, with gables, dor
mer windows and wide verandas. French win.
dows reached down to the floor, and through
the open easements appeared a seductive
scene In the family sitting room. The col
ored father, who had just returned from his
harvest fields, sat In an easy-chair reading q
newspaper, while the children and babies rol-
licked on the floor OF the piazza. Through
the open door Of the kitchen the colored wife
could be seen directing the servants and
cooks, who We're preparing the evening meal
10 the parlor, however, was the most en-
chanting feature. tor at a grand piano was
poised the belle Of the household, and beside
the piano where she was playing stood her
colored lover devouring her with his eyes,
while he abstractedly turned the leaves OF
her music. just to one side Of the dwelling
appeared o cOmmOdiOuS barn and carriage
house, and workmen busily engaged In put
ting 10 order their reaperS and mowers for
i the following day.
HERDS OF BUFFALO.
In one Of these pictures the "Old Auntie1
sits on the,veranda knitting stockings while
she gazes on herds OF buffalo and antelope
which are feeding on the prairies beyond the
wheat fields. Approaching the gate hand
some young colOred man IS seen coming ir
from hunt, with dead buck and a string d
! wild turkeys slung over his shoulders. These
agricultural cartoohs In vivid coloring. the
writer reports, are doing much to influence
the minds OF the more ignorant negroes.
Russian Princes seem to be Avery peculiar
kind OF people. Not long age. Prince Yus
supoff one of the richest men Of the country
was first fined and then sentenced to theet
months Imprisonment on account OF the fear
1ul amount OF dirt ct the most disgusting
Kind which he had allowed to accumulate IL
MS palace and which poisoned the atmos
phere Of the whole nesghborhOod. Now, Tn
last st. Petersburg papers announce tina
Prince Sergil Michaefowitz Galizyu died il
Odessa, March /, of starvation. He lived 4
p dark, damp room In basement, 80 small
that there was not room for the coffin
ana for several 'months he had nothing TO ca e
put bread and little fruit. Meanwhile, Ill
mother lives In the grandest style In Moscow
nhe has erected several chapels, founded sew
ecal nunneries and monasteries, and IS nov
spending what most people would consider
lof the soul of her son.
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lF to this time Ii Is estimated that between
sght and ten thousand coiored persons have
LEY the South for Kansas. OF this number
/ noC more than one-third are active farm
i roOsts will almost naI1tra lie the loss of nhY-