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your procurement, or with your knowledge or
consent. am, very respectfully, your obedient
servant, WILLIAM II. 6pnTN1ER

consent consent am' very yenr obealent
/: : THE EXODUS.
: "sfuu1I ADO ABOUT NorH1NG.''
Special Dispatch to The Chtea3o 1rtouns. :.
WAsHSGToN c. Jan. 24.-The Senate
Exodus Committee to-day examined Duke
heart; Passenger Agent Of the Baltimore &
Ohio Road, who sold the co1ored elnigrants
nearly all their tickets: Altogether, not over
1853 colored people have gone West. OF these
235 were children. Of the 528 adults, at least
half we're women. and there were not more
than 200 adult male voters That, Dukeheart
said, had created all this CONSERVATION among
the Democrats. voorhees, objected to the
use Of the word CONSERVATION, as :he said
there had been no CONSERVATION, but
a good deal Of Indignation. Window
accepted this modification. Dukeheart said
that his Company allowed persons who
brought them passengers in companies a
commission of 81 on each ticket, and 50 cents
on each half-ticket. He gave
;. -: PERRY. AND WILLIAMS.
the colored men, this commission, and is now
paying Taylor Evans, Of Goldsboro, N. c., a
negro, the same commission. The Greencas-
tie und.) BONNER, he said, had circulated
handbills, composed Of editorials and letters
from emigrants already In Indiana, Offering
large wages, abundance Of work, and in
ducements to come.
A. W: Mendenhal1, clerk In the Treasury
Department, from Indiana, testified that
Perry and Williams, who were on their way
to Kansas and other Western States, saw him
last fall and wanted to secure homes for 1853
colored people, whose nam es they had. Men
denha1l suggested that Indiana was nearer
than Kansas, and it would be cheaper to go
there. and that employment could probably
be obtained, as Kansas seemed to be
OvERRUN WITH CoLoRED LAB0RERs
from the South. They agreed to stop In
Indiana and investigate the matter. Men
denhall had written to several people on the
subject, and had received letters from prom
inent Indiana politicians, ,.syho said that the
Republican party would have nothing to do
with the exodus as a political movement, but
that personally they would be glad to have
negroes come to Indiana. The Democrats
had evidently expected to prove by Mentlen-
hall that the exodus was planned by leading
Indiana Republicans. This evidence, how
ever, proved exactly the contrary. Thus far
Senator Voorhees, has failed to obtain any
thing favorable supporting what are under
stood to be his theories, except from O'11ara,
the negro who Is now contesting for seat in
Congress. -
= ADDITIONAL TESTIMONY.
To the Westes7, Assoetated Press.
WASHINGTON, D. G., Jan. 24.-The Senate
Committee on the Colored Exodus to-day ex-
amined J. P. Dukeheart, Southern Passenger
Agent Of the Baltimore s. Ohio Railroad
Company. Hetestifed that he has made sew
era1 visits to North Carolina in the interests
of the Company, to secure'as large share
as possible Of the exodus travel, and that he
effected arrangements with the local pro-
moters Of the movement by which the Baltt-
more g. Ohio Railroad obtained the trans
portation of all the colored people who have
up to this time, since last October, emigrated
from North Carolina to Indiana The through
rate from Goldsboro to indianapolis for these
emigrants was $16.85 for each person above
the age Of u years, half-fare for children
from 5 to u years, and younger children free
In all these arrangements the Company
agreed to pay 2. Taylor Evans, Of Colds
boro, the colored man who worked UP the
emigration, a drawback of 81 per head for
each fullfare passenger, and 50 cents for each
half-ticket sold. This was well kn own as
THE STANDING ISDUcE,1ENT
held out by himself and the agents Of COM
peting roads to men like Evans; and Perry,
and Williams to get up as large an emigra-
tIon as possible. Evans told the witness that
he commenced working up the exodus six
teen months ago, by means of mass-meetfngs,
secret societies, etc. Witness while III North
Carolina had seen many Of the circulars
asserting that the colored people would lind
plenty Of work III Indiana at wages from 81
to S1.50. Perry and Williams also circulated
report that the e,nigrants upon s;a reaching
clothes and transportation to Indiana or KAN
sas. Circulars were largely made Of edl-
torlals from the Greencastle (Ind.) Banner,
and also included what purported to be GER
titicates from number Of the North Carp
lima colored people WHO had already come to
Indiana, that
THEY HAD FOUND WORK,
and advised their. friends to follow: Perry
left the State suddenly during the winter on
account of an Indictment for forging school
certificates, and had not yet returned, but
Evans and others were still at work, and, in
the opinion Of the witness, the exodus would
continue lust as long as the col0red people
could raise money to pay their fare, OF until
checked by unfavorable reports from t1eir .ei
event he would go out to Indiana and try to
secure them as passengers back oyer the Bal
tinore & Ohio lines. ILaughter.]
The number of tickets sold by the Baltl-
more & Ohio Railroad for the transportation
Of these North Carolina emigrants, slnce the
movement first tconlnlenced, Is 165, @5o or them
being half-fare tickets.
i'm response to questions by Senator Win
dom. the witness estimated that fully one
half of the SIS full-fare tickets were for
women, and agreed with the Senator that at
least sixty four of the remaining 24 tull-tare
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