Year: 1865




with goods Large quantities Of goods Of every ds I
ZION have been crowded here since the restrictions
trade have been removed and the result they an
able to sell them The Southern people want the goods
but they have not W money obly them The whols
Southern people ae literally bankrupt an informed
that those who constituted the weathes people Rich
mond before the have now the greatest difficulty
procuring money enough to supply the ecesssres Of life
for their families They willing work. but there s
nothing for them to do The consequence very many
are dependent upon government for bread for their
| families


Those who have been familiar with the people OF the
South before the and OF their pride character and
ferocy during the struggle, particularly impressed
with the thorough in which they whipped.
II ever people felt subjugated they do They risked
oil upon the result and have failed and they now say
do with us as you please have you long
we could for what we considered just grounds and
we are ready 70 submit to any terms you choose TO
dictate.


GOVERNOR pERpoNr


is fast getting the machinery OF State government in
running order The people perfectly well pleased
that the Governor should over them but are at loss
TO see how accord to the constitution they
TO have any voice in tho affairs OF State or hts Of suf
fragc According to that constitution all who have any
way aided or abeed the rebellion are disfranchised
This, OF course was intended to apply solely to loyal
West Virginia; but since the Perpont government has
been recognized as the only State government large
majority OF the people thrown out in the cold Every





abetted the rebellion.


THE REBEL EXCHANGE BUREAU.


An investigation in progress respecting the cnargcs
made against Colonel Robert Ould Captain Hatch and
Captain Moaat OF the Exchange Bureau. II is alleged
that large sums Of money sent to prisoners in the South
passed into the hands of these parties and have not been
accounted for The investigation Is private but learn
that thus far not the slightest proof has been adduced
tending to implicate them When 0uld and Hatch
captured they applied to General Grant for perm sson to
visit Richmond for the purpose Of settling their affairs
with General Mulford The request was granted, and
they turned over to Genera, Mulford twenty thou
sand dollars. This they Claim is all the money they
have received unaccounted for When money was sent
to prisoners by letter 1t customary for General Null
ford to take receipt from either Ould Hatch for the
amount These receipts have all been tho parties
sending the money and no duplicates retained; they
ever so guilty there to be proof Of the fact
They are confined in Libby Prison. and not allowed to
communicate at all With the outside world There are
no other Southern people confined in Libby at present


Our Petersburg Correspondence.


PETERSBURG, Va, June 8, 1885,


The ancient Cockade City has become historic through
the incessant and terrific bombardment it has
tanned during the presence of Lieutenant General
Grants forces-a period of nearly year Hardly
house In the lower portion Of the city has escaped in
jury, and there not few but havo daylight let
clean through Yet these things Of the past
and since the advent Of army Petersburg is entirely
altered. Business has revived with astonishing
rapidty, and stores hard to obtain here they
are in Richmond But it must not be supposed that this
sudden enterprise is Of Southern origin. With the
best intention in the world the natives could not do any
business from the fact Of their being too poor-havng
lost almost everything when the confederacy collapsed
their all being invested pledged and torn from them by
q despotic, grasping and INSCRIPTIONS admins
tration. The great majority Of the business men
here are vcnturesome Northern men, who came here
to make their fortune and supply the want Of
the popuace. The fact, however, OF money being
land hav oduoaH uOtt fora
past thus leaving the planters almost pennless,
tracts trade great DEAL and all the money that Ii taken
comes either from our troops from tho innermost
cess Of hidd en- stockings


Under the able administration OF Major General George
L. HartsuT the great want which would otherwise exist
is materially esscned and amelorated The city of Peters
burg, since his arrival here ia Of the most thoroughly
loyal south OF the Delaware river General Harsu s not
only proficient soldier, but excellent civil executive
ooacer. Tho following Important order will show at a
glance how he dsposes of the great number Of
who have been dreaming Of the "good time coming
| after the "Lincum" soldiers had conquered
| GENERAL oRDxRs-So. H.
HEADQUARTERS UNITED SrArRs FORCES I
PETERSBURG, &c, April "a, 1885. :
Tho deluson which many colored persons, formerly
slaves aborng under concerning their rights and
privileges having been in many instances productive OF
evil and giving prospect OF much trouble in the future
both themselves and their former masters II IL deemed
necessary to correct II and explain what the true
atOns their changed condition places them in towards
the government and their former masters well
what their duties and responsibilities are Their
consists mainly in the belief that with their liberty
they acquire individual rights in the property Of their
former masters and that they entitled TO live with
and be subsised by them without being obliged TO labor
believe that the entire property Of their former owner
belongs now to themselves and that the remains
with them only by their suerance. This mistake has
been originated and sustained in many Instances by
thoushtiess, ignorant or mschevous soldiers


It is therefore stated for the information and guidance
Of negroes formerly slaves and for the benefit of them
selves their former masters and society where they i've,
that the operation OF existing laws to make them free,
in connection WITH the property OF their former owners
They are at liberty to make any contract or agreement
concerning themselves that a white man may, and
equally bound 70 abide by IT, THOR former master has
the right refuse them anything that he might deny to
perfect stranger and Is bound to feed, cothe
protect them than II he had been their master
They may remain with him II he and they both desire
and agree the torms, in which case each party Is
| equally bound by the contract


The fact must In time be learned by all negroes and
he the better for themselves and all concerned
that they must work for their support now the same
before they were ree In some instances perhaps even
harder. Tho difference between then and now being
that now they have the entire wages Of their labor to


The destitute ration will hereafter be issued any
persons whatever who able to labor unless they
show that they have made Efforts and found IL impossible


In order provide alike for those wishing TO employ
and TO be employed, the following arrangements will i'm


Brevet Major General Ferrero will detail an officer
employment agent whose duty shall be 10 keep ro
gscr Of all coloed persons TO whom tho destitute ration
Is issued, and Of all others who may desire employment
classifying them according 70 and trade or occupa
| tion, with short descriptive list Of each.


All persons desr 70 hire servants ab0rers OF any
kind requested 70 call at the once OF the employment
agent where they will be permitted TO examine tho re-
gser and select from IL such persons s they wish to
hire, stating the compensation they willing to give
which must be fair and reasonable 70 be determined by
the employment agent The person selected will then
be notified and, II willing will be employed and dropped
from the list II not willing 10 work such persons VIII
not be permitted to draw another ration


AL coored persons living In the country are informed
that is much better for them TO remain there than 70
come To the already oversocked city, and that they will
be permitted 10 here for work subsistence
| unless they cannot obtain them where they
BY command Of Major General HARTSUFF
JIM HOWARD, Major and Acting Adjutant General.
T. o. BRowN, Captain and ABIDE Camp.
AFFAIRS sourHKRN VIRGINIA
In the magnanimty Of our generous government
portion Of tho great army which but short time since
bent destruction Of life and property ac
lively engaged in protection thereof The great change
In the social system Of the South revolution that has