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"If any man attempts to haul down the American Flag, shoot him on the spot."
VOL. 3.
PLATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY G, 1808.
iNO. 44. .
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M short notice, and in a style that wi.l give satis,
'rsttion.
WILLITT P0TTENGER
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
PLATTSMOUTII - - NEBRASKA.
T. M rtlAKUCCTT.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AID
Solicitor in Chancery.
PLATTSMOUTII, - - NEBRASKA
11. R LIVINGSTON, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon,
Venders his professional serTiccs to tb citizens of
Ca county.
a.-Residence outh-e3--t comer ofi'ak and .Vixth
streets; Office on Main street, oppi.s t Court House,
Plattsmcuth, Nebraska.
Platte Valley House
Eo. B. Mlrphv, Proprietor.
Corner of .Mr in and Fourth Streets,
l'lattsmoiiilt, Veb.
-M!s ITnusa haviue: b'.'en re fltfd and newly for
mlshed offers first eUs aecomui'; Jationi. Uoard by
tlv day or week. rxi'iii
. MAXWELL. SAM. M. CHAPMAN
llaxucll fc Chapman,
ATTORNEYS A T LAW,
A HO
Solicitors in Chancery.
PLATTSH'JVTH, - - - MBi: AS FA
Offlee over Itleck, Buttery 1 C-s L'rug Store,
prl
CLARKE, T0RTER & ERWIW,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
And Solicitors in Chancery,
MA I A' S T. , 0PT0SI TK THE CO l it T 110 USE
PLATTSMOUTII, NEB.
4SSTL01B J. CU1K,
DR FOHE'T PCBTCX,
W w. FRWIN.
RCA L iSTA TE A GEXCT.
JicU wtf
josepit
SCHLATER,
WATCHMAKER and JEWELER,
M A IK STBCKT,
PLATTSMOUTII, - - NEBRASKA
A good assortment of Watches Oj :old Pen,
Jrwelry. Silver Ware, Fane oo Violins and VI-
lia Trimmings a!wavs on hand. All work com
saltled to his care will be warranted.
April 10, ititio. (
m. H. irimi,
Li4 Sup' t Indian Affair I.
caLitnrs A croxtos,
Attorntyi at Law
IRISH, CALHOUN & CR0XT0N.
The above named Centleinen have associated
themselves In business f r the pni pose of proecut
lag and collecting all claims ac.iingt the General
Oovernrueat, or aRaint any tribe of Indiana, and
are pn pared to pro:-ecnte such claims, cither lxfore
Congress, or a-iT of the Departments of (iuverument
j
Haul a. a. oiriu Jin?. R. r. Koumr
Opposite the City Bakery.
Vf E would respectfully announce to the Ladiea
V of Plattsmouth and vicinity, that we havejnst
r-eeived a large and well selected mock of Winter
Goods, consisting if Flowers, Ribbons, velvet.', dress
trimmings, Ac., Ac We will sell the cheapest good
ever sold la this city. We can accommodate all our
Id customer and as many new on as will favor us
witbacall. All kinds of work incur line done to
order. Perfect satisfaction given or do charges
myfuf
BOOKS I STATIONERY.
Bocks. 5ehool Books, Newspapers, Slagaiines,
Periodicals, and all kinds of Stationery, at
MURPHY'S HOOK-STORE,
Poet-offlcc Building, Main it reel. oc2 1
ATTORNEY AT LAW
asr
General Land Agent,
Lincoln. ... Nebraska.
Will p-actice In any of the Conrla of the State,
'11 buy and soil Real Es.ate on. comhjisaion,
ana
easmlor Ti'loa. Ac
'o;tr
From the Commonwealth.
mxcoijX Ann LiivcASTEn
COLWTY.
Mr. Editoh:
Inasmuch as I am in re
ceipt of numerous letters of inquiry
from oil parts of the Union in regard
to Lincoln, the Capitol of the State of
Nebraska, and the surroondingcountry,
propounding almost innumera! interrog
atories; which, if I should answer them
all in full, it would take all my time;
I will therefore with your consent, try
to ans.ver some of caid questions
through t'le columns of your pnper;
hoping it may be satisfactory to my
rfumerous correspondents and at the
tame time, not be uninteresting to your
readers.
I will state some of the questions
that have been propounded to me and
try to answer the fame as correctly as
I possiWiy can.
1st. In nearly all my letters is this:
Is the Capital of the State of Nebraska
permanently located at Lincoln? And
if so, by what authority?
Ans. The Capitol of Nebraska is
permanently located . at . Lincoln, , by
Governor David Luuer, tecrelaryof
Slate T. PT Kennard, and Auditor of
State John Gillespie; Commissioners
appointed by an att of the Legislature
of Nebraska, passed at their last Ses
sion, by which act jhey had full power
and authority to tiake said location-
there is no snados or doubt about tne
I eg air. j- and permanence of the loca
tion, j .
2nd. "What S.ate Building are lo
cated there?"
Adj. The Sta.e. House, for Execu
tive officer and tie Legislative Halls;
the State Univarsity; the Peniteotiery;
the State Agricul.ural College, Sec.
3d. "Are ary of said buildings
erected, or in protess of erection?
Ans. The Sitte House is under
contract, and the excavation' is done
-and the foundations are laiJ, and the
wjiks of the basement are nearly built.
There is a large force of workmen
engaged on the work under the direc
tion of Mr. John? Morris, the efficient
Architect and Superintendent, and the
structure is to be
C
Trett")H'
of September 1SG3
4th "What funds are on hand to
build t'lese State buildings?'.
Ans. The Commisioners have
about SG0.000 on hand from the sale of
lots in Lincoln to build the State House,
and have a large reserve of lot, not
yet sold to back them up.
There are large appropriations of
public lauds from the UnueJ States,
sufficient to build all the other buildings(
and on a large scale.
5ih. Has the City of Lincoln been
laid off into lots, blocks, streets, etc.,
How large an erea of land does it con
tain, and how large are the lots, blocks,
streets, etc. .
Ans. The City has been laid out.
surveyed and platted. The blocks are
300 feet square, the lots are 50 feet
front, by 142 feet deep except on some
of the business streets, which are 2-5
feet by 142 feet.
The streets are 100 feet wide ex
cept the business streets which are 120
feet wide.
6th. -Has there been any sale of
lots, and if so, who sold them, ani
what did they bring at public sale?"
Ans, There was a public sale of
lots in Lincoln last September, by the
aforesaid Commissioners, at which sale,
lots brought from S50.00 up to atou1
S300.0C, according to location and
quality.
7ih. "What proportion of the town
was sold, and what was the net pro
ceeds of the sales?"
Ans. About one third of the vho!e
number of lots were sold, and the pro
ceeds of the sale amoutned to about
60,000.
8th. "Does the proceeds of sales
belong to the State, or is it an individ
ual speculation of the Commissioners
and other parties, as has been hinted
by the Omaha papers?''
Ans. The land for the town site of
Lincoln was donated and deeded to the
State of Nebraska by myself and
other individuals, and surveyed, platted
and sold by the Commissioners, for the
use of the State, and not a dollar of
the money can be nsed for any other
purpose but to erect the public buildings,
as it was donated for that purposes
Further, the Legislature limited the
Commissioners ta locate the Capitol on
Slate lands, and only authorized them
to use the proceeds to build the Capital
of the State, or State House.
9.1i. "When will t!prp be another
public sale of lots, an i . t;i they be
bought at private sale, of wiiom, und at
whnt price?"
Ans. There will probably be a sale
of lots sometime in Juue next. Lot
cannot be bought at private sale except
at second hand. The minimum values
set upon lots by the Commissioners run
from 25 to 200
Mr. James Sweet of Nebraska City,
has a large number of lots he will sell
on favorable terms.
10th. "II yourcity improving much,
and has it increased in population much
since the location of the Capitol there,
and what is its present population?"
Ans. There was in the town of
Lancaster, which is now a part of the
city of Lincoln, last August, when the
location was made, about four or five
houses, and three or four families.
Now, there are about one hundred
houses, either finished or in process of
consLructipu.X?,,rne -0f.whichrejargej
and costly buildings.) and near three
hundred inhabitants in the city. There
are several hotels and boarding houses,
fire or six stores, two blacksmith shops,
a wagon chop, a tin shop. etc.
11th. "Is there a chance for me
chanics nd laborers there, and what
is the prospect in future for mechanical
business?"
Ans. There is a good chance for
mechanics and laborers, and the pros
pects for plenty of work and good
wages are very fair for next season.
There is plenty of rojrund plenty to
do. Come, all of you!
12'h. "Is your tewn site level, or
is it rolling or hilly ? ' And how is the
country around the town ?
Ans. The town site is level, and is
situated on a beautiful bench, elevated
about fifty feet above the level of Salt
Creek, and commands a view of the
country for many miles around, which
is lower and slightly rolling, and dot
ted over with farms and houses, and
TTorms" ne of - thotfagAuSteat 1
andsenpes the eye of man ever dwelt
upon so romactic and beautitul tnat
it reminds one of the fabled fairy
land.
13th. "Is your soil good, or is it
barren? And is there plenty of good
water in your town and county ?"
Ans. The soil here is about three
feet deep on the upland, and still deeper
in the bottom, and cannot be beat for
productiveness. There is an abund
ance of good water in all parts of the
county.
14th. Have you any stone there,
and if so, what kind, and what is the
Capitol to be bui't of?"
Ans. We have plenty of rock, both
limestone and sandstone. The Capital
is to be built principally of limestone.
15th. Have you any Rail Roads,
and if not, what is your prospect for
Rail Roadi?"
Ans. We have no Rail Roads built
to this point yet, we have a fair pros
pect of having two Roads built in the
next two years; the Burliugton and
Missouri River R. R. by way of the
Salt Creek Valley, and the Iowa and
Missouri State Line Road, by way of
Nebraska City. There are other roads
in contemplation, but the two named
are the most favorable at present.
16ih. What are your mail facili
ties! '
Ans. See in another column of the
Commonwealth, headed Mail Ar
rangements?" 17ih. What are your prospects for
a Printing office in your city?"
Ans. We have already one, the
Commonwealth:, and there will soon
be two.more, the Statesman ant the
State Journal.
18th. "Is there any land for home
steads near the city, and what is the
price of entered land near town!"
Ans. There can be homestead got
wiihin about seven or eight miles from
town.
The price of land about town is not
yet settled.
These are not. half the questions
asked, but let this suffice for the pres
ont and I may answer more in future.
Jacob Dawboic,
Postmaster, Lincoln,- Nebraska.
From the Toledo Blade.
JIr. Nasly Goes io Uh io, on a .Mission
of JWercy Jl lerrible JMislake, and
its C onsequences.
Post Orris, Confederit X Roaes, i
(wich is in the'Stait uv Kentucky,) S
December 23, 1867. )
When the Alrnity made nigger, he
ought to have made em so that mixin
with the sooprior race wood hev bin a
impossibility. The cuss uv missegena
lipn, and the hairid uv the DiinocrUy
uv Ohio for niggers, haz, between em,
left me in a condishen wich I hardly
supposed I shood ever find myself in.
I rite these lines, propped up in bed at
my boardin house, my face beaten to a
jelly, and perfectly kivered with sticin
planter; my nose, alluz the buty and
glory uv my face, is enlarged to twict
its fair proporshens; my few remainin
teeth hev bin nocked down my throat;
my lips resemble sausages ; my left ear
forever no more ; and wat little hair
wuz hangin about my venerable tem
ples, is gone ; my head is ez bald ez a
biUyard ball, and twict its normal size.
It come about thus :
ern counties uv Ohio. "In a reliably
Dimocratic township in that county is a
settlement uv niggers, who, in the" old
time, ran away from Kentucky, and
settled ther, where they cood hev wat
they earned, with wuz jist so much
swindled out u Kentucky's accumu
lated wealth. Uv course, Comin from
Kentucky, these niggers are many uv
em ez near white ez they kin be. One
uv em, who carried with him the name
uv his master, and, ez ho says, father,
Lett, is ez near a white man ez may
be, and ez he married a wench who
wuz a shade whiter than heather chil
dren are jist a shade whiter than both
uv em. Uv these he had ihjree daugh
ters, rangin from sixteen t j twenty.
Now, this Lett is a disturber. He
hed a farm uv perhaps 200 akers, and
wuz taxed heavy for skooj purposes,
but his children wuin't uv course allow-'
ed to attend the skool. None uv the
nigger children were. Bit this Lett
got the, ijee into his hed, that there
uzn't no piPprL?!yjnJjs. pay m taxea
witnout enjoyin some uv tne oenents
arizin from em; and aided and abetted
by the othe'r niggers, who wuz wicked
enuff to (omplain uv payin taxes to
the support uv white skools, he sent
his three daughters to the skool, direct-
in them to present themselves boldly,
take ther seats quietly, and study per
severity. They, did so. The skool
marm, who wuz a young huzzy, with
black eyes and naterel curls, from the
State uv Noo Hainpsheer, wher they
persekoot the saints, not only assented
to reseevin em, but very joyfully gave
em seats and put em inioclasses think
uv that with white children.
There wuz trouble iu that township.
I wuz sent for to wunst, and gladly I
come. I wuz never so gratyfiid in my
life. Hed small pox broken out in that
skool, ther woodeul hev bin half the
eggscitement in the township. It wuz
the subjick uv yooniversal talk every
where, and the Dimocrisy was a bilin
like a pat. I met the trustees uv the
township, and demanded ef they in
tended tamely to submit to this outrage ?
I askt em whether they intended to hev
ther children set side by side with the
desendants uv Ham, who wuzcondemed
to a posishen of inferiority forever ?
Kin you, I askt, so degrade yoorselves
and so blast the self respeck uv yoor
children ?
And bilin up with indignashen, they
answered, "never!" and yoonani
mously requested me to accompany
im to the skool house, that t'riey mite
peremtorily expel these disgusiin beins,
who hed obtrooded therselves among
those of a sooperior race.
On the way to the skool house, wich
wuz perhaps a mile distant, I askt theJ
Board ef they knowd those girls by
site. No,'' they replide they had
never seed em. " I have been told,"
sed I, that they are nearly white."
They are," said one of em, "quite
white."
It matters not," sed I, feelin that
ther was a good opportoonity for ira
provin the occashen, ' it matters not.
Ther is suthin in the nigger at wich
the instink uv the white man absolutle
rebels,- and from wich it inttinktively
recoils. So much experience hev I
bed wi'h em, that put rrre ia- a dark
room with one uv em, no matter how
little nigger ther is in em, that untrrin
instink wood betray em to me, wich
by the way goes to prove that the dislike
we hev to cm is not the result of prej
udis, but is a pirt of our very nachers
and one uv its highest and holiest at.
triboots."
Thus communio, we reached and en
tered the skool house. The skool
mar i wus there, es brite and es crisp
es a Janooary morning the skollars
wus ranged on the se'ets, a studdyin es
rapidly es possible.
" Miss," sed I, we are informed
that three nigger wenches, daughters
uv one Lett, a nigger, is in this skool,
a minglin with our daughters es a ekal.
Is it so"?"
" The Misses Lett are in this skool,"
sed she, rather mischeeviously, " and I
am happy to state that they are among
my best pupils."
" Miss," said I, sternly, " pint em
out to us !"
" Wherefore?" said she.
" That we may bundle em out," sed
I.
" Bloss me !" said she," "I reely
.coodent dojhat. - Why expel em ?"
Becos," said I, " no nigger shTfjVTdnestfay.
contaminate the white children of this
deestrick. No sich disgrace shef be
put onto em.'.' .
" Well," sed this aggravtin skool
marm, wich wus from Noo Hampsheer,
" poot em out."'
But show me wich they are."
Cau't j-oo detect em sir? Don't
ther color betray em ? Ef they are so
oeer while that you can t select em at a
glance, it strikes me that it can't hurt
very much to let em stay.''
I wus serely puzzled. There wusn't
a girl in the room who looked at all
niggery. But my reputashun was at
stake. Noticin three girls settin to
gether who wus somewhat dark com-
plectid, and whose black hair waved, I
went for em and shoved em out, the
cussed school marm almost bustin with
lafrerrTT " .......
Here the tragedy okkurred. At the
door I met a man who rode four miles
n his zeal to assist us. He bed alius
hed a itchin to pilch into a nigger, and
es EecooduritTjow safelyTL'c'propdsea"
not to loose the chance. I wus a put
tin on em out, rnd hed jist dragged em
to the dour, when I met him enterin it.
" What is this ?" sed he, with a sur
prised look.
" We're pultin out these cussed
wenches, who is contaminatin yoor
children and mine," sed I. "Ketch
hold of that pekoolyerly disgustin one
yonder," sed I.
Wenches! You d d scoun
drel ! tuih girls is mt girls !"
And without waiiin for explanashens
the infooriated monster sailed into me,
the skool marm layin over on one uv
the benches, explodin in peels uv (after,
the like uv wich I never heerd. The
thre girls, indignant at bein mistook
for nigger wenches, assisted ther parent
and between em, in about four minutes
I wus insensible. One uv the trustees,
pittyin my woes, tuk me to the nearest
railroad stashen, and somehow, how I
know not, I got home, wher I am at
present recooperatin.
I hev only to say, that when I go on
sich a trip agin, I shel require, as con
dishen precedent, that the Afrikins to
be put out shel hev enuff Afrikin into
em to prevent sich mistakes. ' But, good
Lord, wat haven't I suffered in this
cause ?
Petroleum V. Nasbt, P. M.,
(Wich is Postmaster.)
"Dow t Advertise. The Louis
ville Journal says: "Don t advertise; it
is a very bad -plan. It will call atten
tion to your place of business, and it is
much belter for people who wish to
trade with you to hunt you up. It
gives your customers exercise, and
makes them healthy. Besides, if you
advertise somebody will buy up all your
goods, and then you will have to get
more, and it will Ire a greal bother t i
you. Don't do it. Stewart, and Ayer,
and Bonner, and Schenck, and others,
never advertise. They have an idea
that it injures their business.'"
Dr. Parker, o Troy, N. Y., cut
open the wind pipe of a horse, remov
ed a piece of tin the animal gnawed
from bis manger, and after thus resell
ing him from threatened strangulation,
sewed him up again as good as ever.
FEXDLETON'S KO.tD TO II LI.?.
In the fluctuations of the gold premi
um dnring the past few days, we have
had an opt illu5trati m of what might
be expected, in uninterrupted serie, on
putting into praciice Pendleton's sys
tem of greenback payment for Natianal
bandholders. The fact that 82 400,000,
000 of paper money, irredeemable and
inconvertible, as well as non-interest-bearing,
was in circulation, would
make specie resumption, and conse
quently stability of values a physical
impossibility. Every whifT of advrrse
or of fortunate intelligence, as in the
darkest days of war, inspiring a fear
that we were on the brink of still
greater and more serious troub'es than
any yet encountered, would exert a nat
ural effect upon the public mind, be
wildering its judgment of the future.
The gold-room in New York would
become a power in the land. Unscrup
ulous brokers would be battledores be
tween whom values would be shuttle
cocks, tossed to and fro.. Imagine a
condition of financial affairs in which
gold should be 240 on Monday morning
and 290 Saturday even:ng following,
with a fall ta.220 by thesubsequent
ness thrive under such vasodilations as
these? Who could tell what he was
worth? What would national credit
amount to? A speck of war in the
political horizon, even such - as the
arrest of the blatherskite, Train, might
shrink the purchasing power of greenbacks-one
fonrih. The discovery of
immensely richgoId mines in Montana
might carry it part me way back.
What the Genera) Government was
doing or might do would evermore be
measures of fluctuation. Nothiog
would be steadfast.
Have we - not enough of this?
Would anybody with $100 in his pocket,
worth S2 in coin, be any richer with
$200 there, worth $36? Wotlld itbuy
more pounds of sugar, yards of cloth,
quintals of fish, or barrels of flour?
Would it pay o laborer for more days
of work? Would the National debt be
any nearer extinguishment? Would
the people be better able to bear the
burden of taxation? These questions
are weTtwtrrtion
voter yields himself to a plan which
would bind him, and his children, irre
vocably to the wheel of fluctuation.
Chicago Republican.
Ten Follies. To think that the
more a man eats, the fatter and strong
er he will become.
To believe that tthe mote hours
children study, the more they learn.
To conclude that if exercise is good
for the health the more violent and ex
haustive it is, the more good is done.
To imagine that every hour taken
from sleep is an hour gained.
To act on the presumption that the
smallest room in the house is large
enough to sleep in.
To argue that whatever remedy
causes you to feel belter, is good for
the system, without regard to more ul
terior effects.
To commit an act which is felt in
itself to be prejudicial, hoping that
some how or other it may be done in
your case with impunity.
To advise another to take a remedy
which you have tried yourself without
making special inquiry whether all the
conditions are alike.
To eat without an appetite, or con
tinue to eat after it has been satisfied,
merely to gratify the tasie.
To eat a hearty supper for the pleas
ure experienced during the brief time it
passing down the throat, and at the ex
pense of a whole night of disturbed
sleep and a weary waking in the morn-
JgSF"We have an acquaintance, an
old gentleman, whose young people
pester him very much with conundrums.
He got into a drowse, the other even
ing, at the church, but recovered him
self partially, just as the preacher gave
out the text: "How are the mighty
fallen?" . Imagine how mortifying to
his friends and family, as well as to
the parson, was the scene, when our
friend looked up inquiringly at the
preacher, and in the meekest possible
tone of voice replied; "I give it up!"
JgaSjr A man boasting in the company
of young ladies that he bad a luxuri
ant head of hair ,a lady present ob
server that it was owing to the mellow
ness of the soil.
TWO T A -VIVE ItS.
The New York Sun says it is" dis
covered that the grandfather of the
Hon. George H. Pendleton was a tan
ner, while General Grant is not only
the son of one tanner and the brother of
another, but has been in the leather
trade himself, and was dealing in the
products of .the tan yard at Galena
when the war broke out and he was
called to another sphere of usefulness.'
But it may even be said that he con
tinued in the same business all through
the rebellion, for he gave a thorough
currying and dressing to Beauregard
at Shiloh, to Pemberton at Vicksburg,
to Bragg at Chattanooga, and to Leo
at Petersburg and Five Forks. It
would be rather curious if these two de
scendants cf tanners should be rival
candidates for the Presidency next au
tumn. But we warn Mr. Pendleton
that in that event all the experience cf
bis grandfather will not save him from
the most complete tanning that ever u
politician had to undergo.
s5F"A Democratic mob, in New
York city, burned an asyljm for col
ored orphan children, in 1563, and
murdered a number of the inmates
"Awoared-Ttlramepir nf
the party in Kentucky, have just been ,
trying to blow up, with powder, a
school for the education of colored
children. It appears that the teacher
proposed to have an exhibition on
Christmas Eve. She was warned that
it could not be permitted, but refused
to believe that the rebels would carry
their threats into execution, and went
c'n with her preparations. The exhibi
tion was finally held in one of the col
ored churches, which was packed with
the friends of the school and children.
Wiihin a few minutes after the exer
cises closed but not till the people bad
left the cbiirch was blown to pieces
by the explosion of a keg of powder,
which had been placed under the plat"
foim on which the children were seat
ed and probably fired with a slow
match. An explosion during the exhi
bition wc-ald have destroyed the whole
crowd. The opposition pretend to be
horrified at the proposition of allowing
colored men to vote, on the ground that
they are generally ignorant, and they
enr-wrry tmprovemeut JtL
tuts respect by blowing up their schools
with gunpowder.
m i
IPSIThe following plan for avoid
ing explosions of coal wil lamps, is well
worth a trial by these who use them.
It is given by a writer in the St. Louis
Democcat, who claims to have given it a'
thorough trial:
Advise the good people of 3'ourcity
to fi'l their coal oil lamps about one
fourth full of common table salt, and
you will never need to record another .
similar accident, if they will be coun
selled by you. I have adopted the
above plan in my family and find that
1st, All the gas created by the heat
of the flame is consumed.
2d, The flame is much briehter and
clearer.
3d, The oil burns away much
slower.
4th. It never explodes.
J5SFOur young readers will take
notice of the following incentive to dili
gent search of Biblical learning.
Wheiher the prize be gained or not,
there is pleasure and profit in the
search:
John Swan, of Cambridge, Ohio, in'
a recent number of the Guernsey Jeff
ersonian, says:
"I will give twenty dollars to any
man, woman or. child, that will furnish
me with a passage cf Scripture which
says that the soul is immortal. Cler
gymen and Sunday School Teachers'
are especially invited to try."
Southern Whites. A friend who
is a teacher to the freedmen in the far
South sends us a private letter from
which we make the following extract.
She say.:
I would like to convey to you a true
picture of the Whites here. I had no
conception of such abandoned, degrad
ed, God forgotten people. They hate
us, they hate the freedmen, they hate
the government, they bate knowledge,
and they hate God and He seems to
have deserted them, In almost every
other man, upon a knowledge of their
character, we learn there lives the spirit
of Mrs. Stowe's "Legree." And hor
rors so dreadful have been perpetrated
in nearly every home here, that w&
shrink and quiver at their recital.-
