| Show GENERAL NEWS by W U to tb the E new april U ho herald devotes four columns today to day to the negro exodus question lis leavenworth correspondent says a public mooting of the citizens was held at wyandotte on wednesday at which it was decided to publish an appeal to to raise funds for tho large number of southern blacks now encamped there about 1000 have already arrived there from louisiana and mississippi and it is the opinion of citizens that it is not safe nor prudent for those people to tarry ions many of them have no money nor a single change of clothing many have died and scores are sick of pneumonia or other diseases contracted on the journey A gentleman who lias lived in mississippi nearly forty years attributes tho exodus mainly to poverty occasioned by the overproduction over production of cotton and the consequent low price of that staple lie admits that the politics and malarial character of the country havo have had something to do with lie stampede ex congressman bainey of the committee of the national aid society alio thoroughly understands the condition of bis people in alie southern states is now in washington and was yesterday asked his opinion of the present emigrant movement on the part of the ne gilea lie said rather it believing as I do the time has come when alse colored people must look out for and live where they can best enjoy their political and social rights and at time improve their material condition they can hope for neither of these in the south at present lie doea not however indorse the present reckless exodus now going on from louisiana and mississippi being asked why so many of these people were absolutely penniless ho said because the laboring classes in the south as a general rule never receive actual money in compensation for services plantation hands are paid in scrip having no actual value or ing power outside of the notes and bonds of the issuer who n a planter by this fraudulent method an d arbitrary arrangement the laborer is compelled to purchase supplies at exorbitant rates from his employer instead of being allowed the benefit to be derived from the force of wholesome competition among regular merchants the lamentable men table poverty of this people tie spite their constant application to libor haa led many to suppose that they were utterly for freedom or appreciation of the more lofty rights of full citizenship lie says by all means let them go choro they will have an opportunity to develop into full manhood and at the imo reap tho benefit that would from tilling the rich virgin boil of that section with thet theto o advantages let hem take the chances as others have done lie believes that if tho are removed from the south king cution will be dethroner dethroned and other fegri cultural invests arni sharo in the diso eteri for v aan 11 tho secretary of the ordered tho sloop jamestown fitted for sea as speedily us possible and put in commission to go to Sitka relieving the alaska when the latter shall beor be or dured home the jamestown will be provided with two large steam launches tobo used in patrolling the alaskan coast and making of inland channels her officers navo not yet been designated judge ing kelloggs Kell seat in the senate is confident that killogg will bo ousted but it is not likely tho committee on privileges and elections will make any report buforo december next the NEW april 11 arrived the steamship ontario from liverpool this vowel cornea here under charter ot iho british government to embark culps for south africa NEW yon april 11 politically all is biet thia morning the tines enterprise of yesterday in collecting opinions from all quarters showing that grant is the republicans favorito for president and tilden the democrats is generally praised by and the accuracy of the statements are unquestioned the times no opinion favorable to grant but its tendency that way is unmistakable the aun has an editorial doubting that tilden can units the democratic party something that must be donbor democratic ic out of the question lr eliy come NEW april 11 it is barely possible that the pacific coast must prepare itself for arf emigration of another hort at a meeting of colored men here hot night on tho subject of tho the south a well known and respectable colored man mr downing made a bzooch in ho laid had received communications from ex senator patter mil of north carolina who aid that for the railroads in there was n opportunity for the employ ment of 1000 colored men la boror tho same waa true of many parta of california Califor nid and new mexico there waa fc belt of territories off the coast of california in which home and employment could be found for thousands of colored men iio thoroughly believed in this bw april 11 the following are the chairman of the committees os elections springer ways and wood appropriation apking banking and currency buckner Kalu oads mccanc claims bright commerce lands converse district of columbia hunton post money judiciary knott war dunns bragg public expenditures tinley private liand claims manufactures wise agriculture covert indian affair scales military auais spark militia boss af fara foreign affairs cox territories muldrow revolutionary pensions whitaker invalid railways and canals cabell mines and mining stevenson education and labor broome revision of lawa harris coinage stephens patents vance public buildings cook cobb expenditures in department clymor expenditures treasury department morrison expenditures in war department blackburn expenditures in navy department townshend expenditures in post office department part ment ladd expenditures in interior department mueller expenditures in public buildings danster expenditures in department of justice blount mississippi koveos robertson rules the speaker reform in civil service hostetter law as to presidential elections bicknell ventilation of liall kinnel depression of labor wright epidemic diseases young printing singleton enrolled bills kenna library beddes census cox for alaska captain brown commanding att alaska has beep instructed by telegraph to remain at silka until all danger haa passed accounts from that quarter are somewhat conflicting A salt NEW YORK april 11 tho well known river steamer plymouth rock was sold yesterday for a hundred thousand donara to charles W scofield ald of salt lake utah the bleamer will ply between this city and rockaway this summer as usain adif for april 11 tho finance committed teo of the deak society a hungarian benevolent organization in this city this morning sent ft draft of eight thousand florans florins collected from alio citizens of chicago to the minister president of hungary for the relief of alie su derors the telegram hunt be ST loci april 11 in the case of A subpoena ames to compel E H brown manager of the western union telegraph co to produce before abo dirand jury certain tele grama sent and received by governor phelps and other parties argued some days ago onn petition to vacate the order under which the was issued judge laughlin today to day overruled the petition and decided that the produced the telegraph company will lake an appeal the trial neb april 11 in the trial of olive aishor and others for murdering and burning two men bion brown a young man employed by oliva as herder turned evidence and detailed proceedings of the murder but asserted eliat the burning was accidental the prosecution has closed the rumor of an in tented attempt to rescue olive on tho part of tho cow boys has brought company of soldiers herff from amp washington april 11 the national executive committee of the colored emigration society adopted resolutions requesting the govern ment to aid through quartermasters and departments to dea dilute colored emigrants arriving at st louis or other points on the mississippi kivch |
