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Sherman ;Unopposed.
To us, the military problem seems not
what SHERMAN but what the rebels will
do.. For the first time in the war, a great'
Union army has been liberated from the •
necessity of defending a position or con
fronting a rebel force, and is able to move
independently in any, direction its com
mander may choose. The presence of an
army so large and well appointed as that
of BEEKMAN in the very heart of the Con
federacy, inspired with a just confidence
in its
. strengtb t perfectly untrammelled and
almost tthOpposed,nis'a new element in the
war, and revolntionizes the entire situa
tion. „BglatMATI moves into the granary of
the South' and nylon the centre of its great
railroad conxiuxiication. Unless his march
is thwarted, he will cut the Confederacy
into pieces.
We cannot invent a plauSible plan by
which the rebels might interfere with his
movements, The facts are stubborn, and
persist in showing the absolute safety of
•Snsnnrax, and the improbability of- any
rebel force overtaking 'or meeting him.
LEE is locked up. HOOD is held by
THOMAS. These are . the only armies large
_enough to give SHERMAN any trouble, and
the rebel troops at Mobile, Charleston,
Wilinhigtoneven, if time permitted, would
have to abapdoxi these important points to
our besieging forces in order to combine.
Every battlement of the Confederacy is
menaced by the Union armies, and the
concentration of its scattered forces for the
purpose of opposing Saannart is "a wadi
cal impossibility. Yet the rebels must do
something, or abandon the central South,
with the certainty of losing Richmond and
all their bopes. The correspondent of. the
London Times, at Richmond, writing a
month ago, admitted that ".if SHER MAN 'IS
able to extricate himself from his present
critical ,(?) poSitiori liY!'ither baffling or
outwitting Hoop, there will be reason for
a:pprehension about Richmond during the
coming winter :the like of which has never
existed before." This confession iti
eYi
dently true in spite of its bad English. The
movements of SHE .MAN must end in the
isolation of Richmond.
It is reported that Petersburg has been
evacuated, and some color has been given
to the rumor by the weakness of the rebel
picket lines on the James. Too hastily, it
seems to us, it has been inferred that LEE
:has sent part of his army southward. This
would be to invite the ruin which threatens
him, and anticipate the inevitable termina
tion of the siege. We Gold it to be self
evident that LEE can exNrid no help to the
Cotton States, and has - difficulty enough
in taking care of the rebel capital. Nor
can HOOD, still at Florence, escape the
vigilance of THOMAS. In the meanwhile
Slia - amax is advancing with fifty thousand
men on -Augusta, and every tramp of that
steady march makes the hollow ground of
the rebellion tremble. What is his ultimate
object we do not care to guess, but all
around him are the storehouses and the in
ner cominunications of the Confederacy.
It is not what he will,do, but what the re
bels can do, that excites speculation, and
unless there are armies in the South of
which nothing has ever been heard, we
must believe that they can do nothing. The
situation is sound. It inspires just confi
dence that a great victory will be won, and
in General GRANT, who, in the organiza
tion of the complex campaign which begun
with the simultaneous marches on Rich
mond and Atlanta, has shown military ge-
The Chicago Plattbrm and the Georgia
Assembly.
Misunderstanding is very easy, where
there is an evident reluctance to compre
hend. The Boston Courier refers to " the
similarity of propositions in General BUT
LEP.'I3 late speech at New York and in
FORNEY'S' Press to the second resoltition
of the Chicago platform, so much vilified
by Republicans before. the- election. This
fact had attracted our notice, but we con
cluded to wait and see if the Administra
tion papers would at length discover, it."
As not the slightest similarity exists,
the Courier's waiting is likely to exhaust
its patience. The- second resolution of
the Chicago platform defined the war
as a four years' failure, and demanded
an immediate cessation of hostilities. No
-where in the columns of this paper can
such a demand be found. On the con
trary, we assert the success of the 'war, and
- while we believe that an offer of amnesty
to the Southern people might be made
with great results, - we are unwilling that
the war should be interrupted for one mo
ment to await their reply. General BUTLER
certainly said nothing that the most ex
pert of sophists could construe into an ap
proval of tile peace policy which has just
received the emphatic condemnation of the
people. But if the Courier is clever at
- finding fancied resemblances, it may wel
come a real and 'radical similarity. The
General Assembly of Georgia, on the Bth
instant, passed a series of resolutiona, of
which the following is 'the most signifi
cant :
" That we hail with gratification the just and
sound sentiment coming from a large and growing
party tr. the Worth, that all associations of these
American. States must be voluntary, and not forci
ble, and we give a hearty response to_ their propo
sition to suspend the conflict of arms and hold a
Convention of States to inaugurate a plan for per
manent peace."
Commenting upon this, the New York
Daily News coolly remarks : "It is worthy
of attentive consideration that the principal
features of - the platform enunciated by the
Chicago Convention are pronounced - just
and acceptable, and it is certaiffly much to
be deplored that this community of senti
ment on the part of two powerful parties in
the contending section's should be rendered
of no avail to the peace of the land by the
policy of this. Administration." Now, if
the Courier'must confess that the open and
honorable anxiety to make peace, shown
by the friends of-the Administration, bears
no resemblance to the humiliating propo
sals of the. Chicago Convention, it may
console itself by the earnest approval that
Convention has had from a rebel legisla
ture, which at the same time announced
that the " independence of the Southern
Confederate States iiistly claims frbm the
world its recognition as a rightful fact."
European:Recognition of Mexico.
The London' Gazette of November 4th
contains the following official announce
ment ;
"WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. I.—This day had an
dienee of her Majesty. Senor Don Franolsoo Arran
poi; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipoten-
Clary from the Emperor of Mexico, to deliver his
credentials. and also a letter from his Imperial Ma
jesty ; to which audience he was introduced by Earl
.Russell, K. G., her Majesty's principal Seoretary of
State for Foreign Affairs."
This means that England recognizes the
change .of Government in Mexico, and
accepts Napoleon-established -empire
there as an fixed fact. .In this the Bri
tish Cabinet has not led, for it' merely
follows the example of. other European
Powers. The 'Pope, NAPoutc•N of Prance,
ISABZLLL of Spain, Vsoion-Emmennw.. of
Italy, Louis of Portugal, LEOPOLD of
Belgium, FRANCIS JOSEPH of Austria, and
some:Minor. sovereigns had preceded Vic-
TOBLI cif England in receiving an Ambas
sador.fl7nn MAXIMILIAN Of Mexico. This
is not a : mere formal matter, but a great
deal may depend upon it. The Empire of
- Mexico •is•now admitted into the comity of
•nations,Which gifes it a right to call on
all sovereigns who - have so admitted it
for aid in time of Youbld.• '
in the event,
for instance,
,of the United States endea-
Voting to . carry out the Monroe doctrine
in the siiittherirpait , Of. this North Ameri
can colitingiit,. if MAilltItIAN were ; to ;call
on the Enitipe n akPoWet's for ai d,. . no doubt
they would helP , him 'with. money, arms;
and men. •
Long ere this ; 'Mextrirrt,uN was:to have
sent back • toyrance a large number of . the '
soldiers by whose aid Nero/arm? placed
hi* upon the throne which is Gallic
WARWICK erected on the ruins of, the re
;public in Mexico. He has not been able to
part with these French soldiers, for , he is
not yet in a condition to dispense with their
assistance—the power of the strong htmd,
as the _Celtic proverb calls it. A. conside
rable part of Mexico:is mot yet under imne
rial rule. BENITO Jima's, who was re
elected to the Mexican presidency in June,
1801, , no longer Occupies the, capital, and,
indeed, cannot be said to hails any govern
mental power in the land; but is trouble
some to MAXIMILIAN, sometimes.even dan
gerous, at the head of a large guerilla force.
Until order is restored, a process which is
gradually taking place, MAXIMILIAN cannot
send away the bayonets which literally up
hold his throne. He is to have some other
aid from Europe, thotigh not much. His
brother, the Emperor of Austria, has pre
sented him with a regiment, which, how
ever, is a long time , on the way. Eis father
in-law, the. King - Of. the Belgians, has got
up a regimerifwhichis to serve as body
guard to the Empress, and a Polish regiment
has been recruited by tacit permission of the
Czar and the' King of Prussia, to consti
tute the nucleus of a new Foreign Legion
in Mexico. Meantime, MAvrAmakri and his
wife are doing their • best to conciliate the
Mexicans. They are amiable, liberal, cour
teous, and perfectly unassuming—but it
may be doubted whether, if they possessed
all the cardinal virtues, they can perma
nently possess the good wishes of thellexi
cans. One fine day, we have little doubt,
3fAxnarmerc and his CnAULOTTE will re
joice to find themselves once more safe on
European soil, freed from the vexatious
cares of almost phantom regality. While
the Mexican people continue in a chronic
state of internal dissension, it is impossible
that any form of government . there can be
prosperous and .permanent.
The Freedmen.
The annual meeting of the Pennsylvania
Freedmen's Aid'Association lastinight was
a gratifying proof of the interest taken by
the people of this State in the elevation of
the:colored race in the South. What has
been done for the improvement of the
Freedmen is astonishing. The transforma
tidn of-thousands of embruted slaves hito
self-supporting,. money-saving, educated,
and progressive men and women has
been effected , in less than • two years
in the sea islands of South Carolina, almost
entirely by their liberation from bondage.
The schools •and churches established have
been but subordinate agencies ; the oppor
tunity has been given to the black man,
and he has used it. We agree with Mr.
REUBEN TOMLINSON, one of the speakers
at the meeting, that the problem of-recon
struction of the pnion, upon a basis of
entire, freedom, is not to be solved without
the education of the freedmen. Education
in its highest sense—presupposing schools,
labor, possession of land, and responsi
bility—once begun can never be stopped ;
and the race, once educated, can never be
kept in slavery,•
Captain Fisk's Stratagem.
The poisoning of the Indians 'who fol
lowed Captain FISK'S expedition is par_.
tially explained by the accounts published
in the St. Paul papers. Some of the emi
grants of the party, to revenge themselves
against the constant harassment of the In
dians, left boxes of their food, saturated
with strychnine, upon the road. Nearly •I
a hundred of the savages, men, women,
and children, died from the effects of eat
ing it. As a measure of retribution or pro
tection, such a stratagem could hardly
be justified in the very last necessity.
'The Indians have been far more cruel, no
doubt, but massacre and poisoning cannot
be justified by civilized men. That strych
nine was so freely used, and that Captain
Fisx seems to have been well aware
f it revoltinges to the act..a._delillere._
— anu enaracter: — . is it possum
that no other treatment but that of
strychnine will keep the Indians from
tomahawking the women and children of
Minnesota, or scalping the emigrant . trains
from. St. Paul ?• What if the Indian, too,
uses strychnine, or distils in his own
savage spirit the essence of a thousand
murders and revenges for the Borgian
stratagem of Captain FISK ?
"Now THAT the people have given their verdict
for the re:election of Mr. Lincoln, the minority are
everywhere resolving to support the constituted
authorities. It is not too strong to say that there is
well-nigh a united North in purpose to maintain
the integrity of the nation, and that in every town,
and city, and State the people are for saying to the
commander-in-chief of the army and the navy, hold
2n and hold out until the United States flag floats
over the whole of the Republic.),
This is well said by the Boston Post; a
jOurnal that opposed Mr._ Lnworar's re
-election,_ but we are glad to see is not dis
posed to make the spirit of a political can
vass the precedent for its course during:the
four years of an established Administra
tion. •
WASHINGTON:
• WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.
COMPLIMENTARY LETTER OF THE SECRETA
RY OF ,THE NAVY TO LIEUT. CUSHING—
CUSHING RECOMMENDED FOR PROMOTION.
The Secretary of the - Navy has addressed the fol
lowing letter to Lieut. Cusurrior :
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 1864.
Sin: Your report of October Soth has been receiv
ed,, announcing the destruction of the rebel iron
clad Steamer Albemarle, on the night of the 27th
ult., at Plymouth, N.r.O. When; last sunarrier;the
Department selected yon for this important and
perilous undertaking, and sent you to Rear Admi•
ral dummy, at New York, to make the necessary
preparations, it left the details with yoarselfto per
feet. To you and your brave comrades, therefore,
belongs the exclusive credit which attaches to this
daring achievement.
. The destruction of so formidable a vessel, which
had resisted the combined attacks of a number of
our steamers, is an important event touching our
naval and military operations. The judgment, as
well as the daring courage displayed, would do
honor to any officer; and redounds to the credit of
one twenty. one years of use.
On four previous occasions the Department has
bad the gratification of expressing its approbation
of your conduct 'in' the face of the enemy, and in.
es oh instance there was manifested by you the same
heroic daring and innate love of perilous adven
turea mind determined to succeed, and not
to be deterred by any apprehensions of defeat.
The Department has presented your name to
the President for . a vote .of thanks, that you
may be promoted one grade,' and your comrades
shall also receive recognition. It gives' me pleasure
to recall the assurance you gave me at the com
mencement of your professional career, that yon
would prove. yourself worthy of the service to which
you were appointed.
I trust you may be preserved through further
trials, and it is for yourself to determine whether,
after entering upon so auspicious a career, you
shall, by careful study find self-discipline, be pro. -
pared for a wider sphere of usefulness on the call of
your country; Very respectfully,
• Secretary of the Navy.
Lieut. W. B. OUBRING, U. S. N., Washington.
THE LOAN SUBSCRIPTIONS
The subscriptions to. the seven-thirty loan last
week amounted to $2,054,00D.
PERSONAL
Brigadier General Jour; H. lloaear WARD, of
the United States Volunteers, is mustered out of
service, and, by the same official order, army officers
who, may be reported as aids•de camp to him are
required to join their regiments without delay.
Condition of the Rebel People of Lou
Islam.
The condition of affairs in that part of Louisiana
under rebel control is said to be most deplorable.
The. long, dread winter is at hand, and the towns
and the country generally are tilled with a populae
tion . whose prospects, at the best, are but precari
ous. This Is rendered now doubly so by the action
of the rebel Government, which renders ivorthless
the little savings In rebel money that the thousands
of families (many of them soldiers) have been able
to make, by not giving them the facilities to ex
change the old issue for the new. Without any
money that Is acknowledged in the markets of Texas,
where beef Is supplied, the people are forced to do
• without that, although it is near their hands in
thousands of pounds. The Louisiana Democrat,
published at the rebel capital—Alexandria—niakes
loud complaints of the distress wo have described )
and adde
No wood for fuel can be had, although Umber is'
plentiful and at hand; no labor, no axes, no trans
portation ! Doubtless there are. a, row . among us'
who will be enabled to pass through the winter
without much actual angering - . but the majority;
the mass of the people, must and will be upon the
verge of starvation and freezing long before spring
Again, thieving, plundering, pilfering, and horse
stealing seems to be the order of the day; not a
night passes but some poor unfortunate has Ills
horse stolen, or a house is entered and robbed. If
matters are suffered to go on as they now are, it
will not be long before men will be knocked down
in the streets in broad daylight and robbed. - KW.
rule appears to be 'in the ascendant, and runs riot
night and daY. Is there no remedy? Cannot Boole
one Interpose and cbeok itt God help the people,
for they are certainly as patient as they are un
fortunate.ll
Edwin Foriest's Coriolanne.
Edwin Forrest deserves the rare credit of having
teetered an almost lost Shakspearean creation to
the American stage, and given to no a new stand
ard, in a character of the highest mark, embodied
in his own genius and inspired by the genius of
Shakspeare. This is altogether fortunate, for Par.
Forrest is now as near as he can be to that ideal att.!.
tide which, when the actor, like the hero, takes the
the pedestal, types and sublimes him. Coriolanus
Semis to have wetted for Mr. Forrest, and equally
appears to , have been left to him; with this his des
tiny as a Shakspearean actor is complete, and Co
riolanus will be the crown and symbol of all that he
has done. To say this Is to say much for the power
and capacity of the actor, for the new character is
of the full Shakspearean stature, and peer with any
individual of the drama. Shakspeare has made his
Coriolanus a bold personality ; created him in the
Roman mould, out of the clay of which epic he
roes are made, and placed him In a world
which makes Its heroes dramatic. Heroules, never
conquered, because he Hied only in the world of the
heroic, and his trial was only physical, after his
twelve labors rests like a god in the immortality
of sculpture; but he was a body, and Coriolanus
is a character. Ajax defying the lightning is only
epioal ; Coriolanus, warring with the Roman rab
ble, is dramatic. Place Hercules or Ajax in that
world which torments its heroes for their fame, and
tries them for their ambition, and the product will
be not unlike Coriolanus. Better than a deity
such as we read of, he was a man. Shakspeare
seems to have taken down mythology from the
block, and put it into his crucible, or else at the bar
of Shakspeare Coriolanus has, indeed, had his trial
among the gods. Shakspeare's hero is not found
wanting; ho is frail and strong enough, and, in fine,
enough of a man to be a character, and enough of a
hero to be a god, in the artesuperstitiefr of the
Roman idea. We have said that Corio/anus is a
bold personality, and in more senses than one.
"Nothing, if not critioal," s lago applied to himself,
with a moaning for all cha6,oter of his kind. "No
thing, if not personal," may take moaning equally
wide as the motto forth° more physical character.
Educated only to become a hero such as the Romans
worshipped in war, he even exceeded the standard
among a people who had devoutly loved what was
imperial, but were still base enough to think far
more of themselves. Coriolanus was not less selfish,
but was never ban, From his earliest life he was
a self-seeker for the heroic. War was a .combat be
tween persona, and the leaden; stood out on the
stage, man to man. He was, all in all, a soldier,
and •his opposition to fate and men was en
tirely personal. Hie principle was pride, which
seems to have been, after all, the main Ro
man principle, and, thus tested, Coriolanus was the
"noblest Roman of them all." He does not need
to invoke the fabled gods, andseldera or never does .
Sbakspeare make him call upon them, foY he is a
SOrt of god to himself as well as to others, and the
help of men he could well desire to do without.
Against the whole Roman Senate. he places the
contrast of his individuality ; before the people he
looks down upon them with hardly disguised con
tempt ; he sets against all around him the person
ality of Corte/anus. If he represents any principle
at all, it is that of the heroic against the vulgar,
the patricianiagainst the plebeian; and such &princi
ple is merely his own personality—a cause which
is his own, and none other's. So absorbed in his
own individuality and class, his la not a charaoter
to absorb the people's, Not to be impressed, but
to impress; not to discover, but to fight—this
is the eharacter of Coriolanus, in whose barbarian
dignity is portrayed the best of his time. Withal he
is a generous friend as he is a stubborn and irrecon
cilable foe ; noble, if not magnanimous ; sensitive
to all that is mean, and no politician whatever. He
cannot abate a particle of his justice, and never any
of his meaning to save sympathy. •
We should judge him ill if it were only by the
scurvy language he uses toward the people of
Rome:
Much of this tirade may be justice, but it is of tha
hind which belongs to the executioner. But worse
language than what we have quoted we may par
don In battle :
"All the contagion of the South light on you
.You shames of - Rome! you herd of Boils and
plagues
Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorred
Further than seen, and one infect another .
Against the wines, mile ! You souls of geese
That bear the shapes of men, how have you run
From slaves that apes would beat'? Pluto and hell !
All hurt behind ; backs red, and faces pale
With flight and argued fear ! blend and charge
home,
Or, by the fires of heaven, leave the foe
And make my wars on you ! Look to't ; come on!
If you'll stand fast we'll beat them to their wives,
As they us to our trenches followed) ,
here is grand spite, matchless vituperation, and
heroic temper, not out of place on a battle-field, but
misapplied when the soldier Coriolanus talks thus
to the peaceful people of Rome. Brit it will be dif
ficult to give an estimate of his character
partially have judged, himself, if Coriolanus ever
thought of such a task ; or who, from their own
miscreation, make up character as Banim his Da
mon and Pythias, or Sheridan Knowles his excellent
Virginias, with the stage carpenter's line and rule.
The metal of which Shakepeare moulded his
heroes was never found in the mines ; the artificer
worked like nature, subtly kneading the good with
the bad, and shaping a countenance to awe the aim
ple and to puzzle the crate. His villains do not too
Suddenly repent; Mg. goad men SOmetimeS swear;
his murderers know how to scheme, and when to
strike; his saints have some knowledge of the
world; his wise men do not always discourse mo
rainy.; his fools are often as wise ; his characters do
not devour th'emseives or each other, or invert them
selves out of pure virtue, but move through a real ex
perience, feeding others—ln turn being fed. They are
to be interpretedln the mirror of their surround
ings ; for Shakspeare has created a world of divine
balance, not omitting in his economy even the law
Of accident, where his characters are their own tri
bunal, 'and where fate falls like the stroke of na
ture. Coriolanus is groat in his mixture of strong
-elements, not as one entire and perfect moral chry
solite. Shakspeare gives to his every character a
logic of its' own. Rlchdrd and. Macbeth justify their
crimes, and the speech of Coriolanus presents in it
self all-sufficient reason for its use. This Indivi
duality sometimes puzzles the judgment, and makes
the reader slave to his intellectual sympathy. Let
us, therefore;judge Carlo/anus as much by the testi
mony of his enemies as friends. Both may be right,
and yet neither ; but a tolerable judgment may be
gained. Menenius Agrippa, friend both' of the
people and of Coriolanus, is the chief critic
whom ShakEpeare has placed In this play;
but evidently his sympathies are caught up In his
hero, and he is too partial a judge. We must be
lieve him, however, if he tells us that the people are
base, and we must make amends for the partiality
with which he counsels the rashness of Ms strong
willed friend, who heeds Menenius as little as ho
heeds the people. - On the other hand ive have
Junius Brutus, enemy of Coriolanus, and friend of
the people—no doubt a less reliable judge than
Menenius. With Vohannia and Virgilia, these make
up the main personages of the tribunal with which we
try the character of Coriolanus, 111 s mother, Vo•
/umnia, can hear witness to the pride and ambition
which he inherited and was taught; his wife, the
tenderness of the lover; his friend, his manliness
and generosity ; his enemy, his scorn and hate ; but
all will certify to his . rashness and pride. Let
Azjidius witness his ability :
'lst Soldier. " He's the devil." •
Anf. "Bolder, though not so subtle: ,
Brutus, his treatment ',)f tLe people :
"You speak o' the people
•
As If you were a god to punish, not .
A man of their infirmity."
Afenenius delivers his highest - eulogy-and defence
" His nature is too noble for the world ;
Be would not flatter Neptune for his trident,
Or. Jove for his power to thunder. His heart's in's
mouth ;
What his breast forges that his tongue must vent,
And being angry, does forget that ever•
He heard the name of death:: • -
And we might almost believe—in the grand otitis
.
trophe of his fate—
" Oh, he's a limb that has but a disease ; •
Mortal to eat it off, to cure It easy."
For Corte/anus seems as noble as he Is proud, and
too good to perish. But his pride was only sacri
ficed when hie virtue was murdered. Fate, to kill
one, had to destroy both, the god with the man, and
thus taught only the old natural lesson that "pride
goeth before destruction." Easy as Manful fondly
thought it was to cure him, he was indeed an in
curable. Rash to madness and to-the very sublimity
of personal daring, this very defect made up one of
the grandest elements of his character. Man rushes
to death when he emulates the gods. The few
words ofAkfidius explain another of his dell
oienCes. He lacked policy. But so subtle and uncer
tain are the uses of character that apparent faults
ire comparative virtues. Anfidiva had what Corio
/anus wanted ; he was politician as well as soldier.
But this very possession made him interior to eerie
/anus; f6r, had his character been as simple, he
would have been as great. As it was, he was only a
rival and not an equal. Subtlety gave Anfitlius
weapon for murder,. hilt not for , conquest: More
able, more noble was Coriolanus, who, from the
height and might of his soul, conferred victory upon
Others, but never stole a laurel. Just, at the root, his
virtues grew insane from pride, and his worst fault
was expression. We cannot go further, and say
that such a heart might have been - reserved for the
dagger of , a Brutus; it is enough that he was slain
by Akfidirds. The world, which he scorned, could
not endure his life. After his death he became more
than man, and was venerated. This is hisiepitaph.
Though "Corlolanus" seems to be constructed on
the simplest prlncipfes of Shakspeare, the Roman
architecture of this play is as great as his more
Gothic creations. Re has worked in narrower li
mits; perhaps, but has, therefore, compressed his
power. "Action narrows, thought - expands," says
Goethe ; but the distinotlon is not so wide, after all.
Sbaspeare's plays of action give us his thought
praclicalized, but not the less great. "Lear" Is
grander in proportion, but " Coriolanns" is as fine
in kind. In one we have the universal drama of
forlorn and storm-vexed old age—the immortal poem
of wreck in a misery as wide and lamentable as
the sea; in the other, the proudest oak, beleaguered
by the forests and the tempests, hardly ever shaken,
but at last struck by the lightning. Nature, in all
her forms, seem equally fine, and Shakspoare, to
the 'drama, Is Nature. In'the image of his own
thought he created his 'character, and Coriolanus
!s not more himself than Shakspeare. - -
GIONON WELLES,
, what need for the aotor to play, or the critic
, o see, those superfine Romans and Greeks of
Knowles, Banim, an Payne,:after one glans at
the 'real Roman of Shakspeare 1 Like the "noble
indian, ,, the . " noble Romani has been tnnehMill-:
uEed. One . good, honest; bread:and•but er kompi
of the old time we setdoin see: Zn . .StialtsPeari r
however, his chiraoter be not debased; , Init. ex
plained, by the highest science, and what, with
his considerable virtue, we have. Booze knowledge
* * * 11 What's the matter, you dissentious rogues,
That rubbing the poor itch of your opinion
make yourseivee scabs 9 * * *
* * * What would you have, you curs,
That like not peace nor war 1 The one affrights
you,
The other makes you proud. Ile that trusts you,
Where he should find you lions, finds you hares.
* * * Your virtue is
To make him worthy whose offence subdues him
Aid curse that justice did it. Who deserves great
ness
Deserves your hate, and your affections are
A sick mans appetite, who desires moat that
Which would increase his evil. * * * .
* * • .....
Go get you home, you fragments) ,
Ist Scene, lst Act.
THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA _ TUESDAY, NOVEMBER, 22, 1864.
ofprandium and jeufaculunt. The un-She.kipearean
Greeks seem to live upon their own virtues, j est as
some Christian .martyrs ,appeared to have feasted
upon their Bibles ; but Shakspeare's heroes ate beef.
The capable actor who passes from Knowles into
Shakspeare must live a new life, which the atmos
phere of Shakspeare strengthens him to live ;•but
he has also much to learn and unlearn. Only wise
who, like Dorgan's "Charmer," can say,
'• Unharmed I play with tiger thoughts,'
need try the serpents which Shakspoare'a drama
keeps for his Hercules.
The play of Coriolanus” is especially a siiiteis .
for such a genius as Forrest's. This character is the
type and crown of his acting. Stern virtue; geni%•.
rosity, magnanimity, ambition, manly tenterne4 7
power of scorn and pride and daring, the alipetir
of the soldier and the hero—these are the attributeii
of those favorite characters In which Forrest is
most applauded by the people. To these may be
added the more phenomenal exhibition of despair,
as in Lcar, and craft, as in Richelieu, though In the
latter the author only permits us to See the
little he could reveal. Mr. Forrest's power
is simple as it is great. His weapon for
action is the short Roman sword; his motives and
his feelings mainly the grand and simple passions.
He is perhaps more practical than speculative, but
not the less intellectual. He has been called a phy
sical actor, and, in the more intellectual sense, the
distinction contains some truth. Shakspeare was
also a physical writer when :Ile wrote ,6 Cori°.
hms." Bearing .the triumph of this °karate
ter, Mr. Forrest may well be contented with
the distinction. We have Said that the ale-
metals of the play are comparatively simple; but
its passions are complex enough in their exhibition
to afford a grand Shakspearean study. Mr. For
restpersonates his character bodily, and as though
be bad 'met it and become absorbed by the law of ate
ray. It would be bombast to claim it as a perfect in
terpretation of the Shakspearean idea—this has
never been claimed for any actor; but that it exhi
bits the elements of Shakspeare is all the praise that
the actor and the world can require. The play, as
performed last night at the Academy.of Mask), is far
from being wholly that of Shaksp.eare. The actor's
Coriolanus, therefore, to a certain extent, must date
from the traditional adaptation - of the poet, snoh as
we find it in Lear and Richard. As a stage imper
sonation, Mr. Forrest's Coriolanus is worthy of the
highest applause; as a view of Shakspeare, it oast-,
nut be perfect, but it is invalu able to art. All the best •
qualities of his fine voice and unsurpassed dignity,
of bearing ; the clear analysts of his reading ; vigor
and resolve of action and masculinity of thought—*
have here their fullest development. It has been
charged that the actor ls.sometimes too slow for his
character, and hangs fire of its impetuosity ; but at
least .he catches up to it, .without ever having
lost his identity, . and the moment of lightning •
fines him ready and great. Mr. Forrest's reading,
often said to be slow, evidently proceeds from the
principle that great thoughts and greet actions
require deVelopment in delivering, and that history
and Shakspeare take their time. If he errs by-
Shakspeare he cannot be charged with error by the
adapted text, which; we think, strips the character
of some of its palliation, and gives to it an unvarying
bitterness and scorn. ,We do not find the great in
vective of the battle field in it, which first explains
the character to us as that of a soldier. As the play
proceeds, Brutus and Sicinius, for all that they were
demagogues, deserve our sympathies as patriots.
The way in which Coriolanus asks the "voices"of
the rabble, leads one citizen to believe that, he was
mocked, another to excuse the new consul for his
idiosynoracies of speech ; there must then be occa
sionally something more of manner and ha
bit than mere design In his expression of rudeness
to justify the slight uncertainty which exists in the
minds of the rabble. Mr. Forrest's splendid invec
tive was sufficiently checked and qualified to show
the variety of his character, and in this he proved
the student and the artist. His admirable readings
were numerous—as, for instance, his speech to Ca
minius after Conlon. Nothing, however, exceeded
the familiar dignity and tenderness of that - to Tits.'
cilia on his return to Rome :
- “Thy gracious silence, hail !"
Wouldst thou have laughed had I come coil:tried
home,
That weep'st to see me triumph 3 Ah ! my dear,
Such eyes tho widows in ()orlon wear,
And mothers that lack sons." f
This, too—a speech before the Senate—was one of
the unnoticed excellences of delivery :
"I bad rather have one scratch my head the sun
When the alarum were struck than idly sit
To hear my nothings monstered."
The whole scene of the rabble excitement, when
Coriolanus is threatened with the Ta.rvion rook,
was finely worked and grandly climaxed, the antis-
Bodes of the scene giving all the opportunity which
the actor desired. Better exhibitions of theatrical
art merely are seldom seen in our general stage
tragedy than the group and agitation of this
tumult beating against the rock of Corioianue cha
racter. This speech of Mr. Forrest's could not be
surpassed:
"Thou wretch, despite o'erwhelm thee !
What should the people do with these bald tribunes
On whom depending, their obedience falls
To the greater bench;'. &0., &c.
The stormy nature of Coriolanus Is not easily
allayed, Mr. Forrest showed also how he could
create the tempest, how to develop it, how to sway
it, and how to break out again in determination :
cc Let them pull all about mine ears ; present me
With death on the wheel, or at wild horses' heels,
Or pile ten hills on the Tarpelan rock,
That the precipitation.might down stretch
Below the beam of sight, yet win I still
Be thus to them.”
uv• •• •••••• • ........,.... va—uscoolina..)111,1112111110.0711,3-31M1.17
rant in the delivery of Dlr. Forrest. Possibly we:
shall hear it complained that he has not
ranted enough by those who do not mark
a snore measured and less impetuous hate in the
parting speech of banishment: ,
"You common cry of curs ! whose breath I hate
As reek o' the rotten pens * * *
* * * * despising, •
For youtthe city, thus I turn my back:
There is a world elsewhere."
We pass on to the scene among the Volsoians, •
where Voiumstia and - Virgiiia entreat the delivery
of Rome from Coriolavus. Admirable as anything
he has done were the few expressions with which'
Mr. Forrest hinted the grief of his hero,
looked up In the sternness of • his vow.
This 'grand pathos subtly explained the
conquest of nature over the heart of the sold/or.
The Roman blessing conferred upon his boy, the
welcome to his mother, the final sorrowful sacrifice
of the fate which redeemed Rome and slew Corio.'
/anus, marked the happiest inspiration o£ the actor :
"Oh mother i mother ! •
"What have you done I Behold, the heavens do ope,
The gods look down, and this unnatural Beene -
They laugh at. ,,
This was as grand as granite. Another speech,
beating its rashness against the statesmanlike ad.
vice of Iro/uninia, was thus finely spoken :
Men. " Repent what you have spoke."
Cor. ,6 For them 1 I cannot dolt to the gods
Must 1 then do 't to them?"
Here Is the pride of the character In epitome, and.
Mr. Forrest gave the'key to its interpretation. 'The
crowning passages of this scene, "Away my dispo
sition, and possess me some harlot's "BMW,
ac., were not less judiciously and characteristically.
given. Again, in the second provocation before the
people, we have the storm unloosened, and the
"Berserker rage" of Coriolanua tearing the pie.
beian :
"The - "fires P the lowest hell fold In the people !
Call me their traitor" •' *
The expression of this was full of the experience.
of the chara9ter—the desperate repose after strug
gle and before catastrophe. In the last act we had
in general what was theatrically,•if not dramatical-.
ly, the finest representation.•lnthis scene, the actor.
Is full of ibis action, impetuous and grand, and,'
upon the spur of retort, rushes upon his fate as to a,
battle. More we Wish to say of the intellectual
triumph of Mr. Forrest. In the produetion of the
play he has done wisely and liberally in surround
ing himself with • all the' magnificence of stage
effect, and in giving to the life of the play
appropriate cestume and numbers. Those who sup
port him "have at least the merit of action and spi- .
rit ; and there are storm and cloud enough to justify
the actor's thunderbolt. Mr. Forrest has achieved
no 'ordinary success, even among his own many
striking successes, atd the whole production of
Is Ooriolanns," as it is presented at the Academy, is .
something of a revelation to our theatre. a -
Icsmowen Catorrs.—lf we did not lino w 'that the
Circus now at the Continental Theatre is the best
that hag visited the city for many years, we' should'
not give it such high praise. But it is really coin.'
plete, and many of its performances are wonderful.l
This week the management offers anew progranime;
introducing some trained dogs which give literally .
astonishing performances. Mr. Kennedy, .a
new
and capital clown, appears, and several remarkable
acrobats. The strict propriety of the entertainmene
s not the least of its .merits. .
Thanksgiving Proclamation of the Go.
vernor of Delaware. • :
STATE. OP-DELAWARE, •
EXECUTLVE DEPARTMENT.
In humble acknowledgment of. the •goodneSS and
mercy of Providence ; in gratitude to the Almighty
for innumerable blessings, and in conformity with
the proclamation of the President of the United
States :
I, WILLIAM °Ammon, Governor of the State of
Delaware, do hereby appoint and set apart Thurs
day, the 24th day of November instant, as a day of
thanksgiving to God;
For the courage and fixed determination of the
American people to preserve the liberties and the
integrity of the nation ; • -
,For the brilliant victories He has vouchsafed to
our 03811803
For the thousands of men, woman, and °Caldron
whom, during the past year, He has made free ;
For the prospect of an honorable and permanent
peace, through the suppression of the rebellion ;.
For the measure of happiness and comfort, health .
and strength, that He has given ;
For the protection of our parotids from harm, and
our homes and firesides from Invasion ; .
For the preservation or the peace of our State
during tlmee of great public excitement ;
For the rich products of the field, and the frog
and the vine, bountifully supplying all our wants.
And I do further recommend that the 'friends of
our soldiers and sailors, as far as practicable, share
generously with them what God has provided,and
gladden their hearts and nerve their arms; by Bend
ing such articles or substantial food as may be safe-.
ly conveyed to them in season for this.day of thanks.
and that in the same generous spirit your "kindneol
be cheerfully extended to their families rand that'
the poor and unfortunate may not be forgotten,
either in an abundant supply of food or in wiring
that the rigors of the coming winter may be temper
ed to them.
And 1 further desire that each and every person
may fervently and earnestly pray - to the 'Aimighty
to guide the counsels of our rulers ; to maintain the -
Integrity of our beloved country; to hasten the day.
of universal freedom ; to make us a purer add a
better people; to bring peace and happiness to our
land ; to suppress all evil aild sin, and to reunite us
more firmly than ever in the cause of justice and
liberty.
And as the nation now suffers by reason of the
unrighteousneSs of her people, let each citizen
humbly acknowledge his transgressions, and ask
that the love of. God may constrain him to purity
of life ; to unwavering integrity in business ; to
earnest and devoted patriotism ; tea manhood equal
to. the great responsibilities of the hour, and to a'
deep and.everpreEent reverence for the God of all
power, goodness, and love ; ; that fits favor may be
alms propitiated, and that we may show ourselves
worthy of the. Inestimable boon of olvii and ran=
ions liberty which He gave us through the blood
of our lathers. God save the Republic,' . • .
in testimony whereof I have hereunto set-my
and caused 'the great evil •of the State to ber
affixed at Dover this twelfth day : of Noieniber,ln
• they ear cf our Lord.ono thousand eight hucidred
and sixtY-four, and of the Independeriee of the
United States the eighty-ninth. .
By the Governor: WELLI.AIit 0 ill eoN.
SAIVL M. fleaargororr, Jr., Seo'y of State.
THE WAR,
MYSTERIOUS MOVES OF GEN. LEE
AT PETERSBURG,
Ills Line On the James Greatly Weakened.
AN EVACUATION OF THE TOWN SUSPECTED
Nine Unwired Rebels Entrapped at
.Atlanta,
WHEY EtTER. AS ROBBERS AND
REMAIN AS CAPTIVES.
BEAVREGARD STILL AT FLORENCE.
HIS MOVEMENTS CLOSELY WATCHED BY T 110311.9.
Price Driven Completely out of Missouri,
NO TIDINGS FROM GEN. SECEIVITA.N.
GRANT'S ARMY. '
vißixo AT PETEREAURG—WITHDRAWAL OP REBEL
TILOOPB—RUMORB OP THEE EVACUATION OP Pe.
TEMBEURG.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—Information from the
Army of the Potomac, dated yesterday, says a good
deal of firing was heard on Saturday la front of
Petersburg on the Appomattox, but, as far as has
been learned, without any important results.
Deserters report .that the rebel troops. on the
James river have all been withdrawn with the excep
tion of a skirmish line and enough men to man the
guns in the forts.
Up to yesterday morning there had been almost
continuous rain for thirty.six hours.
Rumors had reached the army that the enemy
was evacuating Petersburg, but they were not gene
rally believed.
The Monohansett came to Washington to-day in
place of the regular steamer Cossack, which 'ran
into a schooner on her downward trip. The Cos
sack accidentally ran aground near Maryland Point,
*hen It was discovered .that three holes .had been
knocked into her bottom, jest above the water-line,
In' her collision with the schooner. The steamer
Outdo came •to the relief of the Cossack, and took
off her mails and passengers and conveyed them to
Fortress Monroe.
DBATHS AT PonTßEss AfONROB.
1 . 013.M/2138 alownoa, Nov. Ig.—The following are
among the deaths in the hospitals at Old Point
since the last report: Dwight Williams, 203 d Penn.
sylvania, ; John F. Sharp, 55th do.; Tobias Brown,
199th do.; Andrew J. Rifle, 58th do.; Samuel A.
Chrifty, 188th do. ; Charles Di. Swift, 211th do. ;
Jacob A. Warner, 203 d do.
SHERMAN-BEELVIREGARD.
NINE IiIINDNIID REBELS ENTER. ATLANTA. YON
FLUNDIIN I AND ARE CAPTITIM:II-HOOD AND BEAU-
REGARD STILL NEAR ELORIINCE.
CIZIOIVITATI ) Nov. 21.—The Gazette'g Nashville
despatch says that military affairs are unchanged
and comparatively quiet. The rain continues, and
the roads are in bad condition.
Road and Beauregard are still in the vicinity of
Florence.
, Nine hundred rebels arrived at Nashville on
Saturday morning from Atlanta. Prisoners think
ing Atlanta evacuated, they rushed la- to pillage
and plunder, and were captured.
Tbe rebel sympathizers at Nashville are gloomy
and disconsolate in consequence of the anticipated
results of Gen. Sherman's movements.
Accessions to our army are arriving daily from
the North.
SHERMAN'S ADVANCE MOVEMENT—InitAIIRKG&RD'S
POSITION AT FLORENCE OF EXTREME DICLIOACY
BIINFALO, N. Y., Nov. 20.—Brigadier General
l3wrry, Sherman's chief of artillery, arrived here
yesterday seriously ill. lie left General Sherman
at Kingston, Ga., at nine o'clock, on the morning
of the 12th inst.
General Barry says Sherman has all the infantry,
cavalry, and artillery he wants. The men had re.
calved eight months' pay, and their outfit has bean
especially adapted to a hard and rapid winter's
campaign: The morale of the troops is unequalled
for efficiency and vigor, and General Sherman will
carry his army triumphantly through the work he
has to do.
On Monday night last, Hood's entire forces, in•
eluding Forrest's cavalry, were in the Immediate
neighborhood of Tusounnbla and norenco, Ala.,
watched by the troops under General Thomas, of
such strength as will render an invasion of Pew
nessee impossible, and even the withdrawal of Hood,
lor service elsewhere, an operation of extreme deli.
CaCy.
BBBBL REPORTS ABOUT SAISBILAN.
It seems to be the general impression of the Rich.
mond Journals that Sherman ismarohing on Selma.
They have no news of his movement except that he
was on the 18th near Macon. An.account of a bat
tle is given betweein 7,000 militia under Cobb, and
seem that the general belief that the rebels have no
foice to . oppose Sherxnan's advance is pretty well
founded.
BATBTY OP GENERAL OILLYhf.
Lonisvira.u, Nov. 29.—General Glllera is safe at
Knoxville, with his command. In the attack on
his outposts, our lose wounded, and miss
ing not exceed 400 men.
PRICE RETREATED OUT QS" MISSOURI'.
lIRADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE BORDER, CAMP
ARKANSAS, Nov. 8, via Fort Scott, Nov. 15.—T0
General Davies: We have just concluded the pin .
suit of Price, whose rear•guard crossed the Arkan
sas river, under lire of our guns. He left another of
his guns and his own carriage, which, with other
arms and equipments, have fallen into oar hands:
We are now rid. Of 20,000 or 30,000 half-starved bush
whackers and half-starved vagabonds, who I hope
inky never return to disturb the peaceful inhabitants,
north of the Arkansas river. He is also beyond our
posts of Fayetteville,'Fort Smith, and Fort Gibson,
which are now safe,
S. R. Cluiriti, - Major General.
DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF.
aNNERA.r., CANDY okr.a . SLIGHTLY WOUNDED.
Nxw Youx, Nov. 21.—The steamer North Ama
rioa has arrived, with New Orleans advlces of the
12th instant. The papers state that General Can
by,s wound Is not serious, and that he is doing well,
and will be confined to his quarters by It for only a
short time.
The cotton market was quiet, but more buoyant,
owing to the trade regulations being removed.
A Matamoros letter says that there is a large In
crease•in the trade between that port* and New.
Yolk. The amount of goods warehoused in 11.1ata;
moros is immense. .
The papers contain no military news.
NAVAL NAL
CAPTURES Or BLOCKADE-RUNNERS
Admiral Farragut cOmmunioates to the Navy De
partment Intelligence of the capture of the Prus
sian schooner Panoha Larppa, by the United States
steamer &iota, in October last, while attempting to
run into Velaeco, Texas: She had an assorted
Cargo.
InforMation from the West Gulf Squadron has
been received of the eapture, on the sth instant, of
the schooner John A. Hazard, by the U. S. steamer
Fort Morgan, laden with mediolnesmron, and other
contrabands of war. Also, tho capture of the
schooner Lone, by the same vessel, with a cargo si-
milar to that of the Hazard.
TILE DEPREDATIONS OP THE FLORIDA.
It appears from a memorandum book found on the
pirate Florida that she captured and burnt, from
March 29th to September 2Gth, the following ves
sels: 4 .
Ship Avon, of Boston, Mass., sixteen hundred
iota guano ; schooner Geo. Latimer, Bath, over one
thousand barrels flour and other merchandise ; brig
W. C. Clark, of Boston twenty:Elva thousand feet
of lumber; bark H. A. Stevens, of New York, with
lumber;
bark Golconda, whaling vessel, of New
Bedford, with eleven.hundred barrels of sperm and
seven hundred - whale oil.; schooner. Margaret G.
Davis, of New York, in ballast ; bark Greenland,
of Brunswick, with nine hundred tons of Govern
ment coal; bark Gen. Berry, of Thoniaston, hay
and straw ;• bark Seelinda, of Eastport, in ballast;
schooner Howard, of New York, with fruit; bark
Idondamin, of Baltimore light ballast. The Flori
da also captured the ship Southern Rights, but her
cargo being English, she was bonded. The steamer
Electric Spark, with an assorted cargo, was sunk.
THE ELECTIONS.
RETURNS FROM PENNSYLVANIA, NEW
YORK, ILLINOIS, AND MICHIGAN,
PENNSTLVANYA.
Eli Slifer, Secretary' of State, has addressed the
following letter to the Tribune:
Six: The statement made in the Tribune a few
days since, that the Derisocrats had several hundred
majority on the "Home vote," as oast In Pennsyl
vania, has brought hundreds of letters. from with
out the State for certified copies of the "Home
vote."
To save a very large correspondence, you- will
please state that the official vote, as certified to this
office, from moat of the counties, includes the entire
vote, without anything to alstinguish between the
votes polled at home and those in the army.
I have made application to the Prothonotarles for
separate returns, but am told that they have-given
the returns, as certified to theta by the Return
'
Judges and as that body has adjdurned sine die,
there is no way of getting them together - again.
It is therefore impossible to obtain the offloial
"home vote" from a number of the counties, and
as the vote was so close Its to require the °Motel
returns to decide It, the fact as to who had the
majority can never be known nor officially an
nounced.
Tito " Home , t and soldiers' vote combined, as re
turned for members of Congress, is as fellows :
•
Union 255,981
Democratic 242,122
---
Union majority • 13,859
Truly yours, ETA SLIPER,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
llenuisnuno, Pa., Nov. 19, 1884.
NEW YORK.
We haVe return,s' says the Tribune, from all the
counties In New - York State except Erie and St.
Lawrence. Without these two, the vote for Prod
dent'stands :
1864. 1860.
Lincoln 544,057 338,892
Democratic 943,798 297,618
Tinton majority
, Erie gives 812 Demogratio and St. Lawrence about
7,OOCUnIon majority. So that Mr. Lincoln's majo
rity will be• jest about 7,600. -The' total voto of the
State Wlll reach 780,000, or 55,000 more than in 1850.
leturns for Governor are full, except from Otte.
mung; Erie, and St. Lawrence. They foot up thus :
•
1864. . " 1862.-
Union .342,681 273,868
Democratic 340,629 • 288,614
Union . .. .... 052 Dem. maj.. 1046
The three counties to cot:nein will .bring Gov.
Fenton's majority up' to about 9,000. His vote in
all save the three counties named is 1;310 more than
'Lincoln% while Seymour runs 60 votes behind
McClellan.. There is, however, a mistake in the
vote for McClellan in Lewis county, where he has
900 more than given in onr table. This reduces Lin
coln's majority to 6,000, and leaves Seymour nearly
1,000 behind McClellan.
ILLINOIS.
The majority for Linooln and Johnson in Made
is 84,683. Gen. Oglesby. for Governor, has 35,000.
The Congressional vote in the First, Seoond, Third,
Sixth, Eighth, and Twelfth distriota is as follows :
FIRST DTEITILIOT.
Cook
Wentwoith's majority..
Union gain since 1662
SECOND DISTRICT.
This district elects General Sohn F. Farnsworth
(Union) to Congress by 12,621 majority.
THIRD DISTRICT.
Washburn°. Stiles.' ' Waehbnrne. Stiles.
Counties • Union. Dem. !enmities. _Milton. Dem.
Carroll.... ;..1.931 414; Ogle ' 3 236 LW.
Jo Dm/teas:: .2,604 1, 72118tepb en•on • .2, 696 1,231
Lea—. 2 662 I.lo7lWhiteelde.• .2,907 1,021
Total " 15.736
V.ra ah burno'a majority
Union gain ainco 1662
SIXTH DISTRIOT.
Cook, Casey, Cook, Casey,
Counties Union. De /11. ICounties. Union. Dam.
Dn Page 2.118 517 'Kendall 1,757 483
Grobd r 1 449 76.71 La Salle 6,199 4,491
Kankakee— . 2,118 5171Wi1l 3 262 2,897
Total
Cook's majority ..... ••
Union gala 6ince 1852
RIGHTS DISTRICT
Cullom, Stuart, 1
(lounges Union. Dem.i Counties.
Livingston... 659 .... DeWitt •• ••
Woodford.... •• . . 414 . Logan
Tazewell...... .. 140 Sangamon
- Masan 1,420 .•• • • 1
Total
Cullom'a majority 1 767
•TWELFTEI DISTRICT.
Baker, Morrison, Baker, Morrison,
Union. Dem I Union. Dem.
Randolph .... 206 C1int0n............46
M0nr0e....... 1,0651 Washington
St Clair..... 1.465
Madi50n..........
115 Total .... 1.601 1,433
Baker's majority
Diflefllt4AllT.
The returns by counties, as far as reeeived, are
subjoined :
Lincoln. McCgan
..."Maj. Maj.
Lincoln. IticC' lan.
M.J. MAJ.
Lapeer •••. • . • 300 •• • •
Lenawee 1 200 • ....
Livioaeton••..• • ••• 355
Macomb ....•• li9
:Midland 160 .• • .
Monroe ....... 672
oat m • 3.50
Mnekemon..— 2.50
rf ewaygo 160
!Oakland ...... • 40
Ottawa .. 200
Saginaw ...... 160
St Clair . . ..... 131
flantlao ' 933
IShiswaseee • • ISO • •• .
Allegan 300
Aipc-na • ..... 15
Barry 600
$ip..... .... • ...
13errien •• 250Braurh
1,583
Calhoun 1,200
Cass •••• 300
Clinton 115
Eaton • • •. 430
Genesee . 7;4
'dTraverse. 800
Gratiot .700
.13 ills - dale-- .2,109
Huron 150
Ingham 6
lonia . 834
fusee 98
Pabella 125
Ja el, son 107
Kalamazoo • • •1• 0 00
hest 465 •• .1 Totals. —16,091 3,734
Lincoln's majority on the home vote 11,257
The-above returns are from nearly all the coun
ties in the Lower Peninsula. When the full voce
(Including that cast by the soldiers) is announced,
the majority for Lincoln and Johnson will probably
exceed 20,000.
Horse.Stealers In Maryland.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 2L—Yesterday morning, at 3
o'clock, about forty rebels were discovered crossing
from Maryland into Virginia, above Edwards'
Ferry, having with them some fifteen er twenty
led horses and a number of head of cattle. They
are supposed to have crossed during the night.
The provost marshal of Montgomery county, as
soon as informed of the matter, made such inquiries
as led to the belief that there Is a concerted horse
and cattlestealing movement into Maryland by
Moseby's and other guerilla bands. The troop
was led by Harry °Motor, who left a note pinned
to a wall in a deserted building, stating that his
present raid was only a forerunner of what was to
CORM
Arrest of an Alleged Pirate.
TORONTO, C. W., Nov. 21.—A man, answering
the description of Captain Bell, the leader of the
Lake Erie pirates, was arrested at Guelph, C. W.,
on Saturday, and has been brought to this city,
Ills examination will take place to-morrow.
The Quota of New York State.
ALBA . PI Ir, Nov. 24.—Provoit Marshal General Fry
has written to Governor Seymour expressing a de
sire that a more careful examination be made in the
towns and cities of persons liable to military duty,
with a view of reaching the correct quota for a fu
ture draft. Governor Seymour has issued a procla;
mation accordingly.
Death of Ex•Glovernor Fairbanks.
BosTon, Nov. 21.—Ex-Governor Fairbanks, of
Vermont, died yesterday, at his home in St. John
burg.
• - Storm at Baltimore.
Bevrntorta, Nov. 21.—A heavy easterly storm,
which set in on Saturday night, still continues. •
NEW YORK CITY. •
NRlv Yomr, Nov. 21, 1884.
THE RVBNING STOCK BOARD.
10 P. M.—Stooks firm. Gold 221,E ; atter the call
222 X. New York Central 120 X, Erie 05X, Hudson
River 119 X, Reading 137%. Michigan Soutaern 70X,
Illinois Central 126, Cleveland and Pittsburg - 105,
Cleveland and Toledo 109 X, Chicago and Rock
Island 104 X, Fort Wayne and Chicago 103%, Ohio
and Mississippi certificates 36X, Cumberland Coal
47, Quicksilver 84X.-
MEETING OF THE FREEDMEN'S
RELIEF ASSOCIATION.
Large Assemblage at Concert Nall last Night,
Speeches by Bishop Potter, Boy. Phillips Brooks, Mr.
Benben Tomlinson, Mr. Wm. Y. Mitchell,
and Mr. C. D. Cleveland.
CONDITION OF THE FREEDMEN
IN THE 801JTH.
A Meeting of the Freedmen's Relief Association
was held last night at Concert Hall. Before the
time appointed for the opening of tho meeting, the
hall was closely packed with a large audience, at
least half of whom were ladies. The proceedings
throughout wore oharactitrized by great unanimity
of fooling, the audience seeming to coincide entire
ly with the sentiments of the speakers. The meet
ing was presided over by 'the Right Rev. Bishop
Potter, and was opened by prayer by the Rev.
Chas. D. Cooper, as follows :
Almighty God 1 we come ilitt) . Thy presence this
evening to ask Thy blessing upon the Muse which
has brought us together. We• ask .that Thou wilt
speed our labors in aiding and Christianizing the
unhappy bondman of ''the South,. Aid ns, 0 Lord !
in the work which we haVe in hand, for without Thy
aid we are as nothing. Vouchsafe us Thy presence,
that all those present shall go from , the hail with
full resolve to do their uttermost to help those who
have, by Thy blessing, been mide free, and those
who are yet enchaineo In bondage.
ADDRESS OF BISHOP POTTER
The Right Rev. Bishop Potter then briefly ad
dressed the meeting. Be said that the meeting
was held under the auspices of the Pennsylvania
Freedmen's Association. They meet to-night under
auspicious circumstances, although the skies are
lowering and the rain pouring aown, for in the
• horizon all is bright. The sun is beginning to Shine
and soon it will be full day. There is a purpose in
the people not only that the Union should not die,
but that elavery.ehould die. [Applause Re who
bad observed this contest in its beginning mast
have seen that it was necessary that slavery should
perish, and as events have transpired one after
another, they have prepared the way for the
emancipation of .all the Southern slaves. What
may be the effect of a sudden transition from
slavery to freedom has been a question which has
caused misgivings in the minds of many •of our
friends. But that has been well provided for in the
past, and Is being provided for by dur associations;
for by helping them yen help thepoor; being whom
they aid. • Two years and a half ago we met to
gether for the purpoSe of consulting as to the
means of helping the nogro,-and determined that
the best way to help him was to teach him to help
himself. A system of industry has been organ
ized, schools established which have already given
the most substantial proofs of * success. They are
not merely schools of letters, but of industry, neat
ness, order, and.of Ohristian charity. In one word,
they are the seminaries for educating the whole
nature of these people, and such schools have been
established in Alabama and Tennessee, and, most
successful of all, in the capital of our country; 40,009
pupils already throng the halls of these institutions.
we, who have come in at the eleventh hour of
this labor, claim no share - in the honor ; let it be
given to those who labored in the onset. The solu
tion of the question of liberty or slavery here is in
the progress of settlement, and affects the condition
of the whole African race. Slavery killed hero,
must die in- Cuba and Porto Rico, and then the
slave trade must die too. •
. SPILEOU 07 MR. B.BUDIEII TOMLINBQN.
Mr. Tomlinson,_on being introduced by Bishop
Potter, was warmly applauded. He said :
I appear before you this evening , at the request of
the Pennsylvania Freedmen's Aid . Association, for
the purpose of making a brief statement of the pro
gress and present condition of the Freedmen in the
Department of the South. Most of the freedmen in
that department are to be.found on Port Royal, St.
- Helena, Hilton Head, Ladles', Paris, and Ooosaw
Islands. These islands are usually described by the
general title of Port Royal. At St. Augustine, Fer
nandina, and Jacksonville, Florida, there are also
collected a considerable number of freedmen, but, as
I have already stated, the great proportion of those
withinour lines in that department are to be found
at Port Royal. There are in the department about
nineteen thousand freedmen, from four to five thou
sand of whom are refugees from the mainland and
from adjacent Islands -once occupied by our troops.
When Port Royal fell into our hands, about ten
thousand negroes and only one white man were
found there. And just. here let me say, that one
reason of the great success of the free-labor experi
ment in that department is found in the fact that
none of the old'masters were left behind to interfere
with the plane adopted for the elevation of the freed
men. Another advantage was this : We were so
entirely cut off from the mainland that there was
little or no danger of raids from the enemy, and
thus a measure of security, one of the most impor
tant conditions of regular and faithful labor among
an ignorant class of people, was obtained. Bat a
better and more substantial reason for our euccass
than either of the foregoing Is this : the negroes are
men and, being men, they therefore naturally and
inevitably do better under theconditions of freedom
than of slavery. I am speaking of men and women
who are just emerging from chattel slavery, the bru
talizing and degrading influences of which are of
course to be found in every thought, word, and deed
of their lives. And, in order that you may fatly ap
preciate their improved 'l:condition, you must con
stantly keep before your minds the loathsome pit
from which they have been dragged; and I would
hal/rayon also remember that it is we, and not they,
who are, in great part, responsible for the vice,
weakness, and ignorance that stand in the way of
their elevation. They are an ignorant people.
When our troops first occupied those islands I sup
pose there was not one person in a thousand—man,
woman; or child—that knew the alphabet. I want
to get clearly before your minds what their condi
tion was before I say one word as to what it now is.
As we understand the term, there was no such
thing as a domestic circle known among them.
They, of Course, saw its operations in.the families of
their owners, and, as the event proves, as soon as they
had the opportunity strove to realize for themselves
its benefits. • It is stated by all persons familiar with
the facts, that the negroes of, the Sea Islands of
- South Carolina were the most degraded to be found
anywhere in the South. The reason for this was, of •
course,•because they were so entirely out oft from
all contact With the outside world. Hundreds of
negroes on - those islands knew absolutely no other
world than the plantation or island on which they
lived. On'some of the plantations, from one year's
end to the other there was searcely ever any; white
man , seen, except the overseer.' Understand,' I
am not attempting to portray the horrors of
slavery ; I have not the power to do that.
I am only trying to show you some of the'
Tenons why slavery on those islands p..rodueed
greater degradation than elsewhere. Now let the
state. some ;facts facts sho*lng , the progreis of these
freedmen. In addition to the large crap of cotton
found on these islands when our troops took pos
130SeiOn, there were also found, inconsiderable Tian
titles, corn and potatoes. " These latter, or a great
portion or them, were taken for military purpose.,
and hence the negroca were compelled to draw more
lit the Way of "rations" f;om the Government Una
Wentworth, McCormick,
Union. Dem.
..<. 18,057 1 4 7
280
--2.642
7.425
8, RIL
4 600
....16.903 . 9,632
9.692
6 2U
..4,028
Cullom, Stuart,
Union. Dem.
1,4" ••« 2,640 853
SL •Tcaaph...• MO ....
Tuscola 400 •...
Vaa Baren•.• 574 ..
Waehtenaw.. •••• SOO
Wayne (Dot.) • ... 1,631
was best for them, or than Under other circumstances
would have been needed by them. The usual pittance
of clothing_ allowed by their masters had not yet
been doled oat to them,and really the greater port-lon
of the people le ft were inan almost naked condition.
Only those: , who have passed through a winter on
the sea islands can realize the suffering they felt
during that first winter of freedom. I have not
time to detail the various measures adopted and
carried out for their benefit during each successive
season since we have been among them. I content
myself with saying that, at the end of each season,
the mass of the people was in all respects in a better
condition tban when the season began. I went to
the Department of the South in the summer of
1862, under the auspices of this association. At
that time nearly all the freedmen in the depart
ment received " rations 1 ' from the Govern
ment ; at this time not-more than five hundred
rations aro issued, and they are only issued
to persons who would be paupers Under any circum
stances, and in some instances. to the wives of
soldiers. When our troops Mat entered that de
partment, the people were not even decently
clothed ; to-day they are well clad, and the. rare
thing is to find any one among those physically
able to care for themselves who is not comfortably
and well clothed. At the . sale of land which took
place at the opening of the season of 1863, four
plantations were bought by the freedmen living on
them, and worked -by them for their own benefit.
One of these places produced a crop of cotton worth
four thousand dollars aanother a crop worth fifteen
hundred dollars ; another a crop worth one thousand
dollars, and the other a crop worth between three
and four thousand dollars. At the sale of land that
took place at the opening of this season a number
of tracts of land were bought by other neoroes, a and
they have been well and faithfully cultivated by
them. The crop this year has universally suffered
from the ravages of the caterpillar, and this, in ad
dition to the fact that many of those purchasing
this year paid twenty and twenty-five dollars per
acre, will prevent them from realizing as much as
was realized by those that bought last year. Besides
this, all those lands reserved to be sold in small lots
to the freedmen, but not yet Bold, have been
worked by them for their own benefit with a
fair degree of success. One of the plantations just
relerred to, owned by Harry Mao Millam_whe was
formerly. ploughman on the "Eustis place," would
to-day, if sold with the stock and improvements,
• realize for him at least four thousand dollars. It
has been a common thing during the past season for
coloreG men to pay one, two, and three hundred dol
lars apiece for horses and mules. This will give
you come idea of the amount of money earned by
them. In addition to this, large numbers of the
freedmen are building .for themselves new houses,
and at the present price of lumber in that depart
ment this Is no slight undertaking. It evinces not
only the possession of meat's, but what is mace bet
ter. a desire to have for themselves a home which
they can call their own, and which may be made tlie
centre of comforts and joys heretofore unknown to
them. I am sorry that I-have not with me the
figures that would show the number of laborers
employed on the plantations last year and the
amount of money paid them. Instead of that, I
will give you a few individual oases, which will, I
think, enable you to form some judgment as to the
general prosperity of those who are employed as
laborers for others. And .let it be understood that
the sums or moneyl mention as having been earned
by the different parties are In all oases exclusive
of their provision crop and of the money received
by them from the wale of melons and vegetables
of Tallow; kinds. Anthony and Venue, both of
whom are over seventy years of age, received last
year as wages $194 80. Both of Leese people had
been " laid by," as It is termed..for several years,
but under the incentive of freedom and wages a
new spirit was put into their hearts; and fresh blood
in their veins and they workedont the result I have ,
given you. The following amounts were paid to
persons on " Coffin's Point Place" : To Aaron and
Judy, $236 48 ; Abel and family, $210.57; Amaratta '
and family, $335,24, ho., he. I might mention any
number of suite instances, but it is scarcely
worth while. Let it be remembered, too, that
this prosperity Is not the result•. of high -
wages. The people get fair wages, bat without in-'
dus try on their part, their present prosperous con
dition would have been an. Impossibility. I will not.
be understood as giving rose-colored pictures of the
condition of these people. I am too deeply Sensi
ble of the faults of their character and condition to
do anything of the kind. Bat whatever may be
their tapirs, laziness is not among them. Give them
lair inducements, and they are not only willing; bat
they are eager to work. There was, and still is,
some repugnance felt toward the old kinds of labor;
but just as soon as they realize that labor
on outran is as profitable as any other kind of la
bor. they perform It cheerfully. It seems to me
that I need say nothing more to convince you that,
in so far as the freedmen themselves are concerned,
their material prosperity at present, and in the
future, is secure. Oar duty toward them is another -
and different question' upon which, - though hold
ing decided opinions, I will not enter this evening,
except to matte this general remark that, if there
is. any 'class of peopte in the country wee have
priority of claim to the confiscated- lands of the
South, it certainly is that class who Dave by years
of suffering. and unrequited toil given, to those
lands any value they may now possess. And far
ther, that no - plan for the reorganization of South
ern society will be complete that does not include
the division of those immense tracts of land, and
their sale in limited quantities at reasonable prices
to the poor whites and the freed blacks of the South.
I ought to say a word with regard to the system of la
bor adopted under the wise and beneficent authority
of General Saxton, and which, so far as any system
can do it, has, in connection with other regulations
established by him for the government of the people .
,
assisted in developing a healthy and natural social
• mondition. Under this system no other compulsion
than the necessities of the people le resorted to, or
needed to secure from them faithful and steady la,
bor. The people work by the job entirely,
and they are thus enabled to choose their
dean time, and the proprietor -is not compelled to
watch them. The employers and laborers enter
into written contracts with each other, and then
both parties are held rigidly to the bargain. Each
laborer is allowed sufficient land on which to raise
provisions for himself, and is thus secured against
want of food. Under this system, simple and requir
ing but few agents to Carry it out, the people have
Steadily advanced toward independence. In my
opinion the Government did a wise thing in appoint
ing and continuing Gen. - Saxton as military Go.
vernor of the Department of the South. It has
been his policy from the outset to Interffire
as little as possible with the deemlopment of
the people. He has not attempted, as some have
Said, to force them into a position they were'unpre;
pared for, but has been satisfied with throwing
around them such protection as was absolutely ne
cessary, trusting to the natural course of events for
the-rest...General - Saxtonid an honest, pure, and
Capable man, and the friends of the freedmen and of
the country owe him a debt of thanks for the faith
fulness with which he halt fulfilled the duties of his
position in the face of many obstacles, and for the
Jealous care with which hp-has guarded the rights
of the poorest and meanest or those within his
jurisdiction, One word now as to the social
order existing among these people. They haVe
many vices and petty weaknesses of character,
but they are all of the kind you would naturally
expect:CO find among a people brought u p under the
system of slavery. These vices are, of course, see
rious obstacles in the way of their elevation, and
try seriously the patience and faith of those who
work among them.. Petty thieving and lying pre
vail, of course, to a considerable degree, but as a
set-off to this, let me say that they have a sense of
honor, which, under the circumstances, is very.re
markable. My room is open at all hours to all
comers, and there are often lying around arti
cles thin must tempt them, but I have
never yet had anything stolen from me.
The worst, at the same time the moat
natural, feature of their social condition is their
loose ideas on the subject of. marriage. This is a
matter that gives us more trouble than any other ;
but even in this regard great improvement has taken
place. And lam glad to think that there is gradte
ally growing:among them a public sentiment which
will in time be efficient in correcting this evil. They
have great respect for law, and for those in autho
rity. Any decision, no matter how unpleasant it
may be to them, is always submitted to quietly and
respectfully; no matter how unjust It may seem to
them, they are always satisfied when they know It
is the law. With regard to their progress in
educational matters, I regret my inability
to lay before yen facts that would oar
ry Conviction to your minds in • a way that no
general statements.of mine can do. The ordinaky
duties of my position, which take up all my time,
do not lead me into the schools, and, as I did not
anticipate when I came North being called on to
speak before a meeting of this . kind, I did not pre
pare for it. This I can say, however, I know of no
teachers in that department who tire not enthusias
tic over the progress their pupils make. I also know
that the adults show their appreciation of the ad
vantages of education by making many sacrifices
in order that their children may attend school.
..I also
-know many boys and - girls who
can both ask and answer ordinary ques
tions with regard to the geography of the
country, and who, in reading and writing, will com
pare favorably with white children of similar op
portuniiies. And to sum up all on this subject; I
knott of no reasonable human being, white or black,
in the Department of the South; who doubts the
willingness or ability of these children to avail
themselves of all the advantages of education, The
great need of that department, as l_suppose is the
case throughout the country, Is the mamas of educa
tion: There are teachers enough cent to the De
partment
of the South, but there is no adequate
accommodation for them and their pupa. Nearly
all the teaching during the past two years has been
carried on in cotton houses and barna, with no
- thing but Tough brards for seas, and without
proper light or ventilation. It is in this direction
that the benevolence of the North can make itself
felt.. Give the freedmen the protection of law and
the disolpline of law, and, so far as all their physical
wants are concerned, they can 'take care of them
selves. But they are not now, and will not be for
some years, up to the level of providing the means .
for their own education, and in the present state of
affairs the Government can do but little in that di
rection. It must, therefore, be attended to- by the
people of the North. And, ladles and gentlemen, I
believe the people will accept the work not only as
a duty, but as a pleasure. A way has been opened
through which we may to some. extent coat
pepsine these poor creatures for the wrongs
which by our connivance and sanction have
been inflicted upon them. Let us welkin that way,
remembering that education will not only tit these
children to meet worthily the responsibilities of
freedom but will make it certain that they can
never be re-enslaved. I wont from Morris Island
to Hilton Head in company with a rebel officer, a i
resident of Charleston, and a member of the South
Carolina Legislatiere. The .question was asked
him whether, in the event of oar being worsted in
the war, the South would re enslave the negroes.
Be replied that "he hardly thought it would be
practicable; the negroes would know too much."
Pour in, then, the sunlight of education
among them, that they may remain free,
and worthy of freedom. In conclusion, let me
say that the efforts of this Pennsylvania Freed
men's Association are known and appreciated
in the Department of the South, not only by Gene
ral Saxton and those who work with him, but by
the freedmen themselves, in whose behalf these
efforts are made. The Sunday before I came away
X took occasion to tell the people, after the church
services were over, wheat was that had sent down
to them the commodious and comfortable school
house which' stood opposite the church, and which
had received its finishing touches the day previous,
and I am sure, from the "Thank Gods" and
"Amens" that greeted me, that so long as that
building stands the name of the Pennsylvania
Freedmen's Association will be a pleasant and
gwateful sound in the ears of the freedmen of South
Oare/ina.
SPEECH OP MIL WM. g, MITCHELL
Mr. Mitchell, superintendent of the colored
schools in Tennessee, was next introduced. He said
he was here to represent a band of devoted tenotters
of benighted scholars, and, indeed,- of God's poor.
The progress of the army under General Sherman
has emancipated an almost innumerable multitude
of bondman, who have flocked to the North. Be
ginning at Nashville, we have between ten thou
sand and fifteen thousand colored refugees, forming
at least one-third of the population. Of these, the
contraband camps contain but a few hundreds. The
others, have industriously built cabins for them
selves in the suburbs of the city. Here is the first
colored school-house erected in Tennessee. It is the
gilt of the people of Pennsylvania to a benighted sis
ter. The teachers are competent, the pupils eager to
learn, and the pfincipal is a graduate of the Phi
ladelphia Normal School. A large amount of goods
are sent from the humble workshops of these pee.
pie to haughty England. With the name of Penn
sylvania, although they know but little of thegreat
Commonwealth, come grateful memories to these
colored people. (Applause-] The duties of a su
perintendent are multifarious. Letters are to be
written to soldiers' wives, complaints listened to,
and innumerable things attended to. The speaker
here read.a letter relating to this condition of thinks
among the freedmen in Tennessee. The letter re
lated.several very pathetic circumstances about the
poor negroes, who, with but little means of support,
drag out
.a wearied existence there, and are
yet happier than when they werein bondage. They
are in great need, and yet they all say that, although
their Caps have been dark since they have been free,
yet they are brighter than any spent in alavery. The
little.oolored children are frequently named after
their great friends of the North. Edward - Everett,
• Horace Greeley, and Andrew Curtin have plenty of
little namesakes in Tennessee. ,The most lamenta
ble circumstance of the condition of the Aid Society
in. Tennessee is the large number of women and
children who are constantly arriving. But , they
-who say that the colored people will not work
for themselves mistake greatly. The negro
knows the value of a greienbaok • as welt as
a -white . man, , and will work as hard for it.
In (menial) of women and children, and men unfit
ted for the army, enough was raised to support
thensalTee, and, but COI a raid Made by the rebels
upon them, to give to the Govesmolatt. At d r .
freesboro is the Caldwell School. Tnis is the th',., -
of the aohools numbering between. 300 and sse
puts. They also have a night school; conduotedre;
the Fame system at one was lately conducted
Raspberry alley, in this city; among the degrad,7]
there. When, by were c ut
order, all the ati,„„7
for the teachers were cut off, the eolonod pe.Vie e e „ -4
forward, and have since supported them. The 0 - 1 7„
dren are studying geography, writing, atrd wee"
To them their lady teacbers are the goin g pr1,. 4
earth. They hang upon their tit.s, and e
tate them in everything. The fourth scoot t ll 4 --(
as sociation is at Stephenson, Ala. It Is the rouge
est of all our stations. This School was organized
last spring - There is also a school here for the
education of the "poor whites," the most abje c t
people In all ore ation—negroes not excepted, h
of the most interesting points of our labors t;
at Huntsville, Ala., where the fifth school of our ea.
Sedation is located. The'princlpal's mine is itev er .
Shippen, a name almost classic here. The cotdtto
of ho colored people when' this school was e3t : .
blished was truly oeplorable. They lay about, a
died in the streets. Now their condition Is es .
tirely changed. Half of the population of Hu t t,
vide are black, and they number 1,500. Oat of
these only twelve draw rations from the Gove rn ,
went. The opening of the school F 73.4 a very lots.
resting occasion. The speaker here paid a tributs
to the Christian Commission; which he Fald h i d
indeed been true to freedom. In the adenin e „ f
teachers by our association a religious aphis k
deemed to be an absolute necessity, but sects are
not In the least regarded. All work together In the
noble task of elevating the nation's freedone e ,
Never before has such a field . whitened to the he t .
vest. and never has there been such a glorious a rel ,
of reapers. The speaker had visited In Tennesse;
an old mansion of one of the tc souther° prloatiott
The house and its adornments outside were splendid
in appearance and noble in design, but on entering
how different the prospect! All the ottametne
were destroyed ; the banquet hall was deserted,
All the furniture, except two pier-elass.e.
was mutilated and demolished. A few books were
left untouched. Near by were some dwellings or
the freedmen, which contrasted favorably with
of their former master: Oa the one hand were re.
hellion, devastation, and ruin ; on the other, r m .
dam, wealth, happiness.pp. A. 1
[ atiSe.] No on e
class of men stand higher, in the public estimation,
than the colonels of colored regiments. They a te e
noble set of men. I might speak of the noble
drew Johnson (great applause] ; him who has been
Chosen as &fitting companion for him who, wheuh l
was asked to revoke his proclamation of °mention.
tion, emphatically refused to contemplate such pa l
action.
SPEECH OF BEV. MR. BROOKS.
He said that after what had been said to-nieta
there need be no complaint in regard to want of in
formation at these meetings, as there had been i n
regard to previous ones. All could -go away well
informed. Every thoughtful, charitable man only
wants to know time things in regard to a projected
operation. lat. Ia this work necesaaryl 2d. Is it
practicable ? 3d. Dave the correct means been
adopted for its aid l Let us .coneilar these things
to-night. lie thought that he could answer an
these questions to-night. Ist. Is it necessary,
Let us go back a few years, when the ne.
gre was here among us a slave. In the
history of the land there have been but
three schemes in rezard to. the negro:
keep him in perpetual bondage. 2d —To emancipate
him gradually, and transport him to a distant
quarter of the world, where we would be troubled
with his reproaching ghost no longer, and 31, a
few dreamed that he might be emancipated, and
'yet kept among us. To the first question God aa.
swerea that the negro should not be kept is booth
-age, and we have lately leaned that the morel
means was utterly impracticable. So suddenly hat
the masa of freedmen been poured 'upon us, ;hat
transportation has become entirely out of the ques
tion. We come to the third means as a necessity.ane
we must acknowledge that for the solution of It we
are not indebted to those who have- held back from
us as long as possible, bat to the original Abe
• litionists. God, as it were, stepped in and chose it
for us. Tho Government could not take care of
these freedmen because it has as much as it cu do
elsewhere ; for though we believe it can • do all that
is necessary, we think that the people should tale
all they can off its handa. The brat recognition eta
negro as a, soldier was by the Government by its
' order for the enlistment of rae first colored regiments.
-They have established freedmen's schools in front of
Fort Wagner and Port. Hudson, and even before
Petersburg. And the negro stands welcome nos
by the side of the white man, and the cracking of
-his ritle.is each time the snapping of some one of
the fetters that bound him. The Government has
done an immense work, and Is going to do more.
They are taking in hand all the efforts of the citi
zens In the same directions. A freedman's bureau is
certain to be established by act of Congress the
coming session. The Government is at the head of
the school system in Washington; and, indeed, all
over the country. The second question is, is the
thing practicable t I believe that there is an utter
absence of proof anywhere that the negro 13 in
any way, intellectually or morally, at all inferior
'to the 'white man ; but this belief is not necessary
to the present question. The speaker then related
his experience among the emancipated freedmen is
-Washington and elsewhere, and glowingly de.
'ploted the contrast between their condition before
and after their emancipation. The white specula.
tore, shame to them, are making money oat of the
colored men who have been made free. The pre.
sent condition of the freed negro, as one can sad
upon the most casual observation, amply prover
that our second question should be answered in
the affirmative that it is practicable. Since Gene
ral Butler had solved the question which perplexed
the Administration In the onteerof the war by de.
°faring the negro to be contraband of war, It has
been settled that the emancipation of the negro was
practicable. [Applause.] We now come to our
third plan. This plan is the best because it is the
simplest : at once to emancipate them, to do it slowly,
and to colonize. By going through the schools we can
see how eintpiethe third plan Is. What we have heard
to-night proves it - amply.. In Washington there
are twenty.or thirty little schools, all well filled by
the colored thirsters after knowledge. The speaker
had stood in these schools and felt awed in the
presence of the teachers—women of education and
refinement, who had devoted themselves to this
glorious task. They labor even on Sunday—[ap
plause]—teaching the lessons of our Saviour. Tans
we see that the work is necessary, for God has
shown the way and said, "Dolt." It is practicable,
because it is in man's power, and can we not
see that the way adopted is the proper way,
by a visit to the schools and camps of the
colored people. [Applause.] The Ohrletianity of
the land EihoUld Identify itself with the greet work
of abolition" which is now being completed; that
this land may stand up with the Devil east out;
that'll, may look its God firmly-in the eye. May
God bless this work, and bless you in aiding soma
little ig the advancement of it. As the speaker con
cluded-he was greeted with tumultuous applause.
REV AVV . 9. OF BIBROP POTTER ,
Bishop Potter now Said that, the sitewS of warafe
the same in this land as in every other. All our
operations require money. Last year we resolved
to raise 8100.000. Fifty thousand dollars of this has
been raised, and now fifty thousand more are needed.
Let us not pause now, when our labors aro so much
required.
SPEECH OF C. D. °LEVEL LND I ESQ
Mr. C. D. Cleveland then read a resolution that
the sum of fifty thousand dollars be raised, to be
placed in the hands of the Freedmen's Aid Associa
tion,. in the furtherance of their noble work. He
said he had left this country three years ago, when it
was enslaved ; now , he came back to it rase.
For the last fifty years American citizenship was
no: worth a, snap of tholingers. Now it was worth
the world. We now see what a noble race we hare
been keeping' in the chains of bondage so long.
The spaakercompared the white men of Virginia
with tne aegroes of the same State, and said that
the best blood flowed in negro veins. "'Ley were the
first families of Virginia. He said this contest
should not be called a war, hut the slaveholders , re
bellion. He was a peace Dian, as he had always
been, and he was not r ow advocating a war, but the
employment of a mightypolice force to pat down an
organized mob. [Applause.)
The resolution offered by Mr. Cleveland was now
put to the meeting, and unanimously adopted.
A gentleman in the audience proposed that a sub
scription should ba taken up at once from those pre
sent, but on account of the difficulties of the pre
ceeding fie a crowded room, the proposition was not
adopted. The meeting adjourned shortly after half
past nine. • • •
LARGE Posrriva SALE oss Boors, Bso-
GAIIS, TRAPP.I.LING BAGS, .FELT HATS, &C.—The
early attention of pnrchaeers is• requested to the
large assortment of boots; shoes, brogans; travelling
bags, gum shoes, &c. ; also, women's and misses'
trimmed felt hats, men's caps, &c., embracing sam
pies of 1,100 packages of first-class seasonable
goods, of city and Eastern manufacture, to be pe3
remptorily sold by catalogue, on four months' credit,
commencing this morning, at 10 o'clock, by John B.
-Myers & (Jo., auctioneers, Nos. 232 and 231 Market
street.
DO 46 - 41IP VA. aujrizA
EYBRY DEBORIFT/O/f OF POPULAR HATS, for
ladies and children, including the celebrated " Con
tinental, for sale by Wood Sc Cary, 72i Chestnut
street. Making old hats new 12 also promptly ale
tended to at this establishment.
A SERIOUS CASE Oir BUILT TIVEATMICST.—The
Government, we see, has been swindled out of soma
two hundred thousand dollars in the way of reruns
and income tax, by the New York brewers. But
besides their beer they have been brewia , for them
selves trouble, and we hope Secretary Fessenden
will snake them hop around, teaching them bet
how to barrel up their beer, and stave oil their dues
to their country. 'While many brave and patriotie
sons are brought to their bier to support the coun-
try, these fellows, with their •beer, try to defraud
it. A suit of "true blue' , from Chas. Stokes &
under the Continental, should decorate one, and a
suit of half-and.half, such as they wear at Sing-
Sing, the other. .
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Careful study and experience has made them whit
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hair. Those who use them- have no gray hair or
bald spots. Every druggist sells them. SS-tali:73t
A DEsritArtLX SyruATION.—A young lady adver
tises for a young gentleman to act as an amanuen
sis. He must be able to write in cypher, and when
not engaged he will be expected to read poetry with
feeling. He must expect to be kissed when.she Is
pleased, and cuffed when she is not ; and if he Is
very good indeed he is to be treated once a year to
an elegant snit from the Brown Stone Clothing
Hall of Rockhill & Wilson, Nos. 603 and 605 Chest
nut street, above Sixth.
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PcaoEAßsas' may rely upon getting the best PtO
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BARMAINS IN GLOTICENG I
Bargains In Clothing,
Bargains in Clothing,
Bargains In Clot in
At Granville Stokes' Old Shod.
. At Granville Stokes.' Old Stspdi
At Gm:Mlle Stokes , OIL Stitt&
At Gvanviile Stokes' 014 Std
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sos Chestait Street.
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artificial gym Inserted. No charge for esanasiti°a'
Lanese' Finui--An elegant assortment at (. )) 1.?: 64
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