The Maricttiatt. F L faker, Editor. ~,,,,,, 54fok Vol Ting, "..Eebtliqqj tO, 186 a. or A letter from Chicago says: -Mrs. Page, a widowed daughter of Major General B. M. Prentiss, of Quincy, 111., committed suicide on the 12th, while at the house of her father. On the morn ing of that day, she appeared unusually downcast and sad, and finally she told some of the family that she was going into the back yard, and that they need not look for her return for some time. Before going• . ont of the door she took the precaution to draw the curtain, of tho window which looked into the yard. As she passed a colored woman in the yard, sho told . her that she was going to make way with herself, and left direc tions for her burial. The woman_ sup posedplip• vas joking and took no notice of it. The lady not returning for som.s time, swab was instituted, and her life leas body Was found in a cistern near the stable. We have no farther particulars. It will be recollected that some time since General Prentiss and his son were fined five dollars each for horsewhipping a young man who was paying attention to this daughter. Whether this fact has any conne . otion with the suicide re mains to be developed. e f r The law passed by the Louisiana Legislature for the government of the freedmen reduces them almost to estate of slavery again. To talk of 'freedom" with such a law on the statue book is only a mockery, There is no liberty to make contracts for six months, or for three, or to make none, but the laborer is bound by law to make •a contract of some sort during the first ton days of January for the whole .year. 'He may not be offered a dollar a month for his labor—he is boned by the law to take the best he can get during those ten days. The planters may make what agreement they may choose as to price they have only to hold out ten days and the laborer must either assent to their terms or take the consequences of vio lating the law. The freedmen must hire by families when they exist, and the contract withotbe head of the family is binding on = all the members. 4 ' Only one half of the wages is to be paid as fast as earned, and if the laborer leaves before his contract expires he forfeits all that is due him. ter A lady in Union county, Ky., a short time since, sold her land and re ceived some eight hundred or a thousand dollars in cash. A night or two after a stranger called at her house and demand ed lodging for •the night. After some hesitation he was admitted. Later in the night he was aroused by the lady, Wile told him 'that three or four men were trying to break into the house. The stranger. arose, seized his pistol, told her to go down stairs and get be hind the door and' open it when he directed her. 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