12 18 6 1 6 Per Mrs Clark, Leamington ... 2 2 Messrs. Morgan and Sons, London 3 3 Mrs. Finlay 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 12 O 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 "I live at Long Bay, on my own place which I work. The same Friday in Decembe last year that defendant flogged my daught Charlotte Scott, I was taken before him 0 Mein's shop at Long Bay, in this parish one Michael Pearcey, a constable. May Johnston was taken with me. Defendant aske Mary Johnston, 'Did you not hear Mrs. Colis wanted to catch one of my barrows in place of one of her hogs I poisoned?' Mar told him, 'No;' and he swore her on a B and she still said, 'No.' He then said to he You see that cocoa-nut tree? That woms: (meaning me) is to be tied to it and get s 50 lashes, and if you refuse to tell me what that 0 10 O woman said, you will get the same.' The 0 10 0 Mary said, 'Yes, she did hear me say I would 0 10 0 catch one of his hogs.' He ordered Pearcy 5 0 to put me up into a room. Pearcey did so 0 4 4 and awhile after brought me out, and ther 05 O defendant ordered James McComock Reid to 0 10 0 tie me to a cocoa-nut tree. Reid tied ry 0 10 0 hands and feet to the cocoa-nut tree and palled down my clothes to my waist, and defendan ordered him to give me thirty lashes, which Reid did, with a cat, on my shoulders. Ibled much, and was sick two weeks. I have the marks still. Mr. Christopher Codrington and Mr. Mein were present when I was flogged. Before martial law defendant poisoned a heg 0 0 2 6 0 2 6 0 2 6 0 2 0 2 0 2 6 6 6 2 6 The man who administered the flogging, refrains from instructing the Governor to take James McComock Reid, said: any further step for the prosecution of the "During martial law I flogged Elizabeth accused. "At the same time," he adds, “if Collins with a cat on her naked shoulders, at the local feeling has undergone any change, Long Bay. She was tied hands and feet to a or if anything has occurred which in your cocoa-nut tree. I gave her more than twenty judgment makes it more probable that a fair blows. The cat was made of black fishing and impartial investigation could be oblines. I did this by Mr. Christopher Codring-tained in the cases of these persons, you are ton's orders. He was present and saw me do of course at liberty to proceed." it. The woman's back bled. Mr. David Mein was on the left hand, with a sword." Mr. James Codrington, who, it is pointed out, had not even the questionable justification of being a magistrate for ordering flogging, appears to have resorted to that mode of punishment upon very slight provocation. One, Ann Galloway, gave the following evidence against him : T "On Wednesday, the 18th day of October, In reference to these and similar cases the Earl of Carnarvon writes to Sir Peter Grant, under date of January 31st, 1867, that he has read the depositions "with the deepest regret, both at the unwarranted acts of cruelty which, upon the face of the depositions, appear to have been committed by some of the parties accused, and at the evidence which those papers contain of the political prepossessions by which unhappily the grand jurors have allowed their minds to be influenced in the discharge of their judicial duties." As there is nothing, however, in Sir Peter Grant's latest despatch to lead to the hope that a better feeling existed among the class from which grand jurors would be selected, his Lordship REV. W. H. JONES. Our active and persevering friend, in a note dated April 15th, 1867, sent us the following report of his meetings with an account of his expenses. In the strain and pressure upon us in connection with the Bazaar, the note was laid aside, but it is due to our zealous coworker to give insertion to his account. The items do not include the sale of little publications. This is an innocent and useful business that Mr. Jones is quite at liberty to manage in his own way. The sale of the FRFED-MAN is the only item we expect him to report. CONTRIBUTIONS. Received for British and Foreign Freed-Men's Aid Society. ... £ s. d. Sale of copy of " Abraham Lincoln " 046 Miss Ludlow, Refreshment Stall... 10 16 7 Mr. Plummer for FREED-MAN 200 Rev. G. A. Coltart, after a Lecture by Mr. Jones, for Canada John Carr, Esq., annual subscription 3 Rev. G. A. Coltart, after Lecture by Rev. W. H. Jones to children Mr. Rimmel's stall. 1 9 4 0 13 0 SURPLUS LANCASHIRE DISTRESS FUND. THE WESTERN CHARACTER VIEWS OF A NEW YORK EDITOR. Theodore Tilton, editor of the New In Independent, who has been on a Wer lecturing tour, wrote to his paper, from "T Illinois Prarie," as follows: "Probably no people in history, 80 y as ourselves, have developed in so shortati so many different types of human characar 3 9 10 the American. Thus the New England racter is distinct from any phrase of mak which the world has ever before seen. I Yank e is a new product among the n Even Shakspeare has left no sketch, no of any such creature as Brother Jonath But the New England character of to is just as individualized, just as takeable, just as original as the Bra Jonathan of the caricatures. A Boston cannot, if he tries, conceal from a short observer the marks of having been brought in Yankee-land. A meeting was held at Wolverhampton recently, under the presidency of the Mayor of that town, at which a resolution was passed in favour of applying the surplus of the Cotton Famine Relief Fund to the relief of the distressed Freed-men in the United States. Anxious as we are to promote the interests of the Freed-men, we are by no means certain that the persevering efforts made by some of their earnest friends to obtain the surplus of the Cotton Famine Relief Fund, is either wise or equitable. The Earl of Derby in reply to a deputation which waited upon him recently, "Just as unmistakeable is the Southern c racter. You know it at a glance. It res itself in the manner, the gait, the hai, complexion, the pronunciation. And it its beautiful excellencies as well as its enti deformities. "But the Western character is, on whole, the most representative of all Ar can types, and best expresses what is ca the American idea. The Western is newest of American characters. It is a plucked from the rocks of New England an transplanted in the prairies. Qui transtu sustinet.' But the present Western charact is to undergo great changes-greater than t Southern or the Eastern. The typical final Western man does not yet exist; for best Western men are, as yet, partly Easten Many of them were born, reared and marri at the East. But climate influences che Western skies, land and lakes ar made certain remarks which in substance we gave to the gentlemen who are urging on this matter now two years ago; namely, that their application was one rather to be made to the Court of Chancery than to the Prime Minister. The gentlemen who have the matter in hand proposed some time since, to obtain the legal opinion of Mr. Thomas Hughes and of Mr. Ludlow. We ventured to assert when this proposal was made, that whilst we attached the highest value to the opinions of these gentlemen, it would without doubt confirm our own view, that according to the doctrine upon which the Court of Chancery has acted in similar cases, a doctrine known as the cypres" doctrine, our Courts would probably hold that the funds contributed for the relief busy at work moulding the souls of th of Lancashire operatives suffering from Western people. The process is now g famine, upon the famine being mitigated forward-the result cannot be guessed." should be applied in some way for the benefit of those for whom the fund was originally racter. accumulated. There are many such objects Printed by ARLISS ANDREWS, of No. 7, Duat that it would be easy to suggest. Street, Bloomsbury, W.C. L THE FREED-MAN. THE FREED-MEN. BY REV. EDWARD ANDERSON. Ar the late anniversary meeting of the American Missionary Association in Boston, Mr. Anderson spoke substantially as follows: "I remember, two years and one half ago, marching with the U. S. troops nto a town of Mississippi where Yankee soldiers had never been seen before. The news of their arrival spread among the colored people, and in a very short ime the town was filled with negroes. They had left their masters, thrown way their old clothing, and arrayed in their best clothing came into town, in he expectation that they were to be cared for by the government. They were old that they must return to their masters, that contracts would be made for hem and that they must labour and support themselves, and after they were nade to understand the matter they returned to the plantations they had left. Many of their masters refused to receive them. One stalwart man returned with his arm lacerated by a pistol-shot. On going back to the plantation he had left, and informing his master that he had come back to work, the brutal white man replied, 'You have thrown away your rations and your furniture, and now you can go back to the Yankees, and carry that with my compliments,' lischarging his pistol at the former slave as he spoke. The freed-men complained that their position was worse than when they were laves. The government refused to care for them, and their old masters to reeive them, and it seemed almost impossible to answer the question, what was o be done. The question is now answered. To-day these slaves are at labour. They have secured homes, with their families about them and their children in chool. At Atalanta a tract of forty-five acres has been divided into little lots nd sold to the colored people, to be paid for in monthly instalments. To-day n almost every one of those lots a cabin was erected, a garden planted, and verything is showing signs of thrift. There is also a lot assigned to the poor hites. Instead of cabins, that is covered with tents. There are to be found either gardens, fences, nor any signs of cultivation. The men lounge |