school at this point, where she has laboured Northern men for preaching the Declaration so hard, and so successfully.

"Assuring you of the highest respect and esteem, I am, dear sir, your obedient servant, "HENRY SWEENEY,

"Capt. and Gen'l Supt. R. and F. for E. Arkansas.

"Helena, Arkansas, June 30th, 1866."

THE COLOURED TROOPS. The report of A. A. Gen. Foster, which accompanies that of Gen. Thomas, presents a schedule of all the coloured troops enlisted during the war:

of Independence. For five and six years past, slavery has exiled tortured, hung, and burned Southern men for fidelity to the Union. But the sure mills of God grind slowly on, and slavery is abolished.

We have entered upon a new era. Already men are shot by stealth in the late slave States because they declare justice to be the best policy. Already school-houses are burned and teachers hunted away because they seek to enlighten the minds which slavery had darkened. Already the New York World, and the other lackeys of slavery denounce Southern men who were true to the Union through fire On the 15th of July, 1865, the date on and flood, as "cravens and cowards." which the last organization of coloured troops was mustered in, there were in the service Memphis, hatred of the principle of equal of the United States, 120 regiments of infantry. friendless and unfortunate part of the popularights before the law massacres the most Numbering in the aggregate................98,938 tion; and in New Orleans, the advocates of Twelve regiments of heavy artillery...15,662 the same principle, meeting to discuss the Ten batteries of light artillery.. 1,311 subject, are ferociously murdered.

In

But still

Seven regiments of cavalry............ 7,245 the slow mills of God grind on. The seed of Grand aggregate 123,156 equal rights will be watered, not drowned, by It will surely grow The foregoing is the largest number of the blood of the sowers. coloured troops in service at any one time into a harvest which no storm can destroy. during the war.

The entire number of troops commissioned and enlisted in this branch of the service, during the war, is 186,057.

The loss during the war from all causes, except mustering out of organizations, in consequence of expiration of term of service, or because service was no longer required, is 68,178.

Gen. Foster adds:

The reputation of the organization for efficiency, good conduct and reliability, has steadily advanced, and the reports of the officers of the Inspector General's department, so far as they have come to the knowledge of this office, are very satisfactory as to its present condition.-Freed-men's Bulletin.

It will bear its natural fruit of national peace and prosperity; and in the happy day of its ripening, those who sought to destroy the seed, whatever their station, whatever their temporary power, will be remembered as the murderers of Lovejoy and the assassin of Lincoln are remembered.

The President knew, as everybody else knew, the inflamed condition of the city of New Orleans. He had read, as we had all read, the fiery speeches of both parties. He knew, unless he had chosen wilfully to ignore, the smothered hatred of the late rebels toward the Union men of every colour. He may have considered the "Conservatives" wise, humane and peaceful.

He may have thought the Radicals wild and foolish. He knew that the Mayor was a bitter rebel, whom he had pardoned into office. He knew that the courts THE MASSACRE IN NEW ORLEANS. had denounced the Convention, and he was The late tragedy in New Orleans, terrible expressly informed that they meant to indict as it was, will be of the most salutary effect. the members. He could not affect ignorance Thirty years ago, slavery shot Alton for de- of the imminent danger of rioting and bloodfending the right of free speech. Year after shed. Still, if, as he constantly asserts, year, slavery insulted, threatened, and mobbed Louisiana is rightfully in the same relation

to the Union that New York is, he had no authority to say a word or to do an act in that State except "on application of the Legislature, or of the Executive when the Legislature cannot be convened." Why did he presume, then, to judge of the authority of the Convention? What has the President of the United States to do with the manner in which delegates to a State Convention are selected. If his own assertion be correct as to the present relation of Louisiana to the Union, the President convicts himself of the most extraordinary and passionate act of executive usurpation and federal centralization recorded in our history.

He knew that a simple word to the military commander to preserve the peace at all hazards would prevent disorder and save lives. He did not speak that word. Assuming to plant himself upon the Constitution, which by his very act he violated, he telegraphed to the Attorney-General of the State. He threw his whole weight upon the side of those from whom he knew, in the nature of things, the disorder would proceed, and from whom it did proceed. He knew the city was tinder, and he threw in a spark. Every negro-hater and every disloyal ruffian knew from the President's dispatch that the right of the citizens to assemble and declare their views would not be protected. The Mayor's proclamation was a covert but distinct invitation to riot. He announced to a city seething with hatred of the Convention, that it would "receive no countenance from the President." It was simply saying, "The Convention is at your mercy."

of authority to utter, except by the same right which empowered him to save all those lives; a right which he declined to exercise.

The President, who has undertaken by his own arbitrary will to settle every question of the war without consultation with the representatives of the people, says to the murdered men in New Orleans, "Why did you assume to act without obtaining the consent of the people?" The autumn elections will terribly echo that question. Surveying the Executive action of eighteen months, with its plain tendencies and apparent inspiration, seeing that it has left the President with no other party than the most vehement of the late rebels at the South, the Copperheads at the North, and the timid and trimming adherents of the Union party, while the great mass of sturdy Unionists in all parts of the country at the North and South, still maintain the ground they have always held, those Union men will write upon the back of every ballot they cast at the coming elections, "Usurpation will not be tolerated; " and upon its face, " Why did you assume to act without obtaining the consent of the people?"-Harper's Weekly.

JAMAICA.-Under the new Government the six official members of the council will be the Major-General commanding, the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney-General, the Secretary of Finance, the Secretary of Roads, and the Collector of Customs. Of these, the Colonial Secretary and the Secretary of Finance have been appointed from England. The council will also consist of six nominal members not yet appointed. It is stated that the office of Attorney-General will be conferred upon a gen. tleman not connected with Jamaica.

And the mob so understood it. A procession of negroes carrying a United States flag was attacked. It defended itself; and the work In the case of Provost-Marshal Ramsay, which one word from the President would charged with murder, the Attorney-General have stopped, and which he had the full au- and Solicitor-General of England have decithority to speak if he could speak at all, went ded in favour of the views of the Advocateon to its awful result. The rebel flag was General of the Island, that the office of again unfurled. The men who had bravely Provost-Marshal being a military office, held resisted it for four years were murdered under by Mr. Ramsay during martial law, and in a its encouragement, and while they were still district subject to martial law during a time lying warm in their blood, the President of war, the acts done were done as Provosttelegraphed that they were "an unlawful Marshal, and therefore the justices, as a assembly," and that "usurpation will not be civil tribunal in the time of peace, are not tolerated,"-words which he had no shadow competent to decide the question.

EAST.

DESTITUTION AT ST. THOMAS-IN-THE-40,000 acres of land, but most of them were heavily mortgaged. "He took an interest in every good work which was presented to his Keen in debate and fearless in disnotice. charge of duty, he was also gentle in temper, and incapable of cherishing the feeling of re

him, and obtained his natural reward-the hatred of all whom he condemned."

Among those whose public conduct he condemned was the late Governor of Jamaica, Mr. Eyre, whose name we have been lately told by Mr. Charles Buxton will be covered with infamy on account of his treatment of his political foe.

At a meeting of the North Cornwall Association (Missionary), in Jamaica, on the 24th of July, the Rev. W. Teall, on his return from a visit to St. Thomas, gave a harrowing picture of the suffering and destitution of the people. | venge. He testified against the evils around "We heard enough," says a Jamaica paper, "to satisfy us that little is known of the sufferings endured, the barbarities practised upon the people of that unhappy parish. The people could hardly sit quiet as they listened to the accounts of burnt houses, destroyed fruit trees, suicide committed through fear, hangings, floggings, &c. Everywhere when Mr. Teall became known the people flocked around him and urged that a mission might be commenced amongst them without delay. It was painful to hear from the speaker that as he appeared in the different villages the people literally fled from him, a white man in the place being an object of terror." How can it be otherwise? cellent and pious wife, an English lady, he We long to see something done for this was in the habit of devoting himself to the rewretched people. They ought not to be for-ligious instruction of the people with whom, gotten and forsaken.

GEORGE WILLIAM GORDON,

BY W. MORGAN, ESQ.

Of George William Gordon I will only speak briefly. His aged father, Mr. Joseph Gordon, was one of my first visitors. This venerable Scotch gentleman was possessed of a large income, and exercised great influence in the old days of Slavery. He had 9,000 slaves under his care at the era of emancipation. By his

Mr. Gordon, being a member of the Independent Church at Kingston, was baptized at his own instance, at a comparatively recent period by the Baptist Missionary, Mr. Phillippo, on a public profession that his views on bapWith his extism had undergone a change.

in his frequent journeys in the island, he might happen to be. He often conducted public worship. Not long before the close of his life he opened a place of worship in Kingston, and habitually preached there. These proceedings, so contrary to those of other gentlemen of his own rank, drew down much odium upon him. Like his Master, "he was hated by the world because he testified of it that its works were evil." Like Him, he had at length a brief

imprisonment, and a painful ignominious

death.

HENRY VINCENT, ESQ.

Henry Vincent, Esq., of London, has recently sailed on a visit to the United States of America. Mr. Vincent is a highly respectable gentleman, and one of the most eloquent He has always emorators in this country.

coloured housekeeper, a slave, he had eleven children, of whom George William Gordon was one. When his housekeeper died he married a white lady, and I fear his coloured children were somewhat neglected. However, the son who has become so celebrated possessed great energy of character, and made his own way in life. He entered into trade as a mer-ployed his powers in furtherance of the inchant in Kingston, and acquired large posses-terests of freedom and morality. On what is sions. He became a magistrate, and a member now known as the American question, Mr. of the legislature. In an evil hour he began to purchase and cultivate estates, which proved to be unprofitable, and caused great embarrassment and loss. At his death he was the nominal owner of estates extending to some

Vincent has been as true as the needle to the pole, and during the great American struggle his earnest utterances were heard throughout our country. We warmly commend him to the citizens of the United States.

THE FREED-MAN.

RESTITUTION.

No event in our time has received a larger share of public attention than the "Outrage in Jamaica." The thrilling accounts of the cruelties practised on the helpless people were read by millions with feelings of mingled indignation and pity. The excitement was so general that the government appointed a commission consisting of men of great ability and large experience. They were accompanied by legal advocates, sent by voluntary subscription, to watch the proceedings of the royal commissioners, and to aid in the enquiry. The wrongs of the people were brought distinctly into light. Parliament endorsed the report, and the civilised world has had ample proof that the official representatives of the British nation have committed atrocities hardly surpassed in the ages of barbarism in any part of the world. Our current literature contains many a page of keen invective on the subject. Vast assemblies have listened to recitals that have called forth shouts of indignation, and in the pulpits of the land Jamaica has been the theme of eloquent declamation.

The practical result has been in some proportion. The Jamaica Assembly, after the selfish and unjust legislation of more than "a quarter century," has put an end to its own existence, having "no space for repentance." An autocratic government has been nominated to indicate that the island is not yet in a condition for the initiatory stages of freedom. Even this appointment is regarded as an advance on the former state of things.

It is anticipated that, whatever may have been the loss sustained and the suffering endured by the neglected negro population, the material interests of the island will gain immensely; trade and commerce will be placed on a more equitable and substantial basis; the state of the colonies will be better understood. In addition to these advantages, it has been determined in the spirit of patriotism to assert the right of the subject, and to give additional security to constitutional liberty, by bringing to trial the ex-governor of Jamaica, with some of his civil and military subordinates. It is said that twelve thousand pounds are raised or promised for his defence, and it is proposed to increase the