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jtu aiutuKb m uie iuture. »OUR LAKE PROVIDENCE, LA., CORRESPONDENCE.EBI’iA Great Gathering of Negroes—Incipient Movements towards their Organization itato Regiments—What they think of the p(Measures—Their Willingness to enter iWo £€ the Work—Roster of the Three Reymwts bt to be Immediately Raised—A Biographical Sketch oflColonel John G. Iilinck.Special Correspondence of the Inquirer.Lake Providence, La., April 11,1868. Colonel , Klincr, the leader of the Government movement in behalf of the negroes of this section, yesterday called a meeting of all the blacks who were able to attend, at two o’clock this afternoon. The WJ hour had no sooner arrived than a concourse of about ! la six hundred negroes, of both genders, gathered at ( the place designated. j inWithout any formality of organization, Colonel | aj ! Klinck immediately proceeded to address the le | crowd. He explained at length the policy of the Government, what it intended to do towards the negro, and what it expected in return from them. He spoko of arming them, and what would be required of them when armed; in a word, every point was fully and satisfactorily explained. Having finished, he took a vote to see how many were willing to go into the service. The vote was unanimous. This was what tho negro wanted. At first he was full of fear; he is now full of confidence.Amongst the speakers of the occasion was H. Ford Douglab, private in the Ninety-fifth Illinois Infantry, a negro, but a person of no ordinary intellectual attainments. His words had great influence over his brethren, and went tar towards establishing that confidence which was necessary to the success of the enterprise. It is difficult to tell what the neeroes think of these new* mea^nres, for if the truth be told, but few of them have the faculty of thought. However, their actions exhibit a determination to embark in the onierprise. I have yet to see Lite first able-r. | bodied black man who is not already in the cause, d Those of the race in these parts have set out well.■v j As the negro movement is something new, I cm-body here the roster of the three regiments now j3 ! raising. It is pot intended that three regiments shall pc j constitute the entire nepro force to Is? recruited, but „ all that are willing will be received, whether there bo , one hundred regiments. Thus lar the w ork pro- , grease? finely. Tue following “special order m.ikc? j 111 the appointments of the Eighth Louisiana, as the first ruisad in this vicinity is numbered Lake Providence, La., April 11, 1863.—Special Order, No. —. 1. Tho following officers, non-commissioned officers and privates, are announced as the officers oi the Eighth Regiment Louisiana Inlantry Volunteers of Afncan descent. They will be uetailed j j from their respective regiments to raise the troops,' and as rapidly as companies, battalions and the E i regiment are formed and organized they will be mustered out of the service and discharged, and be mustered into the new regimouts:—Colonel—Hiram Scofield.Lieutenanb-Colonel—Eerd. E. Peebles.Major—Charles E. Compton.Adjutant—T. Sumner Greene.Regimental quartermaster—ChristopherN. Wilson. Surgeon—N. N. llorton.Assistant Surgeon---.Captains of Companies.—Lyman Ranks,Compa- ! ny A : Orlando I.. Eastman,-Company R; William Par- r.?-kinson, Company C; Francis M. Pickett, Company j *. — , D; Frank Rishop, Company E; George E. Dolphin, j , ’ j Company F; Mark Hathaway, Compam G ; Walter j re j F. DevOraux. Company H: Joseph L. Coppic, Coin- j Jc • i pany I; D. W. C. Wilson, Company K. j I 2. Requisitions for anns, clothing, and camp and J {V J garrison equipage, will be made upon the proper ' 1... e- I staff dcpartmeut? at this place and at Memphis. Each I soldier will Le furnished with one coat, one pair of overall*, two shirts, two pairs socjtn, one cap, on© pair of shoes, one blanket, one knapsack, one canteen and one haveisack. They will receive the compc uaa-tion as soldiers, provided by the War Department.3. When fully organized, the troops will be reported to Major-General U. S. Grant, commanding Army of Tennessee.By order of the Secretary of War.(Signed) L. Thomas, Adjntant-General.Organization of the Ninth Louisiana Colored Regiment.FIELD Or FI CERS AND STAFF.LapUColonel—Jlt;»lm Klinck.Li.-uteuanL-Colonel — Van B. Young. Major—1 heron Tuc ker Adjutant—S. 11. Ingham. Quartermaster—Prau K. Fkinner. Surgeon—J. M. Bowen. 'Assistant Surgeon—Ainos C. Davis.j Logan Crawford, Co. 1. -i a;*John it. T'h°mIson, Co. 1; 11 tram L. ltandall, Co. K. Organization of the Tenth Louisiana Colored Regiment.FIELD OFVICKKd AND 8TAFF.Colonel Herman Lieb. l.ieutenant-Colonel—i harlcs L. Page.Major— r.rastu.- II. Owen.Adjutant—Bussell 1. Neal.Regimental Quartermaster—Charles M. Clark.Surgeon— ---.Assistant Surgeon---.Caktaiss of Companies.—W. S. Daniels, Company A; James C„ Robins, .Comnany B; Henry 1’ower. Companylalt;_ Ehsha Deprvitte, Company 11; John G. Davis, Company 1; Philip Ilammond, Company K. rTVfcw words concerning the life of Colonel John Ok Klinck, the prime mover in negro matters in this vicinity, will not, in this connection, be inapt. Colonel Klinck was born at* Peterboro', Madison county. Now York, August 7 th, 1820. llis father, a AMUiet maker by trade, was a man of strong will, Wt)was poor, and, in addition to this, had upon his bauds the support of fourteen children, eight of PU wl/om were boys. 0f the latter, several are now in I the armies of the Union. The Colonel, at tho age of ^ niEO years, turned out on his ow n account, and wj worked by the month. When fourteen years of age he saaved six cords of wood, at twenty-five cents per ; ac cord] in order to raise funds to take him to Oswego, j juClThither he went on loot, and became errand boy in s of K. W. Warner, fie afterwards rose to ; ithe store of K. W. Warner. He afterwards rose to th bookkeeper iu the store of E. Swift Sc Co. jIn 1*38 the young limn went to Rochester as clerk of J ason Bassett, an architect aud builder. In * nc 183J, be advam^dto the position of clerk and cashier j nc of Cady, KAsafcsfc Co., who wore building the jjj aqueduct across the Geuessee River. In 1840 the , tk young man married, and, in 1843, emigrated to Ohio, . near Toledo. Her©, with his ow n bands, lie cleared a larni, upon which he now resides. Upon the break- . ing out of the Rebellion the present Co.onel was ^ elected captain of a company which he raised, and, as such, was commissioned by tho Governor. In i,August, 1861, the UST'44’ j . . ,Quartermaster ' ferson City, 1“' to the Staif oLi, wiw tu^iiuiocijuiitru uy mu n Iior. ill j ^t, 1861, the Captain was appointed Assistant j p. “rmaster by the President, and stationed at Jef- I br. City,Missouri. In April, 1862, be was assigned 1 aLjtaifof Brigadier-General McKkan, whom he j accompanied to Tennessee, and was at Pittsburg : n. Monterev. Hamburg and Corinth. !Landing, Monterey, Hamburg and Corinth.In October, 1862, he was transferred to the Staff of j /•, Major-General McPherson, as C’ther Quartermaster, j ^ Upon the arnval here of General Thomas. Captain i wi Klinck was commissioned Colonel ol one of the i ^ negro regiments raisnfg. The success of the project i 0i thus far is due to his energy and perseverance. 1 do j fjj not hesitate to say an important command will yet be held by Col. Klinck, as the leader of the movement here.Anothor meetiug is called at Transylvania Landing about fifteen miles below hero. It will come off tomorrow.
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