The Wheeling Daily Register

A NEGRO MASS MEETING.--A negro mass meeting--a strange and significant feature in Alabama politics--was held at Huntsville, Alabama, August 23. About two thousand former slaves were present. They were addressed by Gen. Fisk, of the Freedmen's Bureau, who told them that--whatever was detrimental to the black man was detrimental alike to the white man He had hoped to be able to lease some abandoned plantations to them; but as President Johnson, he believed, was going to pardon all the rebels," their prospects were not so good in this respect as they had been. He advised them to live morally, to work on shares, and to disabuse their minds of the notion that their old masters' estates were going to be cut up amongst them. He told them they should have justice and fair play, but otherwise they must "work out their own salvation." The conduct of the assemblage is stated to have been unexceptionable, and the General's speech produced a good effect on all present. N. Y. Herald.