The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-05-11
Late and Important from south Carolina.


Among the arrivals at this port yesterday was
that of the schooner D. D. Pitts, Captain David
Cerson, from Charleston on the oath. From
| Captain Corson we have gained many important
particulars. He states that there is not months
provisions in the city, and of course tiey are re-
! ceiying no accessions Flour on the 22d he con
tracted for ct IS per Dbl, but neglecting to send
for it that day he was obliged on the 23d to pay
| Sl1, the price having risen three dollars in he
"a hours. The prices of all other provisions had
trebled during the last two or three months
The Sunday before he left, the goth, about three
| thousand volunteers entered the city, but were
| mmediat ely sent North to Virginia, and the
general impression then was that they would
send about the same number North every week.
Captain Corson doubted their ability to obtain
| the supply The South Carolnans are Boosting
very loudly on their victory at Sumter, and are
confident that within twenty days-the next ten
days-they will be in possession OF Washington.
Bets were freely offered in regard to it. The gen
| eral impression seems TO be that the task OF
| whipping the North would be mere child's play.
| Many of the firms in Charleston are at work fit
ting out privateers, and some six or seven are
| now under way. Among Others, is the Steamer
Nashville, late of the New York and Charleston
Line The crew of the Nashville came to this
port in the B. D. Pitts. Among other psssen
Captain Corson also brought with him man
by the name of James Tracy, who, with his wife
and family, were driven out of the State for re-
fusing to take up arms in the rebel army. He is
an freshman by birth, but has been in this coun-
try about forty two years, twelve of which he
served in the army-part of the time in the
Florida war-under Scott. For some years he
has been in South Carolina, where he owned
plantation of 800 acres, valued, with the stock,
&C., at about 600. Having served under the
American flag, he would not enlist in the Negro
Confederacy army to fight against it. On the
9th of April meeting of citizens was held, at
which ne was varned to leave the city within
ten days. On the l4th, Wni.e he was absent
from home, in Columbia, mob, headed by a
rufian named Hoffman, who presided in the
meeting on the 9th, during pelting rain, at
tackled his house, snd turned the family out OF
doors. They chased the wife and youngest child
through the woods on their horses, and finally
captured them. Then having captured Tracy
and his eldest son, young man OF twenty-ohe,
they stripped them and gaze to the former hve-
hundred and the latter two hundred and fifty
lashes with a raw hide, changing the execution
ers as they grew tired. The punishment was so
severe that their backs were covered with blood,
and blood also issued from their noses and
mouths After this they tied the whole family
",
,ied them one hundred and sixty miles to Char
lesion, where they were thrust into the Jail with
out money, with only the clothes they had on,
and accorded the privilege to go to that damned
niger Lincoln-their niger brother Lincoln
if they could find any one to take them" Capt
Corson heard their story and brought them with
him. OF course the family is almost entirely des
titute, but sbs father and son declared that they
wanted to enlist the nrst opportunity. They
will remain the schooner for few days,
where any Committee can find them, and We
would suggest that small portion of any money
that mas been raised for the volunteer causes
should be donated to equspping these two men,
who from comparative affluence, have, by the
traitors and rebels of tha South been reduced
to penury and want They carry with them the
wounds of the rebel lash and their case is GER
tany worthy of immediate consideration
-lRichmond (Va.) Despatch
BRowNLow ON DAyIs-A BOGUS PRESIDENT
Mr. Jefferson Davis earned his first financial
laurels as repudiator. He shared the golden
fleece from Rothchilds and Peabodys, with the
unequalled dexterity with which he tieeced the
State of Mississippi, that State, through him,
invulnerable under the ;egis of the National
Government, pocketed the proceeds in perfect
safety. The qualities which he exhibited in this
performance, have since shone forth III sundry
notable schemes of squeezing rich men, and OF
plundering banks, under his force loan system,
by means OF which he hopes to get at least. a
start in his Southern crusade. But he has now
struck upon new idea, mere brilliant than that
of reputation, and likely to give him fame
more enduring than that which he derived from
earlier exploits. He is economizing his bullion
by coming quarters and half dollars of baser
metals, such as copper and zine, which are
stamped, not only with the devices of the Uni
ted States, but the characteristic letter which
distinguishes the New Orleans coin is omitted in
order to make the fraud more difficult of detec.
ton. How natural it is that counterfeit Pre-
sident should issue counterfeit coin When
President Davis threatened the North with an
avalanche Of Southern lead, it did not occur to
him that he would want it to make money of to
pay off his hordes of soldiers!