New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-12-07

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wives was considered strong enough to create mill
tsry necessity for their detention.
One other fact of different nature, aud turn
from this frgbtful picture Of the amenities OF The
social institution wbose rights and immunes are 80
carefully acknowledged and protected. l an IN
debtpd for the account 10 Gen. Viele. There ID
slave girl in camp who left her master under the FOL
4 lowing circumstances: She had been compelled 10
share Ler masters bed and she fearful reluctance
with which the story was gradually drawn from uef
showed how bitterly she felt the dhgrace TO when
sbe bad been compelled TO submit. Her master
wife discovered tie fact removed her from tie house.
and inflicted upon the innocent victim OF her bus
bands brutality the severest runithmeni-repe2'ed
foggiDgs. Sic escaped at the first opportunity ana
came to the camp. Is this tragedy horrible enough
The giH wds The personal attendant Of her mG'le''s
glitter. Is gears old.
Tie intelligence and capacity Of many of the ne
proes are far beyond what could be expected.
have one or two instances from the same source. An
old negro-driyer came into camp whose memory
went back to notification times, and whose recolec-
ton was unusually clear and exact. Eyes, massa,
he eaid, II remember Gen. Jackson, and how
things went on Their. The people about here
Were Just as strong then against the Union az
they are now, but when the friga,es came
the people AL went over again on their side
and think, Massa, if Massa Lincoln bad sent all
these ships here last Spring, they'd ha' made all the
PEOPLE change just again. l cannot pretend to
give his words dialect, but the substance is cor
rect. The old mans sta.osmsnlike estimate Of South
Carolina stability Of character would have been
most seryiceable at Washington.
There is 10 wish on the part Of the negroes to 60
North. They dread the cold, dslike to leave their
homes-the attachment. as have already explained
being local, not persona--and look integently for
ward to emancipation on the soil. large number
Of them, who gathered about Of the officers, was
much frightened on being asked whether they did
not ish TO be sent North, and An old MAJ answered
" No Massa, no; we don't want TO go North You
make his free STATE and pay US tor our 'eork, and
let as all stay here An answer which may help to
dispe the dismal anticipation really entertained by
some persons not otherwise unntelligent, that the
North il TO be overrua by liberated slaves. They
have and can have neither tie wish nor he means to
forsake the soil on which they are born or bred.
/ II il rather singular circumstance that tie open
Ing of this harbor should be signalized by al effort
nj kidnapping and saye-tradng. 4 ferryboai, built
at New-York for Havana, named Nulstra Sonora dc
RegIa left about the came time with the feet, was
exposed TO the gale and ran into Charleston IL il
said AN effort to seize her by tie Rebels TO turn into
grnboat only defeated by the energetic efforts
Of the Spanish Consul, and that sflerward $4,000
was offered and refused for Ter. After the victory
she came into harbor aud has been here ever since,
/ for what purpose no one seemed to know. Only
few DAYS snce one Of her boats was discovered ON
shore eudea vorng kidnsp some Of the negroes re-
mining on one Of the plantations, and subsequent
examination Of the steamer herself Disclosed the
fact that she had already on board considerable
number, slowed away in the hold, and destined for
Cuba and market Tier captain wss arrested aud
put in irons, and the steamer now lice under the
guns Of a -oop of war. SO one more effort at the
Chfistanzaiion Of the blacks has been put stop 20.
The expedition to 81. Helena souud twenty-five
uiles north consisted u the Pawnee, Unadils Penn
tina and the surveying stesmer Vixcn-the whole
squadsOn under command OF Capt dayton. That
whole sheet Of water the iaands &c, abandoned
by the rebels ard will he occupied by us fort Of
considerable strength was found on Otter Island,
mounting three guns, one Of them rfed cannon. /
Guns stores, &C., bad been removed but the FORTH
atom was ia condition 10 be occupied, whenever we
choose. work lees formidable Oh Sans Point,
Coosaw River, was also deserted, and the Light .
house on Hunting lsaud Lad been destroyed The |
reconnaissance was thorough, and is considered Of
much importance. The possession Of this sound
opens the way toward Charleston, as Tybee Island
does 20 Savannah. Accounts Of the abandonment Of
he latter reached you suppose, by the last mail
also the fact that the Savannah bad been owed in
over the bar, and lay just out Of range Of Folt
Pulaski with her broadsde sprung round on that
work. A subsequent reconnaissance by Gen. Sher.
man drew the fire OF the fort and one still later in
greater force, went down to-day in the Ben. Deford,
with a view TO determine whether to fortify the
island for permanent occupation. The station will
be one Of much in ortance TO the blockadin gteet,
as n refuge in case of storms. Whether an effort is
TO be made to take Pulaski can only conjecture, but
its strength and the character Of the work make il
improbable. Beside which, the expedition now
preparing Is likely to require the resources at present
available.
DECEMBER l. 1861.
We are Unexpectedly Informed that the Vanderbilt
sails to-day. She Las been long unloading that il
is difficult 10 believe she viii really get Off; but the
sudden movements following long delays need not
surpnse us.
The Ben Deford, Capt Gilmore. returned from
Tybeo Island this morning. having accomplished the
object of the expedition, and in addition captured
rebel schooner, of about 200 tuns-the +. With
ingtoD, Capt. Halves, of Charleston, with $50 bags
Of coffee and a quantity of cigars. The schooner
was run ashore in the endoavor TO escape, and the
captain succeeded in getting of in small boat. The
report In regard Notifications is said to be favor
able. No troops were LEFT behind. SO much of the
stone feet from New-York az was defined for Ss-
vannah River NAV direct ia atfention elsawhere