Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-20

interesting from CharleBLOu and Fort sum-
ter-A Tale of HOrrOr-How is Major
Anderson to Evacuate S-DIssntisfacRion
of the slaves Threatened assassination
of captain doubleday.
The Charleston Is. co. correspondent Of
the New York Tribune writes on the 18th
and 18th inst:
have just left a Georgian, hailing from
a small town midway between Macon and
Augusta, who tells me that although in his
immediate neighborhood the Secessionists
have the majority, yet that even there many
of his relatives are true to their country and
loyal to its flag. He has Just communicated
TO me a tale of horror.
II occurred in the town, OF rather village,
of which have already spoken, only four
weeks ago; at home he dared not speak of
il, and he had no correspondent in the North.
The victim of lawless and barbaric cruelty
in this instance was a young printer who had
been for some time employed by an Atlanta
newspaper; he was noticed by the rufians
TO speak to q negro man, probably only re
questiDg TO be directed to som house. He
was seized, a rope was placed around his
neck, and he was several times drawn from
the ground, and daDgied between earth and
heaven after tormenting him for half an
hour, and threatening him with further pun
ishment unless he confessed that he was an
~ AAAoAh koNO uIA duOIuCE
jerk, and he came down; this time, however,
be was beyond the reach of their malice
his neck had been broken. His poor, muir
dered body lay before them, a glaring but
powerless witness; his spirit bad flown to
the region of eternal peace, where he was
beyond the wrath of man. His remains were
Immediately buried without shroud or coffin.
Great stress has been laid by the South on
the assertion that the slaves, ifnot tempered
with nv Whltp mon arc lnval IN thai ~ 40
tiers end satisfied with their lot. | have
reason to think and believe that they are
mistaken. A lady who is a slave-owner told
me only to day that ringers were 80 smart
nowadays they nearly all believed they
ought TO be their own masters, aud that she
had caught her "niggers" on several occa-
eiops, when her absence was counted on,
discussing the prospect of their freedom.
She tells me that numbers of her acluaint-
ahce are in agonies of fear at the prospect of
being left on their plantations without their
husbands for a single night, and they always
expected in the morning. to find that the
Triggers" had gone. These statements ap-
pear to be sustained by the fact that q
stampede of nearly 100 occurred within
sixty miles from this city, only last week;
and | firmly believe that these things are
taking place without any aid or advice from
white men; if otherwise, however, l make
no defense of The a%bettors, but merely chron-
icle the facts.
The fact is, Maior Anderson can do moth.
ing but remain in Fort Sumter, except at the
will of those by whom, for the last two
months, he has been besieged. 1t is impos-
Issible for him to evacuate, except they allow
him to do so. The question arises, on what
basis shall be have that p~rivilege-for, after
all, it is but a privilege-a privilege accorded
to the Federal Government by the rebels
10 evacuate Fort Sumter. Shall the garrison
be permitted TO embark on board of a Gov.
eminent ship which will be permitted to ap-
proach near enough2 Or shall Major
Anderson be required to formally surrender
the fort, himself and garrison as prisoners of
war; | heard a leader say to- day: snow,
see how the Government is ia a place where
it must recognize US and confess our power"
And so it would seem. At least such ap-
pears to be the views of those who, as | have
noticed, ere the extreme men Of the re.
bellion. Every. body else, | think, would be
willing to allow Major Anderson to manage
the business according to his own notions;
which fact is an indication, more or less sig
n~ificant, of the modifying effect which the
proposed action of the Government has had
on the popular mind,
The Rattlesnakes are puzzled as to the
manner in which Major Anderson will leave
Fort Sumter l0hen he receives the orders Of his
G~0OeTnmentj lney swear londly that no
ship OF. war shall come in to fetch him
they are determined not to trust Gen. Scott
so far. 1t is proposed, by some men of
prominence, that Gov. Pickens should char
ter the steamer Isabel, now lying idle at the
wharves, and place it at Major Anderson's
disposal. Some wag proposes that the
floating battery" with the Yigilant Rifles
on board, shall accompany il to New York
as an escort. The more vile of the popula-
ton are anxious that the gallant party
should pass through Charleston, and some
rufians have sworn that, if they do, Capt.
Doubleday shall never depart alive, the
principal crime being that he halls from
Brooklyn, the home of Beecher.