Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-04

The FeeIins Of the Negroes In South Care
Ilna-UBion Feeling IN the Cotton Re-
aion-Diaansctlon Among the Slaves.
The Charleston Is. o. correspondent Of
the New York Tribune writes on the 2sth
ultimoi e. e.,
The negroes here are in high feather at
the continued occupation of Fort Sumter by
Maior Anderson the poor creatures swear
By him, and evidently imagine him to be
possessed of some charm, which is working
for their benefit. When not in attendance
on the Chivalfy they chuckle and caper
with delight "cos Sumter amt took,
They have, l think, firm belief that God
and the rig int are on the side of the Major,
and nobody can persuade them that il is
possible to overcome him There is great
deal of the community of sentiment be-
tween the darkies and me upon this subject;
do not yet believe the evacuation of Fort
Sumter to be military necessity. The
question of the Majors supplies is still in
allegiance; meantime, he has the run Of the
market, such rs it is. ..
A little circumstance came under my no.
tice to- day which goes to prove my
assertions already published, namely: that
there are plenty Of Union men even in
Charleston. A very respectable and indus.
trious man, q native of Pennsylvania. and
who resides within the sound of st. MichaePs
bells, has two intelligent daughters, who
were employed at the needle by q King
street store; they were set to work the other
day to manufacture some flags of the gim-
crack Pro-slavery Confederacy; the girls,
with nobleness which was alike creditable
to their heads and hearts, positively refused
to set a stitch in the reasonable bunting,
and lost employment in consequence. They
have, | am happy to say, been successful in
obtaining work for seme good and true
friends of the Union.
am in possession Of information from the
most direct sources that the leading poll
ticians at Montgomery have received inti-
nations that there is a widespread and
increasing dissatisfaction throughout Louis
lana with the new Government, and that
strong Reconstruction Party is in course of
formation. ...- ....
The movement of Sam Houston in Texas
also alarms them exceedingly. only wish
that old Sam, in the name Of God and his
country, backed by a couple Of thousand
strong arms, would march through Texas
into Louisiana. He would be strengthened
at every stage, and the irrepressible conflict
would begin in earnest. can promise him
LOCO men from these districts, who will
gladly fight under the Stars and Stripes, if
the ar-cry is to be freedom, and the ulti-
matum, civilization and progress.
A conversation, which l could not help
nearing, al Tue OHhIl6bIOu hOItlt lhSI ulgutr
convinces me that the disafection among the
slaves is more general even than had i'm
agined. A member of the Convention, who
comes from the district of Prince George,
was relating to q friend circumstances of a
plot which he had discovered the ramiica-
tions of which extended for miles around,
and in which the servants of some score of
planters were concerned.
The idea which possessed the slaves seems
to have been that the moment the first gun
was fired in Charleston Harbor, they should
make stampede, taking with them all the
property they could lay their hands upon.
The most pleasingpart of the story-to the
relator-seemed to be the remembrance Of
the unmerciful whipping which he ordered
to be administered to the men and women
concerned in it. This is no singular case; I;
information reaches me daily, which ! do
not intend to reveal, which proves beyond
all doubt that the first gun fred against the
| United States Government will explode a
| powder magazine, the vaults of which ex-
tend beneath the feet of the whole South.
| Meantime, the whole attention of the Pal
mettoans seems to be centered in Charleston
| Harbor; new battery is now in course of
erection at Mount Pleasant of the same
character with those upon Morris Island,
and will not stand the fire Of Major Ander-
sons guns.