New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-05-10
SLAUGHTER OF REBELS BY SUMTER.
ONE USDRED AND FIFTY BODIES LANDED A

"A r1CCer from NeW-lOnuOn COnnbtllCub, VINO Hdb
found employment such daring the Winter at
Charleston and Wilmington, North Carolina, aud in
plying as a hand on board a vessel Running between
those places called at The TRIBUNE Office yesterday
rnor,ing. He said that he Lad just arrived from VIII
mingon in the schooner which brought the garrison Of
the Fayetteville arsenal and that he came to contd ct
the story sent from Charleston that was killed
in the attack on Fort Sumter. He lad not seen any
late Northern papers, and did not know that anything
had been printed about the hundreds killed at Morris
Island and in Fort Moutrie. lie was on the Battery
at Charleston during the fret day of the fight. The
news was all the while that nobody washurt. num-
Der Of Northern together, and they, doubhng
this story agreed back and zee what they could see
du ing the night So they went down where the boats
came in.
At about 10 O'Clock one Of the two steamboats, which
piled between tie town and the Forts in. Three
or four long covered vehicles with tarTauln curtain
hanging down behind, called cabs in Charleston and
covered wagons in New England, had been standing
he,e for some time. One Of them backed up on the
wharf and they began to bring dead bodies on hand
barrows from the little steamboat and take them into
the cabs, where they laid them in long boxes. There
three of these boxes in each cab, and they put
two bodies in each box. He says that he and his
INV SuS WACO anu TUG OVN4No kaooNN <''"
when one was passed in the tarpauln allowed TO
fail. Some of the men who with him will soon
be here on the schooner John S. Smith.
They knew of these boats running and thought if
there as anything coming ashore they might get
news. Tb$y waited until O'Clock in the morning; and
drng the opr &ours they Were there one of the boats
went of and came back with another load. There
were at least dozen carts >nd thoee which returned
T.
number Of bodies carried away have been nearly
100.
Tue next nj yht also they went down TO we battery
and saw more bodies brought on shore, aboN nan as
many as on the FIRST night. SINE who ha>Peen
wounded in the hotel in Moutreville broughtto
the city in the daytime. One of this party learned
from hand Of the boats that the first shot at
Fort Moaltrie entered an embrasure and killed 80 odd
men, This man was cooper, and belonged in Bridge
port
On the Monday after Sumter fell he went 10 VII
nangt0n, where be remained until the 18th ulk One
Of the hght-ships there stripped and sunk in the
w-Inlet; the other, which is very fine boat built
at the Gospor NavyYard fonr feet thick of solid oak
they going TO rig az schooner and use as gun
beat. The schooner LOUISE, also owned by VIM. L.
u Benz. Perry, being fitted up as privaeer, and
was to be commanded by one Foley, who had just
resigned from the Navy. She would have one a.
FOUNDER and carry 20 men. The captain wanted him
70 10 as prize-master to nav gate her but he replied
that he didn't Ike the idea of dancing nothing Said
the captain 1--WE shant have any fighting; the West
Indiamen have only or men; the schooner ant a
very good vessel, and wen leave her when get
better one." One Northern rgger however, concluded
that be could do better. He thinks the Louisa has
al har
getting out.
On the evening Of the Dist ult. he heard Stephens
make speech in Wilmington from the platform OF
car; the train waited for him to speak He said In 80
DAYS time JEFF Davis would be in the White House,
or there would be no White House.
When Fort Caswell was garrisoned, they carried
down at least az many as half dozen in irons.
They went 10 one man and told him he must go. He
said be could not; if he did, bis family would starve
to DEATH They said the State would provide put
handouts on him, and made him co. This
'longshoreman; was born in North Carolina, though
he had spent good part of bis life in Connecticut.
There are about 600 men in Fort Caswell, which is
within pistol-sbot Of the only channel now open.
There was nothing to eat in Wilmington but bacon and
beef and that had gone up in three weeks fiOm 10 10
30 cents pound. Butter so cents and the Caro-
lima HOTEL the best In the city, setting very poor
table.
When the steamtug Uncle Ben was taken, which
was On the 22d, all Wilmington was about her with
guns, and swords and bayonets, TO conquer the Cap
tain and three four The captain said he came
after coal; they said be spy. She lay at the
Marketstreet wharf. Captain DE Rosette took poe
session of her and three four hundred Of the crowd
took her up the Hospital while another lot went to
get some whisky for them. They said they meant to
treat them well. They took her about O'Clock in the
afternoon and next morning they set her at work to
tow q fat out, and the lght-sliip in. They were in
such hurry to get in the lightship that they let go
she immense anchors and heavy chains without even
attaching buoy to them. They had found the Uncle
Ben very serviceable.
There are meetings held among the negroes every
night. One night while watching vessel he saw
lot Of negroes owned by the railroad, and he
gathered from what they said that they thought their
time had about One day in Charleston, just
before the attack, he heard a clerk In hotel cay:
"There is hot niger in Charleston who would not
take up arms for bis master" and be saw negro
wink TO another and say, Cosby, guess 80 - in
away that was very significant. At Wilmington Capt.
DE Rosette told free negro to be down at the fort
at 10 o'clock next mornir to help to build some bat
teres. The negro asked who was going to pay him
the answer was " you; don't ask me about pay;
you be thereP
Since Fort Sumter evacuated, he had seen the
brig Roleston Of Boston, Capt Crowell of Cape Cod
master hoist the Confederate Flag and fire Is guns.
He told the Captain If he got Boston he would
be killed. The brig went from Wilmington to the
West Indies. The Captain said the he put up