, 1861-05-17


SENSATION CoRREsFoNDENcE.-The follow
log correspondence in the Chicago Times,
is a most excellent take OF on the many
frightiul stories Of III treatment Of North
ern men at the South, with which Abolition
papers abound:
About ten o'clock at night we heard one
Of the most terrific conflicts ever listened
70 on the lower deck. Very shortly after,
the captain came 10 and informed us that
half dozen Southerners had been butcher
ed 10 free fght over game Of poker
About eleven, q man came on board at o
wood yard, whose image haunts me STILL
Il seems be was q sort Of Judge among the
tribe known as the Rackensacks. BE was
about six feet aud half high, and without
hat, shoes or shirt. Bis sole garments were
q pair Of blue cotton pants and a green
blanket overeOat, which was buttOned up
to The throat, bat 50 riped and torn as to
show his taWney hide IN dozen places.
His beard had never been shaved, or his
hair combed, nor his face washed from bis
infancy. His pants we're held up BY a
leathern belt, In which were hung four re.
volvers and q two foot bowie knife On
bis shoulder he carried a rifle, and l. hil
hand singular looking cane, which be took
early occasion 10 inform us was made from
two thigh bones Of Northern preacher
spliced together, whom he had killed foT
having said a negro had SOUL My very
flesh crawled on my bones as be went on "a
boast Of bis deeds Of blood. He declared
that he had never been enabled to get Office
till he had knifed or hung seven Northern
men with his own hands. He never went
to bed the whole night, but kept drinking
whiskey and reeiting bis murders and hunts
for runaway negroes with blood hounds,
until daylight Early in the morning we
passed 3 place called the Devils Suck.
What would not have given to have new
er. never seen that placef Il Is q species
Of eddy or whirlpool in the river, that gath
ers aud retains for days together matter
floating intoit As we passed It, counted
ifty odd human bodies tWirled to the sur
face by the surging and muddy watersl-
Bot imagine my sensations when / saw the
pale corpse Of young and lovely woman
thrown upon the surface, and as she sank
again 10 the ugly waters, / read upon a
kind Of streamer that noated around her,
the letters "A.b--l1 I clasped nv
hands in-agoDy, and held my breath, as i
heard Immediately behind me a voice ex-
claim Death and thuhderi II that aint
the pretty school marin we drowned for
teaching a nlgger the Lords prayer p II
turned my bead and came face to face with
the Rackensaekian--my very heart froze
with fear and horror Looking at me a
he said, in the most drawing aud
impertinent voice, 'whnr did you come
you gwying, and what's
your politics7n Pardon me, my dear Tines.
I was 50 scared that forgot ell my eertiR-
cafes and letters, and verify believe that
stoid him Iwas from South Csrelina; that
I had Just been North after a fueitire slave
and shot four Abolitionists, who had at,
tempted q rescue, and that all had lost 10
the combat was my secession cockade, which
/ wore as captain Of my troop Of Knights
Of the Golden Circlei The Judge at once
shook mo BY the hand. and proposed incou-
iinently to ''liquor," saying that he would
forgive ne for having been North Of the
line, for the handsome manner in which
had peppered the nigger thievesF We
took drink Of regular rife whIskey just
as our bell rung for the Memphis landiig
Yours, truly, ZACH.