Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-11-30

/ very low prices. Chickens can be had at 70
cents a pair, and very fair ballocks at SO
apiece. Beaufort is sill deserted by white
men. Three union gunboats lie there, and
others pass up and down the river occasional
". The negroes destroy and carry off every
thing they can lay their hands on. Pianos,
mirrors, and other valuable property, are ruth
lessly destroyed. Anything they think use
ful they carry off to an island, where they are
establishing settlement OF their own, and
where they think they will be allowed to live
in security. They have plenty of provisions.
The crops are said to be heavier this year
than for len years past. The rice crop was
secured before the arrival Of the expedition.
Great quantities of cotton were stored in barns
and storehoases. JAS many as 1000 bales
were seen ON one plantation ready for market.
Gen. Sherman, however, refuses to seize it.
He says it is not crntraband OF war, and he
has no authority TO seize any other property.
Probably half OF the crop, however, was not
picked, or if picked, not ginned, and would
be lost, as the negroes have no idea OF doing
any labor since their askGlasterS have fled.
OFFICE HUNTING.
From the Boston Journal.
Hutton HEAD, Nov. 25.-EVrn down here
some stories of Washington customs pene.
trate. Here is one told by brigadier general
You remember, that, when the war opened, a
ganization Of any sort; an aggregation OF town
meetings, as Gov. Andrew very happily said ;
that tie government very suddenly woke up
to a realizing sense of the deficiency; that for
some time thereafter it appeared as though the
whole force of tie administration was directed
to the business OF making brgadier generals,
until it was proposed to organize division to
be composed entirely Of persons mounting a
star on The shoulders. Well just at that time
~, MI
the president to solicit second leutenants.
commission for his SOL. VERY surry--very
sorry indeed" responded Abraham, "but
there's heap of applicants fol those places,
and there amt any vacancies. You ought to
have somethng-thats so-you deserve it.
But LII tell lou-we're making good many
brigadiers just nOw-perhaps the young man
might be willing to accept such place Mr..
Cameron will give you commission, If you
can make that do"
And this is another \ politician who had
struck pretty high at first, but who failed of
success at every point, found himself little
time since very hard pushed for cash, ard was
found by the administration TO be not only
very seedy individual, but a very great bore.
The president endured until he could endure
no longer. One day, as cabinet meeting
was about to break up, the president called his
secretaries to attend 10 one thing more.
"Gentlemen," quoth he, Something must be
done for this man johnson. He haint got
money enough to get out of town with, and
if he had he wouldn't go--unless the rebels
began to shell the place He's got to be main
tanned somehow; row what dye say 2" MIR.
Seward shook his head. MIR. Chase had no
thing Mr.. Blair had long since disposed OF
tue subject Mr. Smith had no employment;
and so every body turned to the war secretary
tn he
"WeIl," said Mr.. Cameron 81 don't see but
we will have to let things take the u.s. al
course. III make him a pGyndSter."
The following is an extract from letter OF
an officer of the fee; dated Port Royal Nov.
17:-
"The negroes have seen their masters thor
oughly whipped and driven into the woods
their invincible masters, who told them they
only wanted to see US here to add us to their
working force i'll picking cotton The eyes
and ears OF the coored population were as
founded, bat no sooner had their masters fled
than a fearful scene of plumber began Tor TWEEN
ty miles arDund-in a moment the negroes had
acquired what they regarded the untold
wealth of the Indies, which they have carried
into the woods and buried. For several days
they were shot at and driven Into the interior;
many of them have been killed and many who
have escaped entertain the idea of retaliation,
terrible fact which will spread and make
most sangunary servile war before spring.
From screen 10 ten thousand negroes already are run,
n,ng unresYained over this and adjacent islands,
and one thousand or more have sought refuge
in our camps. Along the sea coast OF Georgia,
as well as of South Carolina, they are hurry
ing their negroes into the interior; but will
this remedy the evil Will not this aggrega
ton of their worst element, idle and excited,
enable diem to concoct PREDICTIONS" taught as
they have been by their masters? Already
they say their masters are as much afraid of
them as OF us, a fact not TO be doubted, and
not all calculated to make the negro less san
guine."