New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-27
THE WAR ron THE UNION.
TIIraErR.DAvrsCa PITAI.--GEORGrA
CharIcston Still Exultant.
From an Occasional Correspondent.

/ rest but " mas an exactly opposite meaning for
/ your correspondent We were awakened early yes
to-day morning to find our boat lying at Montgomery:
/ and took omnibus conveyance through the muddy
streets for hotel. II too early for breakfast so
employed the intervening hour in stroll TO the late
| Alabama Sate-llouse now the Capitol Of tie JEFF.
Davis COnfcderacy. II sands at the head q broad
avenue and affords fine view Of Montgomery, which,
though containing only eight thousand people is the
pleasantest interior cry of the South. The Capitol il
Of stucco and wears the general mir OF diiapidaton
which seems inseTarable from The peculiar ns,uton,
large section OF he iron fence around il s broken
down, and three four Of the amp-posts are snapped
off and overturned. The Senate Chamber has not
been disturbed since the adjournment Of the Southern
Congress- three weeks ago. II is small, diney
apartment with portraits Of Clay, Calhoun, and two
or three Alabama politicians hanging upon one wall.
The chairs afford variety enough for secondhand fur
niure rore and the desks and floors are covered with
scraps of paper, an1uated public documents, and The
other accumulated debris of legislative halls.
While returning 10 the hotel heard from street
loafer terse description Of some model slave f" Hes
lust the best niger in this town. was the remark;
" he knows enough 10 10 lie work WELL and nothing
more" From The morning paper, at the breaifas;
table learned two facts Of INTEREST," First, that the
Charleston correspondent of The NeW York Times had
been arrested and imprisoned in the Palmetto City;
and second, that The correspondent Of Tie Pensacola
Florida O5sergsr, in the camp Of the Southern
army before Fort Pickens, though an old and enthus
a.c Secesonist bad been arrested by General Bragg
for o very slight ndiacreton in of his letter. and
had just arrived in Montgomery, unler guard, an Va
oris0rer Of trar. lie wrote over the signature Of
Memo and as journalist bids fair % be- no one IN
deed for some time 10 come. BY tbs tine began 10
entertain sentiments Of the deepest gratitude 10 the
young bloods at Mobile, who had prevented me from
roiDc to For, Pckens and concluded in spite Of the
tempting offer Of travelling acquaintance 10 Introduce
me 20 JEFF. Davis, if would remain through ibe day,
that had better continue my Journey Due North.
In the Office Of the hotel, when handed the landlord
IN eagle to pay for my breakfast be threw down s. 30
on tue counter. AS gathering up, an exsurgeon
of the Southern Army, who had come up on the boat
with IA, attempted TO lay bis hand on il, exclaming
THAT il nv change. Sir" I assured him that be
was in error; but he replied apgriy, BY -,
Sir, il IS nine" The landlord soon convinced him
Of bis mistake. proni,ing 10 hand him his change in
moment; whereat the belligerent surgeon seemed
thoroughly ashamed of himself When We reached
The cars my baggage proved 10 be mlssingi and the
train was to leave in zen minutes. The omnibus
agent Northencr Immediately said to the conductor,
" This gentleman has ost bis baggage; the fault IL
ours not his; please hold the train back while ne go
for t." Barkis was willin;" - the agent hired a
buggy, drove ne back three-fOuTths of mile 10 tee
Exchange Hotel, found the missing trunk with aone
difficulty, aud had me at tie cars again without
ie'aying the train more than two or three minutes.
We dned in West Point, Georgia, stopped two hours
.or supper, during a cold, driving rain, in Atlanta,
where nothing unpleasant occurred, except . little
conversation in the car about Northern spies and
porers and spent the night in the pursuit of sleep
under difficulties upon rough Georgia Railroad.
A, daylight his morning, the scanty foliage began 10
show we were going Moth. An hour and half for
breakfast and transportation from one depot 20 the
other was afforded us at Augusta. The city is very
pleasant, with large manufactures tall, fre1Iarm
tower and bro al, shaded streets From the Charleston
papers at the hotel we fret learned details Of Tie cap
ture Of Fort Sumter. Once more in the ears, We
crossed The Savannah River into South Carolina. ~
the first station, company of troops for Charleston
came on board, and Were greeted with cheering
wherever We stopped afterward. A young Carobnian
who took me for Southerner, said in conversation:
"1he only thing we fear in this war - that these
Yankees viii arm slaves, and turn them against
us." Previous 10 this, the remark had been made
dozen times for my benefit, by those who knew J
hailed from the Moth, that there was nor The aptest
apprehension OF trouble from the negroes -iatthey
would all fight for thoir masters.
Fifty miles from Augusta, at Lees Station. n this
Stale, we met tie morning train from Charles On. Just
rs it was stopping within two yards Of ny seat ssw
dark object disappear under the cow-csfcLrr snd =.
.noment after negro woman, wringirg bee hands,
shrieked ont, My God my God NJ. Lee b He'd T.
Lying on the track between the first aud second ears
was shapeess CORY mass, which only Tie clothing
showed 10 10 the remains Of human being 70 grelt
vas the terror OF the negroes standing by, uAs only
after repeated orles could they he induced ID remove
The body. Mr.. lewis Lee, the keeper Of tie station
n sober iudustIions man, ia bis anxiety 10 Obtains
Charleston morning paper, had attempted to 'vss The
track us in advance Of the train, which war not gong
more than four miles an hour. The cowSite1'r sIueA
him and knocked him down, but he recovered himself
and eprang upon il. Had he been sufficiently sepos
.esscd to remain hore, the train would have stopped
q moment, and be would have been safe, tut N bs
fright he attempted 10 leap oil struck again BY lhe
,owcatcher and the wheels passed dagouaiy over hrs
breast. On tn, sunny morning, III the nlNt oil ME
vigorous manuoui almost without second Wafn'ng'
ne lad met the Inevitable llour. His little boy "ar
standing beside lin at the moment. Two Of BIS dausn-
zen. were ut approaching the train from BIS gefidanee
only a few yards away, and in the bewlidcFmen'"
horror. they now stood wildly beating then o?ehelaf
and gaspng for BREATH In strange contrast win n'
scene, the. band in our car was dscounhg hNeH
music aud the people loudly cheering the soder
tovons life and qrim Death we've side by side, almost
Land in hand.
We dned ~ BranchJille rode an hour or TWO
,broucb deep. ppv woods; obtained glimpse OF the
,,,1G Cr,sry three miles from Charleston; passed