New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-12-11
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letter to The TRIBUNE was received firm
South Carolina by the last arrival from Poh
Royal:
HILTON HEAD, g. c., Nov. 90 Ia1
Incosed please find $50 for club Of thrty-eish vhiel
have raised in the Roundhesd Regiment of Pennsyiys.
Volunteers for your WEEKLY TRIBUNE
expect to enlarge the club to IS more for which,
hope you will give bes, Direct % copies
the Rev r. A. Brown Chaplain Roundhesd REGIMENT s,
phens Brigade, shemans Division, T. c. Hilton Head sc
Very truly yours, w. J. RANDOLPH
A few months ago, gentleman Of this city,
then on visit to Charleston, S. c., was in.
yited, one day, to the Police Headquartes.
There were doubts about him; he had no on.
tensibe business in Charleston; he sent of lst.
ters-they somehow knew this-to various per.
sons, letters long and interesting, and in which
they found no lies; he received letters, not al.
ways addressed to the same person; and, in
short, though quiet and inofensive, with very
straight story to tell, of how he was printer;
how he had little money to spend; how he
had received an invitation from friend to go
to Florida; how, in taking Charleston by the
way, the interesting state Of things there in
duced him to remain, quiet observer, few
weeks; and how his change of name and address
was only a precaution, advised by Southern
friends, to avoid troublesome questions-al which
was true-he nevertheless found himself in
very tight place one morning, and was not quite
sure whether he was in most danger OF hang
ing from mob or magistrate.
He was subjected, if we remember arigt
LII. in
trates, who, not making much out Of him,
turned him over to private nquisitor, Grim.
inal lawyer of high standing, famous for his
power of badgering q witness. He was shut
up with him for one whole day, and not till
the day was well nigh over, the fight fairly
finished, the great criminal lawyer and badgerer
of witnesses fairly vanquished, aud himself
badgered out of q preconceiyed opinion, aud
the prisoner pronounced guiItless--a small BAT
desperate mob outside the while, swearing they
would have his blood-it was not till then that
the Door fellow was informed that he was sus-
pected Of being Government spy. Fortunately
he was not that, and having really nothingh
conceal. 40 far as the Government was con-
CprQei. ana as 10 uuulsoiVbs hO miEhs hohS
could prejudice his cause in that direction, be
went through the long ordeal Of that private
cross-examination without once making false
step, without once betraying that be was not
as innocent of harboring thought unfriendly
to the State as the tenderest Secession suck
ling in all Carolina. He and bis in
quistor grew somewhat familiar in the
course of that long day, and wheu, To-
ward the close Of it, and his innocence was
adiudged, he laid bis hand Familiarity upon the
shoulder of the great criminal lawyer and ter
ror of the wtness.bOx, and asked "Now what
" did you take me for even then that grand
inqusitor, with lurking suspicion he could
not get rid of, replied, 'If you hare wooded
me-if you hare 'wooled NE and SO tre-
mendous was the suppositiOn that words iahed
TO express the terrible catastrophe that would
inevitably follow bis being "wooled ;" Oh!
had he only known that he stood at that mo-
ment face to face, that all day long he had
been in closest lapsing gradually into familiar
converse with regular and special correspond
ept of The TRIBUNE-that the hand just LAID
so confdingly on his broad "secesh," pal
:. metto" shoulder, was the very hand that had
penned sheet after sheet to be duly printed In
these columns-words fail US to express our
convention of what his sensations would have
been. could it have been revealed to him that
he had submitted to such a ''woolDg as has
The letter of our correspondent at Hilton
Head reminds US of that little incident OF Lees
than a year ago at Charleston. Not only does
tbs world move. but we think that the swing
IL has taken within nine months Is worthy Oh
the solar system. Our correspondent aforesaid
Mt Charleston, left that city about dusk of the
evening of the day of that examination; and
we remember be described his sense OF the
creeping pace of the train that bore him away,
and how ike water--like water inn0cu0us-
was the flask of brandy which he drank tas
first forty miles, to staye off the overwhelming
reaction after that day of exhaustion with the
great criminal lawyer, and the inpatient mob.
official and otherwise, in the neighboriDg pas
saees and rooms. lie knew how much his Lie
was worth had even thought of The TRiB-
uYE crossed the mind of any of those men.
From that to 30 copies of The WEEKLY TRIB'
USE to the Roundhead Regiment of PennsylVa-
MIA, at Hilton Head, South Carolina, 1t strikes
us, is n swing.
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