Newbern weekly progress., 1861-12-24
THE YANKEES AT PORT ROYAL DIsAP.
POINTED-NEGROESR RATHER SHY OF
THEIR DELIVERS

The Yankee Journals generally have pub
lshed most exaggerated accounts Of the coming
in of slaves at Port Royal. The New York
Journ0I Of Commerce, rather more honest than
its cotempararies, says:
From several gentlemen, who have recently
returned from that port, we learn facts which
are to be relied on a. true. The negroes have
come to the fort to sell provisions, poultry,
&c, and their supplies have been bought
Others have come from curiosity, and loitered
around awhile, going away again when they
pleased.
About one hundred and fifty remain in the
fort, having been employed to work, receiving
rations and eight dollars per month. The total
number that have come in, on any and every
| pretext, does not exceed thre hundred ana fifty.
| No indication has been given of any desire to
accept liberty as permanency. Their attach
nent to their masters and the families to which
| they belong doest not seem to be diminished,
and there are large numbers, probably thou
sands of them in the neighborhood, who have
bot come in the fort at all. It is said that a
visit to South Carolina has already opened the
eyes of many gentlemen, Of former abolition in
| clinatioDs, to some few facts in slavery.
TIE CEOCTAw NATION.
The Richmond Enquirer Of Saturday says
| We have had the pleasure of meetir g in this
CITY Col Samuel Folsom and Ex-Gov. Loman,
Choctaw Naon, to represent that people at the
! Government Of the Confederate States Ac-
| companving these gentlemen were Messrs.
Henry Folsom, National Treasurer of the Choc
| taws, and J. T. Blackwell, resident among
| them.
A treaty has been negotiated with the Choc-
! tav tribe of Indians by Albert Pike, ESQ, on
the pat of the Confederate States, and having
been ratified by the General Council of the
| Choctaws, is now pending before Govern
ment The leading features of the treaty pro-
vide for the organization of the Choctaw Ma
ton as a Territory of the Confederate States
with the usual government and privileges oi
territories, and the contemplation of ultimate
admission as State into the Confederacy.-
| Our Government also assumes the obliga
tons of the late United States Govern
| ment.
The Choctaws possess all that country
bounded by the Arkansas river on the nortr
| Arkansas on the east and Texas on the Soath
and west We are gratified to learn that iT
their adherence to the South, they are dis
turbed by no divisions. AS unanimous peo
pie. they cast their fortunes with US. The
Cherokees and Greeks, who live between the
Choctaws and the Kansas line, are also enthu
slastically with us, and have made similar
treaties to that of the Choctaws. They how
ever. have few traitors, who are grea
deal better than some Of our own.
We wish the commissioners now visiting "a:
a pleasant and successful mission, and com
mend them ard their cause to the kind con
sideration and attention of our Governmen
and people.
I'm anticipation of their reception as Terri
tory, the Choctaw council passed resolution
/ asking the following appointments:
V. s Tins, as the Indian Agent, provided
, for in the treaty.
James A. n. Murray, ofTexss as Judge 0
! the Confederate Court to be established a
. Besgy Depot.