The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-12-04
Tidings from Beaufort.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press writing from Beantort, saws:

Tidings from Beaufort.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press writing from Beaufort, says;
On the 18th Com. Dupont, General
and a party of naval officers,
went up to inspect the place in person.
| accompanied this party, and am there
fore able to report from personal obser-
vatiou. The whole town was deserted;
in the two or three hours that we re-
mained no white person was visible who
had not come ashore from the Seneca.
About one hundred negroes were in
the streets, gathered in knots OF three
or four; some half dozen fatboats,l
loaded with blacks and filled up with.
made hurriedly off from the
wharves as We approached. .-'--.-----
Nearly every building in the town
to have been pillaged. We
entered stores aud private residences,
and found all in the same condition.
The mansion of Mr.. Nat: Hayward and
of Edmund Rhctt, brother of Barn
well Rhett, were among those examin-
ed. The furniture was broken to pie
ces, piano fortes smashed, feather beds
ripped open, private papers of impor-
tance strewn on the floors; in the shops
nearly every object had been removed,
but fragments of boxes and counters
and broken barrels and empty casks
told how they had been served.
The negroes who remained every
where asserted that the blacks had
done this work, and the Yankees had
stopped them. Not an article was ta-
ken from any house or store by any of
the party on Tuesday, save letters or
papers supposed to contain information
that might prove valuable to our for
ces. The blacks unanimously declared
that their masters had endeavored to
take the slave along with them, but
that the negroes refused to follow
The flight OF the white population they
represented to have occurred immediate
ly after the battle of Thursday last,
and to have been most precipitate.--
No signs of defence were visible
Ten guns ON two batteries between
Port Royal and Beaufort had been re.
moved, and, the negroes reported, taken
to the forts ut the harbor.
A COTTON PLANTATION.
On our return we stopped at a cotton
plantation, where were about thirty five
bales OF cotton as yet unginned. In
other places has been discovered cotton
already baled, to the amount of sixty
bales in one storehouse, and an abul-
dance of the best Sea Island cotton is
all around. 1t rests solely ocih those IN
po,cey to send ship loads Of the ''cause
Of all or ,coe" instantly to tie North.
At a place called Seabrook, the blacks
hocked in, men, women, and children,
from all the surrounding counties, main
and islands. Between three and four
hundred are now within our lines, ut
work, digging entertainments, rowing
boats, and landing stores. These blacks
all tell one story. They have long
been expecting our advent; they disbe'
lieve the stories of the rebels, that we
intend harm to them; they are willing
to work, but they want to be free.
4 NEGRo'S DESCRIPTION OF TIE BATTLE
WITH REBEL FORTS.
"Rope Yarn" writes us in another
letter rs follows: On our way to the
beach we met one of the negroes. lie
was regular grinner, and showed his
worries to perfection. asked him it
he was in the fight. Oh gol'y, said he,
| wer dat. We'll, what do you think
of it? AS near as I can remember his
words, the following was his answer
Well, Massa, nebcr see ship before,
and when she come up dis way de gen
eral say to my marsa, Now Genera
Dayton, you look at us sink dat War.
bash Well, Marsa he sat down, den
some more gentlemen dey come from
up de riber to see dc ship sunk too
Well, bime-by de Fort Warbash sent
one of dem tings she has in her what
makes bowling in de fort and make,
an awful noise here too, and den breaks
off in pieces and flies all around, IA
shelly
DIS frighten dem some; den n good
many ob EN- cum togader, and oh gol
ly, Massa jump and run for his hoss
he drop his sword and dis nigger had
no time to pick em up, but gets on hi,
hos too and follows marster, Dem
tings howlcd on dat Fort Warbash
den dey come ober here and howle and
break up and smoke and throw de iror
all about like as if de debel was in EN-
Bime-by, when we got i'll de woods
Marse and stop for to look, but den
debils dat de Fort Warbash fotch hero
make so much smoke on dis shore dat
we could not see noting. After little
while de people dat come to see d'
ship sink come galloping up to dt
woods; bime-by one OBJ dem smoke bal
brake close to EN-, and oh golly, didn'l
dem bosses run, and den Marse he run
too, but dis nigger got behind de house
and arter a while all de whole army
soldiers, horse, and ebery one--com'
running, but dis nigger slowed away
and let em pass.
This negro declared that it was al
actual fact that the people were invited
to see the Wabash sunk. When Com
Dupont anchored within eight hundred
yards Of Fort Walker, be said he
would not move till he took tha
fort. 1t was a bold stand, but resultee
in good.
The Seward and Lyons' Correspondence
The London Times OF. the 9th, in al
article upon Mr.. Stewards letter to
Lord Lyons in regard to the detention
of British subjects says: