New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-11-21

DOINGS IN sOtEa sARvhsNA'
The correspondent at Port Royal Of Tic
Times thus reports progress on the contraband
question::
The battle Of Port Royal terminated at about O'Clock
on Thursday last Saturday the hour saw eighty
fugitive slaves, conaband Of war who had escaped from
their masters and hurried within the Union lines This vas
southern headand OF the bay and on the northe SIDE
there half many They report that the rat are
coming They declare that since last March they have been
waiting and watching for the Yankees And th. Is IN South
Caolns-this Is where the blacks c'ntented where
they were attached to their where were dehed
to educe them away No attempt has been made or will BE-
made ence them much less to excite an inuecton but
thote who in will be welcomed viii be clad and fed r
set 70 the National talked for hour with
various Of them They all boys-of every age
had been house servsns field hind some were
stupid aud ,tod in extraordinary degree, but they had
very definite ideas relative to the Yankees Through their
argon first nearly unntegbe was able ct last to get al
those ideas They my difficulty In experimenting thet,
and said they could no. talk psin, bot 1t was all here
pointing breasts They said they believed the fun
kee. to be friends they in work. to do whatever
they hidden they had expected brt not dared to
speak Of their they had the light from
the river and hurried down They all
report that since March they Rave been waiting for
they all declare that far they know all the blacks
suIiousy waiting for their only uneaues was on ac
count OF wives aud children they had left behind but
when told they should these again their fears
aSyed So here ia mighty engine put into hands one
that may well be used to weaken tho enemy careful
nercif use Of may prove the rebel. warning
and rebuke II traitors deprived Of their property and
all loyal indemnhed and outrage. permitted Lesson
OF the ZEAL intention Of the North may be taught and gnh
cant INDIGESTION Of It's fearful power be Afforded.
"A little later, the same correspondent
adds:
9TH, account ohs feelings OF the blacks and Of the st.
tempt the South Con.ns compel the to accompany
their master. 10y shooting the Ia. been conrmedi various
quarters and tsle. exactly with what told yesterday
BY some negroes whom seabrook hamlet about siK
miles from Hilton Head AZ that place two hundred
negroe. had gathered during the day and Confined 20 come
in until long AFTER had le't a, nghtia. They were men,
women. aud children and Of all All reported tho same
story and told It without any apparent concert, They came
from Skull Creek wch divides Hilton Island from the
land many from the Pnckney estate but they
plantations and agreed that their masters
had endeayoed to take thea along in the eht that seems to
be general IN the whole neshbohood The negroes, how
ever assured tina, they refused to y aud in several In
stances the white sho, them heard Of two blacks
who were wounded The indi giant they declared
that ell would In National forces who could get
away; and that would accompany their masters unless
absolutely forced They manifested the greatest claion At
their escape and like those whom rs, questioned the day
after the fight declared that the whole black population bad
long expected che coming Of the Yankees end were every
where anxious hurry Ines There was jubilee ast
night in the negro quarters Sesbrook dancing aud singing
around that they built and inside u the captured For
Walker religious meeting held ssd thanks offered to
God for their deverance. hundreds sready at
work the carsoes Of the vessels assisting In what
ever labors assigned them. There b. doaot that
the negro question dstiuedimmedateiy 10 assume in this
quarter proportions and aspects utterly unlike say that has
presented elsewhere. The blacks throughout the State VIII
desert their wherever army appear and thoss
masters ns,ne aemp, coercion. result, appalling
70 contemplate No shadow oi indictment has
thu. far been held the slaves BY the National forces
They hayecome without any invioon tley express .
willingness work hey have already given valuable inosr
nation acted suie, aud il the laoo to which ihey Az
put viii prove % prodsous assitance Bu, the utter and
speedy humiliation Of Slavery in sOuh Carolina
certain a. that these infatuated SecessOns to hold
out sesinst our arms
-But TIE Herald Saul also among tic
prophets'p outdaes all other = iucepdlsyy'
Journals ID the premises, Here Is an e1rraet
from its correspondents letter, lated Hilton
Head, Mo-. IA:
ce,,r.bsd slaves ,sili ock isto tse camps
and profitable en,ooy and plenty frou Uncle sous
reprentitlvss Il 70 hsy ,susius 90 these poor e'es
lures after days work. give expressions o! tarif efuoT
eat spirits st chsoge ia tbesr condition from tt Of lie
annrai sAat 40 human beag IA right group of them
gather together they dance ns sad otherwise erpy item
selves aud Jyasfl troop. fv rhei, ssE0e d de
fre,y g-,a, ne hasb gfnei, 'w1ri maficys"
-Is moi this atTocious What can The
Herald mean by 'agitating the Niger ques-
4" tioD," in such q reckless, dangerous Inannerl
Has it not a thousand times aSsuredits readers
that those "tyraRt masters" ware she excel
lent of the sarth, whom every slase loved rs
the apple OF ais eye, and whom he could by no
lure be induced to abandon Yet here it TALKS
Of their change a. from the coalition ot 'he
animal 20 TINT Of the human being" And
represents them as over JOY ed at the transGHta-
iiou Can such "inceudisry" babble be tOler
a,ed Sh uld not the old sinner Of The Hauia
have a snug berth in that Fort LsiaeSte Il
which he ia 80 eager ia hasry all VIA faro
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