The New York herald., 1862-03-22

the persons connected with this latest attempt
| to furnish the sons and daughters of Afiica's
sunny cline with red flannel shirts and pious,
prayer-printed pocket handkerchiefs The mis-
sionaries from New York disagreed with the
missionaries from New England as to the size
of the shirts or the religious denominations to
be advertised upon the handkerchiefs; and so
this educational society was in hot water all
the way to Beaufort, and arrived more sea sick
than harmonious.
Arrived and landed, however, these devoted
friends of the blacks set to work heartily, and
began to try to make an impression upon the
thick wOolly heads of the lost sheep around
them. Shakspere is currently reported to have
asked, "What's in a name?" and to have added,
sneeringly, ga rose by any other name would
| smell as sweet" However this may be with
roses the Beaufort missionaries do not believe
it true of negroes. The first reformatory step,
therefore, was to call the slaves by new names
Darkies would not do, nor negroes, nor niggers,
nor contrabands nor blacks, nor chattels, nor
irrepressibles, nor Greeleyites, though all OF
these names have the sanction of custom and
good usage No, the slaves must be called
and female, acknowledge the relationship. AS
might naturally be expected this familiarity
has bred a great deal of contempt among the
darkies; for if slave cordially despises any
thing, it is the "white trash which becomes his
associate and intimate. Consequently, there is
very little work to be got out of the Beaufort
negroes now; but colored prayer meetings are
III Al. nd kbo and no
laid aside for the fiddle and the hymn. I'm
fortunately our missionaries are working upon
the negro at the very spot where he least re-
quires cultivation. Any darkey can sing, after
his own fashion, and in much better style, on
the whole, than the missionaries can teach him.
There never was lazy slave on plantation
who did not think himself martyr, a la Uncle
Tom, because his master preferred little cot
ton picking to great deal of "I'm gwine to
glory, halleluyah." Helping negroes to sing
therefore, is the very worst way to get them to
work, and we have already too many negro
mnstrels in the world to hope that all the
emancipated slaves will be able to support
themselves by vocal efforts.
Now that it is settled that contrabands are
to be called brothers and sisters, we advise the
missionaries to get the two sexes separate
and distinct as soon as possible. If
they should meet with any Topsys, who were
never born, who never had fathers and mothers
and who grew up wild, this classification may
become more difficult than they probably ina
CINE. When it is finished, let them set the
sllsyss 2. work and ksep then At. At it. reserying
all psalm singing and bless-the-Lord-ing until
Sunday, and strictly enforcing the divine COM
mand, 'six days shalt thou labor and do all thy
| work" Very probably, after week or two
| of experience in this line, our missionaries will
see the necessity of plantation overseers and of
| the whole old educational system-whips in
cuded-in vogue at the South. OF pious,
snivelling Uncle Toms they will find plenty
among the negroes; but of ambitious, indus
trious men and women, very few. 1t is not at
all unlikely that the result Of this practical
experiment will be the conviction among abo-
litionists that, although few slaves are fit to
be colonized and can take care of themselves,
yet the far greater portion of them are best off
as they we're when abolitonism disrupted the
Union and left them homeless and masterless.
Most people hold that opinion already.
BULL Run RUSSELL AS Stock GAMBLER
Bull Run Russell has played many parts since
he came to this country. In the character of a
correspondent be made dead failure. AS a
gentleman be was equally unsuccessful AS a
prophet be won the very worst reputation pos
sible. AS Bombastes Furioso, at Lord Lyons
theatricals, he greatly distinguished himself,
for the part just suited him. We have now to
consider him in the character of a stock gam
bier.
The following brief telegram, dsinterred by
the Judiciary Committee of the House, and
sent from Washington on the day that all news
of the settlement of the Trent affair was sup
pressed by the government censor tells the
whole story
SAMUEL woop, New YORK HOTEL New YoRK-Act as
though heard some very good news for yourself and
me, soon as you get this. W. Il. RUSSELL
Who Samuel Wood" is no one can tell.
Some suppose it to be Samuel Ward, an Ame-
rican; but he is too much of gentleman, we
should think to dabble with any such dirty
business. Others, with more reason, say that
it is probably Mr.. Wood, another London
Times correspondent who made laughing
stock of himself during the Prince Of Wales
visit, and had all bis letters forestaled by our
telegraphic correspondence. 1t is this cor
respondent Wood, very probably, for birds Of a
feather flock together, and blundering Wood
and Bull Run Russell are twins
"Act as though you heard some very good
news for yourself and me- says Russell. Now,
the only good news to be heard at that time
was the peaceful settlement Of the Trent affair,
and the "act" which Wood had to perform was
to invest all his and Russell's money in stocks
while they were low, and sell out again as soon
az the every good news" was made public
and stocks went up. We presume that Wood
| did as he was told, and that both be and Bom-