Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-22
The Abolition Missionaries at Beaufort
 South Carolina.

The following raoy letter, by the New York IIurald's Hilton Head correspondent, will richly repay perusal. It is dated Hilton Head, South Carolina, March 18th, and appears in the Herald of the 22d ult
 The military, civic, political, philanthropic and abolition circles hefeab0uts were deeply a8itated last week by the announcement of the arrivai oi forty or fifty missionaries from as far East Bos ton and from tlle wicked city of N CIV York. The excitement became n3re general. and if possible, more intense, when it was given out by those who pretended 10 be well informed on the subject, that a porGon of this band of missionaries were com posed of the genter sex, and that the whole troupe was then upon the steamship Atlantic, at anchorin the harbor, and aboutto prvcipitate themselves up- on the abodes of the wicked Ill and about the de uartlnent of SOHh Carolina.
 The truth of some of the rumOrs was soon estab- li-hed by the testimony of various witnesses, who had fortunately boarded the Atlantic at an earl y hour. and had seen and conversed with the naval importation from the \ orth. Ii any doubted thein their doubts were soon removed by the appearance on shore of several light haired long-whlskered spectacled individuals, with umbrellas i'll one hand and myste.iously covered package, suggestive ol tracts in the other, followed by several ladies' prm and antouatcd, and of q general B0stonian style such as are observed in William Lloyd Garris@n soirees, CT at Wendell Phillips reunions. These began to preambulate the island, and attracted very general attention
 The fact of the arrival of the missionaries being conclusyely settled conjecture at once rife as to what they were to do here. Some asserted that they had come to hold woman's rights convention on Hilton Head, where they could express theil opinions freely and with perfect safety, and to iaboi in field where their doctrine would be received and accepted by the lords of creation, who, being away from their better halves could investigate the subject uninhuonced by fears or fayors. Others and as it was soon apparent, the better informed suggested that they ere missionaries to the con tiabands ill this qHarter-a large, and as It seems influential class of people, whose demoraized ant bafbarous state had lately become known to th' philanthropists of Boston and New York, ant whose welfare was near their hearts.
 It soon became generally known that there wer' sixty of those missionaries on the Atlantic, tweiF or fifteen of whom were ladies, and the relnainde gentlemen of large expectations and liberal ideas Among them are men ot all grades ana professlons and well calculated for anything except success ful pursuit of agriculture and contrabands. 1h' ladies are from Boston and New York, and pro nose to conduct an industrial school, and teach th youne contrabands ideas how to shoot, and thel fingers the art of plain sewing The entire insutu ton WAS gotten up by, and is under the direction Mr Edward l.. Pierce, the government agcnt- This much of their plans
 The day after the Atlantic s arrival, the mlsslon aries, with that fine appreciation ot the comforts this fife which has always characerzed them trans ferred themselves, bag and baggage, to the Viiag' fsBeaufort--known to them by reputatonas tn l Newport of the Southland then, with rare fore