Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-11-26
From the Charleston Me,cu y. 18th


From the Charleston Me- Gu y 18th
Interesting Ia poFtanf f.om he kCn' my @
Lines MATTERS Ia Eieauf
Last week Jams. very intelligent and observaut
negro, who away about year ago from Mr. VIM.
X Habtr rshams plantation, on the Ogeecbee River,
Georgia and who has since been living amongst the
Yaikte 10 and Beaufort made bis escape through
the eDemyp lines aad returned to seek bis master His
of the condition OF of 4irs in Beaufort is inter-
esng and in respects important.
During the greater port0a OF his absence aes has
been ued servant tire pla0tation OF III Ed ward
Walker six mules from Beaufort, by Yankee AIMED
Thompson, the "Supcrntendent" of Negroes. Thomp-
has bis two sisters living with him, and acting as
schoolmarns He says that regiment of white troops
is stationed at Mr. Tom Baynards aud aLother at Barn
wells brick house Ih;s regiments relieved every
we and from these two ponts centres, the enemy
throw cut their pickes. From July 6h to the middle
of October there wee but 3000 troops On Beaufort
and Paris Island and in that Deighborhood But, du-
ring last three weeks heavy renorcements had ar
rived-some from Morris Island but the bulk of them
from the North. OF these last many came handcufed.
A new q neral and s+vera Colon,s were among the
fresh arrivals.
The Yankees say that they cannot take Charleston
rJm the front, but hope to reduce it from the rear
From the statements that be heard james gathered that
thty intended to open heavy fire from the front on
Charleston. Savannah and some point nea Ash
epoo-this last to be tie main attack. They do not
expect to take the Charleston and Savannah Railroad
at but while the demonstrations at Charleston and
Savannah occupy attention. they hope to be able 10
Railroad and frtify their foothold on the main They
have the for this attack Ashepco now ready
Hilton Head having received two shpoads of artillery
from the North. Jarnes believes that this movement
against AshrpOo is certainly resolved upon, and will
soon take place.
The Yankees have ordered consc. pion of all negro
betw the ages OF Is and As This conscrip-
tioa to have taken place yesterday Monday), and
it was to avoid this compulsory display omartis ardor
tnat ane3 OrgOOk the enemy. He saws that the ne
who led Ratfprv
drunk at the time, and the remnant not killed be
made to fl again. The Yankees very brutal in
their treatment OF the negroes. The negro of Col.
Heyword they arrived at Beaufort, were put
into the army. The small pox prevailed extensively on
Paris. Island. The houses of Mr.. Nat. Hayward and
Mr. Iobn Barnwell, iii Beaufort are occupied as hos
pitas. white "sup0rin;eudent" is placed upon
ry pldntaton except such have been "sold"
kee settlers They qlarering up the land into 20
lots and persuadng the negroes to pat up cabins
aud rent these lots. There is telegraph from Beau
fort Island to Hilton Head Paris Island, and from
Beaufort towards Port Royal Ferry. A Captain Paine
(whOm took prisoner scout between Morris
and James Islands and miwright named Salisbury,
the two greatest Yankee scouts and have frequent
ly been to the main. General Gilmore has sent
North for 00O0 men, and some of them (al drafted
men1 have come On Lands Erd two negro men have
been shot dead for swearing that they would not fight
one of them belonged to Mr.. Richard Fuller and the
other to Brigaditr General Finegan.
Whatever portions of the above facts based upon
heArsay, obtained by Jame5 from his ankee task
master Thompson, aud from the white soldiers whom
he happened TO meet
Ia regard to the threatened attack on the Main, in
Gen. Walkers District, may remark that the lowest
points the Ashepoo aud Combahee Rivers, available
for the landing OF hostile force would be Chapmans
Fort, the Ashepoo and Fields Point on the Comba-
hes. Both these places already strengthened by
tort,6c,tions and trust that these works may not
fall either ttroug the deficiency OF men guns of sut
cient cll'bEe to repe any advance the enemy may at
tempt in that direction.