Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1865-03-29
Latest from Charleston.

The keWDerry I1STdIU Say 'S .''
that committee composed of Ex. Gov. Aiken,
DR.. Mackey snd Geo. w. Williams, was re-
Gently appointed to distribute supplies TO 'ne
people. All real estate not represented Is 10
be sold for three months and at the eSplrs-
ton of that time finally disposed Of The
depredations in the surrounding country are
fearful. Heartrending accounts OF rape, nave
reached us, by contrabands in federal uni
form. The citizens have all been dlsarned.
Disloyaity among the helots is the raie.
The fire was not as extensive as previously
reported. Quite number of contrabands
have been killed. Several citizens have been
rnurdercd in the surrounding country The
farms and plantations have been stripped OF
notwithstanding utensils, stock, etc.
On;te a number of mulatto "iadtes z" waited
ed upon Col. Bennett, of the .2lst South Car
olina (contraband) Regiment, and presented
him with u. S. Flag. He made them
Grand speech. Expressed his opinion that
tihy yerea q Superior race. In the evening
t,ley were received at his private quarters OF
which occasion they presented Abe Lincoln
with q fan made Of SVEN feathers The u.
S. Charleston Courier, in noticing this flag
and fan presentation, said that they were
rendered by "the Syal ladies Of Soush Car
0linG."
The spsci,l correspondent Of y. F.sTfi-
tune, writes from Charleston letter eight
columns long to that journal, specimen OF
which we give in the following extracts:
There are fey white Unionists here. but
they are chiefly Of foreign birth, or poor ana 2,
many of these are of the " Unionas it-was"
sort. A number are beginning to claim that
thew have been Union all along Dat were
compelled to talk secession to save them
WHY, you people here who claim to be
Union,p Isaid to one Of the prominent eclti-
zeps, seem to have been greater slaves than
the negroes. You say you we're compelled
to say what you did not believe 2?
He,wirced little. but replied: Yes, it's
fact, sir; you have no ides of what people
had to sublnitto here, who were not fire
eaters.
There ere white loyalists in Charleston, but
thus far they have shown themselves, with
bnt two exceptions, to he in6ditely Inferior
20 the negroes in courage. They take you
hv.,be buttonahole, awaysin- some corner, OF
xbere they are certain that we are all North
ern men, and tell how they have always beer
TO the Union. They are afraid to fling
out the .Aaa; afraid to rejoice openly with US
ofeaid to.sav that their soul is their own
which indeed, is doubtful. But the negroes
cheer us, blsss, us, dance for JOY when the,
see our glorious Aag-pray for US, "cans
:oye us enoogh," as they beautifully expres
It. The, negroes may be an inferior rae
UP North, but not down here Fbya goo'
deal.
The rebel families in Charleston are per
fectly cowed.. They livsin terror of us. Thu
far they are as well behavedas spanisls. I
will depend on the administration here wheth
er this appropriate; sentiment Of subordiha
tion-which they have taught is proper ant
necessary in an inferior race---shall, ,cont;au
untilthey repent Of their iniGuitIes, or rwhethe
LAS st Huntsville, Alabama, and elsewhere,
they shall soon begin to assume the old air
Of arrogant presum oti6n. We shall see.
After: passing beyond "Gillmore's Town,
tho appearance ofCharlcston CHANGES Ther
are now no indications Of ruins savcclosed II
stores, and streets comparatively deserted
And. g.he day advances. it IS soen tba
there is q fair proportion ofadult ,aals whit
citizens left although they are mostly Of
men, deserters and foreigners. Governor A
ken estimates its present population at fro1
fifteen to twenty thousand: There are larg
aumbers of negroes, noI 50 many Of courS