The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-07
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CHARLESTON.

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CHARLESTON.
We find in the New York Tribune
letter, eight columns long, written from /
Charleston by its special correspondent.
In point of letters, the Confederatcs see
what it is to be subjugated. This mans
letter is worth q whole sheet of Confed-
crate editorials. In it the facts stand
out in boastful nakedness, and no one
can read them without realizing that our
own press has not yet told half the story.
Among the first incidents attending the
writer's advent at Charleston was the
characteristic one of advising negro in
one of the deserted offices to break
plaster cast of Calhoun, feat which,
being accomplished, is considered great
victory. We copy some extracts from
the letter, which may be read with profit
as we'll as interest:
THE NEGRO TROOPS ENTER CHARLESTON.
The first national soldiers that landed
in Charleston in the capacity Of masters
of the rebel city were the South Caro-
lima negroes (thank God y of the Twen>
tv.first United States colored troops
There was also detachment of the
gallant Massachusetts, Fifty~fourth, who
were the first negro troops to demonstrate
on Southern soil the splendid fighting
qualities of the colored race. They
were the heroes. Of Fort Wagner, where
Shaw lies buried "under his niggers,"
as the brutal ruffians reported. The
Pennsylvania Fifty second formed the
rest of the forces of occupation.
Soon the Star -Spangled Banner foated
from the top of the custom house, the
citadel and the arsenal-waving for the
| first time here over free soil and people
free.
All the public buildings were imme.
diately taken possession of, and detach-
ments stationed to guard them.
THE NEGRO PRovosT-GUARD.
Lieutenant-C Colonel Bennett is Provost
Marshal, and Major Willoughby Assist
ant Provost Marshal. Two companies o1
the Fifty-fo Massachusetts are doing
provost-marshal duty. At every public
building the tidy negro sentinels can be
fseen halting citizens, ordering them
back, or examining their passes. They
are well>behaved gentlemen, and con-
trast very favorably with some of the
rebel citizens. heard of one citizen, 8
woman, who complained of them as in
solent.
"INsoLENCE" OF THE COLORED TROOPS
"Do the Yankees trouble your" wa
asked of this person.
mo-" she said; the Yankees don't
but your negroes do"
t "They do not insult you, do they ?
, "No, not me but they do others.
"What do they do 2"
~Oh! they won't turn out OF the sld'
walk for you, and they vii! 60 up 70
f white man and ask him for p light to
@ their cigars "
To appreciate this enormity fully,
should be known that it is part of tn
9 unwritten laws of South Carolina tha
t every negro, on meeting white persc
n on the sidewalk, shall give them the il
side. or "the wall" Some seditiou
Yankees have probably advised the ne
Q crocs of the fact that this leo non script
Q IS repealed, or at least played out.
e Since one of our soldiers went into
e Catholic cathedral in Mexico and r
. ouested a priest to give him one of Il
o tapers to light his cigar, there has prob
e bly nothing been done by Americ,
% troops so offensive to the feelings Of Il
- natives of a conquered country as VI
" perpetrated when the first negro soldi
D. stepped up to one Of the scions of Il
chivalry here and asked him for ligt
.But things like this, you know, mu
10 be, after famous victory" as the unc
g of little Peter Kinney judiciously
"a marked.
IN THE MASSACHUSETTS FIFTY-FIFrH'
;. On Tuesday evening, about z o'cloe
" we heard prolonged and hearty cheeri
y in neighboring street. ran in the
t, rection indicated by tho shouts, .
Id found that the Massachusetts, Fifty'nl
20 (coloreO regiment had just landed IN
:. city.
John Browns body lies moulderine IN .ho h - -.
m John Browne body lies moulder;ng IN the sr. 81
JShn Brovn,s BODY lies Z mouldezins N mo er'
- Hi soul is marching on
"a Glory! Glory Halleluiah!
70 Glory! Glory! Uaileluiah.
1t Glory! Glory Halielujah!
We 70 marching on!
40 Wen hang jen Davis on crse-srrie trcc.
wen hang JED. Davis on . s1pgis snS-sppits ..cs W.
Wen hang Jen Davis on Clso-sfS1' 1ss'
AZ We 80 marching on
=, Imagine, If you can, this stirring .
|re chanted with the most raptnrou q
~ exultant emphasis, BY . regiment
xt negro troops, who had been lying
ne sight 6f CHARLESTON fcy nearly