The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1865-11-17

ton and begin life anew. An old negro
told me that while an auction of slaves
was going on one day at these gloomy
SHAMELESS, shell from Morris Island
dropped very near the auctioneer, while
his hammer was raised. and the whole
party dispersed in the twinkling of an
eye. This, he said, was the last auction
sale of human blood in the city. The
shells of the Yankees were not lost.
At Petersburg negro who was digging
out Yankee balls from rebel entertainments
and selling them a five cents pound said,
{" Desc Yankee balls first knock off my
letters, den dey feed my children" And
in higher sense this is true, thank God,
all over the South. have seen scores of
negroes who were gathering sixty or sew
enty pounds of lead day from earth
works which had been under fire; and
soon, as frecmen, they will SOW and reap
bread in peace where this leaden hail fell
o. how the colored people love the North
and trust in it. There is nothing they
will not do and suffer for Northern man.
Passing Baptist church the other day,
that had been well riddled by shells, land
all the churches seem to have been subject
to especial ventilation in this way l ask
ed a colored apple woman what had
happened to the church. She answered
with an arch look, II spects God or de
Yankees are down on it: and | thinks
both is" And everywhere the impression
among these colored people is, that God
and the North are acting in concert. Mr..
Evans, colored man, told me that when
the Federal gunboat Isaac Smith was
captured by the rebels in Stone river, and
its officers and men, what were not killed,
were brought as prisoners to this city, that
night he and six other men who had been
longing to aid the North in some way, met
in dark room and organized a secret club,
which was afterwards increased to forty.
and formed q fund from their scanty
means by which to aid these prisoners
They employed apple women to visit them
every day and carry them aid Several
of them they run off to the Union lines,
and gave comfort and Succor to them in
every way they could. eve formed a
Union league, also" he said, ''now num-
boring about 5000 When Lincoln was
rcinaugurated we marched through the
streets in processionof 5000 people, and
on 18th of July last We're the only ones in
the city of Charleston to hail and cele-
brate the day. Now are the rights of a
free people to be secured to us loyal men,
who have done what We could in the dav
of the nations peril? ?" Men of the
North, how will YOU answer Mr.. Evans
and his co-workers?
There is an eddy of rcviving business
seen here and there on the stasnant sur
face. There is now and then raw of
hopetulness seen among the people
There are those who say free labor will be
the salvation of the South. There are signs
that ere long great light will arise here
in the darkness. As stood by the neg
lectcd tomb of Calhoun, and looked upon
the shattered and desolate church where
he worslipped, and saw the city of his love
pulled down, Il ruin at the foot of the
pernlcious doctrines he taught, could not
tut feel that It's force was spent; that ii
had been branded by the seal of eternal
death, and that on the wreck would be
reared a structure in keeping with the
purposes and spirit of God, beautiful as
enduring
Tomorrow | toll on the tedious way of
Southern travel, and you may next hear
from me at Mobile. C.. G.