, 1865-09-16

driven with custom. Arrangements are ma |
k;ny to reopen the Mills House n.zt month.
There are good many cotton buyers, and |
also q GOOD many cotton sellers hut, after all,
not very much cotton comes In, for the
ho1des either have but little, or want to sell
only few bales each, to supply pre5eut ueces.
sitics Of family and plantation.
TIE RELATIONS AND INTERESTS OF I'll |
EEGEo.
When asked Theodore Tilton, Of the In
dtDtadsns, Just before left New York, II he
had any acquaintances In Charleston whom 1t
would be well for me to meet, he answered,
"JVell, don't know when was there
met very few but the best people-shat Is, the
nrrroes,r He concluded By mentioning the
names Of three or four colored gentlemen to
whom might remember him.
wherever any nun has lived north Of Mason
4 Di1on's line, he will, on coming here, be
I'D their general intelligence. Many Of the
hdustrIal Interests Of the city arc almost ex-
lisivcly in their hands; aud, In their war,
i,ey are more energetic in repairing tho Wn3te
tT war than the whites. That they were our
fist friends through the rebellion, everybody
lrnrs witness suppose the slavery Of the
dty. was never as burdensome and c1tel as
vhippingpost, the lash and the paddle, were
we'll enough known even here, and only two
days before our occupation d :" likely young
mnIatto man, a house and body seryant,' was
sold at tuctlon on Citadel Green, for $2,550
Confederate money.
Il breakfast this morning IEne1dently ~
marked to my nc}ehbor thas had spent the
morning in the market, whereupon be pro-
cecded to tell me what the market was before
the war, and in his story he said, "thc' FnfG.
eets were always polite then" In that e
mark Of his IS the essence Of the Charleston
ceiling toward The negroes. Sitting in one Of
be stores the other day, the merchant said,
negrocs, and they were always elyll and re-
apectfnl, md couldn't help {emarkins more
than once how well your negroes behaved;
now II our negroes were polite, md knew
theIr places, We should get along with d great
deal less trouble ! but tic fact Is, . Southern
nIgger Is bound to be nigger wherever you
does not step from tie sidewalk and take oil
Ills lat, when he Is met-It Is sore trial that
lc goes about his work with his head up
md an air Of general freedom IN his swinging
step. '
exceedingly deferential-ko much so, some
S9ith, am not little embarrassed before
gfay headed, old men. Negro children trolic
on the sidewalks with a happy disregard OF
the presence Of grown white persons, but 1
emit flnd any special impudcncc in their roll
icksomcncss. Negro girls and:young women
are everywhere on the streets-some Of them
the very parugons Of feminine beauty Of fen
turc and fgure-but don't sec that there Is
any lack Of selcrespcct or respect for others
On their part. The negro is tisht-hcarted and
given to genial carelessuess !; but In this tact I
See only an evidence Of the training which
Charleston gave him, md no evidence Of his
disposition to snub tho white man. The fact
1t" - hat horn r., G. onfz Ra1ffn,o~nr and
Washington, the negro rs n slave WIS. well
enough, but the negro as freeman Is IN
nbonlinntion-not because his character Is
changed but because his conditian hns been
modified We mustiwalt, and ths negro. must
wait, for time to work The overthrow Of the
That there will need, either, to be very long
waiting. Selfintcrest Is marvellous
ciyiIizcr. The hardware dealcr here on King
Street, whose head book keeper IL mulatto
man, never wearies saying how fafthfa1 aud
honest Henry, Is, and how well he knows his
PLACE. For all can see, ucnry's place, ,unob-
ttSiiyely tsSii c,ained a and ung.udppsly giysn Is
graded negTus- enough there arc; but even
hcre, in proud Char1e.ton, there arc hundreds
Of whites qn1te as poor md worthless rs any
Of the negroes, and so long rs 'etouos are not
thrown at the ono class, can't see why they
should BE- at the otae1 E.. The negroes who
supporting themselves. That those who have
recently received freedom nrc not finding any
insurmountable difficulty, IL evidenced well
enongh by the fact that though government
ratlons are regularly Issued to all classes Of
Whites, they arc only given now to very old
md intltrn negroes.
{ TIE LOYALTY OF CHARLESTON.
Air. Collector Alackoy received but 1S7
votes a5 delegate to the Convention, while
The votes Of the twenty gentlemen who were
elected ranged from Ash TO ISL. Tie one who
was formerly IN officer In the Regular Army,
ard 1ately Drigcdier. General In the rebel
army, received SIS votes, and stands flf1h in
the list Of successful candidates. Old resi-
dents of the city say the delegates elect arc,
with one or two exceptions, men Of average
ability and Eou1 business common sense.
None Of them voted originally for tho ordIn-
uncc Of secession. Three OF four OF them
stood where II i reported Colonel An
drews etood-'.l am unalterably opposed to
secession, hut I'll 60 10 III with South Car
ollna." One or two Of them wcrp known
during the war rs men WHO were careful to
help Oniou prisoners In Charleston In quiet
why. Half Of them, ut least, were original
secesklonfsts, who continued such TO the Bit
.ef ena asksd the opinion 1 efons Sfthe sest
arc pretty fair sort Of men scne:ally, but most
Of them helped on the war all they could"
"Dnt are they now rebels at heart, do you
think =" continued. swell, reckon they
know they've been whipped, md will be dis
posed to make the hest OF it, he answered.
But arc they men who are disposed to do the
aWe1|, they'll be mighty careful we don't ret
any chance to vote, but reckon none of
them would want to make slaves of our pco-
pie cgafn." On the whole conclude that
1le delegation might very easily haye been Il
good dcnl better. The members mostly be-
long to the old ruling class, and Will be care
sible. The defeat Of DR.. Mackey Is not, l nm
satisfied, to be attributed 60 much 10 bis
unionlsm Us to Ills personal character nnl un-
popularity, even before the war.
The people Of the city, though narrow and
sssnsiye aTe general not Without consla
ccscly disposed to bc qniet and llS.abiding.
They have had enough Of war-!nany Of
them say frankly that the Southwns whipped,
and thnt there could be no hope, evcu lfthere
were any disposition 10 60 into it, Of success
IN any further Tas+ Thuy want to get back
with the old ratio of Southern representation
III Congress. They point to the good order
prevalent In the Suite as an evidence Of their
good spirit md good intentions. They nre
anxious for the suspension Of military rule.
They acQufescc In the overthrow Of slavery,
uuQ Will EASlAlA lAElH AElC.sutE8 Ill ECLGlN lO[
IN amendment to the constitution to that ef-
feet. There Is complaint from zone sections
VI the State that the spirit Of slavery exists
In spite Of the dead letter, but the ne
sroes, SO far as can learn,
complain but very little al
that spirit here, except In the matter Of social
courtesics due, Of course, to old prejudiccs.
think tho government Of the city may very
eocn be trusted to the loca1 authorities, pro-
yided m officer Is put In command of this sub
district who knows when and how to give ad-
rico of the right sort. What The future will
be In the hands OF the residents one cannot
clearly zee, to be suroi but ! think the glory
and commercial standing Of the place Is Thing
Of the past. The ruling class Of the war and
Of the period prior 10 the war Is the class
which mems to rule tomorrow or whenever
the military grasp Is relaxed. The promise Of
the city is not IN these, nor In tho mitldling
class, but in the Northern element already SO
largely represented In business circles.
ISRAEL.
THE TURF.