Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-03-16
4 yankee Picture Of Charleston.

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We find in the New York Tribune q let
ter, eight columns long, written from Char
lesion BY Its special correspondent. II
point of letters, the Copfederates see wha
it is to be subiugated. Among the frs
incidents attending the writers advent a
Charleston gss the chsEacteristio one ofad
sising negso in oneaof the deserted oficeE
to break "a plaster cast Of Calhoun, a feai
which, being accomplished, is considered q
great victory We copy some extracts
from shs letter, which may be read with
profit as we'll as Interest,"
TIE NEGRO TROOPS ENTER CHARLESTON
The Rrss national soldiers that landed IN
Gks sssop 10 The cspseitg of masters Of The
rebel oity were the South Carelins negross
lthsnk GodD Of the Twenty frat United
States colored troops There was also q
detachment Of the gallant Massachusetts,
FItg.iourth, Who were the FIRST negro troops
todemonstrste on Southern soil the splendid
fighting qualities. Of the colored race. They
were the heroes Of Fort Wagner, where
Shaw lies buried aapders his niggers," as
the brutal rufEans reported The Pennsyl'
vania Fifty.second formed the rest of the
forces Of occupation.
Soon the Star.SpangIsd Bsnner hoased
from the tep Of the cus house, the cita-
del and the arsenal-waving for the first
time here over free soil and people free.
All the public buildings we're immedi,
ately taken possession q, and detaohmentaa
stationed to guard them,
A gERsgAREa oEFIoE AaoRs UP SPOUT" !"
Ehsra uasa rather humorous scene at
the Office Of the Charleston Courier The
editors had nn away, but the business
man remained and hoped to save bis prop
ersy. Colonel Moodford called at the Office
al an early hopr, and the following conyer-
sation took place:
Colonel Wv homs have the plea
snre of addressing, sirP
NeWspapsr proprietor -sMr. L., sir, "
Colonel W -s.WiH you do me the favor,
sir, to loan me sheet'of paper"
Me- L, Cooking at, the -Coloneps shoul-
der-straps, ,}-aCertainly, sir, cartainly."''
Colonel W.-aThapk you, Mr.. L.,
might I trouble you for pen and ink ?''
Mr. L.--ssWith pleasure, air."
Colonel " Begins to write.) "Real-
ly sir, am sorry to trouble you 50 much,
but this INK MONT aow; will you be good
enough to get another bottle 2" = -.
MI: L.-"eh, Aae9hl, certainly, sir; no trouble
atall.a sos sszs' s.--.z - .5. 81 !
? eolepelsW elsW--sRrites. 4a's.- .ss ~ I. Z.
ORIIoE PRoyosT.M .MARsHALL.GEN d. S.,
- CHARLESTON, SouTA CAROLINA,
Special Order, No. l.
s.Fhe Charleston Courier establishment
is hereby DIR. L. saw the writing and
looked startled and troabledl taken posses
sion af. BY the United States"
Mr. p cpuld not endure this any longer
for he was slSly overlooking the manuscript
and burst ont: -
tColonel, surely you don't mean to con-
6scssamy, property. 81 opposed nuAifca-
tion in eighteen, thirty 70
The Gotonsl tells this story with great
zsst, as The. nearest approach to loyalty in
Charleston that hehas met among the white
people yet.
-. LOYALTY IN CHARLESTON. So
There are few white Unionists here,
but they are chiefly of foreign birth, or
poor, and many Of these are of the "Union-
as-it-waso sort. "A number are beginning
to claim that they have been Union all a.
long, but gase compalled to talk secession
to save themselves. :! -
aWhy, you people here who clsimsto be
Union,'' / said to one of the prominent cit
izeps, tsseem to have been greater slaves
than the negroes. You say you we're COM
PEELED to say what you did not believer"
He WINGED q little, but replied: "Yes,
lisa fact, sir; you have no idea of what
people had to submit to here who were not
fre.eaters- -,
NEGRO AND WHITE LOYALTY. -
- There are white loyalists in Charleston,
but thus far they have shown themselves,
with but two exceptions, to be infinitely in.
ferior to the negroes in courage. They
take you by the bntsou.hole, away in some
corner, ar where they. are certain. that We
are all Northern men, and tell how they
have always been true to the Union. They
are afraid to fling out the flag; afraid to
rejoice openly with us; afraid to say that
their soul is their own-7Whioh, indeed, is
doubtful But the negroes cheer US, bless
us, dance for Joy when they see our glorious
Hag-pray for US, fight for US, "csn'r love
rs enough" as they beautifully express it.
The negroes may be an inferior race up
North, but not down here by good deal.
THE, REBEL EAMILIES.
The rebel families in Charleston are per-
festly eoRed. They live in terror Of U.S.
Thus far they are as we'll behaved as span,
iels, It viii depend on the administration
here whether this appropriate sentiment OF
spbordinatiOn-which they have taught is
, proper and necessary in an inferior race
shall continue until they repent of their
iniquities, or whether Gas at Huntsville,
Alabama, and elsewhere } they shall soon