New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-03-02

ldnd, lnltCC STATES Mail agent, were among tue
Of the U. S. Grant.
COL. wooDFoRD's RETURN.
Col. Woodford, 1t may be remembered. was at
Charleston during the early Secession excitement He
had run for the Legislature Of NewYori, on the
Republican or Fremont ticket. This fact became
known in Charleston. and committee OF citizens
waited on him at his hotel They notified him that he
was regarded as an Abolitionist, and suspected OF
being tie correspondent of THE NEW YORK Tribune.
He denied the second count Of Judge Lynchs ndict-
ment but left the city at the earliest opportunity The
correspondence still kept upI he goes back now
to rule the city which SO recently expelled him.
IN THE BAY.
We lay of tie haibor for several hours before day.
break, when tie trip TO the city was resumed brisk
breeze was blow ing from the land, but It's chilliness
kept none Of the passengers inside Every eye was
eagerly gazing at the broad stream. the ruins the forts
the distant city the shipsofwar the bockadeTunners,
and the monitors hch formed the salient features ofthe
scenery before To the left lay Morris Island with
Fort Wagner and tie Cummings Point batteries
further of, the shore. large mounds Of sand-the
Rebel battery D." little further up, with our flag
flying over It, Fort Gregg to the night, on tie low
sandy shore with two little groves Of panetos
near by, the earthworks OF Fort MoultTiei between
them, appareatly Of ruins in the middle OF tie
stream. but really Of tie most formidable fortihca
tons in the world the renowned Fort Snteri and
behind II lay Castle Pinckney, with its cannon pointed
at Us and tie captured city, whore Rebellion was be-
gotten and born ard began its career Of carnage and
desolaton.
1t is not merely what We see, but the memories
awakened. that make landscapes full OF charm or Of
interest Under other circumstances, and at any other
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passengers from their berths but now sandy plain
wos gssed with profound interest tho scene Of the
leroio charge of the Masst chusetts 5ith. With the
sight of the six monitors revived recoecions Of
that memorable fight in Hampton Roads, and Of many
gallant action since with that mass OF ruined brick
work was nseperaty interviewer the story of how the
Rebels dared TO FIRE our flag in the waptonness Of
their PRIDE and thereby provoked the uprising Of the
North and the development Of the most imposing and
resktlcss Of oil modern military powers. Every brain
was popuous with memories Of historic events, and
every eye strained its utros, to notice With the
minutest fidelity every feature Of the scenery.
"YANKEE DOODLE COME TO TOWN"
As nsared the whaives the post brass band which
had come with US from Hilton Head, struck up tie
spritstirrng air Of Yankee Doodle. That tune should
DO heard under such circumstances to be duly appreci
ated.
FIRST APPgARAyCEs.
Tie wharves looked cs If they had been deserted for
half a century-broken down. diapidated, grass and
moss peepng up between the pavements. where once
lie busy feet Of commerce trode necessarily The ware
houses tie riyer the streets A. We enter them
the houses and the store. and the public budinrs-we
look at them and hold bresths in utter amszement
Every step We take increases our as.onishment No
pen pencil. tongue can do Justice to the scene.
No imagination can conceive Of the utter wreck the
universal ruin, the stupendous desoaton Ruin--rrn
-ruin-above and below; on the right hand and the
leit; run rrn ruin, everywhere ond afwsys--staIing
at US from every paneless window, looking out
at US from every sbetorn WALL glazing at us
Lom every battered door and pillar and vcrandah;
beneath our feet every sidewalk. Not
pompen nor Herculaneum, nor Tbebes nor the Nile
have ruins SO complete. saddenng. SO paintively
eloquent for they speak 10 Of age not ours and
long ago dead With whose people and life and ideas we
have no sympathy whatever. But here, on these SHAT
tered wrecks Of houscs-bu In our own style many OF
them doing credit the architecture OF our epoch-we
read names familiar TO all telling us OF trades and
professions and commercial Institutions which every
modern city reckons up by the hundred; yet dead
dead dead as silent the grave OF the Pharaohs as
as the bazaars Of the merchant princes Of Old
Tyre. Whoever among rs wished to know how his
spirit would feel II he were to revisit by the pale
cmpses OF the moon the ruins Of his native city after the
present civilization shall have passed away learned 1t 10
his complete satisfaction the morning OF last Monday
here 1t was eary--few stragelers were abroad Just
enough TO make the desoatOn the more desoate by con-
tras and the Stiffness not Of the Sabbath but OF the des
ert hung heavily over ALL Hardly building in all this
mart Of the cityand this the business parhas escaped
Tie terrible crashing and smashing Of the shells And
right in the center Of It, are at least should jndgo
ten ncres Of ruins the monuments OF the great nre
which occurred three years ego This Is In an open
81 ace-only blackened walls and solitary chimneysre
main in It, And all around this Of desolation, are
the ruined houses that still sand-"Gilmores Town.
as the negroes call it triumph OF military sk-of
the art Obstructive Of all arts proof the Christian
that judgments are sure and that the cries oil the
poor are heard at The Great Throne and avenged by
the all Righteous Judge. They acted. the men who
lived in these mansions and trsced In these stores and
marts. as II God were dead; as II their own win was
the only standard Of rght-they Knocked at any high
er law" they sold the poor men In their avarice and
killed the good men in their hatej when, 10! the
people whom they despsed rose up against them and
subdued them and the whom they enslaved trode
their street under the banners and as the comrades Of
their conquerorsi
But, however great our sstonishment, and however
,we.sricken our thoughts were, We remembered that
our first duty was to learn for our Northern readers not
ruin had been wrought here but how the city was
captured.
So we hurried to the Newspaper offices up-town-for
heir old places Of business had been rendered IN
nbabtable by the shells which sought them out-and
ound them. too.
NEGRO UNACCEPTABLE.
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