, 1865-11-18
FROM TIE SEA ISLANDS.

The Reported Restoration OF Eonf1Aca.
ted LandA4The Freedmen TO ssmove
ou,s-How Rebels carried the Elec-
tions In Beaufort-Nese Railway Eu-
teFPrI%c, &C.. dc.
Correspondence of the Chicago Tribune.1
BEACToHr, s. c., Oct %
A week ago last Thursday reached this
now quictcst of quiet little towns, and find
It hard to realize that It Is the bustling, cam.
est town OF Inst winter. But the blue coats
and brass buttons hare nearly all vanished
and with them the noise and stir.
THH GoyERSMKNT AND TIE FREEDMES.
There is great deal of feeling here Just
now On the subject Of restoring the property
to the old secesh oWners.. 1flt Was right to
contiscate 1t, surely it cannot be just to nov
return 1t.
Colored people are daily being sent away
from their newly established homes-to 60
where! No one knows. Icannot help think
ing Of Dickens poor Tom" who was con-
stantIy ordered to abe moving on. waz
here last winter when Edisso, the paradise
of the Sea Islands, was for the second: time
thrown open TO the colorrd people, and hun
dreds t1ocked there by every boat, encour-
aged 50 TO do by Gen. SAXON, who went there
and distributed the lind among them.' Nel-
thcr at this late day has immigration to that
Island ceased, for on Saturday came sixty
from Savannah to be met with the story which
came to us on Friday that, by order Of Presi-
dent Johnston, the land is to be returned to
e1-Gov. Aiken and his friends, former owners
Of plantations there, and the negroes are to
.'more on.". Gen. Howard aud his brother,
Breyet Brig. Gen. Howard, Gen. Sa1tou's
Chicf.ofstaG and Inspector Of South Caro-
lima, Georgia and Florida, were to 60 there
and ,cnEry them the news; tel Me'a, The toyal
countE5's foes they are again homeless and
houscless. VIII God long permit this2 Are
We never, never to learn the lesson four years
of bloodshed has failed to teach u.s., that,
though 1laex, these people arc human and
as much Gods children az the 1Ptoud Buck
"a" Mr.. Judd, our Superintendent, looks
make him sos Homes to find once more for
these dusky children, and lessons OF faith in
the Yankees to again teach them. under
stand Gen. Sa1ton says he !" is employed all
the forenoon giving back property to the
rebels, and In the afternoon drives his wife
holes which our brave, suffering soldiers Dug
in the ground for homes, feels meaner than Ii
he had bscn stealing sheep"
nrAovAL or CUSTOMS INSPECTOR. s.
A good loynl man, who has for four years
held The office Of Custom House Inspector at
| this port, and faithfully and conscientiously
discharged Ills duty, was last week, against
the wishes Of al the business men here, who
are Northcrucrs, displaced Ly order Of Presi.
dent johnson, to make room for man Just
| from the rebel army. his hands dyed with the
blood Of our brothers. Has johnson SO soon
| forgotten his murdered sonss Has tiAe nation
| forgotten her martyFed PRESIDENT
An ELECTION swlSDLE-uow REBELS WERr
ELECTED.
There has Just been an election here, in this
part OF the State-Beaufon district-and we
were chcated ont of our share In 1t by the
shall call 1t carelessness-ofJ ]. G. Thomp.
Ron, who represented us at the State Constt-
tutionnl Convention. and to whom was given
the power to appoint " Inspectors OF Elec-
Lion." He appointed himself, Sylvester
Mayo, md asecesh," Mr.. Codllng. Mr..
Thompson went North the day before the cleo
| tion. Mr. Mayo does notresidc here and comes
business house he has here under the charge
of his brother. Mr.. Coddlng could do nothing
alone. Strange proceedings these for man
| who pre,ends to be loyal, and whom this war
and Our Government have advanced wonder
| fully. He was earnestly demonstrated with ere
hs left, but to no effect Was he bought
loving men into office: ]. R. Deryant, as
scnator; Leroy s. Yeomans. the man who
voted in The State Contention against the
! repeal of tic act Of secession, mud the aboli-
| tion Of slavery: Henry Z: Smart, cx-rebel
! Gen. Stephen Elliot md W. F. Nutson, who
| was a member Of the first Confederate Con.
prcss, By such men Is Beaufort District rep.
Fescnted and St. Helena Parish, where %
| many Northerners have homes, has through
| the pcrfidy Of q aNorthernmannoc no chance TO cry
| nut apaiust tt,nor, thank God had any help ID
| nuttIrr there these men who publicly declA1e
| rcnubiican institutions q failure, believe In 8