New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-03-27
HOW 1T LOOKS FROM ViR-
GINA aCIlOOE.HOUsE.

A brave young woman, of education and re-
finement, who has left her home in Brooklyn to
devote h erself TO teaching the freedmen in Vir-
GINA, gives, in private letter to her brother
from which we are permitted to make ex-
tracts some interesting incidents in her daily
life. She writes. March 10:
To-day a. wa quietly returning from school alone
wa. saluied with such voey Of oaths that invol'
UNFAIRLY turned my head to see the speaker A man
instantly reireaed within gateway repeating; God
damn you and send you to hell YOU cursed bitch OF
Yankee teacher Some colored people, who had evil
IDENTITY heard. said DO you know who that ISL
replied No. but should be glad to know They
then mentioned his name. When lie saw me speaking
with Them he renewed bis ot1ses. l went on. and
meeting the Major oi the Freedmen Bureau OF course
told him. He will SEQ what be do. but no. much
expect. He SAYS be was beset on Friday night by a
rowdy mob, who woke him up with the cries
wake up and come out. you damned Freedman's
Bureau some shouting. XIII hm others, Tear
him 10 piecesr All this however Is perfectly natural
looked for IT, and look for much more. 1t Is the first
time In my lie have bad the honor OF an open curse
and / d. feel It an honor in such cause.
"g.fJ D. m.-,Iusi IN from school. We went
on quietly with our work as usual when at 9
o'clock a great crash came against The window.
and large rough stone (Which is now on the table
before mel fell on The floor. II came exactly
in a line with the spo; where ! standing, and
think we have TO thank the calico windowblind. in
part. for preventing further damage Something has
been thrown nearly every night lately but this is the
first time a window has been broken. ! see they want
10 frighten our scholars away. Do you think We are
reconstructed down herei Ask Mr. Beceher to come
down and protect US. Perhaps little OF his smooth
eloquenoe might soften those hard 'oyalists.' The
coored people wan, to celebrate the anniversary o.
the fall Of Richmond because il il their Independence
Day They are told Il they celebrate at all it shall be
with blood. One OF the young men says be will cee.
brate IT, If he does alone. What do you think should
advise him OF course hold it to be their right to
celebrate their freedom and don't Ike to them
cowei down BY the Whites. Yet / don't like to risk
bloodshed though seriously believe that more blood
will have be split before these people will be free
The writer Of this letter little expected it
would ever find its way into print. Its simple,
unaffected statement, given in an unreseryed,
sisterly communication, is worth ten-column
speech Of ever so able amember of Congress on
Reconstruction. The writer incloses in the
letter an article from Richmond newspaper,
which she had picked up somewhere, written
during the war, "On the Treatment of Prison
ers." Its first sentence is: Yankee prisoners
who fall into our hands have no right to expect
from us any measure Of sympathy" They are
no longer Rebels in Virginia since Lee Suren.
dered, but the "cursed Yankees then are
"cursed Yankees" now.