The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-07-11

carts, IN wagons and hrndrod non-doscript an
todiluVinn vehicles, drawn by animals, that NJ
pear but remotely descended from tho Ecn,,
cluus, poor and bony, spawned and Bcrawny
| most piteous looking objects. Thoy oncamp oi
tho public square, and stay there Tor hours, waitn
| not very patiently, II must be confessed. l,u
rather nosily, for their turn. Thoy receive gepcr
ally pcck meal oach for tho wook, and nothinl
eso, sometimes very small quantity OF bacon
FOR this pittanco thoy eIpend in timo not un
hoquontiy from two TO thrco days, and in muscl,
OF solf and horse certainly moro than ia compcn
stated by tho said peck Of meal. We regret, more
over, M faithful chronicler Of curront ovonts tc
be compelled to say, that sometimes tho frolic o.
tho tny breaks up riotously, meal being "swopped'
Tor whtskcy. and somo Of tho pensioners got noisy
and eron bollicosc. A humiliating and ptcous
spectacle truly.
gentleman told us that ho accoslcd a number
OF theso "sand-hill people" on thoir way to tho
Commissary, and demonstrated with thom on the
folly and improydonco OF wasting two or thrco
days every week in going after peck OF meal;
told thom that II thoy would tako work. hu would
employ thirty Of them, and givo thom ns much
m:nt and bread az thoy could cnt and wages in
money besides. "We cannot leave our crnp" was
tho only roply. "Dut you aro loayiug il, ns it is,
and wear out your animals, and all for nothing. :,
''Wcl we cannot help it. Wo hnint got nothing
at home, aud wc cannot staryc." Thoro arc strange
sconos and sights witnessed among thcso poor
people ns they como mp for hor rations In order
to avoid imposition aH much as possible, tho COM
missary requires applicants 10 como in rrepriu
persona. Nothing is issued to proxies. Old and
diseased negroes may bo soon crawling up pp55
coming es, mss,S JBBiaTr not bayo walIol hundred
yards Some aro brought here, lifted ont OF tho
wagon, md taken TO tho Office moro dead than
alive. Ono case wo hoard of, told lib by an orc
witness, is That OF IN old and inflrm negro, who
held on to o chair, pushing, tho samo Bcforo him,
md every TOW minutes would sit down md ;rost
himself on this chair. by This slow and primitive
locomotion, ho camo from lvo to six milos.
These 'sanilhillors," that havo 80 ofton furnisl-
cd thomo to our radical dotraotors- ,"poor
wlites"-havo heretofore boon at D disadvantage,
in that they wero not willing to work eide By sido
with tho slaro but now tbat this institution is
abolished their projucos need not bo thus wound
cd. Tho land ownor would oven prefer whito labor
and, III insisted on, let tho sandhillcrs work in
squads to Themselves il thoy could bo relod OH to
do 1t. In the course Of time, wo doubt not. thcso
people will learn to work and become resptotablo.
Thcy are now going through tho poriod Of transit
ton. Tho spirit very often is willing. but the
flesh weak. Some, we learn, this yoar agreed to
work for wages, and othors ronted land at
Sonic distance from what had boon their homo
stead. They mado fair start. Dire necessity
taught them order, civilization, work; but, alns
the temptcr camo in tho shape of blackberries,
and they lacked tho powor to resist. Tho kind
year had showered her first fruits upon them;
there were blackborres in tho old folds and ont tho
ditch banks; thoy now could seo their way cloar.r
They mid by tho plough and tho crop, put away,
shovelan hoe, and all hands ''took to the woods.'
Blackborrins. demoralized' thcm. Moro anon.
TRAVELLER!