Year: 1865

Correspondence-o of the N. Y. Evening Post. Fy


Religious services have been rcsum-
ed in many of the churches. The
Methodist and Baptist houses are well
attended. The liberty which an occa-
sional colored person takes to sit down
stairs gives offence to pew holders, but
they are about as cordial to any of the
Yankees" iH .h' t-
Domestic customs here are interest
ing to strangers. The former owner of
many servants tells his friend on the
street that he "must go home and get
dinner" He laments the revolution in
affairs, for his wife cannot cook, and he
has to get up in the morning and make
the fire and cook the hominy. He re-
grets the necessity all the more as he is
compelled to work in the presence of
the blacks sometimes. A lad apologi-
yes for driving a cart-load Of wood to a
customers door, for his fathers two
hundred slaves "have all left" "r q


Besides pride, laziness interferes with
the happiness of many families. Gar
dens go untitled, though the owners
family need the food it would Yield
4" Will yon not try to get me some Of
that money from the North ?' is fire.
quently used as means of subsistence,
instead of manual labor. One South
ern sister, whose husband is in the Ma
wy Department, said she had "rather
the city were in ashes than occupied by
the Yankees; there would be some bar
rel for her to crawl into" Yet she ask
ed for some of the Northern green
backs. She had the stars and stripes
in miniature from her window sfor
protection" The gossips are chuckling
over the heroism of one oftheir number,
who struck negro soldier in the mouth
because he took the inside of the side
walk, and made no response to the " Ia
dy." The last officer left'' of GER
tain church has made strong effort to
get special order issued, that no more
colored soldiers should be buried in the
white burying ground.


There is no sign of starvation here
yet, Five or ten thousand persons are
fed weekly with the rice left here by the
rebels; and many men are receiving
good pay and rations of our Govern
ment for their labor. 1t is pitiful to see
some of them loll about with shovel or
barrow; but one knows that food goes
with labor. All cannot get work, and
one old lady who had paid 500 for a
plain coffin, declared that load of that
article would be a good investment, for
there would be great need of them
this summer from starvation" But fa-
cilities will shortly be granted to fami
lies to emigrate North, where there will
be warm welcome to the repentants
and repentant these people truly are.


Letters by the mail arrive as before
the war, every time steamer comes
from the North. Steamers arrive from
Hilton Head twice or times q week.


There is great scarcity of money,
and people here cannot understand why
the United Statespaper currency should
be reduced. The regiments in this De-
partment have not been paid for a long
time.


The event last week was the process
sion in horor of freedom. Some ten
thousand negroes, Of all sizes and ages
between two and eighty, were there
Notices suitable to the occasion were
conspicuously displayed, songs were
sung, cheers were given on the appear
ance of our officers, for these people de.
clare that our government is going to
heaven. A hearse followed a dray, on
which the auctioneer was selling off a
mother and three children. On the
sides of the bearse were satirical re-
marks regarding the decease Of slavery.
Former slave lords and ladies were in
dignant at the sight, and predict IAN
insurection if we keep on telling the
blacks how important they are." They
say, too, that "when the rice is consul
med there will be war between black.
and white, regardless of former polite
al sentiments" The case seems to be
that hunger will subdue all this wrath,
that the kindness of the North will be
acknowledged, and return to the Un-
ion will be accepted in spirit as well as
form of complete submission.