The Tri-Weekly Herald, 1865-04-04
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From Charlestop. We have the Courier of the 21st. Charleston as well as Sav4nnah has been honozed by the dis distia'uished - tia'uished distia'uished ptesence of the senatorial -delegation, wives and all. They visited the chief sights,.ai d. gloated over tbe ruins of Sumpter., But the chief. feajture, of the Abolition visit was the intrcdaction of the "high dignitaries" to "the representative Union man of Chariston, - Dr. L G. Mackey" (tbat's4 what the 'Yankee'Courier styles the -ene -enegade.) - gade.) -enegade.) i The niggers have had'a sensation. Gen Rufus Saxton has addressed them at Zion Church and told them they were free. Whereupoti there were shouts of "bless the Lord" frotn the old colored aiintes, and "yaw, yaws" from Pompey, Cuffey, A procession of al the negroes of Charlest ms appointed for the 21nd, and the fol!owing sI sInificant;advertisement - nificant;advertisement sInificant;advertisement appeared that day : - "All colored citizens are invited to attend a procession this*jakiand'all who fail will be con considered - sidered considered disloval. The store of E. A. Hopkins, corner of King and Haselt strets was robbed of a safe containing five thousand dollar. A negro teamster was confimed in the guard house two days for charging 2.50 ets hor hauling a'load of furnitre. 'Ebentzor Thaver calls for a meeting of Union iCapters Royal Arch Masons. ,*A- (roeg,has opened a restaurantat 51 Went Went,worth - ,worth Went,worth street. The f>llowing auctioncerhave advertisemAhts. James W. Broun, Moroso & Ehrlich, J. A. Tho Thorop - rop Thorop and Laurey & Alexander. Chewibg Tobac Tobacco - co Tobacco is the chief article for m1P.. The rate of fare established by the. govern. ment from Charleston to Svannal is six do lars, from Cbarest'ot to St Xugustine and Jkckson Jkcksonville - ville Jkcksonville nine dollars. -. * The Charleston Mercury is to be revived under the editorial supervision of James Redpath of John *rown infamy. -Charleston is grriAnned by negro troops. T$rty were hung a tew days ago, for misbe misbebaviour. - baviour. misbebaviour. ' Henry W.1rd IBeecher has received permis permission - sion permission from 4the Yede'al Secretary of War t6 preich the Gospel in Charleston, when Bast utler assumes the Governorship of- -Soth.! Carolin a. Laidler, of the Courier. office .hasbeen em employed - ployed employed by the Yankee proprietor. proprietor.A - A proprietor.A SUNDAT IN CuALrsTON.-SUnday was a-day of jubilee at all the colnred churches. General Littlefield and Mr. Redpath (of Boston)addressed all -the congregatibns on their positions aVA duties to their race. and -country. The coldred people say that t) ere have been 'no such sefne witnessed in thes& churches, during living memory. '[he speaker made verv, r.idical anti antislavery - slavery antislavery addresses, ahd- were listened. to with the utmost eagerness. . Bursi bf jo~y, shous of thanks to God, laughter, tears--evjery humin emotion seemed to be moed. to their depths. One. of thespeL-kers, after shaking hands with-nearly all the congregation, before he' got half-way dowp ghe alley, was asioished by being quddenly iug iugged - ged iugged by one old colord lady. RECRUTIG OF TAE NFaot, fc.,' RICHMONf March 25.-The order.-fr,M the Adjutant-Gene. ral relative to recruiti colored troops in the icnfederacy, rays at .oicer will be assigned or appointed in each State; charged with the enro li ient anddisposition.of all recruits. No. slave will be aecepted a a 'recruit unless with the on by a writtennsrunentcoFri. writtennsrunentcoFri.ing, - ing, writtennsrunentcoFri.ing, ais far as.he may, the rights of a tre .an. The appoinitment of ellicers to compatuies to be formed of recrui:s will be made by the-President. The oficeers employed in recruiding are enjoined to be provident, cor,siderate, humane and atten attentive - tive attentive to whatever cOnee~rnls the health, comifort and discilinLe of the troops, to uniforir then1l and to observe the gre:itest kindnesr and for forbearnce - bearnce forbearnce in their bien.tment of -them, anud espe especially - cially especially to protect them from injustice and oppres oppression. - sion. oppression. Wmi. B. Allegre, of the Engairer, has been. appointed p6stmastfof this city, vice Steger re* aigned.' General Hampton camne near being ca&tared at FayettevHle. Hie wns at the hotel,- when. a smll body bf the enemy' rode up,. and demand demandedhis - edhis demandedhis surrender. H!e kiled two with his pis pisto, - to, pisto, cts down a third with his sword, and es escaped. - caped. escaped. The Branch Baink of the State of South' Caro Carolina, - lina, Carolina, .at Camden, has determined, and is now prepared, to pay all balances- to -depositors, although the robbing by the, enemy of the funds of the depe-itors pr-obably r#ved the bank of any responsiility in this- conmection. This .bannf has lists and book acfounts of all allthe - the allthe riotes and bonds of which 'it waIs robbed, and it is hoped that debtors will promptly come forward and renew their obligations. The Camden -Journal and Confederate -says: Mr. H. T. ~Pea'kes General Superintendont of -the South Carolina Railroad, h-as already. s cure.d a large force'of competent workmen, who are actively er gaged inr,rebuilding a :tempWorary bridge across the. MaIateree' river.. - The Confederate steamer Shenandoah had ar arrived - rived arrived at Melbourne. She is reported -a's having burned eleven ships duringthe voytage from -the Cape ofGoodfHope. -.
Latest Northern News. RICRUOND, March, s1.-Northern papers of the 1Sth contain -a dispatch to Grant from Sherman, dated Fayetteville, N. C, March 12, in which he says bis army is in fine sprits, and that he hAd met with no serious opposition. .Shoridan reports that on Monday last, azpor azportion - tion azportion of his cavalry were engaged in tearing- up .the railroad between HIanoTer Junction and R:chmond, 'while the main aiNdywas pushing on towards White House. The London Time. says the fact of the ap appointnient - pointnient appointnient of a new ininister to the United States.will dispel the wild fancy that England. and France contemplated a sort of understand ing regarding the recognition of the Confede Confederaey%n - raey%n Confederaey%n the fourth of March, 1y ncknowledging incoln President only of those States which had taken part in his election. - Fbote has published a letter in London de denoilneing - noilneing denoilneing ihe Southern Confederacy, Nothing was destroyed in- Fayeiteville except the arsenal and the Obnerver new,paper office. Lincoln made a speech i n*Wasiingtan, On the-ilth, in which he expresel the hope that the rebels would employ negro troops; as he says the. negroes cannot fight and work both. Shr dan reports the James River Canal re redered - dered redered useless as far East as -Goochland, -and' the Central Railroad fro .a Tolersrille to Naver Dam destroyed. The South Anna bridge- was a&o destroyed. Gold tosed on the 17.th at 164. RICHXOND, March 27.--The New York Tri Tribune, - bune, Tribune, of the 25th, says the 4th army corps undur Gen. Stanley, is reported on its way to Knoxville, tojoin in the Western Virginia Campaign. Its strength is estinated at from 15,000 to 18,000.. A carlrY - foree Of .6,000, uider Stoneman, has left Knoxville, and is I moving towards West Virginia. '15.000 ca caI - I caI valry and**monnted infantry left Ea,tport Miss., a few days ago,o- a gigantic raid,with Mo Mobile - bile Mobile as the ultimate objective point. A Washington telegram says there is a dot dothie - hie dothie leaded article in Forney's Chrnicle, this niorning, on peace, and the propriety. of par pardoning - doning pardoning even the rebel renders in order to se sedure - dure sedure it. It -attracts attention as connected with the President's .vi"it to tliefront report prevailed in Memphis on Friday tnat Mobile had been evacuated. Gold stili excited, closing at 154. Movemets of Federal Troops. PiCHMOND, March 27.- Bristor corres corresponde.q - ponde.q corresponde.q of the Whig says tonenian was at Miy Creek, on the 18th, with 4,000 cayhlry.. Hi; destination is supposed to be at Salisbury, N. C. Persons direct from' Kiioxville report the arrival there from. .Chattanoog-r, within the last few days, of a large nanber- of trdops. North Carolina'And Lynchburg seemed to be the theme of conversation *among oficers and i men.. A Charleston correspondent of the New. York .Tribune say.: 'The mulatto damse!s of Charleston are the loveliest creatures of the world-far lovelier than those of. New Orleans,. whom he oce thtught to be perfecin ther sunny and. ri riental - ental riental sty!e of beauty. Such are:bisr,raptures, we may take for granted that.r" id plogress wil soon be made in miscegenation; We shall need to look' closely to ihe-cohmnris of the Co' Co'rier, - rier, Co'rier, for the list fof bridails between- the two races, with a cor;ious detail. of thw marriage giftg.the trousse'z and fi desct ilytion pf thej costumes, a"2'EthiQpece et Barbarie. "Gamma," cor' espondent of the Mobile Regis-. ter, writes-"Granit, last .vear, had in Virginia, 2i, told, 230u.epo men. This year he will have 60,.000 men-nis own army-Sherman will add 35,ooo; Th.omes will bring, say .3o,ooo; sheridan the same and Hancock we will put at 1,o00, e? all .165,o00 inen, black and white. He,.will thus lack 65 boo to make hiitcombifation as formidable in .nuinbers, as it was l1.st year. The last Yankee conscription brought only 7o,ooo men into t.he ra.nks. The next call is for Soo,ooo, which at the same rate will produce 4o,ooo.men. Grant will stHi lack -25,oo0 men to make his army as large as i't was last year:-Gve~ Lee negro 's ard toxid-we have plenty of both, and- we will defeat this combination,.at one or more points, and still hold Richmond. PROGRESs 07 MIcGNTo.WSigo has had itis zabbath sensation to-day, in the fact that the colored preacher, Rev. Righiand Garnett, a full blooded African, was to.Vreach -in the 'hall of the Houise of Representatives. A ~celored c oir opened the serviced, and the galleries and lobby' of the House were well filled- by a promniscuOus: audence, including m:ny membr of. CQngress. Franik Leslie's Comic Almanac , says there will be six eclipses this year-two of the sun, Itwo of the moon, one of Jeff. Davis and one *of the rebellion. An apparatus has been invented by which the street lamps of a whTole city can be jte Four hundred papers have given up the gost at the North within a year..
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