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HONORABLE GEORGE OPDYKE, MAYOR ELECT OF NEW
YORK.-[PHOTOGRAPHED BY BRADY.]
MISS BROWNLOW, PARSON BROWNLOW'S DAUGHTER.
HON.
GEORGE OPDYKE, MAYOR
ELECT.
WE publish on this page, from a
photograph by Brady, a portrait of the Hon. GEORGE OPDYKE, Mayor Elect of New
York.
Mr. Opdyke is a native of this
city and about forty-one years of age. In early life he went to
New Orleans, and learned the trade of a tailor,
which he followed for some years, growing rich enough to open a large dry-goods
store. He eventually retired from business in New Orleans with a handsome
fortune, which he has since increased here. On his establishment here, he
devoted his attention to politics, and was elected to the Assembly from this
city. Two years ago he ran for Mayor and was defeated; he has just been elected
after one of the closest contests that ever took place in the city. Mr. Opdyke
is engaged in the dry-goods trade, and is understood to be a millionaire.
MISS BROWNLOW.
IN connection with the recent
fight at Morristown, Tennessee, where the rebels, according to their own
accounts, were badly beaten, we publish
a portrait of MISS BROWNLOW, the
daughter of the intrepid
Parson Brownlow, of Knoxville, Tennessee. She
is as brave as her father, and as devoted to the Union. We can give her no
higher praise than this. When a mob of secessionists attacked her father's house
in his absence and insisted on the
Union flag being hauled down from where it
floated, this young lady seized a rifle and told them she would defend it with
her life. The first who approached would be shot. They threatened her for some
time, and tried in every way to frighten her. But she was firm, and after a time
the ruffians withdrew, leaving the flag still flying. This noble girl will
doubtless be heard of again in the course of the war in Tennessee.
"WORK'S OVER."
WE give the above title to the
series of " contraband" sketches which are reproduced on
page 801. Our special artist at
Hilton Head—the author of the sketches— thus
writes us concerning them:
"We have made use of the
contraband in so many different employments, that I find it necessary to send to
you a series of sketches to illustrate
his value. Upon our landing at
Hilton Head a lack of good oarsmen was found seriously to deter our rapid
progress in landing. Soon the negroes flocked in, and I assure you that I have
seen few better oarsmen. Captain Fuller at once manned his little Whitehall boat
with them, dressing them in the man-of-war style, which is exceedingly
picturesque. Again, in landing, the slope of the shore being very gradual, it
was found necessary to have some one to back off the passengers ; at once the
contrabands filled the need. They are invaluable as foragers, bringing in the
different fruits, game, etc.
"Their head- quarters are
directly back of those formerly occupied by Gen. Wright, of which you had a
sketch; here are congregated a small village of these happy mortals, jolly ever,
and willing to work.
"Aunt Chloe is a brisk sample of
ebony, who is the general head-cracker of the settlement, the terror of all
juvenile darkeys and admiration of the elder.
" The extensive earth-works that
have been thrown up, and which their hands have done well their share of work,
are almost monuments of the willing work of a paid negro.
"Uncle Sam, a fine specimen of
the African race, is the overseer of General Drayton's plantation, and one of
the best-natured boys that we have. He is the general forager for the mess, and
is never back in woods without an abundant return.
Of the real condition of the
slaves, a correspondent of the Times says : "The efforts of the masters to carry
off the slaves have been in nearly every case abortive. No love for masters, no
fear of their cruelty, no apprehension of the Yankees has been sufficient to
alarm the blacks. They all look upon us as friends; and where they do not come
within our lines, say that all that restrains them is the dislike of leaving
their families and the 'tings'—their little property. They have a cat-like
clinging to their old quarters, and do not generally manifest any desire to quit
them. When they have fled in large numbers, it has been always toward our lines,
but so far as I can learn it has been because of the efforts of their masters to
take them off. This they resist, but they manifest no
peculiarly vindictive
spirit. They complain of bad treatment, but I can not learn that they display
any desire to revenge themselves. They chuckle, indeed, with infinite glee over
Southern disasters; they tell of the lies they told their former owners, of
their pretenses to love them, of their forced obedience ; they believe in the
power of the Unionists to overthrow the Southern rule ; they are willing to act
as guides or scouts (occasionally), to work ; to give all information; and the
more intelligent they are the readier to aid us. But unless provoked by the
foolish attempts of the rebels to carry them off, I doubt whether they will
attempt any injury to the persons of the whites. The plundering indeed presages
evil, but if the rebels set the example by firing their own cotton-houses, they
need not be surprised to find it imitated. If they persist in their attempts at
forcibly restraining the slaves and in firing at them, the worst consequences
are likely to follow."
Some writers from
Port Royal have
stated that the negroes will not work, but that when work is offered them they
will fly to the woods. This is indignantly denied by other writers, and by
several officers of the expedition, who state that the contrabands work
willingly and ably. It would not be surprising if poor Sambo, after a dozen
generations of slavery, should want to celebrate his sudden emancipation by a
brief holiday.
COLONEL RANKIN'S LANCER REGIMENT, NOW AT DETROIT,
MICHIGAN.-SKETCHED BY B. R. ERMAN.—[SEE
PAGE 811.]
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