--The New York
Journal of Commerce corrects the exaggerations which have been afloat in that city about the vast number of contrabands who have fled for refuge to the invaders at
Port Royal.
The
Journal has seen several gentlemen who have lately returned from
Port Royal to New York, and who state that the whole number of negroes who are at work for the
Federals does not exceed a hundred and fifty, and that not more than three hundred, including those at work, have visited the island from curiosity and purposes of traffic.
The great body of the servants, according to the confession of these gentlemen, remain faithful to their masters, and some of the
Northern abolitionists who went to
Port Royal are said to have changed their opinions a good deal about slavery after personal examination.
Was ever a greater humbug than this vast expedition, got up in such secrecy and mystery, and which has only caught a hundred and fifty negroes, and demonstrated that the planters are ready to burn their cotton rather than permit it to fall into their hands?
The
Yankees have found that there are men in the
South who are ready to emulate the Hollanders, who cut their dykes and let in the ocean, rather than permit the subjugation of their country.
