A School teacher carefully returned to the North.
--The Boston Transcript has full particulars of the return of
Mr. W. C. Wood, the "Yankee" school teacher, whose arrival at
Boston from
South Carolina was noticed Saturday.
The facts are as follows:
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There came passengers on the
South Carolina Mr. Wm. C. Wood and
Mr. Blodgett, a produce dealer.
Mr. Wood, it appears, went South for the purpose of teaching.
He was a graduate of Harvard College.
He was destined for Four-Mile
Branch,
Barnwell District, South Carolina.
He took passage in the cars from
Charleston for his destination, in company with
Mr. Blodgett.
On the way, inadvertently, he expressed his preference for
Lincoln as
President.
An individual was noticed, intently listening to his conversation, and at the next stopping place, where the cars tarried for three-quarters of an hour, he was waited upon by a committee, who questioned him as to his politics, but he declined to give them any satisfaction.
Mr. Wood thought no more of the questioning to which he had been subjected, and continued on his journey.
On arriving at "Four Mile
Branch" the place was found to be terribly excited, a telegraphic dispatch having probably informed the citizens of the opinions of the new comer among them.
He was immediately waited upon by a committee, who told him that it would be impossible to permit his stay in the place, and advising him to leave as his best course.
They, however, did not insist on his immediate departure, and offered to defray the entire expense of his return to the city.
Mr. Wood concluded that he would retrace his stops without delay.
He experienced no insults in the cars on the way to
Charleston, except from a few rough customers, as an officer had been provided to protect him. On reaching that city, at the suggestion of friends he occupied apartments in the
Guard House, the night previous to the sailing of the steamer, that being the safest retreat during the existing excitement.
The next morning an officer of the city came down with
Mr. Wood to the steamer, and put him safely on board.
The produce dealer, so far as we could learn, effected the object of his Southern visit.
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