University of South Carolina Libraries
THE MW ^ SOUTH . Vol. 1, No, 9. PORT ROYAL, S, C,, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18,ol862. Price Five Cents. THE NEW SOUTH. Published every Saturday Morning by . -% JOS. H. SEAES, Proprietor. Price: Five Cents PerCorv. Advertisements, one dollar a line, each insertion. Terns: invariably cash. OFFICE: Post"Office Building, Union Square. , POETRY, \ -^[Written for Tfy New South.] \ A Leaf from Bcaufcrt, S. C. A teacher of the '? contrabands at Beaufort, S. C., wrote thus to me in August, 1862 :?"I send you a leaf which I plucked ?/om the grave of Daniel S. Legrow, a young man aged only twentytwo, who was in the * Eighth Ma n?.' lie is buried in a quiet, beautiful spot, a short distance from town. Some frien 1 or comrade has placed a hoard at the head of the grave, bearing his name and age, and adds 44 He was shot on his post, July 5tb, 18G2." Hence the following lines: I look upon this simple 1 af And high thoughts stir my soul; "Whence hath it power, this leaflet small, My spirit to control ? A thousand leaves my daily paths, A* Autumn's trophies, strew, Why should this lonely, welcome leaf t'peak to my spirit so ? It grew above a soldier's form, * It decked a martyr 'a grave, Who nobly died upon his post, Ills country's l.fe to save. Through years to come 1 11 chorish it, Memento of that shore, Where Freedom's champion sleepeth now To wake on earth no more. God bless, if, in far, loyal Maine, His mother often weep--, At thought of that quiet, lovely spot, Where her belovedgiLeps. God bless ea.h mourning, lonely friend Who waits for him in vain, A^d-bid them trust, with childlike faith, To meet him once again? Where, crowned with everlasting life, Karth's troubles all o'erpast, Long severed frionds, to part no more, In bliss unite at Lost. ^Wateh, angels ! o'er his lowly grave, r-t 1 11 it.? i Uliaril well me jiniriui hum ; While mourning friends, submissive, learn> God's chast'ning love to trust. MRS. J. H. HANAFORD. Bevtblt, Mass., Oct. 3,1862. KF* The following "'lines" were picked up on the forecastle of the Wabash. They, evidently, are the production of a Jack Tar, whose abstinence from the diurnal "tot" has made him childish, taking his mind back to the days of Maternal Goose; ?* Jack lost his Gill So said to Bill ? ?I know I hadn't ougfiter, But at seven bells . I cuss the Welles That give us nought but water.'" Our New York Letter. i New York, October 7th, 1HT.2. Hie great event, in this city, of the past and present week, is the Triennial meeting of the General Convention of the "Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. It ! would seem as if Bishop McCrosky of Michigan, Vho prcaehed the opening sermon, had given tone to the proceedings ever since, lie characterized . the Rebellion as " Revolution.'/ Thj convention had only been in session a few hours when Mr. Brunot, a lay delegate from Pittsburg; Pa., who had come almost direct from the bloody tield of Antietam to occupy his pfice in the House of Deputies, introducedtji resolution requesting the House of Bish to m ike a form of special prayer in behalf of our Union and the success of the - - - - ^ A. - 1 a t 1 iL. Union Armies. Believe tu nui oe ainazeu, uie delegation from Massachusetts to a man protested against the introduction of such a proposition, stigmatizing it as " Politics! Politics!" The delegations from New York and Pennsylvania were divided on the subject^ but noble men with noble hearts from both these States, took the floor and did manly battlefor the causeof the Union and ouivi Armies. Let me name among the champions of the Union cause:?the Rev/.Dr. Vinton of Trinity Church ; the Hon. Murray Hoffman, of this city ; i the Rev. Dr. Goodwin, president of the Pcnnsylj vania University Mr. Brunot, of Pittsburg; the ; Rev. Dr. Clarkson of Chicago, and others?a very ' few. Among the men who think it political for ; the church to offer prayers for our country arc:? ' the Hon. S. B. RnggUs, the Rev. Dr. Hawks, the Rev. Dr. Higbec and others, of New York; the Rdv. Dr. Mead, of Conn.: the Hon. R. C. Winthrop, Judge Rcdfield, Prof. Shattuck and Dr. Edson, of Mass ; the Rev. Mr. Doane, of N. J.; i Judge Chambers of Maryland, an 1 the members of [ the Kentucky Delegation. I ought to. mention Washington Hunt as one of the Anti-Unionists, from Western New York. The names I mention are of course those of men who make a show in the convention. I would be charitable, bat, with ; honored exceptions, 1 must say tnai a m^re avowed^* timid and ungodly gathering of men professing tj have the safety of a great body of t hris-! i tian Churches in their hands 1 have never seen assembled. They stigmatize a man as "violent" ' who dares to say that rebels are " Rebels.'7 I Meantime the Bishops have ordained that a specfal j service shall take place in Trinity Church to-mor- i i row in behalf of the Government and Union. On ThuVsday a special committee of nine will report i on the State of the Country when the " Banquo' ; ; that will not down shall ag,in make his appear-, ; ance in along discussion. New York and Penn! sylvania will stand by (that is their best and ablest men in the convention) the geod cause. We wait till then. I have already u.,ed my space, but I can not close without a word about^the impending crisis in this State. The two candidates forGubeinatorial j /1 ? ?Ta,?*,?0 C ourl | nonors are ueuerai titum-a o. <<<n>a..v.u. ?v., ; Horatio Seymour. G enei al Wadsworth had given | himself up to his country but at the request of j ' the Union men of this State he has accepted the i I nomination for the loftiest seat in the State. There ' are few soldiers who do not know something of! ! the bravery of Wadswortli. As Major, he served i at Hull Run and was the recipient of a rich com: pliment in General McDowell's Report. On the ! i ! other hand Horatio Seymour, although wealthy, has never yet given the first dollar to aid the Government to suppress the rebellion. We do not doubt that Wadsworth will be our next Governor. They who vote for Seymour will be deemed as voting for treason, and this, simply because die . I in his candidacy represents the sympathizers with the rebellion. Fernando Wdod and the urooKses , of the Express arc Seymour's supporters. ."We begin to hear good cheer from the. "West. | General Grant sends us victory from Corinth. The President's Proclamation is luilcd by loyal ; men everywhere. Xot a man who finds fault with I it but is suspected of disloyalty, j As time rolls on our cause becomes purer, and ! '< loftier, and holier?our arms, with the prestige ot i such a cause, justice and " righteousness which j cxalteth a Nat.on,'' march on to vL-tory. i Old Nosth. 1 . " The Ternon-Possessed South. " A wail for the noble dead, . A woe for the murderer's Ik-ad I" 'V When the brief announcement reaches us, as it does by almost every mail steamer now-a-clays, of the fall of some well-known officer or well-loved friend, a thrill of horror moves us, and a quiver of unwonted feeling stirs the blood. We impulsively ask, who is to blame for all this? Where is there any cause, for such dread desolation ? Has the race *)f man become infatuated, that each other's blood must be so 3hcd ? Or hath a demon been sent up especially to urge us on to war, be cause we had become too prosperous ana nappy i The answer is too sad. A devil has sprung up, to which it is wholly owing. The spirit of Secession ; this it is which has perfectly possessed and fully filled the hearts of the South. That is to say, the late rulers of that once fair and happy land ?now temporarily wrenched from under the protecting power of the Federal Government, and given over to a despotism blacker and more fierce and unrelenting than any-at this age of the world exercise.1 in Austrian or in Turkish lands. The Rulers o? tiie South "waxed fat," in their selfsullicient greatness, and kicked against all laws and all restraints allke^ whether human or Divine. They grew wise in their own conceit?wiser than their fathers, who had passed through the fiery ordeal of a surging and bloody war?and tbey ignored all true and healthful legislation. The experience of our 80 years' national existence, 1 * -! Alf-Li. so brilliant as to be a wondrous and uazzung-ugni, in the eyes of the whole human race, was Nothing to them! Truly, a demon only could have inspired the thought to rend asunder the bonds of fellowShip.which so lately bound us! Oh, woe unto you, oligarchies and aristocrats, overgrown with fatness even unto bursting; woe' to the cankered hearts and fevered brains that could conceive so black and foul a plot! a treason to so fair a State' To you, late Rulers of tne Soutii, is due the throwing wide Erebus' gates, and diffusing abroad over the land the subtile vapors of oeam, iiKe a uoi anu pcm-uttuug j/uiwu, through the very air. Oh, woe unto you, insanitystricken followers of your prime Lucifer, Jeff. Davis! Woe unto you, late loi-d-like rulers in too fair a guise ! You have partaken of the betel, the Laschish, the insane root, and "not all the poppy nor the mandragora" can set you right again. You hive chosen the shade o( the upas ; you are dancing, might and main, the tarentula ! You would not Have weaitn ana inuepeiiueuce ; that horrid word independence! No! Slavery and War, rather. Not Peace, with,* wealth and independence. You'd have no more of it! nor anything so tame. So mote it be! " ' Cannon of Large Calibre.?Many people suppose cannon of large calibre are comparatively of recent origin. This is an error. The 32-inch gun (of Constantinople), and also the 28 inch ones of the Dardanelles, were made many yeirs ago. The great gt'n of the Kremlin, in Moscow, is a trille larger than either of them, being of 30 inch calibre, 18 feet long, and weighing 97,500 pounds. * * ' * ?- ? 1 "h tertii An inscription on tnis smau pisiui made at Moscow, by Andrew Tchoff, in the year 7,0(J4, which corresponds with the year lo&O of the Christian era. Here is a gun weighing almost five tons, and nude 276 years ago! Verily, there Is. il nothing new under the sun." ~>Jrs. Partington says that Ike has. got a horse sq spii )tuous it always goes off in a decanter..