' % V -S3 OfjffW&L !'i / ... Qrfs /o-/'/, .; ' THE NEW?SOUTH. Vol 1, No. 39, PORT ROYAL S. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1863. Price Five Cents THE NEW SOUTH. Published every Saturday Morning by v JOS. H. SEARS, Editor and Proprietor. "* -*** n . . rKICK t tIT? t/KNTR TER U)PY. Advertisements, fifty cents a line, each insertion. Terms: invariably cash. OFFICE: Post Office Building, Union Square. DRIFTING. - I My fcOQl to-day 1* far *?ay, Sailing the V?*uvian Bay ; My winged boat. A bird afloat, Swim* round the purple peak* remote J? Round purple peak* It nails and seeks Blue inlets and their crystal creeks Where high rock* throw, / Through deeps below, A duplicated golden glow. Far, vague and dint* _ The mountains swim; While on Vesuvius' misty brim, With outstretched hands. The gray smoke Ptauda O'erlooking the volcanic lands. * > > f Here Isohi/Smiles O'er Ufxnld mil<* >f , .A^,f ?t . ?a <* < Her Happhlfe Beguiling to hor bright estate*. I hear not, if My rii>plinp.?lrtir Font nrttt or alow from cliff to cliff ; With dretuafnl eyes llm! er ihe wall* of Paradise. Under tke e-alla Where ?*ito tud fells The Bay'* deep WreaMat interval*. i XtpeM^liie, Bkrvu softly by. A cloud upon this llqtud sky. m .. - ed, and Europe, busy'with its own troubles, awed 1 iuto permanent silence?suppose all this, tor it 1 becomes us now to consider the worst possible i aspect of the news, what then? Our duty will th?.n be precisely what it has always been?to ' maintain unflinching?, and to exhibit a spirit mors ' " indomitable and persistent than that of the enemy. > Nothii g is to be gained by despondency. All that has been lost may be regained by fortitude. J 1 Should Pettbcrtaft and his whole army be captured there will be l|rt in the Southwest material : for a very large armt under Johnston. Pemberi ton's men will soofl&e returned to duty by ex- i ; citange, the balance tew being greatly in our favor, i, | Besides Johnston's stony there will be others as J, I large, or .larger, undtirl/ e, Beauregard and Bragg. ( 1 The combined forctt ofKirDy Smitn, Ma^ruaer : and Price, mala? an atmy nearly equal to either of j the above. So longjw these great leaders and i groat armies aro left us, so long as even one 61'1 1 them remains uncrushed, die cause is safe. ( I Colonel Straigr was mortally wounded^ the tight near Rome. ' The rebels say onrArce burned every grain of ?,,rl Tiiu. ! . I VU1U I UCl VUUlU uim iwncvu vviHiiauu auu t uo | ' cumbia, and destroy**!! tlie provisions. They ! , also burned theunilibua- college at Lagrange. '1 be ; j Union troops have e^Jtoated Tuscnnibia. ?A Western oditojXL responsible for the fol-, lowing illustration of|ujrenile piety :?" lYay (iod J} bless fatherTmd niothff, and Anna, and by jinks 1 | U*ust scrabble quick M get in bed before Mary dScs." < A.New Orleans paper says, " a true Union wo j' man is like the sugar.we sometime* get?a eembt. j} nation of sweetness and'pit. ' 1 The Polish Scythemex.?A letter from Cracow thus describes the dreaded scytbemen of the Polish army: ?'I believe the soldiers of Russia have the credit. of b^ing able to stand a bayonet charge as well or better than those of any other nation except one, which need not be particularized for the benefit of English readers. ' lwt at close quarters, the Russian shrinks from the.polish scythe as from death itself; and whenever it has been found possible to get the Kossanieri?in however small number? witidn something like reach of the enemy, the latter has turned and fied. This, after all, is not to be wondered at. The Russian soldier, who is only a Russian peasant, shaven, shorn, and half choked in a tight military suit, is a creature of habit; he had learned that to be skewered on a bayonet, is the sort of th ng he has tQ expect, and to which the men in his regiment have, in a collective sense, long been aecustoraed. But to be slashed in the face by people who turn their reaping hooks into two-edgvd swords, is n ore than he ever bargained for, and he won't stand it. ' (Jn the other hand, the scythemen are said to have become quite unmanageable when they were exposed for any length of time to the fire of the Russians, to wbiefcthey were, of course, unable to reply. Accordingly, aa a general rule, they have been kept out of aight?-either iu ambush or behind ordinary infantry?until the moment arrived for them to rush forward, ftnd strike terror into the ranks of the Muscovites. All the victories gained by the insurgents under the command of Langiewics (and 1 cannot think of one instance in which they were really beaten) have b, en decided by the scythemen, or the Zouaves, or the scythemen and Zouaves in combination, and generally by the scythemen alone. At Skala, Langiewie* not onlyjed ti^ scythcpien in person, but him!WI CtrrfW tf St'ffflb', wnTeB be took np at the last moment eefore giving the order to charge." Northers axd Souther* Churacteristtcs ? In the recent battle tho rebels fought, as usual, in masses, coming on with demoniac yells, while our -a 1 a 1^ men Sioou run/ ill inic mm. onw iii vine uiomiiee, received the shock without Hatching. The Southern 6oldier8 seek courage aud confidence in numbers and the inspiration of whisky, while < ur Northern troops exhibit the calm heroism which springs from moral as well as physical courage. Wi'h all their impulsive ^lash, the Southern nicu esl ibit a low cunning which is often more than a match for Yankee cut ones s. They are more caut otis andsccretive than our men. We can learn bnt littlefroui prisoners, while many of ours taken *\ prisoners by them. tell all they know. Our men tnnst have camp fires and coffee, and recklessly set iho woods on fire, tint- uiiwh-ely revealing their position and making themselves the targets f aight as much as they possibly can. 1 heir iianner ot fighting, their stealthy ti oveniciits, their jurprises uiid war-whoops are more in the Jndiau jtvle of fighting than in that of civilized soldiers, md the wooded and uneven sutfaco of the soutiiirn country favors and perhaps compels this style >f wariaie. It is certain that in too man)' instances odr troops have fottght too much in the stylo >f Braddock, while the rebels have plavudthe part ?t the trench aud Indians who defeated him. ?A German wrote an obituary on the death of lis wife ol which the following is a copy : " If in/ wife had lived until next Friday she world have >een dead just two weeks. is pos>ii>fj nit de Almighty. As de trees valla ai> must it stand." ?What is the ditferenee between an old ship and v in old maid / One misstays and the other stays Miss. ?Yen* bad spelling is sometimes the best, as in ho case ol the English beer vender, who wrou jver his shop-door, " Bear sold here.1' Tom Hood vho saw it, said it was apelled right-. because th? laid he sold was his own bruin! / ______