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THE PALMETTO HERALD |
? lb lTBLiaitan hy ,
K W. MAHOX & CO.,
EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, ,
AT PORT liOYAL, 8. C. (
. Office Sat South of the Sac Theatre Ruffling. j
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PRINTING executed neatly ana promptly. 1
OA" GtTAUD.
[Mrwrw. Editors:?As yours is most eniphatf- '
rally t)w soldiers' paper ot the Department. I ]
t-'ke the liberty of sending yon the enclosed lines, <
which I think will be admired and appreciated j
"by every one of our bratf soldiers who travels
the 44 lonely beat." I cante across them upwards
of a year ago, in a paper published in n s-m:\)l
village in New Hampshire. If you think them ]
worthy a place in your columns please publish ,
and oblige II1
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On pmard to-night! 'tis a lonely place,
And for two long hours I must wearily pace ]
To snd fro 'mid the taB old pines.
Fringed with moss and cliqgixg vines. J
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Scarce smiles a star through the clouds aloft,
And the ocean breeze is dump and soft
That fans my fevered cheek and brow,
- While I think cf home and the loved ones now. I
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# >i On guard to-night! 'tis a lonely heat!
Ami with heavy heart and weary feet 1
1 slowly travel forth Kpifrbaek, '
To guard against a night attack* (
1 veeter monijiufr IfahMy throbbed 1
~ ^ioi many a aearTTt'uffcfwi lia?> robin"!
Of its pulse* warm ! and the caskets lio j
A? cold a* the winter'* starless sky.
How sad the thought that another clay (
May And ns making to the fray!
Aud ere the close of the morrow'a light!
\V?, too, may sleep, like those to-night!
Past midnight hour! and I long to hear
The step to the sentinel ever d.ur?
The souud that banishes his grief? s
The welcome tread of the " next relief!" 1
Ah! here they come, and I can keep
Sly next four hours in the land of sleep, J
And dream of home and the loved ones there? (
May they never know a soldier's care! ,
OCR SEW ENGLAND LETTER.
Tux Pauictw Hkraliv?Tiir Xkw IIauphiiice
Elsctiox?Fsekict?Death of Rev. T. Stars
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tirmuiMvr Nor.wiou?.
Boston, Mass., March 1!), 1SG4. j
We have received the first two num- i
bersot'TiiK Palmktto IlKittLn. and gave <
? nraloniH.1 Afov if lw? n I
tilirill A JWViUI UUU VM.V. ?V WV ? y
long time before the friendly place the ,
paper already occupies in our hearts shall 1
1)0 made vacant. ,
The New Hampshire election came off ]
last Tuesday, and resulted in the re-elec- <
tion of the Republican candidate, lion, i
Joseph A. Gillmore, by a majority of
?i?*r1v r?.O0O. Everv man who had a i
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right to cast a vote in New Hampshire, 1
and could possibly get to that State, was ]
there to exercise that privilege. The J
lame, the halt and the blind, " the man 1
0:1 his last legs,*' and " the man with one
l'?>ot in the grave," all took an hiring, and 1
a beautiful sunshiny day they bad for it. I
Sevcr.il regiments of soMiejs reached <
home in season to take part in the clcc- t
tion. i
Much damage was done in New En- i
gland by the rain storm of Sunday the ]
<;th. Railroads were washed away in i
several places, caneing a number of acci- .
lents, and the amount of property destroyed
belonging to private individuals
ivas quite large. The morning train from
Boston for Concord, via Lawrence, when
jear Salem, ran into a culvert, the bridge
w hicli had been washed away during
the night," sinkingt the engine, killing the
fireman, Mr. Moore, and injuring the
engineer, Mr. Davis, so he has since died,
Both belonged u^. Concord, N. II. Two
soldiers engaged a man to cany them
from Concord to Manchester on Monday
night. When apoitt half way there, by
some accident, lw* drove into deep water
which was washing the road away into
the Merrimac rfajfc and he and both his
horses were dro|ltd. The soldiers succeeded
in reacbit 'Manchester in a partly
frozen condi I
I am pained t*i fonounce the death of
Rev T. Starr ftjg, at San Francisco,
March 4, of dipbt jeria, at the age of 40
years, lie was ?r twelve years pastor
jf the Ilollis-i "Church, Boston. In
I SOU he went to la Francisco, where he
juilt up a flourV |g society, which had
ust completed!. Micautiful church, to
which he gave at >rgnn. lie was a man
if rare genius, c finality and eloquence,
which lie not onV displayed ?th c pulpit
jut as a lcctnnF fmd author. He was
juried beneath tae pulpit of his church,
it San Francisco, Sunday, March Oth, on
which day ids death was feelingly alludal
to by most of the clergv here in Bos
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At a recent ;ruf*iil Sue o. Maine ,~Judge
[vent, w.hily delivering his charge to the
urv, saicW "The prisoner pleads intoii ation,
having purchased liquor of Life
iones. of North Berwick. If the liquors
rended by the said Jones were so miserible
as to cause the prisoner to commit
,uch a heinous offence as the indictment
ihows, he might not unappropriated be
lamed Death Jones."
Within the past three weeks over 200
iliens have been discharged from the
Jharleston Navy Yard, because-they
were not naturalized citizens. From the
jlacksmith shop, 47 Novia Scotians were
iischarged in one day. There are plenty
)f good citizens eager to get employment
n liie Yard, and the commandant seems
Jctermined that they shall nave work in
preference to aliens. Matthew H. Mordant,
master machinist at the Yard, has
h/?r>n tried hv court-martial for
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complicity with parties arrested for stealng
metal from his shops.
( Jacob 3IcClellan, the Union candidate,
ias been elected mayor of Portland, over
Fohn B. Carroll, by a majority of 1,130.
Mayor McLeihm last year had a majority
)f 185. All the wards went Union, electng
every alderman and councilman.
The citizens of Newport, It I., and the
neighboring towns, caught, last year, not
ess than 200,000 barrels of menhaden, in
^armgansett Bay: from which about
100,000 gallons of oil were produced by
.be different factories.
flu* fVmeovri Indenendent states that a
ist of all the towns in N. II., with
:heir quotas and credits, has been made
jut by Gen. llinks, which list shows that
[he State, as a whole, has furnished COO
men in eireess of ail calls: but that there
ire fitteen towns which severally have
iot furnished their fall quotas?a tew
men, more or less, being li king in each
?making a total defleieney. us to these
towns, of 80 men. These towns are fast
making up the deficiency.
The gunmakers in Norwich got up a
row last week. C. II. Williams, superintendent
in the Anns Co., was removed,
and the workmen were indignant?got a
drum, and about 300 of them paraded
the streets, cheering their friends and
frr/vininrr tlinir nnM?!pa
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Navigation on the Connecticut lias
been re-opened.?Business is unusually
brisk at Manchester, N. H., the pay-roll
of the leading corporations amounting
to more than $100,000 per month.?The
statement has been recently published
that there were a hundred and fitly liquor
shops in Apgusta, Me.?There are .">11
Penobscot Indians remaining.?Portland
proposes a new Custom House.?A crazy
woman, who wanted to enlist and g^t the
bounties, was discovered dressed in men's
clothes at the soldiers's rami) at New
llaven on Saturday.
Mkdals of Honor.?It will Ik? remembered
that after the reduction ol Fort
Wagner and demolition of Fort
Sumter, last fall, Gen. Gillmore announced
that medals of honor would be
presented to such enlisted men as had
especially distinguished themselves by
gallant conduct during the siege. They
have been struck, and samples arc already
here, though the entire number
will scarcely be ready for delivery
sooner than two or three weeks. There
are affout five hundred eabdicates tor the
honor, each of whom will have his name
neatly engraved cn the buckle to which
the medal is attached. The medal itself
is of bronze, about the size of the
silver dollar of blessed memory, and
bears upon its obverse in bold relief, a
very accurate representation of Fort
Sumter at the termination of the first
bombardment, taken from an original
drawing by Mr W. T. Crane, with the
legend "Fort burater, Aug. 23U, i?(?.y
the whole encircled by a border of stars.
Upon the reverse is this inscription, in
raised letters, "For gallant and meritorions
conduct. Presented by Q. A. Gillmore,
Maj.-Gen'l." The name of Gen.
Gillmore is a fuc rimife of his autograph.
The medals are beautiful in design, and
are very neatly and carefully made.
They come from the establishment of
Ball, Black & Co., New York Ciiy.
The Webhawkex.?Notliing has been
done toward raising this ill-fated ironrl<\d
and we doubt if nnv measures will
ever be taken to rescue lier from the
shilling sands in which she lies embedded,
thirty feet below the water's surface. The
task of removing such an enormous
weight at bo great disadvantages, is one
which neither Government nor the contractors
will willingly undertake. The
varying currents where she sank have
fixed her there forever. The Keokuk,
which went down on the morning of the
8th of April last, is also on the bottom,
and will probably never be brought lip.
Alligator Shot.?A few days since an
alligator, measuring nearly four feet in
length, was shot by one of the pickets,
in the swamp near the machine shop, at
St. Helena. The soldier who shot it
killed one eight feet long in the same locality
last year, his only weapon lading a
c-lul), with which lie conquered the monster
reptile, after a protracted conduit.
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C.MO.\ lVKFCQi:E3 FROM C HARLESTON.?
Mris. Margaret Fry and her children are
within our lines. This lady has expended
a fortune of thirty thousand dollars in
the Union cause, and lias abundant evidence,
in the form of letters from wellknown
Union ollicers in the hands of the
rebels, that while she was in Charleston
she was a ministering angel to the Union
prisoners, saving many lives and relieving
nuich suffering. She is now without
means, but not- without friends.
The Commanding General has directed
that every facility be given to her in establishing
a restaurant for officers. The
Post Commandant has ordered that a
suitable place be fitted up for her use >
and it now remains for the officers of the
command,and ciiizeus in the Department,
who arc reaping benefits from the privileges
granted them, to furnish the necessary
means for her to commence her business.
Subscription papers are to bo cir
2*1. *1-2 2
cuiuicu wiiii ims view.
Richmond Examiner on Retaliation.
?Tlic Richmond Examiner of a late
date has a long article on the subject of
Kilpatrick's raid and Yankee atrocities
generally, to which it affixes the following*
recommendations :
41 What then wonhl we practically surest ?
First, to pnt to death all crusader* caught in
tha a-t; reorwdly, to lacUd twwl svi iff
pulons carryinjroiit of retaliation'for murders,
robberies and other outrages with the most
punctual exactitude: we cannot Afford now, If
we would recover our rightful position, to abate
them one jot or tittle; thirdly, on our next entry
into Pennsylvania and the parts adjacent, as
enter there* we surely must, to remember with
jealous accuracy the proceedings of llurnside in
Tennessee, of Bntler In New Orleans and Norfolk,
of Milroy in Virginia! We have no use for
any Christian gentlemen who will come short
of these requirements. It is true that onr kind
and religious rulers, so bcuiguant to onr enemies,
should begin to show mercy to ns; and as
the first and most urgent work of necessity and
mercy, it is right and expedient that the robbers
and fire-raisers just apprehended on the Peninsula
meet with a quick trial and a dog's death.
44 4 Me rev bnt murder*.
Pardoning those* who kill 1*"
Back Nlmhkrs of The Palmutto
Herald.?By the return of several bundles,
mis-sent, we are now enabled to
supply a limited number of Palmetto
Heralds for March 3d, 10th and 17th.
They can be procured at this office, or
ordered through our agents or by mail to
us. Those who keep files of the paper
will be remunerated for their trouble in
having a complete and correct compendium
of news in this Department. The
uumlier for March 3d contains the complete
official list of casualties at the battle
of Olustee.
ui/iiaciu"r.jio.? a nc ?icaic! prujKjruoil
of our subscribers arc those who have
Tub Palmetto Huqald mailed to their
friends at the North. The paper contains
a complete weekly summary of notable
events in this Department, and we nav
particular attention to forwarding it by
the earliest mails, bo that soldiers and
others can keep their friends constantly
posted on affairs here, at small exjjensc,
and with great saving of lalxir.
( ait. W. V. IIltciiixSj late Post Quartermaster
at Morris Island, has lx.*en assigned
to duty at this Post. He is to
have charge of the land transportation.