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^34T\. XW . V * * "^ J? *' ?J1 "* %'-' *w* *%'-JC" li. .. ' ' ;% ' . ' " HEW ^ ' POST SOT AX, SATTJSDAY OCT. 4, 1862. ??.1^?? I Picto graphic. - We call attention to the vignette that will henceforth aland at the head of The New South. Connoisseurs in snch matters will recognize the features of the old State seal. It is, of course, not expected that the new regime will discard everything of the old, but as Tennyson says? " Let the change which comes be free To engr^vK itself with that which flies," The picture is, in fact, the most appropriate that could bfe designed. The stately palmetto, bearing on its foliage the two shields, significant of the . qualities of defence first tested and approved at Fort Moultiie, in the revolution, stands in the foreground to represent the unique and romantic - sea islands and low land district, while in the back ground are discovcrd the mountain ranges that I flank the upper border of the State. It is, indeed,: * representative picture, and we expect it to flash upon our exchanges more vividly than a column of florid rhetoric the charms of Nature that surround us as we write?perhaps beguiling us from due x ; devotion to Ths New Sooth, our severer Mistress, whom, however, we are only too proud to acknowledge our lawful spouse, notwithstanding that sheappears under a quadroon mask in this first week of the " mournful October." ....?"Ty*' ? __ _ Jaundiced. ? The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year r to us, and to the many watchful readers of The New South. Col. D. D. Tompkins, the Quartermaster at ^Cew York, is the cause of I the i{ sear and yellow leaf " of the present issue as well as the entire failure of last week. As * early as the 6th of last month the proprietor had ordered and ready for shipment a supply of white \ paper, which, tabooed the Government transports, had to be shipped by schooner and has not yet ar- 1 rived. That crabbed offici.il at New York is a fair representative of the fable of " The Dog in the Manger," and we care not how soon his master,; Uncle Sam? collarshiw and ties him in some kennel ' . * where he can no longer annoy the nobler animals* . Were this an imperilled post there could not be a meaner Cerberus for Elysium. Complaint is too common for us.any longer to doubt hispropengity, and recording]y we commend him not^eDrpheus but Hercules. . The Proclamation of Emancipation. tiv\rx.., 4i T i IV tut' JjVIU Ul .JIVlll wliom- till glories arer" . We cannot, if we ^ould, repress our exnkation at one of the grandest victories of this or any other time over the Selfishness forever in armed opposition to the progress of Society. To use an ever classic figure, into tbe guipii now yawning in tjie State, the people have at last cast the treasure enjoined by the oracle? Manhood, Justice,?and soon shall we see the chasm close over human xmdage, not only in the belligerent, but in the passive States,?over strife, and .over political prescription of every kind forever. For a whole people have at once soared to a sublimity attained by single noble minds?Kossuth " sorrow-taught" in a foreign tongue, like a prophet asserting the "solidarity " of human interests, and the gifted Bulwer proclaiming? vv /1 iHi-MliHlll Tlllili h TtfTi yrn\ v "Yes, it is the most beautiful truth in morals that we hare no such thing as a distinct and divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours j and by choosing the broadest path to effect their happiness we choose the surest and shortest to our own." ?And let the people kneeling echo in response the grateful prayer?" Uotl bless Abraham Lincoln!" No other might have issued this just decree, but the poor boy, the honest laborer, the people's President. And let 4 " A people's voice. The proof and echo of all hum tn fame, A people's voice, when they rejoice* At civic revel and pomp and game, Attest there ever loyal Leader's fame, 1. V. nno?> liAnAr fn Kim ? 1U1 UJUW, IIWUUI, uviiv., .ivuv. .V , Eternal honor to his name.'* And let not the peculiar relation of this event to tliis Department be forgotten. For against the Prime Hound of the country's peace came the Hunter of the hunter. Says Marvel " to the great befalls so apt a name You doubt if i. by chance or reason came " and of Order No. 11 the President's proclamation is but a growing echo. It is*proper here to reflect that every act of the last administration in the Department of the South, so much opposed at first, has stood the test and approval of the time. The single black regiment, like the sowing of a dragon's tooth, springs up in a command for five, and a social local order in a proclamation of general emancipation? " Our echoes roll from soul to soul And grow forever and forever.' . We may now further congratulate ourselves that the administration of the abstractions of this, in a moral sense, the most important department of the war, has fallen to the lot of one whr? hv loner studv of the stars, has mounted to ! J 0 ? an ether of pure reason and justice mbst sincere. By his own expression "a friend to the negro," seeing that they must be free and therefore should be educated, and that as yet they liave had no teacher upon tliis island, he has already himself employed one forthem, doubtless wisely intending to extend the policy?for however willing the self-sacrifice of voluntary associations, the education of the blacks is now a fit subject for the interest of the Government. Ormsby M. Mitchel had already burst the cocoon of common-place, and was above petty and party influence when he took tjic sword. He will not now omit to link liis telnporal immortality with the millennial lustre of Truth and the Star of. Emancipation, y __ % - ^ X . Astoi'xding.?We must be a sleepy set of people hereabouts if the reports published in the New York papers of the 18th be true, to the effect that Admiral Dupcint has4 'Invested Charleston by gunboats," and that "Fort Sumter has already received a preliminary dose of shot and shell, which resulted in serious damage'." This statement may be eorjreet, and we sincerely hope that it is, but we aac -surprised that it shouul first coine to us by way of Northern papers. We susj?ect, however, that the only'4 preliminary dose of shol and shell," which Fort Sumter received with such bad effect was administered by Beauregard's legions in April, 1861, when Anderson, with his gallant seventy, was for the first time compelled to lower our flag. A'young man, lately married, fears being drafted, and advocates the passage of a law, similario that in force amqng the Israelites, as is recorded in Deuteronomy, 24th chap., 5th verso? ? When a man hath taken* new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business; bat he sh ill be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his with which he has' taken." ; 4 Foolish Benedick ! Were such a law passed it would cause a greater rush to arms than ever. LOCAL HEWS. Prices Current at Sayankah.?The South is tasting in many ways the bitter fruits which have been pro.liiced by rebellion. Fortunes have been ruined, social and political economy thrown out of gear, morals and religion languish* and misery, in all its hydra shapes, haunts the deluded people. Perhaps, no better illustration couki be afforded of this wretched state of things than the tollowing . list of prices, now ruling in Savannah, which was ^ obtained from a gentleman who has spent some W years in that city, and who was permitted to leave there last week on his way to the North. Confederate scrip cannot be exchanged for gold or silver except, at a loss of 12-3 per cent., and it is still depreciating. Flour, 4Ca 16c. per lb.; brown sugar, * JJOc. per lb.; white sugar, 60c.a70c.per lb ; ba.on, 50e.a60c. per lb.; potatoes, $10 per bbl.; sweet potatoes, $6 per bj.; apples, $15 per bbl. ; eggs, 60c.a70c. per dozen.; butter, $1 20 per lb.; coffee, ^ $3 per lb. and scarce; tea, $10a$14 per lb.; corn whiskey, $10 per gallon ; molasses, $2 50 per \ gallo i ; sweet oil, $2 50 per bottle; sperm candles, $3 p r lb. and scarce; common tallow candles, $1 25 per lb.; calLo, $1 20a$l 50 per yard; sheeting, $1 per yard; linen sheeting, $3 per yard; common handkerchiefs, $ I 50ea.li; boots, $30a $35 per pair; shoes, $12a$18 per pair; flannel, $2,50 per ) ard; silks, $la $,* per yard; libbon, $2a$2 60 j^r yard; thread, 50c. per spool; silk, 26c. per skeiu; pins, $1 50 p?r paper; nccjles, $1 25per paper; matches,$12 per gross; quinine, $23 per ounce; opium. $40 per lb ; neither haras nor loaf sugar to be had. Scared Rebels.?The signal officer at Spanish Wells, ililtou Head Island, having noticed lor sev- eral days past a rebel picket and reconnoitering party on the main land opposite the western end of </?nii informed Col. Barton, commandant ol i'ort Pulaski ol the tact, and on Wednesday the gunboat Planter was sent to drive the fellows away. She succeeded in getting within range b?foro the rebels discovered her, and a shot, from her long bow gun, put an abrupt close to the picnic they were having beneath the trees. They skedaddled on the1'double quick/' leaving saddles b-idles, three (ld-fusbioned ti nt-lock pistols, a fine nnuie ride, *a grey overcoat, several haversacks filled with co;n-bre.d, bcskles o.her knick-knacks, and made for BlufFton, three iniles distant. Col. A. Barton landed a party and scoured the vicinity for a mile and a halt around, but found no traces of them. The rebels returned the next day to the point where they had been first seen, which ia witmu ride-shot disUi.ce of llilton Head Island, and easy ride-shot u??iance of our transports as they take the inside passage from Hilton Head to the fort. The Planter on her frequent trips through Scull Creek will be sure to pay her re HpXlH IU 11111 uurp# ui vuovi i m?vu* V St. August ike Affairs.?Shortly after Gen. Terry had returned from his tour of inspection to -jr the posts under his command upon the Florida coast, an incident became known at the Department Headquarters which occasioned another immediate visit to several ojf those posts, it appears that the Frovost Marshal General (Li. Col beard, 48th N. Y.) appointed to facilitate the objects of civil administration under Brig. Gen. Saxton, had * offered a stringent oath of allegiance and objuration to all the remaining inhabitants of St. Augustine, for the most part women, children and old men. This oath having been declined by a number of the inhabitants, ne had ordered them, with * the wives and children of sueh persons as are in ^ the rebel army, to be put beyond our lines, in accordance with his instructions from Gen. Saxton.* fin nntovinn. thr? * John's Rim. fren. Terrv met 4ft UU VU.VIU.6 , , the Burusi.e, on her way to Ihe rebels near Jack- w sonville, and having on board forty-eight women and seventy-six children, but no men. The Burn* side was immediately ordered back to St. Augustine, where the women and children were set at liberty; but as they had disposed of such property as they possessed before tueir removal, some of them are left in quite destitute circumstances. Col. Beard returned to this post with Gen, Terry. More Deserters from Savannah.?Thomas Gillespie and James Coyle, of the 1st Georgia Regiment, came to Fort Pulaski last Monday morning, having escaped from Savannah on the previous Friday evening. When they-reached the Fort both men were nearly exhausted from wading through swamps, struggling through briers, and swimming the streams, and expressed themselves glad at meeting the Yankees. They report nothing new at Savannah, except the arrival of Beanregard on the day they deserted. The rebel chief, emulating the example of Gen. Mitchd# and promptly commence 1 a personal inspection of all the batteries and fortifications for the defence of