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POST SOT AX, SATTJSDAY OCT. 4, 1862.
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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."
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? 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.
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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?
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"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,
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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 !
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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.
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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
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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.*
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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