The new South. (Port Royal, S.C.) 1862-1867, November 01, 1862, Image 4
From Un Charleston Courier, Oct. 23*.'.
Fighting at Coosawhatchie and Poeotaligo.
The threatened movement of the enemy's forces
under Gen. Mitcbel, was made upon our main
land on Wednesday. A dispatch announced that
several columns were in motion; one marching
from Mackey's Point to\var.,s Poeotaligo, and the
other on * bosawhatchie Trom Bee's i reek, about
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the enemy was not stattd, bnt our troops were
drawn up ready to meet and fight the invaders.
Col. Walker was in command of our forces, near
Coosawhatchie.
Official despatches received in the city Wednesday
afternoon confirms the above, and stated
that fighting had already commenced with b >th
columns of the enemy. Our forces were thought
to be ample to hold the enemy in check until the
arrival of reinforcements, whi.h were being rapidly
sent forward from all |,oin s on the railroad.
The 46th Ca.,and Eutaw (2othS.C. V.yliad been
ord?red lorward.
4 o'el ck. Another despatch received, states
that the enemy had advanced on and taken the
railroad at Coosawhatchie. I ol Walker had a
sere e fight, but was ho ding his ground. Reinforcements
to relieve Col. Walker were moving up
rapidly, and it was thought toe enemy canuot hold
his poisiti n but a :ew hours.
Latest. A despatch from Col. Walker stales
that he has driven the enemy from OldEocotaligo,
and will advance in pursuit. Keiuforcembnts had
arrived to his relief. -Skirmishing had commenced
and the enemy were retreating
Defeat of the Vand\l3 in Carolina.?The
oublic mind was greatly relieved yesterday morn
iug by the despatch from Col. Walker to (len.
Beauregard, announcing the repulse of the Yankees
at l'ocotaligo and Coosawhatchie, which we
are kindly permitted to publish: About 10 o'clock
our community were rejoiced at the appearance of
the following order, which was published on the
bulletin boards of tue priuting office-:
Savannah, Oct. 23d, 1862
By Order of G. T. Beauregard :
Tne abolitionists attacked in force Pocotaligo nr. i
Coosawhatchie yesterday. They were gallantly
repulsed to their gunboats at Mackev's point and
^ llee'a Creek landing by Col. \V S. Walker contiuauding
tbe district, and Col. C. P. Harrison commanding
the troops from here. The enemy had
come in thirteen transport- and gunboats The
Charleston and Sa\annah railroad is uninjured
The abolitionists left (heir dead and wounded on
the field, and our cavalry is in hot pursuit.
It. 1. Beauregard, tjeuerai commanding.
Cuvrlestov, Oct. 24.?Toe fight at Pocotaligo
resulted in a comp ete victory for us. Our loss is
tifteen killed and forty wounded. The enemy left
lorty dead on the field. His total loss, confirmed
by accounts of prisoners, is not less than two hundred
killed and wounded.
We took eighty small arms. The enemy's force
consisted of six regiments, with one field battery
and two boat howitzers.
uur accounts from the scene of the enemy's
demonstration, on Wednesday last against the
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, are somewhat
meagre as yet, owing to the tact that no communication
by railroad can be had, for the present,
with Pocotaligo?the trains being employed for
military purposes.
At an early hour yesterday the telegraph brought
the news that the marauders, repulsed in their advance
at Old Pocotaligo, and driven back from the
railroad at - oosawhatchie, had retreated hastily to
their gunboats, but we were left in uncertainty as
to the extent or resul.s of the fighting.
We also received, last evening a dispatch from
Savannah, raentoping that twenty-one dead Yankees
were lying near Pocotaligo, but no further
details had reached that city.
Of the manner in which the enemy, after gaining
the railroad at Coosawhatcbie, was driven therefrom,
we have no particulars, it is stated that, as
the train from Savannah to Pocotaligo approached
Ooosawhatchie, the enemy made signals to the
engineer to stop. The latter paid no attention to
the signals, and determined to run t.;c gauntlet.
As he did so, the enemy fired, killing Major Harrison,
of the 11th South Carolina Koginient, the fireman
on the train, and slightly wounding the engineer.
jTo the Planters of Middle, Southern and Sou hwt
stern Georgia:
Marietta, Ga., October 17, 1862.
An eminent necessity has caused Governor
lirown to appeal to you for a laboring force to
lork on the defences around >avauuah. 2s o more
i >:groes will be received than is actually ueeessary
t t? complete the work iu thirty days. Agents will
L e in the several counties to receive the negroes
a., d receipt for ibvmT*
A. Parsons, ,
(Jtsryjl .S'^crtotqtftat
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I Heat of ibb Hvmak Body.?One of the most j i
! useful instruments which the ingenuitv of man has ''
1 * J 5 * ? n | ,
uevisea is ine luennumeier. 1 ms iushuuicuiuvm 11
not enable us to estimate the actual quantity of i
heat contained in a substance, but it indicates the. <
propo.tion ot tha. subtle fluid that is sensible?
tiiHt is recoguizable by the sense ot touch. The
dusky lliu .00. clad in his solitary garment of cot- 1
ton, and the Laplander in bis suit ot lur, are placed 1
in the most opposite conditions in relation to the 1
heat of the sun; the Indian is exposed during the
I whole year to old Sol's most ardent beams, whilst 1
but a scant share of its genial rays g>.es to warm
thcLapuLder. But,it we place the bulb of a thermoiaetcr
beneath the tongue ot a Hiudoo we would .
tiud the mercury to stand at 98 deg. ot Fahrenheit's ,
scale, and if we repeated the experiment ou a Laplander
we w\.uld obtain an identical result. ftu-j
merous experiments 01 this nature have been made
on individuals iu most parts ot the world, and the j
results lia\ e proved that the temperature ot the ,
blood ol man is 98 degrees Fahrenheit whether he j
be iu India or at Mova Zembla, on ihe steppes of
Kussia. or the elevated plateau of America. This
invariability i f the temperature ot the bodies of
men appears the more Wonderlul when it is considered
chat ti e range of the temperature of the
medium in which they exist exceeds luO degrees,
Fahrenheit's.
The human body resembles, in some degree, a
steam boiler with innumerable safety vaiVc*, in the
torm of pores ju the skin. Ferspiration is caused
by the heat of the body converting the water in
the anima. Irauieinto vapor,which escapes through
millions of pores in the cuticle. The expansion ol
this vapor over the whole surface of the body exerts
a rclrigerating action lor the removal of surplus
heat lrotu the animal system. When the
pores of the skin are closed and pe.. juration prevented,
the surplus heat generated in the body is
prevented from escaping, and lever ensues. A.
clea.i cuticle is as necessary to health as good lood
and pure water.
Your Country.?An old soldier, in appealing
lately to his son to go and hght lor the uovi-rnnient
and the Union, said:
' Perhaps you h.ve never thought what your
country means. It is all that su. rounds ^ou?all
that has b.-ought you up and fed you?all tl^at you
have loved. This country that you see?these
houses?these trees, those girls who go along
there laugh.ng?this is your country! Ihe laws
which protect you, the bread which pays your
work, the words you interchange with others, the
joy aud grief which come to you from the men
and tliiugs among which you live?this is your
country! Tue little room where you used to see
you. mother, the remembrance which she has left j
you, the earth where she rests?this is your country!
You st*e it, you breathe it, everywhere.
Think to yourself of your rights and duties, your
affections and your wants, your past and your i
present blessings ; write them all ?nder a single
name, and that name w ill be your country. ?v e
owe it all that we are, and he w ho enjot, s the ad- \
J vantages of having a free country, ana does not ,
accept the burdens of it, lorfeits his honor, and is >
a bad citize.j. Do for your country what you 1
would lor your father and mother, Your count.y \
is in danger.' j
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Tue Spirit of New Esola.vd.?The following j
is an extract of a private letter, dated Framing* 1
ham, Mass., Oct. i, lc6.: j
" You express surprise that my husband has en- j
listed! 1 would think it a disgrac if he did uot, i
as 1 think it a disgrace to every able bodied ma.i 1
who r. fuses to answer his country s c.dl; and I
know few so able as he. So 1 send him lorth in
the full con iction that he is in the path ol duty, 1
and that a blessing will descend upon him in the 1
f vfl???K Mmn on the blhodv field, that COula U t
reach him by his tranquil fireside in these stormy <
times. k. a/
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Bishop Rosecra.\b?As Bishop Rosecrans, (brother
of the General) was at dinner recently, '
the conversation reverted to the war.
" It would seem to me, Bishop, that you and
your brother, the General, a>e engaged in very dif.
ferem callings ' " Yos, it appears 8 ;," returned j
the Bishop. " And yet " he continued, ? we are j
both fightiug men. While the Gener J is wielding
the sword of the flesh, I trust 1 am usiag the
sword of the Spirit. He is fighting the rebels, a.,d I
1 am fighting the spirits of darkness. . There is ,
this difference in the terms of our service ; he is !
" * "" -*1- **-V. J1I om firrVitinor withnnt !
I Qgnitng WllU IIKV, niiuu JL huj ..bwwwe ...
| price."
?
A Ni.w Pipe ?Mr. Robert Heneage, of Buffalo,
: lias i.iVented a pipe entirely upon new principles,
and destined, in all probability to effect a com
plete revolution in tobacco smoking. The editor
of Buffalo Express says that he has tried the pipe,
and found it to be all that itpcomised. The tobacco J
iu the buwl is lighted at the bottom, ?d bursa wp- ;
f? i. j -i -i Atrnmmammmmmmmmmmtmmsam.
ward. The stem is inserted in a cap at the top,
which also has a chamber filled with cotton to purify
the smoke. The contrivance is not comj lifted
but simple, and works to a charm.? Quebec
Chronicle.
White and ftfccro Labor.?Among the many
attempts to excite opposition to the President's
Proclamation, the>e is none more lalse, detestable
and attrocious than the assertion that emancipation
wih bring i-outhern negroes to the Fiorth to
compete with our workmen, and bring down the
price oi w ages. In his locent speech at Brooklyn,
N. Y.. Cassius M Clay thus , lluded to this prejudice
: "Gcrma .8, Irishmen Frenchmen, why
1 .A -II * 1* *~A ~
are you acre ai an i 11 10 uctau; c juu ucic uuu a
go ernment based npon the broad principle of liberty
to all buw&uity. ^Appla. se.) Sh.,w ine the
man who would to-day oppress a utau on account
of his color, aud 1 w4.1 show you a man who will,
should it meec his nds, oppress you to-m. rrow.
But it is not true that this inte terenc with your
labor will take place in consequence of Emancipation.
Emamip tion will, in lact, but concentrate
b aek labor in the South.
A Shout Axswta.?One ol the euro ling marshals
the other day, received a strong hint lruma
down town leaiale. Stepping at the lady'sb use,
he found her bclore he. door endeavoring to effect
with a vegetable huckster a 20 per cent. abatement
ii the priee ol a peck ot potatoes. 44 liave
you any men here, madam ?" 1 he reply wus grutt
and tu. t?44 Mo." 4 Have you no husband, madam
?" 4 Mo." 44 Mor brothers t" ".No. '
' Perhaps you have a son, mad m ? ' 44 Weil,
wha.. ot it /" 441 should like to know where he
is.* " Wei:, heisu't i.ere." 44 So 1 see, ma'am
Pray wber. is he ?" 44 In the I ..ion army, where
you ought to b_. ' The marshal hastened round
the corner. He d.dit 't lur.her interrogate the lady.
?The Nord of ..russels says that 44 a French
captain is sa.d to have just returnee from a voyage
to Africa with specimens of a plant the name
ot which is still kept a secret, and which, submitted
to some chemical proce. 8, yields a substance
perfectly resembling cotton. Several pieces of
stuff have been wo. en out of it, and speeimetis ,
submitted to the Emperor of .he * reuch. These
stud's are descri. ed as stronger than cotton tissue,
equai :n fineness and 60 per cent, cheaper, ihe
plant abounds both in Africa and America, and
wi 1 thrive very well in Algeria. The Nord adds
that a company is being farmed to work this substance
on a large scale."
Regular line or packets between new yore
AN I) PORT ROYAL, S. C.?The undersigned will des[>atch
a vessel twice a month from each oi the above named
ixirts. For Freight or passage, apply to
JuHN pms, Agent, Bay Point, S. C.,
B. H. B1ABY, 56 ureenwicn St, N. York,
ay The Brig "Leni," of this line will sail for New York
>n the 30tli inst. She made the passage here in 4 days?^
beating the steamer "Ericsson."
AMERICAN WATCHES FOR AMERICAN SOLDIERS.
f\ me American Watch Company oiWaltham, Mass., give
nonce that they lately issued a new staple ot watch expressiy
designed .or soldiers and others who desire a > *? watch
it a >h <uc, a., price. These watches are intended to take
die place of the ch- .p anchors and lepines oi foreign munuacture
wiui which the market is hooded, and wlucu, us
jvery one knows, were never made to keep tune, being reuse
mauulactures, unsaleable in Europe and scut to this
.-ouutry for j ?/.eyuty and < ? in-niny puiposc* only.
Our new watch is most substantially made, cased in sterling
silver, and is a reliable and accu rate Line-piece. it is
littered at a price but little above that which is ashed iui tl? j
trashy anchors and iepincs already re .erred to. Y? e have
named this new series of watches Win, Eliery, and tiisy
tnay be found at the stores of cur agents, cbancey u itobouis,
Beautort; Douglas, Steele u- Co., Hilton Head, for the
American Watch Company.
H. A. RORBINS, General Agent.
JUST RECEIVED, AT 1H? UNION SQUARE STORE,
uuder the Post Office?a line lot of Letter and Note
t aper?ruled and plain?extra super .nd common qualiues:
Envelopes, bull, Wnite, Tinted, Opayue, Pn.notic, c..? ail
sizes and qualities. Steel and Gold Pens. Ink?blink, blue
and red. inkstands, paper lolders, erasers, port lonos, pen
knives, prize stationery, -c. a c. Also, Patten's Manual lor Officers,
infantry Tactics, Dunne's Engineers Manual and
various other books of interest ana vaiue to the soiaier.
Also, a hirgo variety of Novels, bou0 books, pictorial papers,
uid by euci. mail the latest issues ot the New York dady
papers.
P)RT ROYAL HOUSE, HILTON HEAD, 8. C.?THE Subscribers
wish to inform their irieuds and the Pub..c
that their House is now open for visitors, tue traveling
public and permanent boarders, on reasonable terms. No
pains will be spared for the comfort .of guests.
FRANZ ?* GILSON, Proprietors.
SROCERY AND SUTLER STORE-?Hews, FRANZ dk
G1LSON will keep constantly on bud, at their large
W arehouse under the Port Royal Rouse, a good supply of
Ship's Groceries and Sutter's Goods, which will be sold at
reasonable prices. They will, also advance money and take
bills of credit on Shipments upon the owners in Boston or
New York.
Reference Col. Peter Dunbar, J. J. Dunbar Co.;.
mil j Simpson, Benton u Caveriy, Potter cf Snow and C.
L. Curtis. All of Boston, disss.
FRANZ <? GILSON.
MR. C. G. BOBBINS, BEAUFOBfr, 8. C.. IS NOW ESTAB
liahed on the corner opposite "Stevens House." He.
has always on hand, for sale, the most desirable goods for
this section of tile country, auditor army uses, at the lowest
prices.