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Beef 1ms come and we are relieved from the danger of starvation. The schooner Edwin R. Benn:!t brings, besides 7o he-id ol cattle, a quan.ity of forage for our homes. Accident on the Lono Dock ?One day last! week a man by the namo of Albert M. Bouker, a | private in the 3d Rhode Island r. gim nt fell over- j b >ard from the long do k, and would probably i have drowned before a boat could reacii him, had it not been for the heroic daring of a sailor from the Wabash, named Timothy (tm-ey, who happened to be standing on the short dock at the time. i *i.a o/i/ii.lni-.t Ko r\l mmiH iiitn thu u/atup V U1CI ? 111 i'iV avciuviii ut j/iuugvu auiv vuv oh^vi ; nd succeeded in reaching the man, just as, exhauste i by his efforts, he w s about to sink, and held him above wateruntil a boat could bo got to their assistance. Such br.v^ry deserves mention. Flag of Truce to Savannah?On Monday last a flag of truce w .s sent up the river from Fort ! ulaski. The b arer of the flag, Adj't Goo Tell, of the 4 dh N. Y. Vols, was stopped by the rebel pi ket a short distance above St. Augustine creek, and was met by the c mmanding o hcer of the iron c ad batte y Georgia, wh ? received the dee intents in his c arge. The Georgia is anchored at t ie head of Elba Island and is completely surrounded with obstructions which blockade everv channel approaching her. She is covered with railroad iron and in j ppearance resembles the Merrimac. She carries ten guns within eighteen inches of the water line. Sale for Unpaid Taxes.?We call the attention of our readers to the notice < f the U. S. Tax Commissioners for South Carolina, which will be found in another column. It is preliminary to toe sale of the larger portion of the lands here, which will probably take place sometime in ; ebruary, and atford a good opportunity for investment T he Suspension op Quarantine ?The Quarantine Regulations establish^ 1 in this Dep irtment, by ' General Orders'' No 28 of August the 18th 1862, have been suspended. It affords us pleasure to add that the health of the command at this post was never better than at present. PERSONAL Gen. Hunter's Stafp.?We find the followingnamed gentlemen annonnced as the Staff of MojorGeneral Hunter, who is soon to resume command of the Tenth Army Corps. We recognize among these officers many old and valued friends whose return to this Department will be heartily welcomed : Lieut-C ol. Chas. G. Halpine, Assistant AdjutantC e tural and Chief of Statf. Major Edward W. South, Assistant Adjutant General. Lieut. Israel R. Sealuy, Acting Assistant Adju- J taut General. Lieut Col. J. H. Wilson, Assistant Inspector. General. Lieut-Col. J. J. ElweTl, Chief (Quartermaster. Lieut-Col. M. R. Morgan. ChLf Commissary ol Subsistence. Capt. Thompson, Depot Commissary. Major Gideon fckuM, Ju tge-Advocate. Surgeon Chas H. ( rane, Medical I irector. L eut. Horace Porter, < hief of Ordnance. Capt. jacksoa, Chief of ArtiL-ry. Maj. Edward W. Wright, Senior Aid-de-Camp. Capt S \V. Stockt ;n. Aid-de-Camp. Capt. Arthur M. Kensie, Aid-de-Camp. Capt. Volney Hickex, Aid-de-t'amp Capt. Dole, Aid de-Cauip. Lieut, (. has. H iiay, Aid-de-Camp. ?Capt. J. J. Elwell, larte Assistant Quartermaster at this Post left 0:1 the 28di for the North in the bark Mtria, to recruthis health after his lata* QiU'liPP illness. He wil tirobablv soon return t this Department as Chief Quartermaster on the Staff ofMij. Gen. Hunter, with thj rank of Lieut Colonel. t NEWS FROM THE NORTH. The U. S. supply steamer Blacktlont, fr jm New York, arrived on Mend iy last, bringing dates to the 2>th ultimo. We make up a summary from our exch nges :? # ?The lat st advicrs from the army of the Polo. ma; were to Sunday the 28 1 nit. \ Daitie was th.-n im:ninentat r'rederickaburg, as (Jen. Lee had determined not to surrender triat city without a desperate resistance to the passage < f the Kappaha:iRo:k at that point by Gen. iiu nside s forces. The rebel commander h id refused to t cat with our army, and had ordered the women and.children to eave the city. during i'r.day night the euiMBf.i * 1 1 " M 111 JH> i J had thrown up a li e of breast-works to the right and rear of the town, and our forces were actively employed in planting cannon in the most favorable positions. That there is doubt felt of an a ilitv to hold the position is indiea ed by the dest uction of a large qu ntity of tobacco to prevent its fa ling into the hands of our tr ops Our army is s .id to be in go d order and conditio.* for a fight. ?The whereabouts of t at active rebel le der " Stonewall" Jackson, was not definitely known. On the 24th there was sou.e apprehension at Washingt n because of rumors that he was in the vie nity of the capital. It is however, generally believed that he is retiring towards Gordonsville, in tardy obedience to repeated orders from Jell. 1 avis to assist in the defence of Richmond. The Potomac was rising and it was not at all likely that Jack on would rep at his visit to Maryland, that Sta.c having lost its charms for rebel Generals. ?"nfortn tion hail been received from the Lower Mississippi that the rebels are busily at work for tit.vi ig fort Hudson, auout a nunnrea ana nuy miles above New Orleans under.direction of the same engineer who designed the works at Yicksburgh, and that ten or twelve guns are air ady in position. Between this point and Vieksburgh an important rebel task is now being carried on? (steamers being run on Red river, bringing down immense snpp ies of cattle from Texas and larg * j quantities of salt from new salt works on the Red river about fiity m les above its mouth, which ore said to produce teu thousand bushels daily (!) ?Frig. Gen. Francis E. Patterson, of Gen. Sickles' division, accident Jly shot himself dead, on the morning of the 2.d u't. Jt was his habit to place a revolver under his pillow, on retiring for the right, in his tent. This waft done on Friday night last. About daylight, on Satmday morning he awoke, and, for seme purpose, displa ed the revolver from under the pillow on which h; slej t, with his r ght hand, and while changing it to th? left, probably \\ ith the intention of hanging the weapon up near his couch, it exploded, 'lhe barrel at the moment pointe.l towards the person of the recHn ng man, and the who of the contents were received in bis left breast, passing through the heart and causing instant death ?The New York Timet says editorially : ? U ! 1 thgt a nnmKup nf the Frnfi ditions which were organizing lor operating on the Southern coast an i against points of secondary importance have been abandoned, and that. the forces in the field will now be directed to the uiain purpose of capturing Kichmond and defeating the principal rebel army, 'lhe number of men at this moment in the military service of the overnment is greater than ever before: but it is cleir enough that if we abstract from our Eastern army troops sufficient to capture and hold '1 exas to seize and oecupy Charleston, ravannah and Mo. bile, and to operate in North Carolina. Louisiana and Flotiia, we shall really be able to bring not more than a moiety of our strength against that gra; rebel force in \ ir-inia which gives to the Confedracy cohere cy and vitality. The m in thing to I e done, in a military point of view, and the chief thing at hi h the countr. desires, is the defeat of Gen. Lee. 11 is army broke.), and the Confederacy will pertiHH ?The i.hicago Journal understands that the fol lowing is the position of, he army in Southwest Tennessee and Nort i Mississippi: Gen. Grant is with the centre, between Lagrange an I the Cold Water; ( en. C. S. Hamilton, near Holly Springs; Gen. Sherman at I avis' B idge, southeast ot Memphis. Gen. Hurlburt is at Meiuphi. in temporary . command of the post. The enemy has been concentrating a very considerable force at .lackso , Miss, under Pemberton. Cur army has been and is being strengthened to wha extent and by whom it is hardly proper to state, 'j he Journal does not anticipate a battle north of Jackson Miss although mat' niako a g and at iallehatchie Lridjfe 17 m lea south of llolly Springs. j ?The Mississippi expedition is to b? more formidable than is generally supposed. It will be 40,000 strong in men: will comprise a water lore of ten gunboats, mounting one hundred and twenty g ins, and have in reserve Eliot's I .rge fleet of rams. It will be rea iy to move by the 10th of leeember at the furthest, and perhaps much earlier. The late attack < n Vicksburg failed from the want of a land force. Now, the affair will be shoved j u?i?h mpn and mnans enoucrh. ?'"harleston does not recover very rapidly from calamities, under secession rnle judging by a! statement made by a man who has 'ong been a resident there and just reached the North?that ofi the six hnndred and thi ty-flve house; burned there in the g.eat fire of last year, only ten have been replaced. ?Parties in Richmond estimate the strength of' the rebel army at 400,000, and say it can be main- i tained at that point during t e wi iter. The- new conacripti n act will add 300^JU) to. their force; ssUi tbe Hinmi isik at K.ohtafMiiii fh|fcthqyjai)J ! u i ?L-'-i-. 'I ? I commence active operations in the Spring with 050,000 troops. ?The tr n j>ortation of the army of the Totomac has been cut flown to f ix wagons to a regimentyet it make# fifty n ile3 of wagons. It can carry provisions for ten days and ammunition enough to tight its way to l.ichmond. ?Ice made its appea-ance up the Ko th river, Sunday night tbe 23d ultimo, and in some localities formed an inch and a half t i k. If the cold snap continued some hundreds of boats on the canals would be shut up tt? i i: ti ? !.!?. riOll. I II 1 lia^cr 13 I'i n 0011 mannig t! e necessary arrangemej ts to carry out his | lans of res oring the State of I lorida to the Union by the colonization of negroes ? Holly Springs has been evacuated by the rebels. The Confederate generals did n t consider their position there tenable, it is said. They are going .nto winter quarte s at Abhysville, presuming that our forces will not attack them there. any of the rebel soldiers are w ithout blankets, and otherwise very deficient in clothing. DEATHS. Tavid N. Ruth, Trivate Co. C, 97th Regt. Pa. Vols, Nov. 22d, remittent fever. ^ George Baker, Civi ian, late of Co. B, 47th KegU N. Y. Vols., Nov. 24, pa sy. Jacob Windle, lrivate Co. L>,76th Regt. Pa. V, Is., Nov. 24, dropsy. William II Larouche, Trivate Co. A, 47th Regt N. Y. Vols, Nov. 28, consumption. Gcorg* E. fcwallow, 1 rivata Co. F. 8d New Hampshire Vols., December 2d, of C hronic Dysentery. The health of the Command 1 * excellent Almanac, Fort Royal, 8, C, Bee. 6, '62 Oil RISES .U I MOON RISES. ...... .0 J? 8CN SETj 4 55 | HIOH WATER. . .7. . .7 10 ~~ ^ v- *, j& j .1' Tlnrmometric Table Prepared by A. P.Dalrymple. Surgeon U. 8. V., and Surgeon of the Poet, Hilton Head. 8. C . for the week ending Thursday, Dec. 4th, 1862, giving the degree* of temperature (Fahrenheit. at four periods of the day. jT! I 1 I I! I S i i , i h ) CD i CO S H ? H Sunrise. 38 43 39 57 60 56 | 55 ) A. M. <44 50 50 64 59 58 56 3 P.M. 56 60 62 70 64 64 56 J P. M. 47 50 56 64 60 61 ! 54 MARINE NEWSARRIVED. Nov 23d, Schr Brave Tapper, New York; 24th, Steamer Cosmopolitan,Crooker. New York; 2Ith, Steamer City ??t Kichmond, Kelly, do 2lth, Schr. Celestia, Rankin, Newark; 28th, chr I nnci.s L Steele, Mai fern, < louciater; l8ib, Steamer Union, Wilton, I a\ana, put in to coal. Dec. 1, U. S. Stea oer Blacks tone , New York; 2d, Schr. Abby B., I aker, New York; 3d, Bark Fagle, Baker, New York; 4th, Schrs Au? relia P. Howe, Chatt n New York ; Ldwin R. Bennett, Irving, New York; Brig Bcnj. 1 elano, Baxter, TTatieras Inle ; Schra. T. b. Brown, Nickerson, New York: Franci< Burr tt, Nickersoo, \'ew York; John Price, Sears i hiladelphia ; Martha Moore, Bennett, Philadelphia. CLEARED. Nov. 22d, Steamer Trade \\i :d, \\ mrerursi. New Orleans; 2*2d Schr. Mariett Gray, phi la. 2 >th, Schr. Arruena Bartlett, Bartlett, Phila.; 25th Steamer Delaware, Cannon, New York; 26th Ship Maria, Clarke, New York; 27th, s'chr. Hath iway, Compto >, Phila; 27th Schr. Hannah Matilda, Price, Phila; 28th, Schr. Palmyra Devnll, New Bedford; 28th, Schr H Blackburn, Caniy, 1 hiladelphia; frig Alexander Milliken, 1 ish, Philadelphia ; Steamer City of l.ichmnnd, Kelly, New York; 29th, Jchrs. I rave, Tapper, New York; -^emantha C. Steele, Ken Irick, Gloucester; Jas. ^ W. La-vrence, Tooker, Fcrnandina and St. Augustine; Strs. Union, Wilson, New York; City of Kichni nd, Ke ly, New York; Dec. 1st Schr. Richard M. Oemill, Hendrickson, New York; 8d, - T 1 w : V?,?. V^-b- . liarKanune L,a!iipu^iuci, .'n/ui*, n?n . vin) n?, Sclna. Celestia, llankin, Washington. D. r.j Lnc'nda F. Baylia, Baylis, New York : Ship Coa.'><? q :est, Sears, New York; Schr. Joel Vans nt. * Smith, N. Y.j 5th, Marietta Tilton, Tilton. Fhilad. Notice is hereby gives that the u. p. tax com. ini?!<ioners for South Carolina are now prepared to ncoivp the taxes on real property inSt.Lnke'e Pariah, 8. C., st thfir office in Bcaufoit, S. C., at any time within ' niity (lavs from this date. a. d. smith, ) ... W. E WORDING," > Committalonera. ' * .. - -wm. henry brisbane. i - . Bated at Beaafnet, IWMIi ??