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.
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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
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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. ' * ..
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