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VoL 1, No. 34. PORT ROYAL, S. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1863. Price Five Cents. --
THE NEW SOUTH.
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THE SOLDIER S BOMB.
!he wii* world i* the eobiier'* home.
Hie comrades ere hie kin;
Ht? palaro-reof the welkin dome,
* The drum .hla mandohu.
to, , B?igines to air
Ail thought of raret
- ^ And troll* lus sertutuU
Tb flery Man,
- j The Wag of (Kara.
Tlwt neror kne betrayed.
The banner ia the aoldier'* bride,
Tfc? lore or bold and brare ;
. Jfcawre<nf feaat the battle t4*;
J?ia marriage brd the grave.
Where bullets King,
Death'* leaden wing,
tight a* c dancing ?e*thw, Whan
hero Mia,
- 1* glnr'a hall*,
n- W^Uteand tofe togrthar,
' Correspondence Bo;we#u Maj,-3en. Hunter
aod Admiral Dupont, Urn Bay After the
Fight.
HXADQUAft7EM JOT THE SOl TU, J
r, S, Taxaaroar *> Bay Dkpor?," Apw 8, *63. |
Admiral S. F. Dupotd, Flag Skip Neuc Ironsides
off Fort Sumter.
ifllBU;-Not knowing what have been the
result* of your attack yesterday, so lur as r on
Sumter is concerned, I cannot but congratulate
you upon the magnificent manner jn which the
vessel* under ycur command fought
A mere spectator, X could do nothing but pray
for you, which believe ine, I did most heartily, for
you and all the gallaut men under your command,
who tailed so calmly and fearlessly into and under
and through a concentric lire which, has never
heretofore hod a parallel in the history of warfare
. That you are uninjured, and so many of your
command fit for serrice is a cause of deep gratitude
to Almighty God. I confess, when the WeeJmmkia
first ran under Sumter's gnus, receiving
the casemate and barbette broadsides from that
work aimutaneonsly with the similar broadsides
from Fort Moultrie and all the other works within
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range, I lRWiy new my orcma will me- xurnv lnM
iWrcd away, not expecting to see a Yestige of the
.little vessel which ha:l provoked such an attack.
With each of the others the same scene was re.enacted
rov interest jn the fate of the Ironsides
.being,perhaps, the keenest from my knowledge
of her vulnerability, and of the deep loss the country
would sustain if anything was to happen yon.
- Thank God for the results as far as they go.
May lie have you in His keeping through whatever
chances arc yet before Vou ifo country can
Ax"? * W has men capable of suffering what
your iroa-cUds had yesterday to endure. God
i4?os you and keep you safe, Admiral, and believe
itte, with the highest esteem,
D. HUNTER, if^"or-General.
Ftac Ship u Xroxsidbs. (
Chaelk<rc>; Harbor, S. U., Ap. 8, 'C3. $
Gkxrral I am this moment in receiptor your
most gratifying letter of this date. ;I did not,
however, require thia to nattsfy me of your deep
sympathy ia our operations of yesterday, intensi8od
by tbo iact tbat circumstances beyond your
| control prevented that, which of all thing* you
i would moat have desired, an immediate and active
co-operation.
I shall have your letter read in every iron-clad
of the fleet. ?o that every man under my command
shall know what has long been familiar to me, the
' heartfelt sympathy itf the Commanding-General of,
| Ihe Army of the Departnrent South.
I am, <3 carnal,~wfth the highest respect, your 1
' moat obedient servant. i
! s. r. foupoxT,
i Rear Admiral Comd'g, South Afl. Squadron.
! To Major-GenBral IIuvtbi. Commanding Pepartj
mcnt of tho South, off Chorleatpft.
j Thr Cu**ibston* t"a'rr"--The correspondent
I of the Near Tork Timet, (WrS.) qfi hoard the flag!
: whip Ktvc Ironside*, after giving tje order of bat'
tie, plan of attack and a ruoat Unfiling account of
| the flght, says :
1 "There w#a hut one convfetlonk \ the minds of ,
j all who were made acquainted with, these facts,:
whether among the 1 ival people damaged or intel-j
[ ligeni outside obsenrer*r~tbe tight eonld not be j
renewed. And yet k was fully ajpccted, on tlie
night of the battle, that another itrial would be
made in the morninr. I saw njaly of the Captains
of the iron-clads during that night. All !
were ready to resume the battle, though each man '
felt that he was going to an inevitable sacrifice. I j
confess I prayed that the fiery ;cuj> might pass
from them, and that no impetuosity might prompt
! our leader to throw the fleet ogaitHnto that fright- j
fid fire.
Tue grand oM sailor, the ydoble f)uPont^ who is.
loved with singular devotion by aB nhder his com- 1
maud, combine?' in hiccfearmwJIifc topetspaitwl
a Web maihea liuuilumtUirwkfi a rare intellecttfaT
coolness and consummate mental poise, No man ;
could possibly feel with greater intensity, all the J
instincts and motives that prompted a renewal of!
the battle; and yet no wan could possibly see with
more clearness the blind madness of such an attempt.
lie dajred to be wise.
Admiral PuPont calls no councils of war; but
! oti his own motion decided that the contest must
! end here. This afternoon there was an informal |
gathering of the Captains of tho irou-alads on i
board of the flag-ship. Rarely was ever a fleet so ,
commanded. These men are the very flower of )
the navy. The lips must refuse their office to one
who would breathe a whisper of suspicion against.
their courage or their dftrotion. Now there was
but one opinion shared in common by all these ;
men?the froitlcssness of renewing the attack at;
present. Let us see on what consideration their |
opinion is founded.
j Viewed strategically, Charleston oarnor lorms a
' culde sac, four miles in length f.om its entrance at
\ Fort Sumter up to the ?ity. This blind passage
j varies in wid.h from cne to three miles, and is ea.
] pable of bearing defensive works on each side ^nd
i on shoal places in mid-channel,
i On these natural advantages have been brought
j to bear the finest engineering skill in the Confedj
eracy (and it was the flower of the genius, of the
; country) during a period of two years. Leo.
| Beauregard and Ripley in succ&sion, have ex- j
j hausted their professional efforts to mako it imj
pregnable. Everything that the most improved
: modern artillery and unlimited resources of labor
i kaa iww.n Hnn?? tn make the oaasage of a
fleet impossible. And it if impregnable. Sebaatopol
was as nothing to it.
Oar fleet got bat to tho entrance V>f the harbor.
It never got within it. llad the iron-clads sue.
ceeded in passing the obstructions, they would
still hare found those miles of batteries to run,
They would have entered an Inferno which, like
the portals of Dsntes' hell, might well bear the
flaming legend, "Who enters here leares Jy>pe
behind." Not a point at which (hey would not
have found themselves.
"Mid upper, nether and gnrroundiatflreB."
They pass out of the focus of the Are of Forts
Sumter, Moultrie, Beauregard and Bee, and they
find themselves arrested under thejrange* of Sum~
tor, the Redan, Johnston and ItiMey. They get
beyond this, and a concentric firt "from Ripley,
- Pinckney, the Wtppoq bat (cry ana jfco gnps of the
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m a
city falls upon them! Merely to run by batteries, *
as was done at the forts below New Orleans, is
not a very difficult thing, even for vessels not ironclad
; but to be anchored as it were, under such
fires as these, is what no ships were ever called
upon to suffer.
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I\m iv iiiv iuvutivrS| tuciu vau i/y itiuu uvuvu
(hat the results of this great test will suggest
many improvements to the fertile genius of their
inventor. It is fair to believe Mr. Ericsson will
readily Hod the means of securing the bolts from *
being forced into the turret and pilot-house by
shocks from the outside?an effect so disastrously
illustrated in the case of the Nahant. If he cannot
at the same time succeed in removing the liability'
of the turret to stoppage of revolution, by
fouliDg and otherwise, it will always remain a
fatal defect. And, indeed, it seems as though the
dependence of the working of the Monitors on nice
mechanical contrivances and combirations mnsc
seriously interfere with obtaioing the best results
from them.
Thk Union Sentiment in Missouri.?A letter
from Palmyra, Mo., to the Ikntcn Journal, says
the prospects of that State are most promising ;
"The rebel sympathizers arc fast selling out, anr.
leaving their places to be filled by good and loyal
men. The Union sentiment in Missouri is intensely
loyal; it recognizes but two parties, the one for
the Union, the oUier against it. So we think and
act. We are getting more loyal aver}' day. W<?
undestnnd the awful responsibility zeftttppn the
Prewhmj^and we w^l stand4>?*WOh^h this - . . ^
fievy onl^d, amtjgJii.Km conquer or perish.
"in h 'ililLtflU iwfihi iiii expressed in the current
UlUil4^, lud in the public meetings which Cither .
15 CuriUUH* Ultf pwinrc Of r?hdw gSTrTl>e*igtFTit ^
crisig. We fear nothing for Missouri. '?
Sic.vs op Pxace.?We are to have peace on
April twenty-third, 18o3, if there ia any virtue in
drea i s. A member of Hawkins' Zouaves, and an
artilleryman at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, have
both dreamed dnring the last fsw weeks, that tbev
Had seen a scrou in me *xy rearing me wuru^,
"Peace, April twenty-third, 1863.'' Jeff. Davis
will have to hurry up and disband to make prophecy
true.
A Pratt Expected.?It is asserted, in quarto t
entitled to credit, that a draft will soon be nsado
to fill up all regiments now in the held decimated
by the casualties of war, to their proper standard.
It is not yet known how many it will require, bat
probably near 200,000. The drafted men will be
sent at once to the regiments, where they will be
taught military tactics upon the field, and not ia
camps of instruction as has been proposed.
Another Warning to England.?It is reported
in diplomatic circles that Secretary Seward forwarded
a second dispatch to Minister Adams yep1
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IGrUiiTy IU gU Vy llic iK'Ai oivaiuv11 niiiiHM *?
general tenor to that written upward of a fort-night
ago, in which Great Britain was warned of the
consequence of sending forth more Alabawos to
prey on our commerce.
This second dispatch is, it is stated, even mora _
decided in its tenor than its predecessor, and goes
even so for as to intimate that if the British GovI
eminent permits jhe Bebols to build and dispatch
their piratical eruisers from its ports it ought just- v.
, ly to be beM responsible.
? A correspondent of a cotemporary says : Ft
' is my duty to impress upon yon the certain fact
that oueliklf of our young people lose their senses
j when they lose their heart One or our pariy na*
already written five letters to his lady-lov?, cad
: he goes about groaning and sighing in a most pifi
iblo manner. He has no appetite, and sleeps up
I at the top of the house, close to the moon. Ha
i cannot stand by one of tho columns of the pifttaa
! without putting his arm around its waist, and i
j caught him kissing an applo to-day because it had
red cheeks.
? A down-east editor sa.*s that he has scea the
i contrivance that.lawyers use to ((warm up the subject."
He says it is a glass concern and hold*
| about 9 pint.
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