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' ' "A- V ^ * X ; * ^ * . I . Yol. 1, No. 42. PORT ROYAL S. C, SATURDAY) JUNE 27, 1863. Price Five Cents THE NEW SOUTH. Published every Saturday Morning by 1 JOS. H. SEABJS, Editor and Proprietor, i Prick : Fivb Ckats Pkr Copy. Advertisements, fifty cents a line, each insertion. I Terms: invariably cash. OFFICE: Post Office Building, Union Square. "SHOULDER ASMS." There's .1 cry sweeps o'er the land,? Shoulder arms! Who would not a coward stand,? Shoulder arms t When one's country ories for aid, . Only tools hang back afraid. There's a cry sweeps o'er the land,? Shoulder arms! "Who's afraid to meet the foe,? Who mould aee the Aug laid low Iu the dust by traitor* base,? > Let hin hide his face ! Who would win a soldier's fame, Shoulder arms 1 - Who would bear a hero's name,? Shoulder arm*! Let him march with purpose high. . Now 4o bo&qwsr or t*r t?*> r ' Who would win a soldier's fame,? r Shoulder arms I There's a cry tails from the sty,? Shoulder arms I Through tho air 'Us sweeping by,? Qlmdtl/lhy trma t Armies of the patriot dead Fill the hoav'n aoove your head. There's a cry Mis from the sky,? Shoulder arms ? "To, our children," hear them say, Ye are born in eril day; But the evil stout withstood Tumeth ir.to good. For the country, we made free, * Shoulder arms! For the world, that free shall be. Shoulder arms 1 Larope eager watches you; Bring the great Republic through! For die world that tree shall be. Shoulder arms! Onward! onward to the van! Shoulder arms I , Forward like a loyal man! Shoulder arms 1 Stand not like one deaf and dumb, , While you hear tlf appealing drum 1 i Onward, on ward,'to the van ! Shoulder arras! See the rebol ranks advance! Wake, man, from your guilty trance ? 1 'lis the time for action deep, Not the hour for sleep. God will bless the work you do ; Shoulder arms! He will bring you aafely through ; Shoulder arms { Fearless of th<* Issue fight, FighttDg ou the side of Right! God will bless the work you do ; Shoulder arms! ?A friend at our elbow says that in meeting a sable son. of Africa, yesterday, he was accosted by liim thus: " Massa, (taking off his hat ) I doesn't go to Canaia now; I stay here, 1 does! Pe white gemraen de ones goes to Canada now-a.days. Ha! ha! he! he!'" Amo.vgthk Rebels.?Captain'.Wilkins, of the staff of Gen. A. S. Williams, commanding a division of the army corps, who was wounded and taken prisoner in the battle of Chancellorville, gives the following account of an interview with Stonewall Jackson. We quote from the Detroit Fret Press'. '? When captured, Captaih Wilkins was placed in charge of a guard, w ho took him a short distance to the rear, w here he met lien. Jackson and staff. ( Jackson was sitting on hishorsa at the head of the ; column, surrounded by his staff, fie wore a new < suit of gray unitorui and was a spare man with a weather-beateu face ami a bngnt, grayisn blue eye. He had a peculiarly sad and gloomy expression of countenance, as though htf already saw a premonition ol his fate, it was but hlteen minutes later that he was mortally, wounded. As they came into his presence the guard announced, ?a', captured Yankee officer.' Captain Wilkins asked I it it was General TbomaaJ. Jackson. On being auswered in the atiirniat ve, he raised his hat. ; General Jackson satd, * A regular army officer, I , suppose?yotn officers do not usually salute oars.' captain Wilkins replied 4 >i-o, I am nut; I salute j ou out ol respect to you as a gallant officer." He 1 then asked his name and rank. On being told, he j fuitber inquired what corps and commanders were opposed in front. Captain Wilkins replied that as ' a . officer he could not return * trutblul answer to ' ( such questions. Jackson then turned to the guard ;( and ordered them to search bin*, lie then had in the breast pocket of his coqjt Hooker's coufident g or iers to corps comm^dea, giving a plan in part cf the crnnjxugn j ***= oAtaraijffra^ur a week in advance, and the field returns, giving the effective strength of the Twelfth corps on the preceding day. These were all exceedingly important papers. ' f ortunately, before the guard could carry the orders into execution, a terrific raking tiro was opened on Jackson's column by twenty pieces of artillery, from an emiuence on the plank road. The first eight or ten shots flew over the heads of the column. The men and gunners dismounted, leaving horses and guns. Our artillery soon got the range with more precision, and the shell and round shot richotted and ploughed through this danse mass of the enemy with terrific effect. Shells were continually bursting, and the screams and groans of the wouniled and dying could be i.hoih! r?n Pi'prv side. As an instance of the terrible . effect of this fire, one of the guard was struck by a I solid shut just below the hips, sweepiug off both his legs. A b ttery came dashing up, but when ! they got into tho vortex of the fire the gunners fled, deserting their guns, and could not be made to man them. An officer,splendidly mounted and j equip; ed, attempted, in a most gallant manner, to rally them. A ball struck him on the neck, completely severing his head from his body, and leaving his spinal column standing. His body rolled to the ground, and the horse galloped to* the rear. One of the shells struck a caisson full of artillerv ammunition, which, exploding, ascended in a era ter of various colored dame, and showered down j t on the heads of the men below it mass of fragments ( of shot and shell. The loss inflicted by this fire ( must have been terrible, placing considerable over j one thousand men hors an combat, and effectually ? breaking up t:.e contemplated attack of the ( column. i " An officer of Jackson's staff subsequently stav ^ ted that it was about fifteen minutes after this that ( Gen. Jackson with his staff, advanced to the front; t to reconnoitre our position, having accomplished ! which he returned by a different path towards his own men, who, mistaking his approach f?.r thai of a party of our cavalry, fired upon him, killing and J wounding four of his staff, and wounding Jackson * once in the 1 ight arm and twice in the left arm and ( hand. s " While Capt. Wilkins was being; taken to the 1 rear he devoted his attention to disposing of the important papers which he had on his person. He t jared not take them from his pocket to attempt to s tear them up, but continuously placed his hand in his pocket and worked the papers into a ball, and is the? were passing along, got them into his bosom i ind Dually into the arm pit under his arm, wh.-re 1 he carried them all that night. The next morning the guard halted to get their breakfast, and a soldier was trying to kindle a tire to cook some coffee which they had taken from our men. The wood wa3 damp and the fire refused to burn. The soldier swore at it until his patience gave out. when ('apt Wilkins asked him if he would not like some kindlings and handed him the important papers. The suldier took them, and. not dreaminc of their importance, used tliem to kindle the fire." The French Corporal.?A corporal in the French service is a kiud of hybrid soldier. He is not a private, neither is be considered a non-commissioned officer. He messes and lodges with the privates; gets the same rations, the same quality of cloth for his clothing, is obliged to live on terras of intimacy with them, play with them and yet must command and punish when necessary. Forced to live thus with these men, it requires tact for a corporal to remain friendly vith his comrades and at the same time to retain his authority. It would be utterly impossible for him to do so tvpr? it not for the law nf thn French militarv acr- ?. vice, wh.ch renders a superior liable to punishment if be neglect to punish a man who has misconducted himself. Officers have long ago recognized the rank of corporal as the most difficult to fill in the military hierarchy. T^hey have all admitted that the corporals are tho catspa.vg of regiments. It might be imagined that under such lircumstances the corporal is a miserable man. On the contrary, he is the jollies! soldier in the regiment. In the first stages of his responsibility he may get a little despairing at seeing that, to do " what he will, he cannot please; but it soon wears r>ff. He soon learns why he. iajilwajs punished, ind goon gets tohneoiaM iw u? >; ! ?* ^ peg for any officer or superior's anger. Hence, when a "blown-up'' officer turns round and con5nes his corporal four days to ba racks the corporal will frequently give him a wink, and the officer will answer with a laueh. Officers havinc re sognized the difficulties of a corporal's position, Bake allowances for his frequent punishments. !)ften his score will be rubbed out. Officers show, ilso, great indulgence in other ways to those poor wuffres m seres, besides which, they, in a certain ueasure, fear them. A certain having a bad set )f corporals will continr .lly be reprimanded for intidy men. Another c ptain. more conciliatory, Till have tidy men and always receive corapfinents. The corporal . n incite the men of his squad to work, and by hi synergy, zeal and examye, can make them rapid in their duties. The sorporal's opinion on any suojeci is accepiea Dy ill the men under his immediate control; he makes )lick popular to-day, and condemns it irretrieva)ly to-morrow. He it is who makes an officer popular or unpopular, confers nicknames," and is generally at the bottom of all fun. When I had been igged out with a fatigue-dress, Corporal de Bonflls old me that I looked like a pantiu. a puppet; that [ was as stiff as the Colonnc Vendoine ; in fact, hat I was a regul ir " 'godara,' oh yes!'' and of ered to wager that he would cut round our room md touch the 40 men there before I could touch a lozon. This he proceeded to do in a most extrairdinary manner; he spun jound the room like a >eg-top, and first with one hand and then the other, md with Aoi-h fnnt ttltflrnatoh'. slanned and kiekod ivery man, standing at the foot of his bed on purjose; then turned a somersault, and fin shed off vith a few of the most admired steps of the cancan, and a grotesque imitation of the Colonel in a age.?All the Year Round. ?A. Maine editor, having been elected fence riewer and field driver, announces that although ' ia io anmotrliaf afraid ofhornnd oattlo ho is ffreat >n the fence. Any of his constituents who wish my viewing done, are invited to bring their fences o'his office. ? The tale-bearer and the tale-hearcr should be . langed up together?the former by the tongue, ind the latter t?y the ear. ? If yon have been tempted into evil, fly from t; it is not falling into the water, but lying in it hat drowns. . . /