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THE NEW WS 0IIT H. Vol.2, No. 4. PORT ROYAL S. C, SATORDAY,OCTOBER 3,1863. Price Five Cents. " THE NEW SOUTH, j Published every Saturday Morning byj JOS. H. SEARS, Editor and Proprietor. , Price : Five Cents Per Copy. Advertisements, fifty cents a line, each insertion. ! Terms: invariably cash. OFFICE: Phoenix Building, Union Square. ? Mil , ,1 I Iim Ml III II I I I ! WMMWH From the Xaskcxlle Union. HALLECK IMPROVED. We don't mean General Halle ci?he can't be improved? | but the poet Halleck: ! At midnight, in Ms blackguard tt nt, "Old Beau" was dreaming of the hour When Gilhnore, like a suppliant bent, Should tremble at his power. In dreams through camp and street he bore The trophies of h conqueror. In dreams his s*. ng of triumph heard, Ho sported Gilh lore's gold-laced hat? His red-topped I oots, his gay cravat. As wild his fancy as a bat, " Or "any other bird." An hour passed in?"old Beau" awoke, Half stided by a "villainous" smoke, i Enough the very devil to choke, i T71iile all arounc the "stink-pots" broke, Arid blinded hln with sand. He cursed, the *? illainous compound," i Which stunk like pole-cats tar around; Then roared witli wild, demoniac shriek? Lord! what a smell!?the Greek! the Greek. But out this villainous Greek fire. Or in the last red ditch expire! 'Tis sweet to draw one's dying breath For our dear land, as Horace saith. But dreadful to be stunk to death AFFAIRS AT MORRIS ISLAND. Demonstrations in Honor of Major-General Gillmore?Presentation of an American ! Eagle?The Military Situation?Arrival of' Deserters?Tfie Staff Rusticating?The Storm?Ac., Ac, [From Oar Special Coi respondent], Morris Island, S. C., September 23, 1SG3. Thestea ncr De aware, arriving from Kilton Head at daylight yesterday, brought Major-Gencral Gillmore as a passenger; and nothing could exceed the satisfaction and delight with which his additional star, so handsomely earned and worthily j bestowed, was greeted by the troops. As soon as ] the fact of his promotion became generally known, i the shipping was gaily decorated, banners were flung out from every flagstaff, and crowds of offi- I ccrs began to throng the General's tent, anxious to be the earliest in their congratulations. At; moon a salute of thirteen guns wa^ fired by Braylons's Battery, drawn up on the smooth, bard 3>each. These thundering honors were paid in a .very admirable manner. During the afternoon of yesterday General Gillmore was the recipient of a novel gift, intended to commemorate his increase of rank. The officers and men of the 47th New York Volunteers, Major McDonald, presented him with an American Eagle, caught by some members of the regiment while on N* duty m Ossibaw Sound, last May. The proud bird was brought d iwn from camp in a wagon decorated with the stars and stripes, and drawn by eight gaily-caparisoned horses held handsomely in hmd by N-evil. T le regiment formed a guard ot ho lor, and Pavis's Brigade Band preceded the procession. Arriving in front of Gen. Gillmore's quarters, the General was called out, and Lieut. John A. Smith, in a few well-chosen words, transferred to his ownership the " E Pluribus Unum," as the boys call the bird. The gift was accepted, th6 band played, the soldiers cheered, and everybody was happy?excepting, perhaps, the eagle. Tf 1 ii AMH^AA/4 VIA wwAmAftAn PA! JLI iO UU\IV1 OIV/UU lUAb IUU |/JU111UVIUU VI Wl| Turner, Gen. Gillmore's chief of staff and of artillery, to the rank of brigadier-General, will soon be announced. He has labored during this campaign with a zeal, ability, and success that entitle him to a rich reward. J ust now there seems to be a lull in military operations. The rebels, to be sure, are keeping up an infernal fire from their works on James and Sullivan's Islands, but so far we have allowed them to bombard without caring to reply. They bequeathed us an admirable shelter from howling shot and bursting shell at Fort Wagner, and their legacy has served to preserve our forces almost wholly unharmed since the fort changed possessors. The entire casualties among our troops during the pa&t fifteen days amount to less than a dozen. A squad of six or seven deserters from Fort Sumter arrived here dav hef'nr* x?<?etordatr v j J ?V i"cjr say that an entire battalion of South Carolina regulars now garrison that work, and guard it from attack. Much valuable information as to other matters has also been elicited from them, but it is deemed best for a time at least to withold it from publication. These deserters are all Northern men, who have been impressed into the Confederate service. Several officers of the staff are taking advantage of the quiet condition of affairs here by visiting their families and friends at home. Of Gen. Gillmorc's staff alouc, four or five aro now absent, Major Striker went home sick a fortnight ago. Lieut.-Col. Hall, Provost Marshal General, is also at the North. Lieut.-Col. Jackson, Assistant In t>pector Ueneral, went olfthe other day in charge I of a number of prisoners whom he will deliver at Fort Lafayette. Major Brooks has gone to New York. Capt. Sealv, Acting-Assistant-AdjutantCleneral, is spending breve tempus in rure with his amiable wife at Ililton Head, Lieut.-Col. Smith wants to go home. So does C'apt. Bragg. '< So do we all of us," but " the exigencies " will not permit. Another furious storm of wind prevailed from the eastward yesterday. The sand was blown about in drifts like snow, and mauy a tent was prostrated during the night. The equinoctial has cut away our beach about twenty-five feet, so that now the island is narrower by full thirty yards than it was on the first of August. This gradual diminution of our foothold is getting to be a nuisance, as it compels a change of base on our part rather oftcner than is convenient or agreeable. ? An officer who was inspecting his company ! one morning, spied one private whose shirt was sadly begrimmed. "Patrick O'Flynn V3 called out the captain. "Here your hohor!" promptly re. sponded Patrick, with his hand to his cap. "How long do you wear a shirt V thundered the officer. "Twenty-eight inches," was the rejoinder. ; m m m ?Fractional Currency.?The amount of postal currency now in circulation exceeds eighteen millions of dollars. The issue of the new fractional currency by the Treasury Department to take its place, will begin next month. 4 News From the North. The Fulton Capt. Wotton, arrived at this port Tuesday, bringing N. Y. dates to the 25th, from which we extract the following : Dispatches from Gen. Roiecrans, dated Chattanooga, 3 and 5 P. M., Sept. 22, (yesterday afternoon,) were received by the Government this morning, from which it appears that the enemy's attack upon Gen. Thomas' corps (Rosecians' left) on Monday afternoon was handsomely repulsed, and Gen. Thomas' forces marched quietly to the position they were about to take when assaulted. The official dispatches of Monday evening stated that two divisions of Gen. Longstreet's corps were advancing upon uen. Kosecrans' ieic at -4 o'clock that afternoon. It turned out, however, that this movement was merely for the purpose of a reconnoissance, as no attack was made by the rebels. The order of Gen. Rosecrans for his entire command to concentrate wa$ accomplished before midnight on Monday, and he is now in a strong defensive position, which can be easily held until reinforcements arrive. The movement of our troops was executed in excellent order, and although they had worked hard for several days and nights, they were in tho best of spirits. Four thousand of our wounded were removed from the field after the battle of Sunday. Gen. Lytle was the only general ofticcr killed on our side, while Bragg acknowledges his loss in officers to be very heavy. The regulars (our reserves) went into battle sixteen hundred strong, and came out with only fdur hundred mm! fiftaon. This shows the persistency with which our troops contested for every inch of ground. Gen. Kosecrans has performed wonders in reach, ing his present position* after fighting with his single command against the immense forces of picked troops tnat were comomea against mm. In two or three days Gen. ltosecrans will beablo to assume offensive operations again. When the last dispatch of yesterday closed the enemy was quite active. He had been making approaches all the morning. (Jen. ltosecrans' men were in line and ready for another encounter. ?The New York Times Foreign Correspondent writes thus on Englands position. ? Will there be war with England ? I asked an American in Oxford-street yesterday what ho thought abort it. He thought there was more danger of war with France than with England. I am of the same opinion. England does not want war with America, and will do almost any possible thine to avoid at. The Morning Post has announ ced that the Government has decided to stop tha iron-clads in the Mersey. England trembles to her centre at tke idea of war with America. She knows that Canada would fall at a blow; she fears an instant insurrection in Ireland. She is sure that her commerce would be driven from the ocean, and her connection with her most important colonies put in peril. She has no navy that is a match for Federal monitors, and no artillery to compare with the guns that have battered down the walls of Fort Sumter and rained fire into the streets of Charleston. War with triumphant America, which can place a million of men in the field and cover the oceafi with cruisers, is the most terrible vision that can rise before a British statesman or a British capitalist. Let them bluster as they will, this is theappaling fact. _No; whatever may be the blaster ot the English Press, be sure of this?England will do anything, submit to# any humiliation, rather than risk a war with America. When taunted with the evident fact they point to the Trent. That was long ago?before American armies had conquered in the field, before American monitors were afloat upon the ocean. To-day you may take a hundred Trents, and blockade British ports, and seize British steamers, and neither Pal raerston nor Bussell will whisper the first word of war. Engiand will bully every weak Power in the world, but England will not dare to risk war with America. 0