THE NEW WS 0IIT H.
Vol.2, No. 4. PORT ROYAL S. C, SATORDAY,OCTOBER 3,1863. Price Five Cents.
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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!
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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.
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?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.
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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.
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