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\ Vol. 2, No. 7. PORT ROYAL S. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24,1863. Price Five Cents. THE NEW SOUTH. ~ Published every Saturday Morning by JOS. H. SEARS, Editor and Proprietor. Price : Five Cexts Per Copt. Advertisements, fifty cents a line, each insertion. Terms: invariably cash. OFFICE: Phoenix Building, Union Square, j ?rigittal g<rr trjf. The Herces of Wagner. They fought with banner overhead, * Till Wagner's top and floor were red With blood of foes and leaders' dead; O memorable battle hour! llow deep the spell of thy strange power! Diverse of hues, but one of life, What heroes perished in that strife ? iVo, perishc d not those valiant men; In more thuu life they live again; Their deathless deeds we grateful own, ^nd bid th( m live in long renown. How many noble patriots fell, Our history's apge shall truthful tell. law Aim kAHAWwI QtuOVA JLUC1CT nUlli.UVU i?? VU4 UVMV4v\* His deed * theme for stirring song; His name in love for age shall live. The nation's bosom is his grave. Tbero Puts-as ?I??eriiig ott tvi? bond, Wit* Rword and banner firm in hand, Poured..on the parapet his blood, Ahd made Ids tomb where martyrs trod. .There lifeless fell, mid battle cries. Where yet c monument shall rise, The gallant Phaw, whose rude-dug grave, Was with h.s sable soldiers brave; That bloody trench ordained to be The ground of new born liberty. Alike for CNiatti eld freemen weep, And bid fair fame his record ketp; Such hero records for our race Xor time nor change may e're efface. O yes, let history* proud enroll High on her fair and precious scroll, The cherished names of all the braves Who sleep thus loved in martyr graves; Ter still it is that earth's best good Comes only through vicarious blood, And men can never let such die As give the;r lives for Liberty. Hilton Head, S. C., Oct 16,1863. 3i> r. i. h. akt't. AFFAIRS AT MORRIS ISLAND. [From Our Special Correspondent]. Morris Island, S. C., October 15, 18C3. There is little here to occupy the attention of the reporters, all of whom have struck their tents and followed the commanding General away to his new headquarters on Folly Island. A genuine reporter is a good barometer. He indicates pretty clearly by his own course what current events are likely to assume. You can judge by a -close observance of these gentry whether Anything is in the wind. If there is, you will see them on the qui vive in all the camps, borrowing horses, Asking questions, and taking notes ; if there isn't, they exhibit a listless, restless air for a few days, and then disappear altogether. And so from this general exodus of ihe newspaper men, if from no other reason, I judge-that the campaign here is nearly if not quite at an end, or that if anything AAAII* it trill noonv oAmn nfTinr lilipui UUil It> IV VVL Ui At ? AAA WVIU 1U vvm* quarter. * We are doing a pile of work in Fort Wagner and Gregg. Perhaps I ought not to say anything about tliis ; but inasmuch as tlie rebels see us, and moreover shell us every day and every night from their big guns on James Island and Sullivan's Island, the mere mention of the fact can do no harm. It would please us now to see " Johnny Reb " attack us. We could hold the island till doom cracks. If he came we would try and make things nice for him. We would treat him as well as we know how. We haven't got anything too good for him. We think we could induce him not to go back. TliP onmnc Vinrn o rrr*r>rl rlnrtl nlianOAfl R1T1PP *"v vwi?|yo n {jwvu wv?? headquarters went away. Gen. Gillmobe and his staff did require a good deal of room. Now that he is away we miss the music of the Post Band, but we appreciate highly the additional space we get. ' The alarm on the fleet the other night, though a huge one at the time and even extending to us on shore, has ceased to be talked about I observe, however, that you did not get the true statement of the affair in The New South last week. The rebel craft that came down to sink the Xew Ironsides did not destroy itself by its torpedo. It was annihilated and sent to the bottom by a broadside from the frigate. The Xew Ironsides was not damaged in the least, though a late Charleston paper claims that severe injuries were inflicted. Lieutenant Glassell, who was in command of th^iori^doreviiQdfi?I-don't know any other name for the vessel?was an officer of >1 i i i 11 at. - /fl tt~ tne re Dei navy ana Deiongeu 10 me cnicora. n? was found the next morning, in company with one of his crew, having been picked up by the Captain of a schooner in the channel. There is a story in circulation that the Captain of the schooner had agreed, in consideration of the sum of $300 and the rebel's watch, to put him ashore on Sullivan's Island. I have heard that the trio was sent in chains to Hilton Head, on the following day. Glassell, the Lieutenant, was formerly an officer in our navy, and was at one time a "boarder" at Fort Lafayette, from which he was released in exchange for some of our officers. He will probably resume his connection with that institution at an early day. The late Charleston paper to which I have referred had a notice of a grand bull given in that city to some officers who had arrived from Gen. Lee's army. The rebel editor discloses a disposition tn nrow faintlv over the recent battle at Chickamauga Creek?or the " Itivcr of Blood "? but admits after all that Kosecrans' position is too strong to be taken. Looking at the experience of Fort "Wagner and Vicksbnrg, he thinks the only way to get the place is to dig to it Our pickets bring inrthe report that rebel troops have baen for some days in motion on James Island, going toward the city. "We surmise that they have been ordered out to reinforce the rebel General Bragg. ?On Tuesday, 6th inst., a laughable incident occurred among the working party in Fort Gregg. A certain John Merrick of Company D, G7th Ohio Vols., in the act of trundling a wheelbarrow full of sand, had his equipage smashed and splintered into firewood by a falling fra^ nent of shell from a rebel gun. Shaking a handle of the barrow, shillelah-wise in the direction of Fort Moutrie, v 1-* a . tt n. J i l_ i. ;n jonn excnumeu ; xjua me*. uj yes, ye m-uiimnered thaves! re can't do that wane again. If ye think ye can, snoot over a new wheelbarrow, and meself will stand here to resarve it! " ?Canon-izing a man appears to signify making a teg gvn of him. 1 News From the North. The Cosmopolitan, arrived at this port Sunday morning last, with dates to the 15th inst. Purser Fexwick, has our thanks for a file of N. Y. papers, from which we glean the following : Memphis, Oct. 12, 1863. Forces of rebel cavalry and artillery, reported at from eight to fifteen thousand strong, have been threatening the Memphis and Charleston Railroad for some days, uenerai nun urn a iurces hare been constantly skirmishing with them, defeating every attempt to do serious damage, Ruggles, Chalmers and Lee are said to be in command under Joe Johnston. On Sunday morning several culverts were destroyed in the vicinity of Germantown and Collierville. At ten A. M., an attack was made by Chalmers v with cavalry and artillery, reported five thousand strong, upon the garrison at Collierville (consisting of the Sixty-sixth Indiana infantry,) driving them into the fortifications and burning their cantonments. During the fight Major-General Sherman and staff, with a detachment of the Thirteenth regulars, arrived upon the train,, en route to Corinth. They disembarked, engaged the enemy and re pulsed him with heavy io?s. The regulars lost nine killed, twenty-seven wounded and nine missing. Colonel Anthony's loss was about the same number. One or two of his picket posts were captured before the fight Lieutenant Eames, ordnance officer on General Sherman's staff, and Ed. F. Butler, telegraph operator, were wounded. Lieutenant Lee, Seventh v . Illinois cavalry, was killed. Generals Carr, Sweeny and Hatch are pursuing the retreating rebels toward the Tallahatchie river, and will punish them severely. The railroad is repaired and trains passed to-dav. V Ventilation of Ibon-Clad Ships.?The Royal Oak, says the London Lancet, would appear to be destined to play as important a part in the sanitary history of the Royal Navy, as the Warrior in the fighting. As the custom is among naval architects, wnile every care had been given to the offensive and defensive powers of our armor-clad 1 - * i'"' * J i 1. J mgfttes, I1H16 neea nau ueeu ut?uj?cu ujiuu vuvu capabilities as dwelling places for a crew. True, slnps would carry a smaller number of men than it was usual to assign to vessels of their tunnage and each sailor, as a consequence, would luxuri- * ate in a larger cubic space between decks than ho would have possessed in a wooden ship-of-war. But it has been omitted to estimate the probablo influence of iron-plated walls in acquiring and retaining heat, as well as the effects of a confined atmosphere upon outlets and inlets, which had been reduced to the lowest decree, not only in number, but also in capacity , consistent with tho working of the vessel. It was quickly found that the rrews of iron-clad ships were exposed, in hot weather, to the risk of being suffocated (after tho fashion of doughty knights of old), as well as, to many, less conspicuous but not less serious, evils, arising from the vitiated atmosphere of the between decks. To obviate these evils, a system of ventilation was suggested by Captain Fasshawe, the Superintendent of Chatham Dock yard, and it was carried out in tho Royal Oak while that vessel was still on the stocks. \Ve long ago urged that, until the hygienic conditions of ships-of-war entered into the consideration of naval architects, as fully as the sailing and fighting qualifications, ; there would be little hope of the removal of those I /-iwti4vmL-e u-VnVh nfFpot. the. crews. The results of the system of ventilation adopted in the Royal Oak would seem to confirm this view. The success is stated to be so great that the Admiralty Las decided to ventilate all the ships of the armorclad fleet on the same plan. ?Two sailors wera sitting on the gunwale of their ship drinking grog. "This is meat and drink," said Jack, ana fell overboard as he was speaking, "And now you have got washing and lodging," coolv remarked Tom.