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TIIE NEW SOUTH. JOS. H. SEARS, Editor and Proprietor. PORT ROYAL, SATURDAY, NOV. 7, 1863. The New South can be obtained of the following persons: J. C. Aeexaxdeb, P. M., Beaufort J. W. At.t.f.n, P. M., St. Augustme, Fla. . _ w. u. .morrill, r. iu. R. Brooks, 39th HI. Vols. E. D. Doolittle, Vol. Engineers. Wm. Masox, 52d Pa. Vols. Scrgt. C. S. Gay, Co. M. 1st Mass. Cavalry. Regiments will please send in their orders the early part of the week. News From the North. The Massachusetts arrived at this port, Thurs- 1 day A. M., with dates to the 31st ult We give ; some important news from the Southwest. Chattanooga, Oct 28,18C3. , Lookout Mountain was yesterday taken by our j forces, the enemy falling back without resistance, j Our troops occupy the south side of the river < ? -- ^ Ai ?j it - . from Bridgeport to unaruuioogu, uuu iuc n?w < and railroad are unobstructed. ] Washington, Oct 30, 1803. At nine o'clock yesterday morning Major Gen- } eral Thomas telegraphed to the War Department j as follows :? ^ " Gen. Hooker was attacked at twelve o'clock ] midnight, and a severe fight ensued, which continued for two hours, with lighter work until four i o'clock A. M. j General Hooker reports at half pas# seven A. j M., the conduct of our troops to be splendid. * i4 * J- xl 1 J They repulsed every attaca maao on mem, nuu j drove the enemy from every position they i assailed." The Star has information that on the 27th inst., by a very brilliant movement, planned and exe- f cuted under the direction of Gen. Smith, Chief of Engineers in the Department of the Cumberland, A two wagon roads and the use of the river as lines < of supplies were acquired by the forces at Chat- t tanooga, thus relieving the command of Major General Thomas of its chief embarrassment General Smith's operations at the mouth of the ? Lookout Yalley are spoken of as a great success, ? and their brilliancy cannot be exaggerated. Washington, October 30?P. M. tn what lias alreadv been I ^ iiuvum^ WIU1MVUW4 .v ? v telegraphed has been received at the headquarters of the army up to noon to day concerning Hooker's victory, The fight took place at Brown's Ferry, on the Tennessee river, near Chattanooga, and the result is considered of the highest importance, as it removes the rebel obstructions to steamlx>at navigation to that point, and secures other advantages in opening up the way for army supplies. Nashvillx, Tenn., October 29, 18C3. Lookout Mountain was taken on the 28th by our troops under General Hooker, with the Eleventh corps and a portion of the Twelfth, and Palmer's division of the Fourth corps. There was no serious opposition. The river is now open to Chattanooga, and the Army of the Cumberland is relieved from any danger threatened by interrupted communications. General Palmer has been promoted to the command of the Fourteenth corps, over Rousseau, Ti.pvnnlds and Sheridan. General Rousseau is very ill. c General Mitchell has been relieved from the \ cavalry command, and ordered to report here, and j is now in this city. c ? ? 8 ?The following named enlisted men of the 3d i Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, having passed a f proper examination, have been transferred to the * Signal Corps of the United States Army, and are \ required to report to the commanding officer of t the Signal Detachment on Morris Island :?Cor- a poral Albert Weaver, Co. I; Henry W. Mason, * Co. K; Walter C. Wigfall; Co. H ; Henry R * H' Personal.?Major S. W. Hicks, of the 7Cth Penn. Vols., returned in the Fulton, last Saturday. He has been North sometime to recruit his health, after severe labors at the front ?Major Stevens, 1st Mass. Cavalry, also returned in the same ves^ l. ?Lt-CoL Chas. R. BrAyton, of the][14th Regt., Rhode Island H. A. (colcted), has been promoted to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the 3d R. I. H. A.; Captain Richard Shaw, of the 3d R. L H. A., to be Lieut.-Col. in the 14th R. I. H. A. (colored). The Washington correspondent of the Herald thus speaks of the grounds taken by the President on the Franco-Mexican Question : It has been determined by President Lincoln not to take any official notice of the French invasion of Mexico until our own domestic difficulties shall have been adjusted. The representative of one of the most prosperous and progressive of the Spanish-American republics, who had been instructed by his government to protest in the most strenuous manner against the schemes of Louis Napoleon on this continent, has very lately 1 1 *- a ? t a? 4b a nau an interview wiui umwiu vu i subject, but utterly failed in convincing that functionary of the expedi^jey of immediate action in the premises. In vain did the Minister point out the danger of possible complications which might be engendered by delay Tin vain did|he represent the pause of human liberty as likely to be jeopardized by even a temporary substitution of a new system of policy in Mexico for that which is most acceptable and congenial to this people. The President maintained throughout that the United States government had a duty to perform in putting lown this rebellion wliich was paramount to all ither issues until the integrity of the Union shall tiave been firnily*and permanently re-established. It was in view of this settled policy that Senor Romero, the new Mexican Minister, was prevailed ipon to strike out everything having reference to ;he French occupancy'of a portion of Mexico in lis address to the President on the occasion of lis presentation. It was intimated to him that my allusion to the present condition of things in VIexico would necessitate a reply which might be rabject to misconstruction, and prove greatly embarrassing to the government of the United States, ftence the unwilling reticence of Senor Romero n regard to the problem he is most anxious to lave solved. French and American Ibon-Clads.?During he recent trial trip all of the French iron-clads vere more or less damaged, and all but two prov;d to be failures. "We have done much better han that with our Monitors, and next week we ihall launch our famous Dictator, which will knock ill the European iron-clads into old iron if it ever 'noaces them in battle. 0"0 ? Modern Amazons.?It is stated that the rebel voinen in Mobile have dressed themselves in solliers clothes and paraded around the fortifications n order to make a show of strength. It is also itated in the London Times that one of the Mexcan deputies asserted that the presence of the >eautiful wife of Maximilian in Mexico would be vorth an army of forty thousand men. These acts show how useful women may be in time of var. Important Invention.?Messrs. Henry S. Barlard and Saml. G. Beachman; citizens of Waterof liovn /inn'onil a ma/ln nf } Ol J y v U) Ull ? V \4V I *OV li U1VUV Vi W^^/Vi *UU V UVUlii^ or iron vessels, wliich, it is thought by naval exjerts, will effect an entire revolution in the maino construction of the civilized world. The rreat superiority of iron over wood for ships has >een fully appreciated by all maritime nations. But, thus far, no perfect mode had been discovered by which the fouling of iron bottoms, and heir rapid corrosion and consequent destruction, :ould be obviated, although the inventive genius >f both Europe and America had seemingly exlausted itself upon the subject. By the simple ret very ingenious device of these inventors the loppe/is attached to the iron surface in sheets, is upon w ooden vessels, and with almost the same neehanioal raniditv. while a nerfect insulation rom contact is secured, and thus all galvanin acion arrested. The discovery has elicited the gravest interest among all our scientific savans, md at the Navy Department The Naval Scienific Board have had it under careful examination, jad express themselves highly gratified with its easibility and perfection, and recommends its adaptation by the Government. Thus has Amercan genius again triumphed in the realm of avention. Consecration of the Gettysburg Battle-Field and Cemetery.?The Harrisburg (Pa.) correspondent of Forney's Press thus speaks of the dedication of the new cemetery at Gettysburg :? 44 Some correspondence has been received by tbn iuit.hnrit.ies with reference to the consecration of the Gettysburg battle-field and cemetery, which has been postponed from the 22(1, to Thursday, the 19th of November, by whi^-h time all the dead braves will be, probably, reinterred. Edwam> Everett will deliver, probably, his finest oration, and an elegiac hymn, by Longfellow, will be sung by a combined force of the %iusical societies, with accompaniment of brass bands, from several States. All the Governors of the loyal Union will be present, with large representations of the Union Leagues, Masonic, mechanic, mercantile, municipal, legishitive, and other bodies, and gatherings of distinguished meir from every part of the land. The Marshal of the District of Co lumbia will Lave charge of the civic procession, and the military and naval parade, composed of all arms of the service, will be under command of Major-General George Cadwarader. The Bishops Potter of New York and Pennsylvania, and I hope the patriotic Roman Catholic Bishops, Wood of Philadelphia, and Ptrcell and ^Iosecraxr of Ohio, will be present. The cemetery contains seven acres, instead of nine, as has been reported, and includes the most remarkable part of the battle ground south of Gettysburg. " How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When spring, with dewy fingers cold. Returns to deck their hallowed mould. She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than fancy's feet have ever trod. By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; By fairy hands their knell is rung ; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To deck the shrine that wrans their ( lav. Ami Freedom Khali a while repair. To dwell a weeping hermit there." ?The rebel privateer fleet?consisting rf the Alabama, Georgia and Tuscaloosa?were cruising off and around the Cape of Good Hope, at last accounts. ?Captain Semmes, of the Alabama, had sold his prize, the Sea Bride. ?The United States steamer VanderbiH was repairing in Simon's Bay. Semmes, of the Alabama, acknowledged that he was afraid of the VanderbiH, by stating that he would try to avoid an engagement witn her, and if she blockaded his vessel in Simon's Bay that he would use all means to elude her, as he did the San Jacinto at Martinique. . Tha Vanderbitt is, he said, so "very much faster" than the Alalxima, that if once engaged with the former he could not get away from her. The Pursuit of Lee.?The Washington Star of Thursday evening says information received at the capital on that day leads to the conclusion that Meade's advance was at that time some miles beyond Culpepper Court House. The Star gives the following reason for the advance of Gen. Lee. " One purpose of his raid was doubtless so to destroy the railroad or if possible to prevent an advance on Richmond by that line this season. As thorough as his work of destruction was done, he has thus effected little or nothing to that end, owing to the efficiency of Col. McCallum's means of repairing such damage. We do not look for another serious stand of Lee's army upon the Rapidan, as his late movements have developed the fact that ho does not feel able to cope with our army in a pucnea oauie. The Southern Press on the Ravage.? Though the Richmond papers assume a very lofty tone, and pretend that they are not at all dissapointed at the seisure of the ranis by the British government, they cannot conceal their chagrin. The Dispatch lias the bad temper to say that Mr. Adams '4 has dictated the policy of the British government," and that the seziure is the result of Yankee threats. Hard on the British lion, that. The Examiner soothes its readers, and lets them down easily; tells them that they had overrated the valuo of the rams; that, if they could cross f f\f\ ^ v* AIT A/\rv /-? tJLit; otri*, iaivj tvmu nv/i; mill tliU JUMIUUIS, and conies to tlic excellent conclusion that the confederacy does not want them anyhow. Yet that journal also shows its temper, and says that the nuns were seized because Russell is an abolitionist From Palmerston, however, they have expected better treatment. He cannot possibly be an abolitionist, because he is so old. If any one wants to know when a man oeases to be an abolitionist by the necessary limitation of age, we will tell them, in the words'of the Examiner, that it is when he is no longer "swayed by any wishywashy humanitarian notions.?Herald, 31st.