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\ v 1 !v ^ r t V % V \ - .v THE NEWWS 0 U T H. ' m 2. NO. 12. WHOLE NO. 62. PORT R81AL, S. C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28,1863. PRICE FIVE CENTS ? _ THE NEW SoljTH. fnblisl|ed .every .Saturday Morrdnty by TAO w OT?AT>C I'difAi" ond PfAnn'pfnr. JUOi XL. " " ") liiittvi uuu Price : Five Cents Per Copt. Advertisements, fifty cents a line, each insertion. Terms: invariably cash. OFFICE: Phoenix Building, Union Square. The Two Sharp-Shooters. Two men went out from the fire-lit camp In the autumn midnight gray ; Over the quaking, croaking swamp, To the edge of the woodland still and damp, With rif!e\nd spade went they. A hunting owl wailed out to its young, rind a picket stood as still In the jm^adow below as the shadows flung By the beaded tent-light thickly strung On the silver-threaded rilL vTwas long ere the picket moved away, And there was no time to lose ; The pits must be dag by the dawn of day ;" Said one ; " We are digging graves, I say;" The Other one whispered : " Whose ? " With the morning light a column of steel - Moved upward ^Jonff jfcc bill Toward tnc hidden pits,Tint s doable peal Close in the front made the column reel A moment, and then stand still. The check won a battle-field that day ; * On the morrow the dead were lafd, Head to foot, in a trench of clay, But two apart in the front that lay, Were buried without a spade. [From Our Special Correspondent]. OUR NEW ENGLAND LETTER. Recruiting in New England?The Massachusetts .Legislature?Gov. Sprague's Marriage?Tobacco fiaifng in New England?Enlistments in Maine? j Xew England Items. Boston, Mass., November 10, 1803. Old New England is rather quiet just now?no I internal commotions?no outside influences to ' excite her?serene and stately as she usually is. j But she is alive, and loyal as ever. When the re- j suit of the recent call for troops is shown, New England will be found at the top of the heap, as usual. In New Hampshire it is prepared to raise the quota without a resort to the draft, and Massachusetts is trying to accomplish the same thing. Boston is wide awake. Meetings were held in I every ward, last evening, to encourage recruiting, f and there seems no doubt but that this city, at*j least, will raise her quota without a draft. % The extra session of the Massachusetts Legislature adjouined yesterday, having passed four acts and six resolves. One prominent act of the session was a bounty bill, providing for the payment of $325 to all new recruits, with additional bounties for veterans, and provisions which all the soldiers will like. % In a previous letter I spoke of the abuses practiced by substitute brokers. At this session a bill - ' ' /*" _ j 11? 4Vint was passed wnicn eneciuuuy b<|uckuco i tem of fraud, and if any drafting is necessary in | this state, that great obstruction will be out *?f the way. The Legislature also voted to make the pay of the colored troops from this State equal to that of the white troops. Hon. "William Sprague, U." S. Senator from B Rhode Island was married to Miss Kate Chase, i ? ? ? t : daughter of Hon. Salmon P. CV'-se, Secretary of the Treasury on Thursday ^2th inst., by the Might Reverend T ftf." CtarCfw ithMe Island: The occasion was a briliiant one. The bride was sustained in the marriage ceremony by her sister Miss Nellie Chase, her cousin, Miss Alice Skinner, a niece of the groom, Miss Ida Nichols who as bridesmaids, were attended by Capt. Haven, of Major-General McDowell's staff, Maj. Baldwin, of the staff of Gen. Stahl, and Capt. Ives of the U. S. Navy as the groomsmen. The President, the Members of the Cabinet, Diplomatic Corps, eminent officers of the Army and Navy, with citizens of Washington and frieiids invited from a distance, lent distinction to the scene, as their wives and daughters shed graoe and beauty on the gay assemblage. It may be interesting to soldiers in South Carolina to know that tobacco cultrje has flourished in New England, the past season. There are quite a number of "plantations in the Southerly part of New England now. Ajnong the leading items in the daily papers now is the following:? " A large tobacco shed, together with the crop of about two acres of the " weed " owned by Maj. J. B. Shultas of Hartford, was totally destroyed by lira ojj the Of lift Incendiary." Enlistments in Maine are going on rapidly. In several towns and cities the quotas are nearly filled. The high bounties offered, with the prospect of the war being brought speedily to a close, is inducing a large number to enlist. Not to extend this letter to too great a length, I will close with a few New England items, of interest, at least to some soldiers in the Department of the South :? Mr. Thomas Tew of Newport has in his posession a live American eagle, ' hot a few days since in the western part 01 tne state, ana auerwurua captured by means of a rope. It measures seven feet from tip to tip of its wings A party of four men from Pnwtucket returned from a six days* hunting excursion up the Penobscot from Bangor, Me. They obtained 13 deer, 38 partridges, one otter, one fox, and quite an amount of smaller game Two mills of the Oriental Powder Co., at Gorham, Me., blew up on the 14th. One.man was killed A few days since Mrs. Francis Jessup of Westport was told that a building she saw burning at some distance was her husband's house, a*d she instantly dropped dead A bill has been reported and referred to the military committee of the Legislature, for the organization of " one or more b'atteries and regiments" colored troops A seal, measuring four feet in length, was shot oue clay last week, while crossing from "Little Neck " into Mattaket Harbor, Mass. A patriotic sailor who last night arrived here on a prize steamer, was to-day fined $15 and cost for assaulting a secessionist in the Boston Police Court, a few citizens made up the sum, and he is at perfect liberty to thrash the nest copperhead he sees Several more of the Boston conscription rioters have been held for trial. OBSERVER. ?'Sir' said one of the Barbary-Shore tars to a crusty old captain, 4 did you ever know coffee to hurt any one ? " 4 Yes, you fool you,' was the response. 41 knew a bag full to fail on a man's head once and kill him.' I Successive and Rapid Blows.?The skill of the general in war is not unlike the skill of the fenI cer. whoso success lies not so much in parrying his enemy's blows'," and then-simply sheltering himself, but in attacking him stroke after stroke, wrenching the rapier from his hand, and exposing liim helpless to the mercy of the sharpened steel. Nothing short -'of this can be called success. The want of these rapid and successive blows has been one great feature in the present war, and characterizes not only our own Army, but that of the rebels. The noblest exception to this charge is to be found in Grant's series of victories at the Southwest, where our advantage have more than once been rapidly and cleverly followed up. But let us note the instances or tne opposite evil. After the taking oi Roanoke Island, the whole coast of North Carolina was at Burnside's mercy, and if Newbern and Beaufort had been taken at once,?such is the opinion of a rebel .general,?he could have taken Goidsboro' and. Weldon, almost without firing a gun, have commanded the railways, and cut the Army of the Atlantic in two. And this is no afterthought; it seemed obvious to many at the time. After the capture of Hilton Head and Beaufort, what but the unaccountable delay of our troops prevented Charleston and Savannah from falling into our hands ? They were then defenceless. Dupbnt had given them a glorious prestige : those cities had neither forts nor garrisons; we invited 4-thom to build the one and procure the -other, * ? We are credibly informed that if, after our great success at Malvern Hills, our Army, reinforced by troops then lying at Newport News, had immediately marched forward, wo might have entered Richmond in triumph, so great was the demoralization of the rebel forces. Are not these plain and Stern lessons of future duty ? The cry has always been that there must be time taken to rq^jganize and repose ; but Napoleon, the great master of the art of war, always acted differently. He pushed his men to the very extreme of human endurance while the enemy was before them, and let them enjoy a very revel of rest after the great work was triumphantly completed ; and his first organizations were always made to foresee just such results, Next to boldness (!' audace), which he first firized, and akin to it, indeed, was celerity of movement, showing itself in a succession of blows, as long as a blow remained to be struck. His instructions to Aug gereau in 1814 ar#by no means aouDuui on mis point: "You have no .teams! seize them anywhere. You have no magazine! This is becoming too ridiculous. The country is menaced and in danger. It can be saved only by alacrity, and not by vain delays. You must have a nucleus of six thousand picked troops. I have not so many, and yet I have destroyed three armies, cajrtured 40,000 prisoners, taken 200 pieces of artillery, and thrice saved the capital." Oh, for such a spirit and such energy now, when our " country is menaced and in danger! " We are not among those impatient critics who would counsel a general to rus# headlong upon probable defeat; but, in good faith, we do desire to see one single victory followed up to the capture or dispersion of the enemy's army, or the entire reduction of his stronghold. An army organized for a double blow, thesecon^of which shall finish the work which the first has fairly begun, is the problem for our general, and great glory to him who solves it. In war it is something more than the 'premier I pas qui coute.?Army and Aiavy journal. m m m Badges or Honorable Distinction.?The Secretary of War diiects that for each battle in which every officer, non-cpmmissioned officer and private of the Invalid Corps may have been engaged and borne an honoral^ part, a scarlet braid, onesixth of an inch wide may be worn on the right arm, with a space of one-sixth of an inch between each braid. This will become ail honorable badge, showing the services the officer or soldier has performed, and will bo as highly prized by the brave wearers as the ribbons and crosses so . prondly worn by the veterans of European armies, ~?-f