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* % " ' l, N . THE NE wlp S 0IIT H. VOL. 1 NO. 18. WHOLE NO. 70. PORT ROYAL, S. (L, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, TSG i. " PRICE FIVE M * % *** ' THE NEW SOUTH. Published every Saturday Morning by JOS. H. SEAES, Editor and Proprietor. Price : Five Cexts Per Copy. Advertisements, fifty cents a line, each insertion. Terms: invariably cash. OFFICE: Phoenix Building, Union Square. thf I PAnSMAN'S SONG. Tons a rtiman bsld on the ship* lee aide, When the green waves rolicked fir and wide? When keen winds whistled throifgh ragged sails With a dreary gamut of shrieks and wails? When cloudy masses obscmred the sun With a tangled vapor, dark and dnn? When the stout ship reeled with the tempest's blows, And the voice of prayer 'mid the storm arose As the jagged line of the dread lee-shore Came dim to herald the breakers' roar! 'Twas then that the seaman swung tho lead With a circling sweep round his rain-boat head, And launching it down in the troubled sea, Sang loudly and clear this song to ma : L " Quarter less four!?Quarter lesa four! Hark I how the breakers roar a-leo, Chanting aloud, in devilish glee, Chorusing ever, 4 One ship tnorr !' Wrecks ashore I can ^plainly see ; Corpses art lying there?comes four: There, slack 1 we shall heThree fathoms only!?Quarter leu three. IL 44 Three and s half 1 It deepens at last! * Quarter less four! There's a channel here, Courage, pilot, and take good cheer. Five!? the danger is overpast! Six:?huzza! for it deepens fast. Quarter less eight!?Quarter less eight! Now may the breakers lie in wait, Dragging the shoals with their foamy net: Others may meet with the sailor's fate, We shall be snared?not yet, not yet! Nine fathoms clear!?Nine and a half! Xnw. in sooth, we can bravely laugh ; For the distant breakers, I wot, confess, . With their suilen roaring, ' One ship less!' " And his song to me as I swayed the wheel (For the good ship's woe, or the good ship's weal!) Had a melody in its close most sweet; For I thought, as the keel passed the fearful shoal And I held our course to the open sea. That another pilot had stood by mo, Keeping the ship toward tho rocky goal! A shadowy helmsman, stern and dark, Terribly steering my fated bark ; A spectre pAot, of fleshless bono, With icy fingers upon mine own, W1LQ nouow eyes UlCU Ull WIO wtBi~auc"u auviv, And jaws ever grinning? One thip metre ! " O* BOABD U. S. BABK " VOLTIG E tTB. * * [From Harper" t Monthly for January.] ^ OUR NEW ENGLAND LETTER. INAUGURATIONS OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS? NEWSPAPORIAL?MURDER AT HOLMES' HOLE? THE MALDEN BANK TRAGEDY?MURDER IN BOSTON?MASS. AND ME. ACCOUNTS?ASININE PERILS OF WINTER NAVIGATION?BORDER RAIDS-ECCENTRIC OPIUM EATER-A CHEEKY norimwiTinW-N/POMftNTRRIGADIERS RVDOtn-rnumwm vr??? , _ N. H. CONVENTIONS?HOOSAC TUNNEL?A YANKEE JEFF. DAVIS?U. S. MARSHAL OF CONN.? NEW ENGLANE ITEMS. From Our Regular Correspondent Boston, Jan. 4, 1864. The municipal governments of most of the cities of this Commonwealth were inaugurated today, and the evening papers are full of dry statis tics, abstracts of mayoral addresses, and details J of City Council organizations. There is scarcely a city government in the State without one representative of the press in in it W. V. Clapp, Esq., of the Evening Gazette, is a Boston Alderman ; Robert Worthing-: ton, Esq., one of the proprietors of the Traveller, is President of the Roibury Common Council, and Edwin B. Haskell, Esq., one of the editors of the Herald, is one of the Charles town School Com- i Speaking of newspaper men reminds me of some newspaper items:? Rev. James M. Usher has just started a new ; weekly in this city called The Ration. The Daily Advertiser is in its 52d year. The Herald 1 has introduced the feature of Supplementary half-sheets at the rate of from two to four a week. A shocking murder occurred at Holme's Hole, about a week since. Mr. Wm. Luce, a trader, had just closed the shutter* of his store, at 7i o'clock, in the evening, and was doing up some candy, with his back toward the door, when he was attacked from behind with a hatchet, his head split open, and the arteries and veins of the neck severed. Not satisfied with this. Mr. Luce's throat was eut from ear to ear with a knife. He was then robbed, and his empty pocket-book was found near Dy, ana a oiooay smri m uiu vitimtj. About two hundred vessels were in the harbor, wind-bound, and the murder was at first attributed to sailors, but that theory is now discredited. There is no clue to the perpetrator of the act. The mystery of the Maiden Bank murder and robbery has not been explained. On Saturday last Mr. George T. Bailey, wh^kgtps a tin shop near the bank, and who is a' son eras former President, ' was arrested for the murder at the instance of: "George, the Count Johannes," who has filed a claim for the rewards offered for the detection of the murderer. Mr. Bailey was the last man known to have been in the bank previous to young Converse's death, but he will be discharged tomorrow on his examination. He lb now in Cambridge jail. On Wednesday morning last, James W. Cole, John M. Perry and William Mitchell, three sailors from Harrington, Me., while going through ? ?* T^V.? n.ti,. rnuce Hireeu, were tts.stiu_ii.cu u* uuc wuu uuvuoin alias Smith, who belongs to the gunboat Tioondcroga, and killed him. They say they did it purely in self-defence, and voluntarily gave themselves up. They are in jail awaiting trial. Hon. Samuel A. Blake, of Bangor, Me., has arrived here to present to Gov. Andrew the views j of that State relative to the accounts between Maine and Mass., growing out of the expense incurred in collecting the Massachusetts claim against the General Government for monies advanced during the war of 1812-15. The separation between Maine and Massachusetts occurred in 1820, and there was therefore a joint interest in the advancement of the funds, as it is claimed there is in the reimbursement by the United States for expenses incurred in collecting the original loan." The whole amount of those expenses having been reimbursed to Massachusetts, Maine thinks it no more than right that she, being a portion of the original party at interest, should receive her allowance in the same. In a report of an agricultural meeting recently hold at Springfield, the following astounding > statement occurs " A man who grew one hun' dred and thirteen bushels of Dutton corn per 1 j acre, had ears from twelve to fifteen inches in length." Here is an item which illustrates the perils of winter navigation on the Eastern coast:? " The schooner jEhreAa, of Portland, which left Bath, Me., on the 15th ult., for Long Island, near \r? T w-ovt- xraa u-rpelred the Rama afternoon on 1 1 the Western Sister, a desert rock in Bluehill Bay. i She had on board Messrs. William and George j Crosby, Capt John Libbv and the Captain of the 1 schooner, and was loaded with potatoes and lumber for the store of Wm. Crosby & Co. They were caught in a gale, split jib in going in stays, and endeavored to come to anchor, but the an- j chor fluke broke short off, and they drifted ashore. { Capt. Libby was knocked overboard before she 1 took ground, and swam ashore. The rest of the party got safely to land, but thoroughly wet and their clothes frozen. They managed to collect some wood, and make a fire, by one of the party sacrificing his draft exemption paper, which wj a set on fire by discharging a pistol. By this means they kept alive till morning. They were seen from the adjacent islands, but the weather was such that no one could venture to their relief. NWt. mornir.fr the schooner loochoo. from Lone Island, took them off. The people on the Maine border are very apprehetisive of raids from straggling southerners and desperate men who congregate in the cities of the Provinces, and in some places a guard of citizen soldiers is constantly on duty. They have got a mysterious woman at Harfiiord, Ct, who pretends to be forsaken by her husband and otherwise unfortunate, who has a reputation of being insane, and who really seems to be a shrewd woman. She has forgotten to pay many bills, and is so inveterate an opium eater that she partakes of half a pint of laudanum every night Arthur Skalding, of Greenwich, Mass., received $2000 in cash on Tuesday for property that he had sold, and about three o'clock the next morning was awakened by a rapping at his door. He suspected an attempt to rob him and ordered the intruder to leave. The man, however, demanded entrance, threatening to shoot him if he didn't speedily grant it So he opened the door and admitted the burglar, who then made a request for the $2000. He was told it was deposited in the bank, but coolly ordered Skaliling and his wife back to bed while he searched the room. They " * ' the villain explored at his leisure, finally leaving with a gold watch, diamond ring and every other valuable he could find. He told the terrified couple that they must stay between the sheets till daylight, as he should u sicJWhc houttv anilihej* M did not dare do otherwise. For frigid impudence and unmitigated cheek, as well as unparalleled cowardice, this robbery is without a rival on44 the records." Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island will probably fill their quotas without a draft. Massachusetts and Vermont will not be far behind, and io o/vtmo V*/\r*A fknf VarmA?f will fill \T*onv lUCl C lO OVXliC wav V VlUiVUV IliiJL AUM AUUUJ of the towns of Massachusetts have filled, but Boston and some other cities are lamentably behind hand. New Hampshire is nearly through with the last call, and Maine has obtained five-eighths of her quota. Connecticut is getting along very slowly. Here is an authenticated instance of premonition. On 15th instant Miss Mary F. Canfield was married at Norfolk, Conn., and two days after she died of diptheria, of which she had been taken the <Jay before her marriage. From the first, it is stated, she expressed a strong belief that her sickness would result in her death. Indeed, she told her friends that she had a dream or vision, in which she had seen herself composed in her coffin for burial; and, singular as it may seem, the pre-vision, so far from appalling or alarming her, had quite the contrary effect, and she went down " into the great shadow" cheerfully?almost joyously. There have been appointed from the State of Vermont seven brigadier generals since the war began: John W. Phelps, William F. Smith, Geo. Wright, Benjamin Alvord, Truman Seymour, B. S. Koberts, George J. Stannard. Some of the Vermont papers think they are entitled to more. On Wednesday the .New Hampshire itepuDiicans hold their State Convention at Concord. Hon. J. A. Gilmore (auspicious name) will be renominated; On Friday the Democrats hold their Convention, and will probably nominate lion. E. W. Harrington, of Manchester, Judge Eastman having declined, the name of President Nathan Lord, late of Dartmouth College, is also mentioned. The work of constructing the Hoosac tunnel under the auspices of the state, is progressing. Some three hundred men arc at present employed, and fimnncr other processes point? forward Is that of ,T1" w ~0 ? o o damming the Deerfield river to secure water power, which is needed for manifold operations; while the preliminary movements to sink a new shaft consume a great deal of time and require much labor in the execution. "When spring shall again open there will undoubtedly be a long step taken toward carrying forward this " case." [Continwd on Ith w>j*. ] A