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THE NEW SOUTH.
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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 :
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" 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.
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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
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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
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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
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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."
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