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THE NEW w SOUTH. Vol. 3, No. 1. Port Royal, S. C., Saturday, October 8,1864. Whole No. 105. $hc licit; j^oiifh. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING HY J. H. SEARS, Editor and Proprietor. j p r. i c E: Oxi Copt, Five Cents, j PerHundred, ?350. , Three Months, 0*50.; TERMS CASH. ixr?ntT.Piv? outs uer line to each insertion. Office, Ihucniz Building, Union Square adjoining, l\*tl Office. Fight it Oat. i BY PRIVATE MILES O'REILLY. We have head of the rebel yell, We have heard the Union about. We have weighed the matter very well And mean to fight it out ; In victory's happy glow, Id the gloom of utter rout, We have pledged ourselves?" Come weal or i OP WOP. By Heaven! we fight it ont." *Tis now too late to question What brought the war about ; Tis a thing of pride and paction And we mean to fight it out Let the big wig* " u*e the pen. Let them caucu*, let them spout. We are half a mi lion weajwned men And mean to fight it ont Oar dead, ovr loved, are crying from many a stormed redoubt, In the swamps and trenches lying? "Oh, comrades, fight it ont! Twaa oar comfort as are fell To hear oar gathering shout, Rolling beak the rebels' weaker yell ? Ood speed you, fight it ont I" ? nr bUVP | We care no pin about, Bnt for the flag our fathers gave We mean to fight it out; And while that banner bruvc One tebel rag shall flout. With volleying arm and flashing glaive By Heaven 1 we fight it out! Oh, we've heard the rebel yell. We have heard the Union shout. We liuve weighed the matter very well. And mean to fight it out; in the flush of nerfeet triumph, AikI the gloom of litter rout, Wi have sworn ou uiauy a bloody field We mean to tight it out!" A Houthern IJtu*l, T.ie principals of the dnel were Col j Au ^nstas Alston, h gradnute of West fouit, and CoL Lee Keed; planters, lH)th ; chief men of their county ; poli- j ticians, of coarse ; long standing, bitter J fend between the families, aggravated by political aspirations and disappoint- j ? meats : the whole county sympathizing | w*h one or the other. At length, one ot the Alston party, on slight pretext, challenged lleed, wnich challenge ret used to accept; no man but Alston lor It is pistol. Alutonian challenge, and vet another lie declined. Then Alston him- i *elf sent a challenge?Alston, the best j shot in the state whose citizens cultivated! <Uufiiv ..pi until tii?> ??>il of saints. iuu uvmtij ? " ?*?- ?? ? ? , toiling lifter perfection. This challenge! Keeii instantly accepted. Weajion, the rifle, hair-trigger, ounce ball. .Men to ! stand at twenty paces, back to back ; toj wheel at the word One ; to tire as soon as they pleased after the word ; the seconds to continue counting as far as five; I alter which, no firing. Lee was a slow, portly man?a good tb if he could fire in his own way w ith- j i" out this preliminary wheeling* He re-1 yarded himself as a dead man : he felt that he hail no chance whatever for his' life on those terms, not on? in a thous- y and. He bought a coffin and shroud, |* and arranged ins affairs for immediate i J death. The day before the duel, his se- j cond, a captain m the army, took him (I out of town and gave him a long drill in ! * the wheel and lire exercise. The pupil i j was inapt, could not get the knack of wheeling. If he wheeled quickly his c aim was bad : if he wheeled slowlv there 1 was no need of his wheeling at all, for, his antagonist was as re<wly with wheel' as with trigger trom old practice at NV est j Point 44 Lee,*' said the cupt.iiu, 4< you must wheel <juicker, or you've no chance." Stimulated by this remark, Lee wheeled with velocity, and tired with such success as to bring down a neighbour riding j along the road. j Lee sent his coffin aud shroud to the i field. Mrs. Alston accompanied her husband. 441 have," she said, 44 to see Lee1 lteed shot" The men were placed and the seconds one. In wheeliug swiltly, the light cape of Alston's coat touched the bain-trigger, and his ball whistled over Heed's head, who stood amazed with his rifle half presented. T^e word tico recalled him to himself; he fired and Alston fell, pierced through the heart. Mrs. Alston flew to her fallen husband, and lonnd the ball >- 1 l:? T_ .U? * n,wl . WUICfl UIU1 SiOlIl U1II1. J.U Uic ntgub uu\i | I hearingJ\^dl the witnesses of tlie duel, 11 her dermis band bleeding at her feet,; t she lifted the ball, aad with loud voice 11 and lierce dramatic gesture, swore tlut that ball should kill Lee Heed. < In the afternoon, ten of the Alston 1 party, headed by Lewis Alston, the bro- i ther of the deceused, drew themselves up 1 rille in hand, bowie-knife and pistol in 11 belt, before the hotel in which the adher-I i ents of lteed were assembled, congratu- < luting their chief. They sent in n message challenging ten of the Lee party to come i *?> ? onH Snrht them in fchft lllllllic HOtlare. i I Vl?V ~*v~" ? X -'I 1 Much parleying ensued which ended in j i the reined of tne l^ees to accept the in- j i vitation. 1t A few days after, Lee was seated at the t table of the hotel, in the public dining i < room, at which sat men, ladies, and chiL- j dren?a large number?Dr. McComdex 1 ? among them. Willis Alston entered, j took nis stand opposite Lee, drew a pis- j 1 tol, and shot liim through the liver. ! t The wouud was not mortal. Atter some > t months of confinement Lee was well, i - _ 1 I 1 again, and went aorouu as usutu, mc. j bloody-minded Alston still loose among t tlie people. They met at length in the | c streets of the town, and Alston shot him j > again, this time inflicting u mortal ] wound. 1 Then there was the hideous farce of a; trial.?Every man in the court-room ex-; t cept two, was armed tothe teeth. These 1 two were the judge and the principal t f witness, Dr. MeC'orniick.?The jurymen jt all had a ritie by their side in *tne jury- j j box?twelve meu, twelve rifles. The i prisoner lrnd two enormous horse-pistols i 1 protruding from his vest. The specta- j < tors were all armed ; the Lees to prevent. a rescue in case of couvict.ou, tbe Als- 1 tons to protect their man in case of ac- ? quittal. i i That night, the trial not yet concluded i the prisoner deemed it best to escape i irom prison.?He went to Texas ; met on i the road an old enemy whom he shot 1i dead in the saddle ; and on reaching the i < next town, boasted of his exploit to the t murdered man's friends and neighbours, j < -^Thirty of them seized him. tied him to | j a tree and shot him, tdl the thirty tiring i ] at once to divide the responsibility among ( them. And so the brute's career was!] fitly etuled. i Cirfti*il?iildi*?? "Wife. The care of a wife and family seemed wholly incompatible with the circumitances surrounding a man like Garibaldi, vhoso life w.is devoted to the cause of iberty?in lighting in behalf of all opiressed peoples?however successful he night be in his efforts, he would never lave the leisure that was required in the atker of a family. Fate, however, deriHi tiru'icn Finding himself completely isolated, tnd standing alone in the world, from osing all his friends, who were drowned n the wreck of the Bio Panle, he was me day, while on the lake of Santa Jathuriua, sitting in the cabin of the loop Itaparika, and looking toward tiie ihore, when suddenly he saw, at a faruilouse situated on the neighboring hill of La Barra, three or four girls busily en;uged in domestic duties. They were dl remarkable lor beauty; but one in ^articular arrested his attention lor her mcoiumon grace and loveliness. He was still watching them when he eccived an order to go on shore, linmtliately on landing he directed his steps the house. He was admitted by the >wner, whom he happened to know dightly, having met him once before. The impulse which had prompted him ? A? a - - I J /?.,! u yu iaj tue iwuac wn? bj auiucrto iuc^ua vhom he had so much admired. Onseeng her he immediately besought her to >ecome his wife. The girl, it seems, conceived an affection as warm and as mdden as he felt, for in a few short days iiey were man and wife. The surname of this lovely Brazilian jirl of the province of Santa Catharine, vho became, under such peculiarly ronantic circumstances, the wife of Garijaldi, hiis never been revealed. In all he biographies of our hero she is alone uentioned by her christian. name of Vnita. She seems to have been a brunette of i rich warm complexion, with black and iiercing eyes, of a beautifully rounded igure, and a sort of queenly majesty of leportment; active, daring, high spiritsi, and in every respect worthy of being he companion lor me 01 sucn a man as iaribali. Many anecdotes are told of her course. Scarcely had she been married to onr lero, and had gone to sea with him, than hey were threatened with an attack by he enemy, who were far superior to them n numbers. Garibaldi wanted Anita to ami, but she steadily refused to accede ;o ir.s request, ana, jus irom ine oouom >f his heart he admired her courage and vas proud of it, he did not urge his xiint, but allowed .her to do us she ileased. ' Not oiily did Anita remain on board lie vessel, but she staid on deck during he whole of the engagement, and even :ouk part in it, inspintmg the crew to acts )f desperate courage by her own example. Snatching a carbine from the hands if a man who had been shot dead at her eet, she kept up a repeated tire on the ;nciny. 1 hiring the enaagement, which lasted ive hours, Garibaldi, as he says himself, experienced the greatest shock ho ever cit in ins me. Anita, in the heat of the battle, stand11 g on the deck and flourishing a sabre, a as inspiriting the men to deeds of valor vlien she was knocked down by the wind if a cannon-ball that had killed two men standing close by her side. Garibaldi *as springing forward to her, thinking that he would find her a corpse, when she rose to her feet, covered with the blood if the men who had fallen close to her, Imt quite unhurt. Garibaldi begged her to go below and remain there until the action was over. "I will go below,'' was her reply, "but only to drive out the cowards who are skulking there lor only a lew seconds before she hud seen three men leave the deck and hurry rapidly down the hutch<?nt /if /innrrpr r?f tllO . W t?J ) OW IWJ IV VUV V'A - -?! storm of bullets that was sweeping the 1 deck. And going below she immediately , alter re-appeared, driving before her the three men overcome with shame that they should have been suriKissed iu courage by a woman. Garibaldi himself said that Auita, whose heart beat as much as his for the cause of the people, took part in lights as an " amusement," and "as a simple variation to the general monotony of ciuup life." At the battle fought at a place called ! Coritibaui she could not content herself with being, as her husband desired, a I mere spectator of the combat. She went j to the baggage-wagons with the view of : seeing that the soldiers were properly 1 supplied with cartridges. The constant ! hre that was kept up by the Garibiddians j against the enemy made her suspect that ' tneir ammunition would fail them if they I were constantly supplied with it. A< cordi ingly she went to tlie principal scene of I the engagement. She had not been there j long when shQ saw twenty or thirty of the Brazilian horse coming down upon the baggage train at a gallop, As she was both an excellent rider and well mounted, she might have taken to i dight and saved herself; but she was too heroical a spint to do so. She remained on the spot, encouraging the soldiers to fire upon the Imperialists as soon as they i came within range. A volley emptied I several saddles ; but the enrmy were sncj cessful iu their charge, and Anita, being | surrounded, was called upon to surrender. Instead of doing so she clapped spurs to her horse, aud dashed through the ! enemy's liues with the intention of join. hnukan/1 .??ul mms nallnniiinr nrt* j UIQ J1CI UUOUdUU y UIJU ? (MJ w. | when she was struck by a pistol shot ; through her hat, .which cai'ried away I some of her hau without injuring her skull. And perhaps she would have effected i her escape hud the horse not been shot i through the head, causing it to fall dead i upon the ground, anil throw her heavily j upon the turf. .She was then forced ti> [surrender, and was taken to the Colonel ' of the enemy. I Heroically brave in danger, she be1 came, if possible, still more sublime in ! calamity. In presence of the command er of the Imperialist forces she would not allow him to speak with contumely and disdain of ttie soicuers 01 iuo uranuc. ^ 'Scene?A Cornet' (tracery.?How much are these onions ? Dealer?Voreteen cent a pound.' Onions very dear now. Pay seven dollar and a half a barrel in the market. And ; shame, too ; dare is enough of tceryihhof ' in dis coontrv. ! Customer?Indeed! seven dollars a barrel? And how many bushels in a barrel ? Dealer?Tree. Customer ?Only three. Let me see : ; a bushel of onions will weigh seventyi two pounds, which at fourteen cents per pound is $10.08 per bushel, or $30.24 per uui. ueuuci ine cost, j<.ou, u ie?\es i you 22.74 profit. It would seem grocers ! could afford to sell cheaper.' (pausing for a reply.) Dealer (apologetically?I talks in Sherman now to (lis odder new customer. | Exit first customer, without ??nv onions, hoping most earnestly that something | might be done by the people to check 1 such cxtostion. .V. 1*. Sun.