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I?^ MM???? , - ~=L?0>r. "-W. THE NEW SOUTH. J. H. SEARS, Editor and Proprietor. ?? 1 PORT ROYAL, SATURDAY, OCT. 15, 1864. i 1*116 New Houth can be bad of the following Agent. : J. C. Alixaxpeb. P. M., - - Beaufort J. w. ALLEN, p. m., - St. Augustine. ! W. 8. Mokrill, P. M? PVniandina. Y. F. Wood, Post Master, - Morris Inland. - i NORTHERN NEWS. j Nherman's Army. I" Nashville, Thursday, Oct. 6. jJ On the 4th inst. a large force appeared Al? ril?a. T,*I j A , I uu tut; i^uatuuioo^u nauruou, near aikworth Station, destroyed several pieces of the track, and burned Big Shanty. Two bridges across the Chattahoochic, at Centereville and Resaca, have been! damaged by the heavy rains. A rebel lorce near Dalton, on the 3rd, and moving in an easterly direction, had j 250 wagons. A severe fight occurred at Alatoona i yesterday, between the garrison and a' force of rebel infantry. The Federal ! loss was considerable. Gen. Corse and; Col. Touriette were wounded. The rebel | loss is stated by the prisoners captured to have been heavy. It was expected ; that the battle would be resumed to-1 day. ! A division of the Rebel force was seen I anovinur UD the FloWah River. r>rohahlv 1 - * ' r y T with the intention of crossing to this Hide. The Tennessee River is seven feet deep j _ on the shoals, and is still rising. At six o'cloc k yesterday morning, the 1 enemy attacked Ala toon a with artillery ^ and infantry. The position was occupied "fi by a portion of (reneral Smith's corps. ^ The tight continued at intervals during ^ the latter part of the day, and every J move of the enemy was handsomely re- j pulsed with severe loss to the rebels. In j the evening they hastily retreated towards i j Dalton and Dallas, leaving their dead' \ and 400 to 600 wounded in our posses-' e sion. Our loss was about 300 killed, j* wounded and missing. Gen. Corse is re * ported wounded. t Firing has been heavy in the direction J of Keneeaw during the diy. | j This is the first fair day, after a rain of 11 ten days' duration. All the streams are 11 overflowing, and havo washed away the ;f bridge en Ringold, Resacca, and Chatta- j hoochie. The two first named will be | j rebuilt to-day. a t A party of 15 guerillas, under Lieut.' Heron, of the Second Tennessee, having . t secreted themselves near the- coal bank <3 at Kelly's Ferry, when the steamer Jtes-1 ucca landed for ooah tired on her and set ? her on fire. The crew scuttled her, and t the hull nnd m<i/-hin/?rv u-ith tiiiiMi /i she wasloaded* ; f b Wakhuiotok, Oct % ltoj-l. f There is not the slightest foundation t for the rumors of disaster put in circula- < c tiou since the recent rain storm has tem- 0 porarily arrested active military opera- j) tions. On both the north and south ride I ot James river, up to this morning, the e Tnion forces hold securely all the posi- tl tions acquired in the advance a few days h \ ig??, una hero is no fear of than- bein^ lislodged. i'i ey are ouly aw .iting fi.i leather and j arable roads to advance rtill further on to Richmond " Sheridan, although out of th"? reach of telegraphs, 18 prepamg for anotne* movement which, will completely flank Richmond, and his army is completely safe from disaster, ev.m if Lee should precipitate upon it all the rebel troops under his command. Sherman has not been idle, but has begun a movement which will startle the rebel leaders, and iu connection with sther combinations of General Grant, trill make assurance doubly sure of the speedy termination of the war, by the sure defeat and destruction of all the rebel armies in the field. Since July, 1861, the prospect of absolute and decisive success, was never so bright and cheerful as at this moment. A few days of good weather will unquestionably tell a tale of victories and successes for the Union armies that will prove that the end of the rebellion and the war is at hand. o ARMY of the POTOMAC. Lee fortifying Danville ? Supplies ehort in Richmond ? Jeff. Davis and hie Cabinet gone to South Carolina?The rebel archives removed to Danville. PpiLADixrHiA, Thursday, Oct C. The Inquirer has the following special Incnofoh frAm iio in Woch IVOpttiVU U VU1 VVA i V?J ?** ?i W'M ngton : " I learn from a rebel sergeant who eft Colston's Brigade, a week since, that General Lee has acknowledged that his xwition is critical. He has fortified Danville at all points, and recently has lad defences prepared on the route thiher, Hud for this purpose has taken a lumber of heavy guns from Richmond :o Danville. H Supplies in Richmond have entirely jive a out, and great difficulty has been jxperienced in furnishing the rebel army jven with the corn m< a! ration. " Jeff. Davis and his cabinet have left ELichmoud for South Carolina. " All the rebel newspaperr except the Whig, are removing from Richmond, and tis well known that the Government archives, etc., have been removed to Danville, which is General Lee's base of (applies. Destruction or the Ulocktvtle Runners Lynx & >Tight Hawk, j Warhtvctov. Oct. it. 18f?4_ i Rear Admiral Lee encloses sundry J forth Carolina papers to the Navy De- i )artment to show that the stringency of j he blockade is felt and acknowledged by he rebels. The Feyetteville Carolinian lays :? ' The loss of the A. D. Vane a is i pretty severe blow to our State. She ias done noble service to our North Carina soldiers, and has paid for herself ;wenty times." The Lynx is the name of the steamer blockade runner chased on shore on the forth Carolina coast bv our vessels on he 25th ult., and which was destroyed >y fir 3. She was owned by John Fraser md Co., of Wilmington, and commanded by Captain Reid. She was bonnd to Bermuda, with a cargo consisting of six mndred bales >f cotton, and fifty thousand dollars in gold, on freight or on govirnment account. It further remarks hat " the Tallahassee expedition will tot pay a large dividend, and it is much loubted whether her exploits have weakned the Yankee government to any apireciable extent. It is pretty certain she tas turned an nnpleasant amount of atention on Wilmington, and may be the ause of bringing down on ns the main ?/ il,? ) TU, U1 1 I. I WT ui mc K tiiincv iiaijr. IIK UIUCAWIO terc will be double strict that is certain." Information is received of the destrucion of the blockade runner Night Hawk, n the night of the 29th of September, >ff Chew Inlet, South Carolina, by the iip bou. She was run ashore on the federal Shoals. The rebel captain, others, and part of the crew?in all twenty hrcc?were brew.ht off, the remainder aving escaped to shore. The Vight lawk was au English steamer, with a general cargo for Wilmington, from Bermuda. She sailed from Liverpool, Augnst 27, and was owned in th it plate. Her rate of speed was 14 knots, and she : vas three hundred tons burden, cost thi.-ty thousand pounds, and had capacity for carrying eight hundred bales of cotton. Finding the steamer could not be got off the shoals, she was set fire to and thus destroyed. It appears that another vessel succeeded tarlier in the ; night in escaping from New Inlet, al; though fired at by the Niphon, and apj parently struck several times. The Daylight drove off a blockade runner which j was attempting to enter New Inlet on , ilie same uiuruuig. News from Mexico.?The Brazos Santiago correspondent of the Era, writing on the 22d, says: We have news bv way of Matamoros that Geneial Miramon had "pronounced " against Maximilian while the latter was on a visit to some other part of his new empire, and that Miramon was endorsed by the Archbishop of Mexico and all the clergy. At the latest date he had got possession of the largest share of the City of Mexico. Miramon had raised ! the flag of the republic, and had called on | the Mexican people to sustain him and | drive out the foreign invaders. Monterey, the capital of New Leon, is also reported recaptured by the Mexican General Cairoga. The French, after the capture of Monterey, left a small force to hold the city, and with the balance of their troops they started for Matamoros. After they had left General Cairoga " pronounced " against the French, and took the French garrison priaone r?. The French at Bagdad are badly' frightened since their defeat before Matamoros. They have been engaged at Bagdad ever since in landing siege guns and building a large fort. Hie French Admiral Bosse refused to let any one pass oat of Bagdad. He won't allow a messenger to pass through to the American Consul. The orders {riven to the French guards ; and pickets at Bagdad are to fire on every I oerson that approaches their lines after dark. We have heard nothing of any imporj tance from General Cortina for some days. I The l ast we heard from him was that he | w.is -able to hold the city of Matamoras i without any doubt, unless the French > | were largely reinforced. We are informed that, during the retreat of the French from Matamoros, the rebels, under Colonel Ford, lined the opposite shore, (the Texan,) and fired on the Mexican soldiers, thus covering the retreat of the Erench. All is quiet on Brazos Island. We have here about sixty Mexican officers who were taken prisoners at the capture of Puebla, and confined in a French Bastile in France, where they were kept prisoners, enduring all kinds of hardships, because they refused to be traitors to Mexico, their native land. The French refuse them admission into Mexico unless they will take an* oath to sustain his Boyal Highness the Emperor Maxmilian, but have allowed them to go elsewhere. They nobly refused to take an oath to the empire, preferring banishment to slavery and ignominy under a foreign tyrant? Thev are loud in their praises of Col. H. M. Day, Ninety-first Illinois, who commands our forces in Texas, for his kindness and hospitable treatment of them| since their arrival on this island. Glad or It.?Our ocese neighbor in the cotton shed has been for the prist few days very airy, somethimg quite unusual for him?we could not imagine the cause for such a change until we observed a huge pile of lumber lying in the street, evidently for the purpose of making valuable additions to what has been faeetiously termed " Post-Office." We at once forgave the apparent inflation and congratulate him. The same should have been done two years ago?for the building has always been inadequate to distribute even a small mail conveniently?bat it isnever too late to do good. Bring out the demijohn. A rfuu&n bxf ai M.)b: n's ?Toesd iy evening there was qnit?: a gathering of military and civic gentlemen at M jb; ton's Saw Mill. A la ge lull; was improvised, capable of seating Home two bun dred, with tabled on either side, ami tue aforesaid tables was well filled, and nice: lv laden with every delicacy the Sunny | Sontli could produce, including snbssanj tial reinforcements iroin the Northern | markets. Everybody was happy?of course they were?every body wanted to make a speech?and about every body i did have something witty to say?those that didn't, expressed their approbation ! in hearty eocliinations. After the supper was thoroughly discussed, the tables were removed, and dancing resorted to as a sort of digestive measure, and ! "Lights Rhone o'er fair woman and brave men." I The hall was beautifully draped with the " Stars and Stripes," and the whole affair was the most pleasant reunion we have seen in the Department. The gen| tlemen under whose supervision it was ' concocted, carried out their programme to perfection, and it would be invidious to make any distinction when all done I their part so nobly?bat we must refer to one gentleman who seemed the embodiment of ubiquity?Mr, Morton?he not only presided over the cuisine in a hand some manner, oat Kept a strop watcu for every thing else. The band of the 114th N. Y. was in attendance. ?It is currently reported in the Northern papers that the Yellow Fever is committing terrible ravages along our coast, and particularly at Jacksonville and St. i Augustine. It is needless to refute such I charges, for the Department was never in a store healthy condition, than at present. The weather for the few days past has beck* cold, and the chances of bronze Jack even making bis appearance vow-Id be materially lessened. A Successful Expedition.?Coi Noble, with a few of his command started out from Jacksonville a few days since for the town of Enterprise, where, be had Dreviously learned, a town meeting was to be held, in the Court-House, The Colonel arrived there after dark, surrounded the building, capturing Captain VyTxsoN and twenty-nine men, including forty horses, belonging to a guerilla band. ?We publish this week a most romarkable production of Jeff, Davis, showing conclusively that the Confederate conclave is done for, used upsmashed. With Grant pummelling away at the front door,' and Sherman getting the best of him in the rear, the poor devil is at a loss what to do, or where to go. His soldiers are beginning to doubt tho soliditv of the rebellions institution, and * ? ' are absquatulating at every opportunity. His Cabinet at last accounts have left Richmond, and the archives have been turned over to Lie for protection. "Un? easy lies the head " that guides such a dilapidated wreck. Accident to the Cosmopolitan?This favorite steamer met with a severe accident off Barnegat, the night of the 8th ult. ShecolHded with a schooner bound North, the main boom tearing away two of the staterooms on her upper deck, and injuring her otherwise severely. The wind was blowing fresh, and there being a heavy sea at the time, the collision^ was . unavoidable. The steamer was damaged to the amount of ahont t?3,AOO. %