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THE NEW SOUTH.
J. H. SEARS, Editor and Proprietor.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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."
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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
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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.
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