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Vol 3, No. 31. Port Royal, S. C., Saturday, May 13, 1865. Whole No. 135.
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^onnot~.\brahnm I^incoln.
Great men ere bov have falleu, and the crowd
Rr.B s:op>Hl it* bu&j- traffic for s spare
To mourn for those whoso Jon aceusisuaid
place
Kuew fUeiu no longer?icd, vitU voices load.
They hymtked tlK* priim* of the noble dead.
Thus wiJj it ever he; the world, though wcah,
Will ?till revere it* heroes; still will seek
? Ai'er honorul |p?;vfcs soioe honoring tears i?j
rbed.
Ami, more thsn tU. o'er fhine?our mart., red
chief?
I.incolk, pure paTriof, eiatofciuau good and
wiseWill
good men'* to?r? be falling! Sadly rise
The mosrsful (railings of a people's grief
O'er the cold ashes of her noblest son ;
A alriekea nation sobs, " 2ly vill In- done!"
W, II. A,
TVI ij.-Greu. Wm. T. Nliormrin.
Running the rounds of the Northern
press t nerc is a great deal of indiscreet
matter in relation to the recent notion of
General Sherman?stuff, that in cooler
moment*, when every thing becomes
sifted and properly weighed, will have to
be taken back. We admit wo are sorry
> l-? f\.\ ry Am*., I AVOP Ol'ffnfi noTT rnnrm*nod
>iUC MVAiWH* V * Wfc OifcjUVM vi?v n v<?v ?
"Memorandum." We admit he should
have placed himself on tho basis of negotiation
indicated by the President and
Mtr.dionsly followed by General Grant
respecting the surrender of Loe?that of
taking into consideration military mutters
aloue, leaving those of a civil character
to the Government. But, v.*c do not
countenance tho idea for one nfbment,
that General Shormau was influenced bv
.mv ftthor than the most natriotic of im
pulses, and an intense desire to bring the
country to a stale of repose. Tlad he
other, aud particularly ambitious motives,
why should he have stipulated to send
the dooument to Washington for appro.
vaI ? We are afraid me t do not take into
consideration the fact, that the mind of
the oountry was irritated by the brutal assassination
of our Chief Magistrate?intensified
almost to the point ofiridiscriminite
revenge upon the instigators of rebellion?and
that Sherman and his army
were not yet apprised of the occurrence.
Neither do they think of the peculiar posi'
1 " Oi A ? e ,t,n
uou oi a commanuiug omuur, uuu v>x mw
uecessity for his acting with promptitude
and decision in great emergencies. His
line of conduct may have bGen faulty, to
?;ouie extent, but for this, a generous peo?
pie should not iripugn the motives of so
devoted a public servant.
We are not a prophet nor the son of a
prophet, bat we venture ta predict that
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in the calm light of history, ti^ucmlj
Sherman will stand oat, in a purely mili-,
tary view, as a Renins of the very first!
, order?that his operations upon the field!
j will have a tendency to modify the tat-'
tics of Europe iu nations, and thut milihirv
rrif ir?;sm will award him a loftVDoSi
tion among the great commanders of the j
world. It becomes ns, we think, to be j
more careful of the rcpuiatiou of men,
who have shown heroic devotion to the
1 cause of the Union and of Freedom, and
uot suffer a single mistake to cloud entirely
i tir appreciation <>f the inestimable:
value of their services.
l*ort Itoynl, S. ( '.
, Tho following interesting extracts are
from a recent conospoodent ofthe Phila-'
'/leljUn htijeinr. We hare taken the lib-j
: (ctv of substituting the proper w.me of.
; this place which Is Pout Hotau instead.
. of Hilho.i Head " which we do not like.1
The Treasury and Post-Ofiice Depart-!
! tnents have called m* on their books
Port-Koyal and allcoiTespoDdenee from (
them to their agents hero is so directed, j
It wjjl not do to sugar-coat the thing,
i as some gentlemen about here would like
j to do, (probably Lin Vs End speculators',
by calling us " Hilton Head City "?for
short, H. Head City, if. Hog's Head City.
We are bound that so royal ft spot as we
have got,on which to build the Metropolis
of TriF. South, shall have the no less royal
name of Pom Koyal. The following are
i Uia nvtwiMi
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j ''Port IIoyai..?-Hero we have the head- j
' quarters of the Department of the South,
under the command of Major-Gen. Q. A.
Gillmoro. When our force? took j osses-;
1 sion of the place it consisted <>f one or
j two unimportant buildings and the usual i
spattering ot negro huts. Although favored
with a magnificent harbor, the pct>- j
pie oi this section do not seem to have
j regarded it in any other light than as a ;
j good cotton district. On this group olj
; islands the best cotton in the world was t
! raised, but it never occurred to the unin- j
i erenuotis planters that from this harbor it i
! might he shipped at once to all the mar- j
; kets of the world, without the necessity i
of sending it first to New York, and from I
thence to Europe. If the idea ever en- j
tared their brain, there was 110 energy to j
put it into execution.
The enterprising Yankees soon discov-:
: ered in it the b<fst harbor from Now York
' to Pensacola, and on this account, ehicf-!
ly, it became the headquarters of the De-!
porHnent. The violent Uuctuations of the
! tide rendered the building of a long pier
necessary. This obstacle, however,'was:
I soon overcome, and now we have a pier;
j extending about a quarter of a mile out!
juto the bay. Ilere the largest ships can
come up, and with great facility discharge
or receive their cargoes. This1
! wharf, and indeed the out ire bay, prej
sents a busy scene, and is more like the I
harbor of Philadelphia, or some other j
! northern commercial mart, than a deser-,
ted pirt of the little State of South Caro-:
lina. Large vessels are loading and un-!
loading, barques, brigs and schooners'
are lying at anchor in the stream, while j
| steamboats and tugs arc plying vigorous- j
; ly Irom one island to another along the j
, bay. Toward tho north the fleet lies
i quietly at anchor. Many of these were
i formerly stationed outside " cm block-!
ade doty, but their 11 occupation," so far
as that business is concerned, is nov
gone.
The City of Port Koyrd consists, as
have already intimated, of buildings pa
up l>y the Yankees since their oceupatiui
<:t' tire- place. Many of these ave used fo)
military purposes, as department head
quarters, quarter-master's establishment
commissary department, barracks, hospi
tal, ft:*.'. but there are sonic of thorn oc
capied b." ?i.ilians." There is a stree
known as "Merchants'Bow," which r
composed ill most exclusively of sutlers
There tire also n few private dwellings
mostly occupied by officers' families.?
The trad-.* <-i the place is of sufficient ini
portance to warrant Uncle Mini in ts ab
listing a Custom House and keeping rev
enuj cutters in the harbor. Of course w<
have that inevitable sicn of Americtui ci
vilization, a Post-Office, which, consid
ering that all the mails of the department
both for the army and navy, are distri
bated hero, wears rather a busy aspect.
There remains hut little more of inter
est in the town, except the inevitable
newspaper, without which no town cai
be considered complete in our country
at least. This we have in The Xeir So-'.tli
published and edited by Joseph H. Sears
Ksq, Jt is yet only a weekly, but will b
increased as soon as possible, to a daily
It is devoted, of coarse, to iha regenera
tion aud disenthralment of the South, es
peeially of the St.de of Sonth Carolina.
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THE ri'TlliE or PORT BOYAT..
It is T' ry evi lent that this will be
place of some importance from this tim
forth. Arrangements have already bee
made toereot a United States Navy Van
and Arsenal on one of the islands in th
bay. The Committee appointed at th
last session of Congress to select a sit
along the Atlantic coast for a Unite
States General Military Hospital, hav
choMtt Port Royal as the most central a
well as the most healthy on the coast
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In addition to all those projected im
provements, there is a movement on fon
10 ran a railroad from Port Royal t
Hardecville, on the Charleston and Sa
vannah Hail road, and thus establish cob
nection with all the great arteries of tra
vol throughout Georgia and South C'arc
Una. Nothing of this kind can be done
however, for some time t j come, excep
it should be done by Northern enterpiis
and capital. The South is too poor n
present to do anything. Still, this wliol
section of country is rapidly coming un
der the influence and control of Norther
mon onrl n/ill nlHmnfo! i* Trm/l#* t
flourish like the great West."
The Fin al Settlement.?We sujcerel
hope no settlement will be wade wit
any one of the States which have been i
rebellion against the United States ar
thority, until full protection and guarar
tees are secured by the thousands c
Xobthebx Men who have been attracte
here by and during the war, either a
soldiers or civilians. This Northern eh
ineut is fall of energy find enterprise. ]
wants to open up this country to newnes
of life such as it can never enjoy if sep<
rate State action is to lumper improvi
ments contemplated, if properly fostere
by the general Government.
Already, English and other Foreig
capital is being freely offered in this Di
partmeut for the purchase of sue
; property as the Georgia Central, tt
Charleston and Savannah and other rai
| roads. Let these English hounds who a
; no .v coming to the surface. in Charle
I item and Savannah once get a fair loot
^ hold here nnel the elements of still morn
II and greater trouble are left behind. We
i cannot tolerate these aliens who under
r protection of a foreign 11 ig have re"
tnained at the South aiding and abetting
this accursed ^ar. It is said Gen. Sher.:
man remarked to a British subject li in/
t in Savannah when he took the place aud
who iHM claim to urge quantities 01 tmcotton
stored there?"Sir, I have betu
!
-'fighting England all the way from At -
lanta to Savannah. I hove taken British
"' guns and small arms. British ammunition,
p British clothes for the ivU'1 army ami
- British stores .of all kinds." Let our
" Government at Washington be made fnl':
ly alive to this subject and the proper dc
: meats of a thoiongh national regene^
'lion will permeate this entire sectional
"a country flowing with milk and
1 j honey."
' | ?Some ftiends of ours recently visited
e [ Sp.tni&li Wells and wishing to get a
j ' tip-top" view of the snrroandjngconn- .
" try?probably to select the best route for
~! our new railroad, ascended to the roof of
j the building formerly occupied as n sig
i uui Muwuii uu cut- luuic iu run 1 uiu^h
ft They observed, 011 their way up stairs,
e that Hie house was well filled with ne11
i
il1 grws.
e | While deeply absorbed in tracing the
e meandering* of Scull creek and the
ej! many beautiful water-ways on that side
e; of the island they were informed by a
s' colorcj sentinel who had bat just then
, discovered them from his beat in the
i garden, that " all dem niggers in dat are
j hous hah got del* small pox." It is noede
; less to say that no man of them ".stood on
L.' the order of his going " but that the leaps
j. I then and there performed would have
[. made even Sam. Patch envious " had he
; been thereto see." Prohably no branch
Post-Office will be established in that
t; neigiiDoinood at present.
?j Cixpf.es ix tiie Jlocx.?A feTringcn*
t order should be issued (if it lias not ale;
ready been) forbidding the throwing overl*
board of cinders or other matter which
Q : may tend to shoal tho water anywhere in
0 the harbor. We were told that a day or
j two ago several barrels of cinders were
' thrown into the water from a tag lying
y ; at the end of the pier,
h ! lt would bo an excellent plan to Lave
a sign placed in a prominent position
u near the end of the pier where some ot
the more important rules of this harbor
l- i may be seen by all in any way connected
jj with shipping.
(1 The "Naval Bvb/al Ground.?Our
is i article, iu u late number, ou this snbjeet,
lias, wo are happy to know, attracted tho
attention of Admiral Dahlgren, and
^ other gentlemen of the South Atlantic
& Squadron, who intend, we hear, to have
e. these graves properly preserved, and
* marble slabs tako the place of the pine
2" boards which mark the spot where the
d brave fellows who fell in the famous
battle of Port Koyal now " sleep their
n .ast sleep."
Several of tlie 8th .Michigan VoluuL"
teers, who came here with the original
to " E. C.f" are also burled in thislot. We
it must make some effort here, ashore, to
!_ have these latter graves put in proper
order, in conjunction with the improve.
re ments contemplated by the Navy. Who
s- will attend to it ?
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