Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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wbich have been a great relief to our suffer i g ment in . distant country. I recomnmend th:t0 -err ail ard facility. consistent with the puhiUe '*.1!-.:s, mav be es:te:ded tot'Cifm in t..eir pe:tr i)tic and chri:tian exertions. I have tranm it ted through the Aid Society ii Char le.ton titur thusand dollars to the St. Charles l4spital in Richnond, and trust it w'll meet 'voor section. Wh ether anything like a State 'lii:1tt shnild be established there as per rtanet. is for your j;dynent to de--ide. I :m!bt t he pro'prh'ty of ystemnatically inter f. ri' with the regular provision mad:: for all snc thingu hv' the comimt n Governmt nt. id m -!.,r s-i*et gn-m re ulit oni. But it. C:tt a ordin.;rv victss itue, of si kness, or after great. batt i-,~thes.e estahii-hmGents might be, t:s they L::,ve ba con, ot inealulhibl.: service. In ailtion to the dilienlt'es that war al ways hIngs iupon a county, we labor at. this time under s;ragent pre-..re, from the sale of all proluctions fr e:ortation bei:': sus pendfedl. Or baoks are banks both of dis c.-unt a-nd eirculadion, and practica Ly the-y led .l the nlly circiating medium. Ti.ey sus pend)ed the redemuptiou of their bills issued. 1he 1.aegishlture legalized that sus.:nmin. Then, it their issues are contracted. :.ni cir eul-1tion withdrawn, the lifhculty of paying debts and meeting taa:tion becomes greatly increated. It vrould seemn that under such circumstances, where the Legislature have int-rposed to relieve the banks from tLe.(obli "ation to pay their notes, some course ought :O be adopted, if consistent with safe prece d,:l:!, to protect the peoplk also from ti.e ten ''retrv dilfficultics by whtichLwe are sur'round ed.. All taimpering of any kind with produce he Glovernment, in aa way, shge or t..r:n. is ",t::eraliy unwise ;nd unjust. If any ti:i'g t.4 the kind i., ever to be done, iht. it he 'I :: t ih "tOI. State ..ver ents, rathe.t' tha' .v te.: General or Confed'erate Gover:n.nenv. f."r :i! p---w..r not .\i'ie-siy granted is rl ter ea i (, ,!,.. t.:e. TI.1 "'xreie by\ the Co .Jei, r :1 . :i ,i . t it. onb sible -:t aatt.lh rity', 'ti 1o' rme liall :; .'it it d eiro ius, as cani':I t. d. it' hit o;:lyil nen-d'1 (pu , -1 aftfect deepl:v ,tie di I r, i~itin inn wal t h, ai d the intei ts of ir.aite .l..br. 11 an:,thiug is dune. it . 1,d be1:d::e! r the St :te, and .Is;;t hat ;.-"ha, a< we wive :: State insti:ution. it mi:.:: tee u-id to :idv;n-e on prot)h.. i-i. aIf ofi :1S vaii.., i(n i eceipts for the -same bi in.: d ep', with a vie.V to give n lien. to .'eUie t:e1 amtIi.oiLuL adLv..eled first, to the ex iusion of :.II other cdn i.s. Public pi iy'v . rnir ! that tit shmidd continue to le galh. .he :lusutniiin of the banks. Thi, con0 :ti::ui:ii miuht be :iai Upon certa.in eon fi~tut i': r-in tl'p.: %I;ii!tr ~advances to bie m-1t 'c 'ram,: all thet bank,. . :.- our!- Iihtii-r are nobly serving their Col. t _..::s ,at a g;ea:t d:;t.uwie romi home, some it is' e i'l or levj upon their pr.,perty .:.id b. iii;eeted by lat Y. Everything of t:lie ;-: :u:t (i- dlone with great ciition. 1o.e s. to cc llAn a precede lt. There is n pwv,t r ,: d ceor:, ai.l genelralily s u tll as for any Goverlnent to interftr. ne the slightest degee, with contracts, u::d il - :e:- d.',, it tu::ht to be: limited to abuilute !tsir:;tv. Ilnt"zi rit. ith and stern j'iste are Iu:nities more esential in Govern-nents t::an even amioput inil iiduals, bee;t. se of their wide-~spremti 1ihwnc . I ::.:e i ith of ieeuiber, the day :.fter I w*as im;tn1 ; a:el. I --ent a confidentid .gtci t, tlw I're-iient of the I-nited State;. die In uiniig !i t:.-itI of itirt Sumttr, upon .'on <is:s.s et w:at tle ssttle as thsit uon wiich I tndearstood the T. States arsenal I:d been previously allowel to be placed utuber a .-te i:ard. Onie Lf :my ohjects was to as ce1ta:::, ini the inm.st alitlr-utic manner, the rtal i.t-in oft ti!he I'ri:.ieniit in rclatiou to I he occup.at.in 0- the l>ris in our harbor, a:nd to shap- my wn cour.-i a~l~;;ccordingly. A Copjy ofi bi letter, w ith accomp:u.ying explIations. ofI teC agen-lt, I $cent'to WasinIgton, tere~ntl~e e~ 'a conunaiiicationi frotm a distingtuished' es i..*n appointedi, as I have since beeni ini ierlmt d, by myi predec-e.-r, to remain at We.:ihigtoil, ald confi-iential rrepresentative of t e St*~ae a-re herewith traansmitted. for your inkt..runiln of all de-itails. The day on which myV leter wa<5. presente~d jO the IPresid :tt, I was telegrapihed by hightl :ial responsibb rep-j resen!tativesi froni tis Statte to withdrrev it, v; aVCount of an mler.t4mdinz, that had haen reee~gnized. that there should be no0 in :erf-renceX with the~ status of the forts ini any warV. until commia:-t-oners fronn thit Stare shioyh be- appoited to pr!Wced to Washing ton, anud represent thet State fully on all points at iseue, coanectedl with tho forts and l ublic pronertv. Oadw lgth (of Decembeir [went tob Ch ties :.,n. and~ in tnediately ordered a very respo'nsi l.je .dicier, with a detac'imnent, to arni and erjilp a guard boat, with specific ordtrs- to prevent, if pnossible, any movement of trooips ironm Fort Moulitrie to Fort Sumter, and if suzch a thing twere attempted, to forbid it, and, if persevered in, to resist it by force, and then himediatr-lyV to take Fort SAmnter at~ :a:l:haz ardls At that time the-re was but a smaigil guardl in this fortre~ss, and it waIs int no coidi ioni for defence. Oin the 20th of December, the President of -L (::i'.:.d staites sent Genieral Cusbing, a dis5tinguisedt ctizen of Missachusetts, to me, with :a letter, a copy of which is her.:with transmitted. I had *but a short inter-view with him, and toldhim .I would return no re ply tom the President's letter, except to say, ve'rv~ candily, that there was no hope for the l':aion, arid that, as far as I was concerned, I int.:ndedi to maintain tl e separate inidepenc dec of Souith Carin~a, and from this par po.3 neihea'r temipzatioin nor danger should for a momeniit tieter mec. IIe said that he could' not say what chang;~e circum stanees might pro :uhC( but. wheno 1)ielft. Wnshingtona the're vatheni 1) initentioni whatever to change the utai us -if the. b rts in.ouar harbor in any way. N.otwithstaiindg the dj~ant pk-edge of hmt..nthJe faillh mia-clerviouts to this. anid th,-u thijs :o.-dw-l of it, the~ commnanide..t of Fiort Mnouitrie, ou the nieht of the 2t;t h of De~ceuaber. move~d all his forces to Fyrt Sumter, with'his munitions of war, after first spiking the gunis, cuttinlg-down) the flag-staff,. and burning the guan carriages. Trhis tortress w~as the well-known key to the barbtor, anid the move was intended to hold us inl 5niggaktion, and enable the.garrison to be re-iaireed, with a view to hold the post.per krm-.netly. This move was a 'violation of ali manly fatith, and could be looked upon in no other light than ani open act of hostility. Thlev still possessed Castle Pinickney, i~ith gn.'s beoaring uiJout- the city. This is a for tr-ess originally intended to protect the inner harb-or. I immewdiately, on the morning after they h:ad moe from F-ort Mout'rie, ordered select f 'rce- to take Castle Pinckne-y at all hnazartds, :mdi gaive a si rilar ordt-r tot occupy Sulivani's 1-landl, anad to prIc-2ed Cau~ltiously, after exalt)) T.. ordec. were exetcte the same day. j burai, on the evenling of the 20ih of Deeeim ber. requtested( the commzrissioner sent to our (:onv.:nltionl irom~ Abtamna, to give the Gov ean.-r of ith:at Simte oflicial notice that I iteni dedl tio taki the forts, if there was any attempt to c-hanige their status, aind to request that bue w.m id act in like manner-as to the forts in .Aiile harbior. I tiatde the same coimmuiii eation ilo 1 he con nisionecr from Missis.inpi a- tit my intention, and I would have dlone the sameC to the. representatives of any other sietr State if they had been here. Afler I occupied these forts, I consulted engineers, anid immtediately cotnfeuiced the batteries on the channel, to endeavor to pr vuut sc'mr.li-s or reinfo.rceme-nts, and also or n:'~r d~ (.al.inetti ;i!, po)e:ss zi of F..r' diohnai~, .and preveanl comui~atinfrom ' die grrison in Fort Sumter. Copies of the c gereral orders contected with all tnese move- It tnents I herewith transmit for your in!orma- t. ::ca, witi other papers, which will civo the It re s: ~ by whicli I was inlltenceil at the time. t! On the !th day of January, I orderud a a I fan to be aereed upon by our engmflners, and o reported to me, for the most certain and sci entifie nmde of reducing the fortress, and g upon that plan tLo latteries were erected a which finally did reduce it. Colies of thi-i l plan, nnd the orders, are also transmitttel. t I 1,ad is.-'d o'rders to prevent, if pos.ihle, l all reinfnrcements or supplies, and, if neces- r sary, to fire on any vesse! that taight attemtipt ti to enter the harbor. On thi. !it oif Jianary, t a l:irge vesuel, hearing two hun:ialred and fifty r United States troops. with arms and supplies a of all .sorts. was fired into and driven hat-k. A few days before 1 his, a telegram from a menmher.of the Cabinet at Washitgton was I sh.,.wn to me, asserting that no Sich vessel c wotitlbl be sent. and a t reut i-tfort was tsade to e in-luce me to su-petnd the ordlr to fire. ij. a rs:n de01,lt-d a ditsavow:l of the ;,et, aeCctpanit..d wi th a positive thr,-at., fiat, iti 11 t disavowedl lIt me, he wouhl opi-n lire up- t on anv ves-.el with our (la:: in the harbor. I avowed the net : he retr;fcted his threat, and 1 asked time to consult his Government. Aier b-s suggestion on that point, I sent to Wash- t ingtoan our highest law officer in the State, a I entleman'of eminent standma and worth, in order to act in the fairest and most liberal t spirit. This correspondence has all been pub- I lishel, and shows the imbeeility and duplicity t with which our opponents conducted the is- i sues then presented After President Lincoln was inaugurated, he sent, in the latter partof Mareb, a confidential agent, Mr. Fox. who was introduced by a stalh:tt otticer of our navy. Hlo said he de- i ir.-ti to visit. Fort. Suiter, and that his oh its were "entirely pacific." Upon the guar- I a'tce of the fficer introducing him. Capt.. Ilartat-ne, h't was permittel to visit Major is Ande rs->n. int icompanylil with CaptI. Ilartstente.I upotn te plee l' ' pacifie p'rpose.." Not with:-tatding thi.:, he actually reported a plan for the reinforcement of the garrison by three, which was adloptelI. Major Anderson pro tested agLailst it. I euelose with thi- a c-'py of i;pers. to be uit-e. undtier yiour wis- ii cretiion which will ilace these fltcts itetnilJ in a veryl' etw davs after, an1t, her con i.leti t ial agen:, t.'l Lamon, was set by t'-e r't-esiient, whpi informoed me that he had citne to try ::,i arr.mtget for tie reotval of the garris,t, am:il, whent he returnlti from the fort, asked if . v ar vesse-l could not be alalwvd to remove t itn. I replied that tno war vessel could be ai ..- to t.iter the .aibor 11 tiUny te:ms i te sai' i h belivl 1ajoir Andetrsoni preferred at ordinary steattmer, and I agreed tlh:.t the arrison tmight be i ho retmoved. lie said he hoped to ret urn in a very fiw days fir that purpose. Then, on the 8th of April, Ir. Chew, an official in the State Department, wa sent, in eoumnytn with Licutentnt Talbol, and read to me a pIper, which tihe President of the United State-, he said, had directed Iit to read to ie, in rt lut ion to seutditg in supplies to tht- fart. le gave ne no inttormlation as to anything, but only read the paper: and said he was not even directed to ask my reply.. I sent for General Beauregard, as the com maniing get.eral on t;:e part of the Confed raTe U Wernment, iad had the paper amin red in his presence. A copy of tiS paper is herewith transmiitted. It bears upon its fee n itter want of nanliness antid straight ,,rwrd t conduct. I give this minute state muent of ats, because they are deeply impor taut to a thorough under.tanding of the true origin of this tierce and nalignant war, which practicaily conntnenced'l in the capture of Fort Sumter, on the lt ih of April last. Its ctrects wvil be deeply fel througtiot the world, and it i.s dune to otir sister States that they shall kow the part whieli we werec forcesi to act in its origin. L.-ery step in the comnmencement of this terrible con flict ha~s heen mtarked by- decepton a d dupiicity on the part of our enemlies. By so doing: they have~ iraugu:rated events well calculated to produce. not only a p~rofou-t:d impession tupon' ou own country, butt upon th des:tinv of Amtierican civilization ; antI we haver every reason to be deeply gr-ateful, as a Chtristi-i peoplet~ to a supterinttending .Prov-i dece. for the direction given thus far to ths.e events. The whole rise and growth of tbese States of North America has beent tile most r-apid and gigantic ever hefore exhibited amongst the nati-ms of the earth. Undt~er institutions thte most popular and captivating to the enthusiastic mind, we had made such deelopmecnt of strength and power, in little more ttan three quarters of a century, as seemed to overshadow most nmodern governt ments. In theory, the distribution of all power ap peard to rest upon princ-iples of equality and jiustice: atnd if the Government had beent hoestly and wisely adbninistered, .it was the noblest system ever creaitedl for rationa'l mnen. tt na~tn as, as he' evecr has hbein, selfish and anabit ious and nouler the guitie of thos~e p-sins, the rwbole tsystem becutne thotrotugh v perverted frutm its atrigrintal <ies~in. ~It was a Coturederated Republic, with p)ow er expressiy granted by State-i, :','lddfic'ed under a limited compact or constitutiont, antd never was, in anty sentse; a simple Democracy, with a ma jority of people to govern. .It sn this pr ofound~ fallacy ats to a Uemuocracy, origi nated by designiug demaegodues or serpettemal thiukers, which, within the laist. thirty years, radically chan;;ed the whole natuire of the Goverinent. in the Notthern States they had no divi sion of classes or ctstes that were opently ackowledeed as the funodanmental law of sxciety, and, as a natutral c.onsequencee,. the only divisionx was h.etween entpitahts atnd Ia hirer. The former, to acet mnore efficiently( it the strtggle for ascendancey, became or- j -axized uder the style and title of cor-pora ions itt every shape and fornm lrotm the s:ttlest tom the hig~hest mlatter.- This was dine int order to uive assoceiated wealth more and mtore atbsolute-powver over latbor. Thtis was their politietal slavery. Mter they hadI thus mastered the labor of the North, they engaged ,in a struggle to tmaster the F-oeeral1 Gojvermemt, and, through it, to make the labor of the South also -tributary to t heirI p~'wer anid wealth. To br-ing their numbers t -o ber in a consolidated D~emocracy, was es5-I sential to their designs. They thea e-alkd in that inatical element of their ignorant *clas es, through which the' designittg antd the wtry could tnak~e them subservient to their 3 iltitate desigtns.C In the South it was the t-everse of this. S There wetre ranks and there were. castes ac- r knowledged itt the futndatmental law ol outr b soctety, and this was the divi~siont between .1 master anxd slave Tte white race was a privileged race of| ratk atnd political power. It was not at divi- [S sion et ween capi talists and laborers, for here |t criitalits owned laborters, ~and were, thxere-| I hIre, interested in thle proflts of daily labor. ithra, they were thenselves, to all intentsjh ani purposes, laborers as well as capitalists. I Hence it was, we wanted no increase tn the j power of governmtent over prodluctive labor i r hi wve need assoclated wveadlt, in the ie firm of corpotrationls, to sub1julgte the lsbor- b of the country, for we had, as individutals, all ' that o~wer already. t Undr such funtdamental differences ast tse, the preser-vation of separate States in e the formi of a republic, with a limtitedl com- 1) pact, was the very law of onr existent --e, and the perversion to a simpleI D~emlocracy of c meore numbuers, was otur political deatht. The most crrupt of all go~-:nmets, if exten~sivo enou tgh to embriace dhifferenut itetrests. is a ti simple Democracy of numbers. .It neessa-ja ..i.. --. ..... ino mpracal anarchy, and th tence into a military despotism, as protec on Crai the horrurs of anarhy. Nuw that ue North-rn States are forced to organize to a.msenves, this car. eor, to them, is-as certain (i:stiny itself; andf is inherent in their very rganiZationi. Under these cirenmstances, if we fail to row wise from the lessons of experience. rid allow any considerations to weaken the derative action of our system, and increase i tendency to a simple Democracy of num ers. w,, too, will soon sink into tei same in, where an uniirestrained nilitar" 'gevcrn wat rill raise its strong and mighty struc are,, bene~atl whose sidvio.w the very bounda ies of the Si:Ies will be lost and firgotteni mid the scattered fragments of a broken and ismenbered emjire. 'There is not the diehtest danger of our ing suiljugated by the North. Those who onceived such an idea ha'l but little knowl dge as to the e'ieeit of real power. They re vastly d.:i'c;vir' in all those padities eeeC~sary for dret'ctive military orgnization, t.i' arly tie pturpos:es of iIvaiton, while he ' imtitutions of the South train our pcr Ile to individual self-reliance, and to police egulaitions with disciplineil order. There .re no agricultural people so essentially mili arv in their early training as are the slave Loding race of the South. Wherever slaves exist, with the distine ive marks of at separate race, it is a privi ege and rank to be free. Under these cir uistances you may exterminate the dumi iant race, but you can never permanently ubjugate it. When the lower stratum of so icty is occupied by an inferior race, wht nake no) pretention to political equality or ower, the entire ruling race can be brought nto active service fr ill purposes of defene vithout drawing materially from the produe sie field labor necessary to afford support. Altiru'gh we have actually called into mili ary service the largest force, in proportiot o our population, known in modern times et the provis;ioti crops of all kinds, in th-se Junfedlerate Stales, never were equalled by vhat h's this year been garnered for our use rhe reverse of this is the case in all State: there there is no feidamental division 0 :lases. Wliere ali are theoretically equal ho-e who frlintw he lower pursuits of .',eie .y iat be e.eneiliate'd, ate whei they art ,ressed into large ar:ni&s they not only ere te a heavy 'expense to be sipplied by capi :nlidst, but they also :eave a vacinum itu pro lu:tive labor that dl"ranges the internal rela ions between capitai! and labor, and this i nore deeply felt than even the direct expen ;es foir their support. Wit.h us, to a great extent, every freeman' iomie i< but :t privileged ca-tie, with arined nevi ready to go forth to the ii'dd for defene ntd four liono r, while laborers on the .nil re nain, to gather and garner up the produce o he earth. True, war is a great calamity, but if this var si"tll end, as there is every prospect that t will do, by making us not only politically ndependenit of our most deadly enemies, bu :ommercially independent also, and, at thi came time, shall develop cur own artisar kill and mechanical labor, so as to place ui tirely beyond their subsidy hereafter, then ndeed, will it prove, in the end, a public jlessing. We will be left free to develop our owr :ivilization, and show, where there is ain in erior caste in society, and the higher an( rivileged race governs, that a constitutmna republic of States iniy be established upo: conservative principles identified wilt all thi eat ends of truth, justice and stability. Bi if we fail in this. then there is no hope for i 2vernmelent of States. The only advance, is substanee, which we have made over the g'ev ernment of our English antcetors was thi substitution of the municipal government u States, rep esenting permanent local interest: and territorv, insteamd of' great, landed props etcars and hereditary rulers. This governmnen of' States wats dlestroed by the Nor'therun peo ple, who, without th'e conservative diiion o astes, which we have, endeavored to miak ~be g'o-.eronent a simplfe Democracy of' num bers. T?his ended, ns all &uch governamnt must inevitably end, in corr'uption, usurpa io and revoltrion. As far as the Northerr St-ites are concerned, .their gov'emnmenti iip'essly gonte, and if we fail, with all otn :onservaive elements to save us, then, in Iced. there will b~e no hope for ~nn indepien lent andi free republic on this conitinent, ani ;he public mind wvill despondingly turn to th. tronger and md~re fixed forms of' the oht ivorld. In this point of vicw, [ most respectfull. rge that you increase the power and digun ty of the State, through all her administra .iVe olliees, and adhere firmdy to all the con tervativ'e priniciples of' our Constitution. Clouds and darkness may rest upon our be Loved country, but if we are true to ourseires md just to others, looking with confidini tith up' to that Providence who presides ovei he dfestinies of mn and of governments, wI nil :-urely triuu$h, and come ''ut of our tri ls a wiser and a better people. -F. W. PICK{ENS. Non-rum CanLOJ.N 1To'NTEnsI Fia Till 30.As-r.-Col. Cliingmnan. with several comp~a lies of' tihe regiment of' volunteers which he ns recently orgaiiuzed in the " Old North tate," arrived by special tratin yesterday af ernooon. Trheir destination is the South Car dina coast, for def'ence against the invader~s 'he remainder of Col. Clingmain's commnand nelidmg, we learn, 250 erokee Indians, apt. Williamus, will arrive during the nigh er this morning. CJol. Clingmnan is at thec barleston Hlotel. We also learii that the Governor of North ~arolinia hasi issued orders for the concentra' zon oif 8,t00 troops at Raleigh to-day, to await rders, anld be ready at a nmoment's notice to tart for the scene of action on the coast. ILircu ry. A 31:nirin AP'PoINTifNT.-Coio. G. N. Iolis, C. S. N., has 'receivedl fromu tho hDe arment of the Confederate States Navy, Lie atppointmntt of Flag Captain oni the New )rleans naval sta'tion, dated on the. day of is successful attack oti amid disposal of the ~nited States vessels at thte Passes of the Iississippi.-Savh. News, Nov. 5. Coo.-The "sealed orders" of one of the anke3 steam transports, lately driven ashore n our coast, contained instructions to the lling master, "t In the event of' being sepa ited riomU the fleet to report, aos soon as. pos ible, to the Quartermaster, U. S. A., at P'ort royal, S. C." A FRIWnTFU!, STAilmt'n OF CAvAIIRY 11(R-1 -:s.-.A frightf'ul stampede of cavalry- horses xek pelace recently at St. Charles, Mo. A Louis piaper thus describes it: Col. Merrlls First.Missouri Regiment of orso was on its way to reinforce Gen. Fm'e ont, and qutartered fbr the night at St. harles. About 10 o'clock, the horses of apt. Charles Hunt's compary heinze fght ted and broke loace. The panic was shared y the others, and~ soon four'tee'n hundred her. s, maddened with fear, went rushing over e encampment, treadhing tents and men into e earth, and creating a scene of unparalleled ccitement. Twelve macn are known to have een frightfully mangled, and probably fatal ; but the only memnber of' the companiea mtposiig the regiment, which were organ ed in Ohio, att all injured, was Capt..Henry ilson, berother of Ciiyft. Lewis Wil.-on, Uni 'd States Army'. llis skul! wias fracetared ad alt arm aud leg broken. Little hope of isnecvry is entertained. The Port Royal Affair, sn Frum the Chmtuleston Courier: sI SAV.tNN , Novemb::r 7.--The steamer St. Maf ryis has just arrived front Hlil on Head. i Passengers report t hat an engagement be- di tweeIn our batteries at Port Royal and the Yankee fleet commenced at half-past nine 1 jo'clock, this morning. -u A large three decker was towed up and at took position in front of our batterica, at the North end of Hilton Head. f, The fleet hittetapted to pass the batteries, B and seven of t;ie largest steamers, in a few mnoments succeeded. They moved out of 1 rauge of the batteries and were lying in the bay. The firing from the batteries was Cot tinuous and heavy. The position of the St. Mar's renderel it impossible to see whether any of the vessels of the fleet as they passed, returned the fire of our batteries. The enc era opinion is that they did not fire a gun. A large steamer, suiposed to he the first that ran the gauntlet of the batteries, chased ti the Confederate steamer S v anah, Cniano. h dire Tatnall, and fired a shot at her. The ( Saranuait escaped into a creek. P The St. Murys lit for Savannah at ten F o'e!oek. It was imtpos-ible at that time to 1I learn the casualties. Col. Stiles' Regiment i arrived at Hilton Head. which is five miles ti distant from the batteries just as the firing 7 commenced and left immediately for the scen't C of action on the double quick. b A Yankee steamer, of extraordinary speed, g endeavored to intercept the Confederate States -t steamruer Sucunnaeh, but must have run-aground r while nahing a short cut over a shoal place. C as it did not appear around the point to which d she was making. Vit.h .the aid of a spy glass forty-two ves- 0 sets could be seen out at sea, exhibiting a r complete forest of masts ;.seventeen of these t were trarisports, and the balance, twenty-four I in number, are steamer'. %, Col. DeSaussure's Re.gi ment, between 800 i; and 900 strong, arrived yesterday afternoon I from Siuterville. t The. Jt iIury'.; passed the Generul Clinch f at 104 o'clock, having on board Gen. Ripley, b . and stall, bound to Port Rloyal. - SatvA'in, November ;.-Coimuodore Tat- s Snall, af-r a gallant engagunnnt with the ad- l ance ves'" of tfhe eeuly's let, transferred 0 his nmrine- nil munitiun to the batteries a and sent his steamer, the ,&,Lcanah, up to the city for repairs. t The aruiaw'k received three shots from C the enemy. She left the vicinity ol' the bat- t teries at :! ocluck, and reports the engage ncnt with the fleet still progressing. nuly ' sevyen vessels had passed our batteries. Wa- u ter comtutnmicttioin with Charleston had been 1 cut oil' by the blockadef at Scull Creek. Re- C inlrceninet": are hem .eat from South Car f olina and (Iorgia. Wilson's regiment of 1000 men leatves Tybee to-night. t TIIE LATEST DTSPATCIfES. PocoTAn.muo, S. C., Nov. 8.-The Bay 1, Point and Hilton head batteries have been i abandoned. The enemy have possession of r Port Royal and Broad River. Everybody had r left Beaulaort. It is presumed the enemy-will e effect a lanhling at Beaufort to-day or some f point nearer. - SFCUNI) DISPATeIt. PIeoT.A1.i'(I. November 8.--Gen. Drayton I and his command retreated from Fort Walker l in two steauers by Popes Ferry, saffly, and are now at Bluffton. The casualties repurted are from thirty to fort.y killed and wonued. ul. )unnovant metreated with his comr mand from Bay Point, ria Lady's Island and 5 Beaufort to Port Rloy'l .rry. "This mrring Capt ain Hamilton took oif a company at Sawis Pii, and handed with that and his own comn Ipauv at Port Royal and are now at Pocotali - .. ~ Beaufhrt, probblyl, will not, be burned. A great amnonn. df Gotion on the Island ~ will fall into thet hands (If the enemiy. It hats beeni determuined to burnti Blufl'tn if attacked. Th1e great poli.t~s of danger now are the raiil c road at Pocotaligo, Charleston and Savannah. r Fromt Sav-annaa. Savisa, November $.-The .steamnerC Sa~p.on has arrived from Port Rloyal with the wounided. The engagement yesterday was btween Fort Walker and Bay Point. fifteen vessels lyi: g inside, and severa! outside. There were five hundred men in Fort Walker, and thir teen hundred outside on IHilton head .Island. I The steam ship Afinnesota was the first to enter and fire, and was rapidly followed by C others. Thbe attack was made from three sides and the firing terrific. It isthought that no les than 420 guns were brought to bear S upon the forts. ' The steamers would first fire a broadside at Fort Walker andl itmmediately after another C at Bay Point. After the second round fromn the ffeet the princip-al gun on the water bat- C teyvas dismiounted. The engaigement last- t ed live hours. All the guns on the fort were di.i:mounted extcept two. Being no Icnger tenable and all the guns dismounted, the Magazine was arranged so as to low up the fort whent the e::cmy should enter. The Confeder'ates total loss is abhout 100. Sergeanzt F. Parkerson and Private Meigs, of the Berry Infantry, slightly wounded; Geor. ! gia Forresters, two mnissinmg; Thomnas -County V'olunteers, J. W'. Fontaine, missing; 17th Patrits, Privates Anson and Thompson, missing; Capt. Riadeliffes Cotmpanty, two mniss. 1' ing ; DeSaussure's Regiument. fifteen nisising a front onte Company.0 Dr. E. Somers ]Buist was killed while dress- a a ing a wound.a Licut. Stmack wounded in the leg. A dispatch to the C'onlilutionalist says: In Capt. Rteid's comapany of Regulars, there were lt; killed, wounded and taissing, out of 48. Private Kelly, while workinig one of the uns in the fort, had his head shut off. Capt. Reid's company, inmnediately on landing, pn-hed through the enemny's lire into oj the fort, and worked the guns of their battery in an admirable manner for four hours, and tI were highly comuplimeuted by the command- at ing General. b They drew their brass pieces, on retiring, a 12 miles, and then abandoned them- c at.Wagner's cotupany of Artillery, wase alsoenggedin orkng the batteries, ado behaved with the utmost coolness and gidlant- .e r. and did eflectual service. Capt. Wagner wa slightly wounided in the face, and the blood was trickling from the wound as lhe C was working the battery. y one of General lirayton's Aids was shot ' fromt his horse, and a piece of shell grazed Ia the Generals cheek. lie received, also, a wv slight wound in the arim. The force on the th Island consisted of Heyward's Nineteenthb, and DeSaussutre's 1f5th South Carolina Vol- th uteers; Styles' 27th Georgia Regiment, and ri< a Company of Regulars. The Charleston Merceury of Saturday says: A mass of conflicting rumors reached us y yesterday, from Port Royal. Early in the re day, it was generally believed that the aban- S doiment of F'ort Walker, was owin-g to the Itit powder having been exhausted. Our latest re dispatches bring us the very different, and of much less mnortifying statement, that the Fort to: wast held by its defenders, until twenity-seven, out of its twenty-nine guns were dismounted and useles. i: Fromt a passenger direct from the scene oif in action we learn that each of the enemy's t trasports was conveyed into the harbor by twof war steamners, one on either side. In this he orr t hey passaed our batteries, the two war o steamrs delivering a broadside each, as they lha st~ltee rapidly by. t: When o, number of their vesch had thus an r...ache t in..ior n the har, aa ince. DC,. nt and sinuitaneous lire of shot and shell is opened upon Fort Walkcr, from three les-the -teamers insitie, i hose outside, and I ce just in front of Hilton IIead, taking part. - the atitack. Nutwithsta;i.incg the abtan. nunent of our batteries, we hear no iew., ns far. of the enuieiy, attempting a latlin'. r0 uinderstail that-our forces have p~lacel ruidable obstructions in the ritvr at a paint Pt.ut fo-,t" miles below 1eaulbrt. Gen. Lee said to be coustructing fortifications atBea n-t' rt, while Gu. ipliey is creeting works at uyd's Landing for the clefence of the rail ad. Reports were current ye-tecrday tlt c WIab-iAh liad bin hurned it the water' Ige and thlt. one of the enemy's iranssorrs t as sunk in Broad River; but wi' could lind ~ y substan.ial basis for these rumors. ictory of the Southern Troops in the West. MEMvis, Nov. 8-An extra of th.e Ajpeal, i-d.1:, contais foill ac'oulnts of a bloody and -rd 'hueht battle near Columhus yesterday. eneral Piilow's b'rigtdt', 2 5tt0 st rong, comi sed of Tappan's Arkansas .Regimtent, and I iceman's, Wright's. and Piekett's iennessee egimnait-, enccountered the enemy on the [issouri sine, opposite Coulumbu:, early yes r.lay morning. The enemy's ltre. wa< 000 strong, and was commanded by Mnj. en. .John A. McClernand, of Illinois, assisted. y Gen. Bowlin. Pillow's Brigade fought dlantly until their amrncition was exhausted hen, overwhehned by superior numbers, they :treated back to the river with heavy loss. ini reaching the river bank they made a L. perate stand. closing in with the enemy herever that was possible, with their bay acts. Capt. Watson's battery was tetnpora ly lost during the retreat of our troops. At al critical lomlent Genei al Chettham's rigade, composed of Smith4 and Russell's 'ennessee Regiments and Col. Mark's Louis ta Regiment, assisted by. Gen. Polk and ythe's Mississippi Regiments, arrived and irned the fortunes of the day. They charged riously upon the enemy, retaking Watson's attery, and completely routing McClernund's utiry force, pursuing them for a distance of even miles to their boats, when they em ark:d in haste and ignominiously fled. Two f the enemy's gtmuns and large ,nanities of rmns and annunitioi, wl.ich they had thrown way in their slight, were captured. The oat ailoig which they went was strewn with ats, knapsacks. guns, etc. Uen. Cheatham >ok several prisoners with his own hands. gen. Bowlin was m-le prisoner by the Rev. aines Rogers, of Tennessee, who also took stand of colors. Col. Dougherty and Col. kaufort are among the Lincoln Ofieys aptured by our troops. The fighting was most desperate and terrific throughont the atle, .which laited nearly- the whole day, aving began at 9 o'clock in the morning and nding only with dark. Our loss was less lin two hundred killed and wounded, and bout thirty made prisoners. Among the :illed on our side were several gallant com .ny oflicers. Wright's, Russell's and Free ian's Regiments of Tenness:e:eans. suffered ost severely. The enemy's loss in killed nd wounded i.. variously estimated at from e hundred to eight hundred, besides a reat number of prisoners taken. The South re steamer JI. 11. IF. Iill, after trans. rting our troops across the river, was ally injiured by the tire from the enemy's ns. hring the battle the tmnboats made a simul leonS attack on our batteries at Columbus, Ly., but without doing them any damage. Another battle in the saue vicinity may uoni be expected. Letter From Gen. Beauregard. Riteiosti, V.a., Nov. 7,-The Rimlond Vhig, of this morning, publishes the follow ig [jrom Centreville, within hearing, of the nemy's guns, Nov. 3,: 'b the Editors of the Richmondl l hii. Gentlemen: My rattention has jost ben lled to an unfortunate ecntroversy going on lative to thle p~ublicationl of a synopsis of my epot of the baittle of Manammssa P'lains. No e can regret this more than I do. The 'resident is'the sole judge of when and what arts of the report of' a couiinandiing oilieer lall be madeC public. I.iindividluadiy do not bjet to delaymng its ptublicin as ilong as the fa~r D~epartnmenit may I iilc it piroper er cessary. Meanwhile, I enteat myc~ friends ot to trouble themselves about refuting the. anders and calumnies aimed at me. Al ibiads, on a certai'n occasion, reserted to an xtraordinary method to occupy the minds of is traducers. Let, then, that synopsis ani-i ver the samne purpose for me 'n this iniatauce.1 If ccrtain minds cantnot understand the ifference betweenl patriotism, the highest liic virtume, and oflhce seeking, the lowest vie occupattiont, I pity them from thte biettomi f my heart. Suffice it to saiy, that I prefe~r e respect and esteem of my countrymen tJ ie admiration and envy of thQ world. I hope, for- the sake of onr cause and our nntry, to be able, with the as.sistance of a ind~ Pr(ovideceCC to answer my calinniators ith new victories over o'ur national enemies; ut 1 cave nothing to ask of. t hne country. 1hec lovermnt i, otr my friendc's, except to efford me all the aid they can in the great struggle whichi we arc now engaged. I cani not, and never expct to b~e, a cant idate fotr any civil office inc thIe gift of the ople, cor the Executive.. TIhe acme of my ibioin. after havinig cast my mite in defe~nce nmr cause, aind av-istedl, to tlihc-bst of my ~ility, isecuing o. ights andlinidependene a nation, is to retire to prtivate life-my enr, thecn permnituntg----ev'er again to leave y home, nless it be to light atnew thce battles my couintry. Res~pectuly, youir most cob't serv't, G. TI. lh;iat:c;,ann. McCr.oenm's Aicvy i, WitrrEn im -rice - tme 2:,d ult.. sas We have iinformnat ion frumi reliabile souurces' at. tfter a sixty daymi' cantpa:igin inc Ka~nas d Missouri. the McCulcl clivisioni will lull Lk into Arkaiusas. The Qcurticrmaster lhts vertised for the biuilding oft stabule~s ,ti nli mmtodte 5,000 amiy horse-s auml a Ilarg mber of' mtules; also, ihr I100,t Mchcushei.. u cornt and 8,7->0 toils of hay to lirage thuvei imals. - . Joan Tiaoors.-Aother deu.t achcmnt cf Col. I' imngan's reg'inment ipas.med thironcgh ocur city sterday oct their way to thne coasL-t. A private dispautch was received in this city ut evening, stating that onie thmonsandc tun, -g th six hield pieces, had left Savanniah ihr 11 e scene cf actioni on the coaist. General Lawton, we understanduc, telegratphs at more troops eani be sent if necedd.--Cou. l. 01 R oa-rED RecwrL't~in or. Fou-r~ IIATvvenAS. A private dispatch, received in'thcis city sterday, brinigs the gratify ing news of the uapture of Fort I~umtteras. a. U. by the k utierni forces. We kn'ow t hat an expedi- rn ni has been in pr'eparat.i.ml for somlte time to al eke that post, anid we hopo that the report mi its success may prove tio be truec.-Charles-s i Mercury.. I is GcN. EraS' ~ITroat.'-In commenmtinlg on thesoking disobedlience of Gen. Evanis, Ir whipping the Tanckees contrary to orders, Macon Tdegraph: says : - I* He was like an ardeint lad on his first tur-i gi y ht, and took olhff lie old gobbler with waiting fomr the flock. With his little iid of at couipleof thousand lie smote hip and i gh, just as if he bhad been sent there with" adequate force to do that particular busi- fo ARTHUR SIMXINS, EDITOR. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13, 1861. 1'ostpoued. Obituaries and varioas other matters are una oi.l:bly postponed until our next, " J. T. Ii." - See a letter on our first page fr.,:aour excellent Occasional." When tingers" ca "straddle ie pen " to such good purpose, tliey ought to be lways at it. Promoted. By letter we learn that Sergeat Gao. W. Mon .iM has been elected a Lieutenant of the Red till i'uards in place of S. D. Br.occu resigned. A Meeting Proposed. Sevorial gentlemen have requested us to state hat a meeting will be held at this place on Thurs ay next, to see about forming a company to be Iferedto the Governor. " Old Digger's " Favor. " Old Digger" has our thanks for the samples if potatoes, turnips, and autumnal flowers kindly cut us. 'The variety was plensa'nt, and-gratified he senses of seeing, smelling and tasting. "0. )'a" remarks upon his mode of cultivating the weet potatoe will appear next week. Congressional Election. The result of the poll for Congressman in this listriet is as follows: M. L. Boxrnut......................l J. A. CALTOut ........................111 Majority for Bo iAa .............5U . In Abbeville the vote stood : M. L. BosiIAt.........................421 J. A. CAtLtno ........................271 Majority for BosuAx...............150 Loss By Fire. The gin-house of Mr. Alfred Ileotras in this vicinity was burnt on Friday night last and about ifty bugs of cotton destroyed. The fire con uenctd near 3 o'clock in the morning, and is sup osed to have been the work of an incendiary. [t is a fiendish deed, and we trust the unlucky proprietor will at least have- tho satisfaction of {,ringing its perpetrator to justice. The Legislature. Our Legislature met on Monday.the 4th instant is announced, and, having a quorum, proceeded to business. The session lasted three days, during which electors of President and Vice-President of he Confederate States were chosen, and the Gov. rnor.empowered to borrow $3110,000 from the banks to meet pressing exigencies, as also to call or companies of volunteers in case of invasion. 'ributes were pronounced on the lamented Col. D. J. Josos, and also in rcspect to the lion. R. . M.mssais and Mr. W. C. Ibst.as, members de .eased since the la.t session. The electors are as ollows: For the State at large, 11. C. Yous( and II. W. Tunsecorr; For the D.Etricts, R. F.W1'. Ai.r.sros for the lst, Jous S. PA.xsn'for the 2nd, I. D e'\cas AI.t.EN for the ';rd, .Jou C. HorEi: for the -ith, T. Eowix WArn: tor the -th, and F. J. Iosas for the 6th. Day of Fasting and Prayer. Friday next, it should be remembered, is the lay of fasting and praycr set apart by the Presi lent. to be observed throughout the Confederate states. Ralle. A rall~e will take I'lace for thme benefit of the toliera on Wednesday the 12th, a~t 12 M., in the [,dies' Ihall Room. Gjentiemnen are invited to ttenld. Recligiousa Notice. There will lbe preaching in the Court Ihouse on Fridlay next (Fnstday) at 11 o'clock, A. M., by ltv. A. Faca.tLF:n. Universalist.. Dead. J.n.me CAnsos, of Company IL 7th RIegimnent, S. .V. died if typhoid fcver at Churlotteaville, Yu , , the 8th Q.,-tuber. 4' A Friend," giving us the otanliiLly informatiun, says : "JHe was a good oldier and much loved by the whole company. [I was atoong the first to volunteer in his Comnpa t, and has ever done his duty writh alacrity and lesure. The writer has frequeantly henrd him penak of his aged parents with affctionate rever mce, and believes ho is gone to a btter world." Th'e Concert in Augusta. For ourself and thc Indies of our party, we rould express our common grattitication with the ate visit we had the honor to p1ay~ t',.Augusta on ie occasion of the Maryland Conzccrt. The po ite and very indulgent audience have our thanks or their kind coresideration as inanifested in en ouraging uappluuse throunghout the evening; and be ladies and gentlunien of the_ Ciincert wiil please .cept the assurance of our warm regard. .'I o 3Mr. :AsIt:, of the Telegraph Oflice, the ledies desire u return their fuenks for his unsistnance so readily tad gracefully iecorded. Aud to conclude, the rea~ of the city has of course donu "' the hand. oue thing," which it always enn undl will do with alf a chance. "Beauregard Satice." Sucha is the strong anid spiey ime uof ai slaco reparedl antd tiold by our friendl J. L. 31:as ot ugusta, iat. his Georgia Tionatio Saueu is also ry supierior ; but the licaureg.ird is in our opin. in unrivalled in auy country. Its obief ingredi t is red-pupper pirepluredl in a l.culiar manner, ndl is color is that of a very biright sodumn.apple. ivinag taibanitted it to the trial iaf several ladies, -e en conaidiiently slprak 'if it in the part of othI sexe's. Uint joint oinion is, thatt it is the st saiaae iout anid that every housekeeper in this imil $ioather'n ind of ours oaught to get a teupply it. ItL would b'e cepecially fine for sending to ir slie'rs in service, being as hesalthiful as it is ungint tind npjpel izing. Jiut'go try for your. lves. Call tat J. L. M's neaat catablishinant, op iaite t.iruaryt's; and you cta lie accommtodated iti this antd vario~us other erenture'comnforts. J. .M. thinks he will t possibile) give an addi inatl touchl tio thu Ihenuirr:~ ynf since that last an 'if a letter auddressed by the genieral to' the .iclhmond WhI. iBuckwheat. Who,' wants .buckwhaeat seed ? A plenty can be staiied throaugh otur Soldiers in Virginia, if tough t des irable. Would biuck wheat subserve my good~ purpose in our lalistudo ? Is it worth ying ona our lands ? Dues any biody herenhouts auw anty thing of its atultivaaiin ? It lo ha een ised here in days past, for biees,-nmight it not so be raised fnr white folks ? Dcuebwheat cakes -e great victuals, wellabuttereid. New Orleans rolp don't hurt' them much. The combination not had to take. for brezakfast of n winter morn . Aptoplectics wouhil do wvell to let thenm alone, at our lean andi hungry ('o..aie-i would grow spectably fleshy by tha.'- nse. We relient, the ed ean be got through oaur soldiers in uppier Vir ia; so we nre inormrned. V&Col. ,Johan Cuniighanm and Mr. Robert artin, of Charleston, publlish thec following card, We will receive immediately ten comptaniest to m a regiment, which we will arm with Enfield lnes, .t..r....end . t .h e . at inti e............ Governors's Message. Our space this week is in considerable measure devoted to the message 'f'Gov. PICKRNS,-but we do not add, in stereotyped phrase, " to the exclu sion of our usual-variety," for there Is both varo ty and interest in the document itself. It is need. less to direct the reader's attention to the (lover nor's important suggestions and recommendations; in the pending condition of affairs, they will be eagerly examined and duly appreciated. The message is a. paper every way *worthy of the country and of' the times,-plain, succinct, forci ble, :dd in ,very point of view well put. It was rightly considered in the tGovernor to bring for wari his various views. of policy at the call sos sion ;-the tenlcucy, and doubtless the purpose, is to elicit from members .reparation for the regu lar session, so that prompt action may be had at that time. It will be seen th:it the message fa. vored a continuance of the call sission 'for the purpose of a further military organization of the reserves of the State. The Legislature thought this unuecessary, but events immediately follow ing that body's adjournment have engendered the wish that his Excellency's recommendation hail been heeded on this point. W e object to Legisla tors taking the field when they are needed in con nexion with the Executive to arrange for the more complete defence of the State. .To Our Soldiers. What can we say to you this week, dear sol diers ? Since our last, a change has come over the spirit-of our reflections on the war, and we find our stand-point of observation partially in verted. Last week we were looking '" to our Sol diers" on the border with keen and almost undi vided interest; this week our expectatbions and hopes are in large part directed "to our soldiers" upon the coast. But whether yoking to the coast or to the border, we still are far from entertaining a doubt as to the final result. You will have heard about the entrance of the Yankee fleet into Port Royal harbor, &c. The news reached our village on Saturday last. Being very busy at home that day, we did not go over to town until after sup per, at which hour we hoped to hear by the eve ning's mail better news than we had been led to fear was coming. But not so.- As we approaehed the Post Oflice piazza (it-was now dark) the place was s5o still we began to think the mail was come, the postmaster gone, and we left out., "Like one who treads alone Some banquet ball deserted." Not so again. On going up nearer, we discov ered, by the dark shadowing about the office door, that there were living creatures still hovering around that portal of intelligence, and we knew at once that the mail had not. arrived. But why this gloomy stillness? Into the piazzawe stamp ed (it was mnddy.underfoot) andt said "good eve ning." Some one or two of those present man aged to squeeze out a syllabic utterance that sounded like a response in, recognition. We saw at once that something was wrong, and,. in a few nioments, were made aware of the fact of news having come fr'im Augusta that afternoon, to the effect that a numher of Yankee ships had entered Port Royal, having silenced: uur guns there, and that the entrance had been attended with some casualties to our troops. Of course the news was depressing at the moment, but it was also well calculated to arouse the deeper passion of hatred; and this'it was, as much as disappointment, that silenced all tongues and clouded all faces en the first receipt of the intelligence. Looking at the matter rationally, it wits no great fete of ar:as for twenty well-appointed war steamers, entrying some five hundred guns, to pass up the channel of an inlet nearly three miles wide, under the re of two or three earth-works with only about fifty seven guns all told. Still the circumstance is at oncve mortifying to our piridle and well calcuilated to create some alarm for its after results. 1t may however appear in the sequel, that this grand dlemtonstration of the enemy wais made at a for tuunte place for the Confederate cause ; and by this we mean not only that it might have been worse, both in its immediate and consequnent re sults, if made at other and more vulnerable points, b~ut that the present locality is central to the Con federate States anid will be mnore readily invested for defenuce or attack thasn many others thatmnight have been selected by the foe. It may also give Savannah, Charleston, Mobile iind New Orleans tiue to take cff'ective steps for thenir safety, which probably would not have -been thoroughly done hut for this realilation of' the strength of the Lincoln armada. Preparation of the coast must now becnme the business of our State Legislatutres as well asi of the Confederaite Con gress. All must ucork toptiher und w, cpense nwsuat be spiiral. So far as the attack on South CaroliniL is conceernel, the cry " To the reseue" comes frr,nm tilt her Confederate sisters, and she will herself showr a force in her own defenuce ready to becar the brunot of the inva-lin-g colusmn, should any sting of the sort be asttenmpted. Maj. MI. C. Bcvm.:n, of the Legion, reached homtte eutt a short'visit during the past wreek. We are all1 glad ti find hums iookingr so well and hearty. The campaign s'.us far seemaS to have agreed with him admirably: ; and it is ensy to see that he is already unipatienit to get back to his gailant cay nlry. Wfe know he would glary in leading his ibrave three hundred to tihe charge against ay trooips worthy of htis steel : but especially would he len-1 and they folliw with a rim, could they be privilegedl to direct that charge against the lava diers of South Catolina soil. We trust there will be no ouch invasion, b~ut should it occur, and shoulit tho Governmenit think it advisable to send us aidl, from V'a., we of course want the Legion and the 1st Brigiade. Let us have theta to rally upon, and South Carolinia is safe against the armada and its 30,0t00 picked troops. .Canpt. M. W.. G~mm', oif the Legion, is else in the State on a short visit, but we have. not yet had the pleasure of greeting him here. He left Columbia sonme days ago to visit his mother In Abbeville District, and will probably call upon us at EdgeflekT before returning. We have it to say again, that the mild autumnal terum still continues, anid us we write this (Tuesday) morning, the spring birds are singing near the oen window, as the fog gradually rises before "the morn- - In russet mantle clad." Lasat night wes rode visiting with some ladies. It was one of those lovely evenings when trouba doors might tune their richest notes beneath the httics of their lady-loves. The moon's silvery sheen and the mystic shadows of the night gave or beauty or soleninity to the whole scene. Many a cottage porch and many, a chatiber window could telLa tale this morning of the loved ones who looked fronm them pensively upon the moon lit earth and thought of the dear brave hearts in the aries~i of the State and Country, and dropped a sweet tear in holy supplication for their safety. Think of th'e aspirattions and yearnings that would sustain you, soldiers, an d let the reflection nerve your arims and animate, your souls In the day of trial.- . Red Bank Aid So.ciety. The ladies of Red Dank vicinity inform us, through Dr. W. S. Moni.ny, that thoy have for warded to the Ihospital at Charlottesville, Ya-, the following articles: 17 pair of drawers, 14 sheets, n23 pillow cases, ,12 pillows, 4 mattrass ticks, 14 towels, 24 pair socks, 31 handkerchiefs, 6 qluilts, and I home-made blanket, besides bandages, lint &c. Handsomely done. ggr~1on. Charles Maebeth has been re-elected ayor of Charleston.