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n MlftB CAPTAII*?S Wlhc.
Mt sister Blanche, her child, and I, were on the
lawn that"morning,
"Oh, conhl a wife's strong love," she sighed,
.. > " ward off a soldier's fate!"
'Her TOjce a little trembled then, as if through
& some-forewarning;
When qji the lane a soldier rode, and halted at
the gate. .
r."? "B -'
fi Which bouse is Malcolm Blake's ?" ha cried;
a letter for his sister!"
..^Blanche, monuuriug as I took it, asked?" Aid
'aL 'A ???e for pie, his wife;;
The stranger fondled Madge's carls, and, stoopiig
over, kissed her:
ik* Your father was my captain, child!?I k>r?d
v r ' him as my life."
r Then suddenly he galloped off, without a word
-rb. more spoken,
2 burst the seal, aad Blanche cried out, " Wirt
buIm vmi tfcmMe so ?"
?0 God! how could I answer her ? How shond
the news bo bcokcn ?
For first they wrote to me, not her, that I should
- . break the blow.
"A battle in the swamp," I said, "onr mei
were law re, bat lost it!"
Her qtrick ere caught the tell-tale page,?not
writ in Malcolm's hand;
/ And first a flash flamed throngh her faoe?and
*r then a shadow crossed it;
"Read quick, dear May?road all, I pray?and
r let me understand." ,
I daral not read it as it stood,?but tempered so
V' the phrases
" That scarce at first she grossed the worst,?kept
11 .< back tW fatal word,
An<l*q|l twhe urei of Mi $tmif his charge, his
. ^ r comrades'praise?
And then?the e*t: till she?a statue!? neither
k" spoke nor stirred!
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. ?.?>h, navor vet a woman's heart was _brokeu so
~^?o~tuiBaptucd wirh'hclpful tears!?so passionless
! and dumb!
" She stood there in her agony, till little Madge
asked sweetly,?
44 Dear mother, when the battle ends, then will
my father come ?"
I hud my finger on her tips, and led her to her
rir playing.
Foot Blanche! the winter on her cheek grew
z u snowv as her name!
Jl?t she do bnt kneel, and pray,--and
linger at her praying ?
?O Christ! when other heroes die, moan other
**; wives the same ?
I. vaj f tr i .
tSioat ether women's hearts yet break, to keep the
lr. Cause from failing?
^flad <pity ?or brave lovers, then, who free the
c. battle's blaze I
jJUkI pity wives wade widows now!?Shall all be
unavailing ??
iQW. give Freedom first, then Peace!?and
to Thy Name the praise!
| . . TUEOOOR* TILTOX.
y J'-' FOR rnc FREE SOUTH.
The CcatlKalMl Land?.
Victor Hugo wrote Ms last great work, '' Lcs
Miserable*,"?great in thought and pnrjwsc, as
well as in volume? in onler to throw some light
upon " the great jwoblwns of the age, the degnubttion
'of man by poverty, die ruin of wo*
. man by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood
by physical and spiritual night."
'Urn opinion above expressed concerning the
founded upon the character of Victor
Hugct and the aim lie proposes in the preface,
whWi is nearly all of the Iwok that I have read.
$9ing thus an a jtriori criticism, the opinion is
not ultimate, and I do not hold myself bound
by it.
These three, and nearly all conceivable social
problems are involved, more or less, directly 01
Vntallv. in the fundamental problem of the
distributor lard; or the still more radical
one of the rature and right of property. It is
by n? means purpose to enter into a discussiou
of anv of those questions, though their solutioi
-- ? - w.... ova aiinoncMl tn reouirc
I k not difficult. ?j-t?? -I
profound and elaborate research, only because
/ " the immemorial traditions and usages, origiuar
' ting first in force or frtwd, and finally organize*
into. law, hare superseded the simple natural
laws of acquisition and transmission. I nov
r only assume the fact, which may be dcmoustriv
ted in various ways, tliat the iwrerty, ignorance
and vice, which is the most striking characteristii
of all societies of men, arc traceable, more or lest
directly, to the monopoly of land, and its conso
quence, the unequal distribution of wealth
and immense disparities of condition emoiq
men. The palace and the hovel are resj>ect
jvely the conqileruents of each other; the cathedra
and the Five Points arc twin brothers; that on'
\ . man may be a millionaire, a thousand men raus
be drodgc*. The conncxiou of these statement
with the question of the disposition of the con
/ ' fiseated hinds may not be obvious. Let then
' ' pass, and those who feel an interest iuqui ci
" tliere is any.
Are the lands in the rebellious States, tli
i Misea on which are not paid before a certai
" to be sold by auction to the highest bidder
' a question of profound concern to tli
? . *"e and future condition of the people of th
{ lou Nlicnted. Swb a would probabl
*v? v*jk large*/ l^H>n.Qf thc^jjda in th
I, seceded#"^ it would inevitably Jacc thci
*u of capitalists and mere* s]*/-ni*on
[ m *ua keep them from the actual cultivator e
I esortitant and oppressive conditio]
wonra leave the lil?crated Slaves in the poy
\ and at the mercy of men, who would have
I 5 interest in them but as tilings out of whi
> -aonev may be made. They would be in a ah
? I.. vmua^ servitude, hardly better than the (
^**iavery. For, if we will consii^ it, labor 1
as oub" means of subsistence, is btti
?voided servitude, under better condition*
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the difference would be, for abysms ry^ona.
]>erceptible. . ?
The sale of the lands wflfiudbecwGtrary to ^he
recent policy of the government Congress,
after years of struggle, has passed a Houiotfead
Bill, which rccoguir.es, partially at least, the
primary truth that the legitimate ownership of
land is in him who oocupiea and cultivates it.
Congress offers a hundred and more acres to
i actual settlers on its Western domain. Is the
( 'ttetnal settler on its Souther* lands less entitled
, to JMj&c gratuity ? Nay, hit claims arc stronger,
i The Western settler receives his title deeds before
V his axe has struck a blow in the forest, or cyen
> JtW touched the soil, ^x>a his mere promWn
to locate himself upon it." The Southern set*
; j_'TidnyiiW 1(11
ownersnip, or even bbuf^nBHed to reap the
harvests he has sown. He has labored ns the
ox, and received only the oxen's peck of meal.
Shall he uot receive the wages of a man, now
that his freedom and manhood are acknowledged?
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The land belongs t<mhn, and not to money,
to the man who will and dress it," ac.
girding to the primary ordinance. The negro
of the South owns the soil of the Sqjuth by virtue
of his life-long labors upon it, only
cultivator. He owns it by a ihoi?md valid
titles,?by the generations of wrong and horrible
oppression his race has suffered; by all the
sweat and weariness of tiieir enforced and unr?uuitcd
toil; by tho puritv of their wires and
daughters outraged, and their compelled prostitution
; by the denial to thein of every ri^ht,
affection, and relation of men, and their.rfstematic
degradation to the rank of beasts of burden;
by the uncountable enormities which unrestrained
power, capricioit* ]*uwk>n, and unbridled lust
l?vc perpetrated through all those veers of bondage.
Who has such a right as* he? Those
who claimed its ownership, if ever tlieir claim
was just, forfeited it by their treason lynl rebellion.
They had forfeited it long bcfonTbr their
Ojiprcssion of its cultivators, and by permitting
it, through their own indolence or incomjjctence,
to be verging nearer and nearer to desolation.
The government can hate no right, except to
hokl it hi trust for, in order to restore it, in due
time, to its true owners. For they hare never
retailed; no thought of disloyalty has ever been
in their hearts. They were almost the only loyalists
in all that Pandemonium, they only
4faithful found among tlie faithless." Why
should their In ads be sold? Assure them of
tlieir titles ami, as loyal men, they will promptly
and gladly pay tly tax, which every loyal man
in the nation demurs not to pay. Or, in another
view, surely a nation which Lv ready to pay milr
lions tipon millions for buying into freedom slaves
of wlmt are called loyal masters, will not refuse
to remit this tnx upon the loyal freedmen of <Est
loval traitors.
'We, aa a nation, arc responsible for the guilt
of their condition. As a nation, onr first, most
imjximtivc, duty is to repair, as far |s it may be
done, the wrongs wo have done, or permitted |
to tabor for their elevation, to. tu?qq. rn*m ??
- 'i?fbaf TTfoyTBSy elevate ttwnweTvcs to
the con^fou^ucSwTmd dignity of freemen, and
develop all the capacities with which the. Creator
has endowed them, as men. The one important
preliminary to this is to arouse in them the sentiment
of personal self-respect, by making them
independent owners aud cultivators of land.
Merely to exchange the bondage of the staveladder,
who had, in some respects, a sliov of
manliness, for that of the trading speculator, to
whom Mammon comprises both God and Humanity,
were an injustice that would cry to earth
and Heaven.
I was nt the camp of the Jst Regiment S, C,
Volunteers on the 1st of January,-*-tbc grandest
day in the anuals of the ages, 1 had waited for
that time through weary years. J could not but
look upon it as a most' auspicious onion, fafl of
the inspirations of hoj* and joy, that thuro, op
the soil of South Carolina, so long accursed, a
son of Massachusetts, the land of the Mayflower,
of Plymouth Hock, of Bunker Hill, first welcomed
our black brother* and sister* to the divine
communion of freedom, ordained by the C'opu
nion Father for all his children, and unrolled
before them thier beautiful new flag, its &tri]?es
still there, but now no longer the emblems of
their scars, nor of the nation's shame. 0, that
our government could riso to the grandeur of
the time and the opportunity, and 4n>'o fo he
nobly great, by being pimply jusf. J, A, 8, j
Report of the Gencnt) Snperintendeut
of Porta Island
Paris Island, Jan/ 10th. 1863.
: Oapt. 8. W. Sa.rfont A. A. A. 0.
Sir :?I herewith present you a brief
report of the condition of the Plantations;
and colored people under my charge; on
Paris Island.
1. This Island, called Parris, or Parry
Island, is about six miles by three nnd a
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half in extent; it is most of it araame lana,
but only about one fourth of it has been
under culture at ony one time. A rim of
, marsh-land surround* it nearly ; varying
, from one-eighth to one mil? in breadth
j i this is over-tiowed daily by the tide. J
regard it as healthy as any part of this rel
gion, against -which unfounded prejudices
t have prevailed as to its healthfullness in
i summer.
2. The Island has five Plantations upon
it, named severally after their owners,?
[ the Means Plantation, Elliot's 1st, KliiotV
J 2nd, Elliot Jr.'s, and Dr. Fuller's Plantation.
They present, I think, an average
[ specimen of the condition of the Blav<
^ Plantations as found on these Islands.
5 3. There are about three hundred anc
? thirty people on these Plantations, o:
( -which about one hundred and thirty ar<
{ children, most of these are below the ag<
- of seven, and are unsuitable for school.
1 About a dozen are old and unfit for orr
e work; four or five are permanent inval
1 ids; six of them are Carpenters, a fe\
8 ha ring been house servants, are thereb1
~ unfitted for field labor ; leaving therefor'
af only about one hundred and fifty avails
1 ble hands for the culture of the soil. 0
c this laboring force, about half are womei
tt and not as available as the men, as the;
? are frequently interrupted by sickness ae
c cidental, and incidental to the sex.
ie 4. There have been planted on this Is
y land during the past season, and now hai
c vested 220 acres of cotton, 300 acres c
n corn, 46 acres of sweet potatoes, and abon
S 20 acres of rice and garden productsx"
-unking in all 590 acres of land put unde
*L culture. This- is very nearly four acres t
' the hand for150 hands. The cotton i
i not more than lioLiis much to the han
lte j as they usually raised for*prlv; the cor
,l(j and potatoes are considerable more in-p<
for portion to the hands than has been rais
(r A on this Island while under slave culture
in 5. If the season and the conditions
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yl^ubg and cultivation had proved favoi
^ ftUe, this would have been a fair indna
" trial result for the free labor of the fira
year. It would have paid all expenses 0
the government on this Island and left 1
fair profit. This was the promise up i
f.Bo 1at nf Anom?t "Rut fvrtm t.Viftt timi
the cotton began to look sickly,?it w?
vigorously attacked by the worm an<
moat of it.wan destroyed. As it was, onl]
about 15,000 lbs. in the seed was saved
and much. of that was yellow and of infe
rior quality. Neither the corn or potatoes
did well; but there was sufficient of hot!
raised to supply the wants of the peopl<
an J the working animals on the island tij.
ft. TiS?,TegroesTiftvS "otHtunea imsid
dustml rffiult under some circumstance?
of discouragement and difficulty it i?
worth while to mention.
They received no encouragement or as
snrance of protection in planting theii
crops till a month at least, after the usual
time for preparing and planting the
ground in this region. They were very
insufficiently supplied with the usual
amount of implements and working animals
on the Plantations. They were much
discouraged and demoralized by tho real
terrors of their condition in a district oi
active military operations, themselves unarmed
and helpless, and the uncertainty
that **,a?ted wptUl vneir future, making it
doubtful whether they should enjoy the
fruitsof their labor. . The
external system of management employed
to'keep'the negroes at work, conld
neither have the simplicity and unitary
strength of comjmLsory labor, nor yet the
free play and direct motives of paid and
voluntary labor. The negroes know they
were virtually free, and they did not know
how much they would be paid for their labor,
or that they would be paid at all.
Up- to the first of August, for fire
wul a lutlf months of labor, the negroes
were paid only three dollars for every acre
of cotton planted and cultivated. This
amounted to nbout three dollars apiece to
every man, woman, and ajhdd, to provide
each with clothing, and every article of
domestic consumption beyond what was
embraced in their rations, of which the
flour was all that was sufficient for their
TliU nortiiinlv r>onnnt Ko
<I(/9V('I|0 audio. AkUW - --- - - T-1r MV
called /?// ?.<</ reasonable jmj/. Circumstances,
I think; beyond the control of the
Government, or of the head of the Department
here, mode it impossible to carry out
the system of wages; bnt there is no doubt
that this has . been , the great obstacle in
the fair trial of a system of fr?e labor with
the freedmen of this Department forjhe.
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Here is thtTbpght side of the picture.
The docility, the hope, the faith of this
people hate produced this industrial result."
It is to motives drawn from moral considerations,
constantly and vigorously appealed
to, that vre owe the degree of order
and industry that the plantations enjoy.
The {School and the Church have been
brought in as auxiliary to the work on the
plantation, and ho who was the Superintendent
was also their family physician.
Their attendance at church has been very
Ml and constant. About fifty ql the
adults, and as many children, lihve taken
the advantage of instruction in reading.
But with so much necessary and incidental
interruption, as my other avocations have
Igid upon me, fluuy progress has beep less
thali I CO' ild wish. Tliejr are very teachable,
and many have shown enthusiasm in
learning to read.
Their sanitary condition I regard as very
defective, The greatest difficulty to any
improvement ia that respect, is that their
hdtrees are insufficient in size and much
out of repair. They are much in want of
suitable clothing, and licnce pleanlineai
gannot be insisted on either in their persons
oy in their houses. But they are
quick and anxious tj tlieiy condition in
every respect within their power; and this
Is this the best guarantee that they will
rapidly improve under favorable condi
tidns."
This Report I have the honor tq subrnil
as your very obedient servant,
J. 0. Zaoqgs,
Geul Sup't and Act. AmH Snrgeon on Parr la Island
For the Free Sotvii.
Patrol duty.
1 Tliis goodly city of Beaufort, in the pal
my days of its quondam elegance and re
inforcement, was honored by establish
ment of what was called a '' Patrol Guard'
i a sort of volunteer police as it was some
i times called. It was not however altogeth
! ' er ft voluntary or free-will offering on th
| part of the members, for we perceive b;
i the " ancient records " that they were fre
j quently " hauled up " before his Hono
( : the 'intendent" and common counci
i and fined for default of duty. But how
> i t.hpsp lir^pjulillos and their uenaltic
} may have oceured it was a 41 guard of hot
i or' without doubt, for we find among th
I culprits on record the names of some of th
f F. F.a, the very elite of Beaufort. It was
3 44 citizen's Patrol/' none of you44b'hoys
3 who patrol for lucre, but gentlemen, wb
did duty for the fun of it.
y Now the question naturally occurs,"Win
- was it that rendered the citizens' guur
r necessary in this staid old city of 800 <
jr 1000 inhabitants ? a quiet little village lil
b which in 44 rampant, abolition, infidel
r New England could hardly muster a watx
i dog for its nocturnal protection, nor dee:
l : his services needful if he should volunte
y to bark for nothing and find himself ? wh
i- ' was it that caused these gentlemen in tow
j thus to forego their usual slumbers, ai
h j 4 4 revisit thus the glimpses of the moon
> making night hideous? why should this 1
>f tie island town, so remote from urbt
it clatter and metropolitan depravity, ne
- : such a formidable police, and keep its ge
t i tie denizens forever 44 on the watch "? t
o j cows lie quietly in the streets until 44 gr
is dawn," the porker scarcely breaks tl
d stillness with a grunt, one can almost h
a i the dews fall, so deep is the silence of t
a- night in this modish old town, and yet t
ed 44 music of the spheres " is made hidec
by the bodng tramp of that ever recu
of ing, unremitting lisjit patrol, What e
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- ful monsig it upon which such perpet-.
- ual " wit and ward " is kept ? what
t name shfj>e given to that lurking fiend
f which re^rs sleep dreadful even to the
\ young, at/the stillness of night alarming
0 even to tibrave??Slavesy.
, York Correspondent.
1 Light vie South?The Northern Pulse?
TU- 4 i
f j. i%k it cue Tiuioani'j.
> The pilication of a new paper in the
South hinder ordinary circumstances,
a notablfvent, b^t when such publication
is th< first, vather the pioneer in
the onwnr nn/ch of free and enlightened
, opiniom. iijrtnore than noteable, it is the
- future history. Wo, of the
NorTn, k* thward during these most
exciting tncs wltu. somewhat of anxious
solicitude, Every evidence of improvement,
of ability, of gro^Vn^civilizalion
does ns gdd, for we see in it a Just compensation
> the heavy sacrifices we have
freely madito bring about the pleasinj
result. T1 before tlie Fkee South Iwfe
our best whes in its new field. May it
be truly a *^neer in opening the way for
the imigr^n of sturdy freemen, whose
stout heart md brawny arms shall make
the soil of te South again to smile under
the reign of prosperity and peace.
tb; northern pulse.
The puis bf this Republic is oentred
in New Ytk?the main artery is Wall
street?an^rhen that beats with "
haste, depid upon it body
politic is sit , SoM-rVKtysit beats with a
steady, vigtotis throb, and you know aU
is well withtp Union ; then it will fairly
jump with te pressure of some exciting
or depressii^news. TUe.news of a defeat
sends it up, nd people shake their heads
knowingly ml look prophetically at e$cli
other, and sine time mast elapse ere they
become sett?l or quiet Then \he news
flashes upon | that a splendid victory has
been won, an| the public gloom is banished,
and evtvbody smiles with delight,
and the crofting prophets are seeii no
more. New ^>rk is all right again. N Gold
descends, stofcs go up, and the entire
community latghs over past disasters, and
the future sqin&^or the time being all
aglow with htpe and promise. At^vka
present time-fie puls^ is a little feverish,
but rauirllv rskiinintr its former healthy
tone. ?herejfi? at JVederieksburg threw
the North inty ft fefeer ; bitt the noble report
of Gen. Burnside, taking on his
broad and mdnly shoulders the full re*
sponribibty ofitke. movement, together
witH ft""defAiledd?d accunite report Of ot?
jpnedand wflSked, havir Hectored wfr-"
' HeSlee WhT re-WUbhshed ft stronger faith
iw his ability as a soldier and nobility as a
man. He never stood higher in public
estimation than at tho present momenta
He made th& first noble effort to strike the
enemy, and had he succeeded, would have
destroyed them entirely.. He. failed ,iu tlig
triaS^ut his prompt withdrawaPKr ifru?
mouth, in the laoe of the rebel batteries,
turps failure into victory, and stamps him
a General capable of handling large bodies
of troops with ease and safety. He did
his duty, and the people of the North^appbmd
hin} for it, and bid him in thenapi^
of God And humanity again to strike as
nobly at the mailed monster.
THE PIRATE ALABAMA.
The quietness of the Sabbath was yesterday
disturbed by the reports circulated
throughout the city of further 'depredations
of the pirate Alabama. Ill vain did
the good man try to preach to his hearers
what the good book says ; their thoughts
were roving from the text to the Ilerala or
JYihune, and though they sat bqlt upright,
with eyes intent on the altar, they were
revolving in their minds, "how can this
impudent pirate be caught ?" The report
of the captain of the Ariel, one of the
California steamers, gave rise to the most
, extravagant reports. Jhe Southerp Confederacy
had made a Ihg haul, millions of
gold had been poured into its coffers, and
this, at the Hiclimond ju'eminm, made
the capture equal to about $4,000,000.
But the truth followed the lie, and
tq-day we have the facts. The foolish
pirate hit at a bare liook, and lost the one
with the golden bait. The Ariel was ou
her outward trip, and consequently had
but $8200 on board, the bulk of this ir
United States notes. The pirate Semmce
was determined to destroy the vessel, be
- cause it belonged to Vanderbilt, who hac
- giyen his best ship to chase the Alabama
but Capt. Jones of the Ariel protested s(
- strongly against this course, which woult
- hazard the lives of his passengers, tha
e the pirate relented, and bonded the shii
7 and cargo for $221,000, payable thirty (lay
" after the acknowledgment of the Confod
r eracy. If the rebels depend on tha
J money, they must wait some time accor
' ding to those conditions. Had the Ala
8 bama been keen enough to let the Aric
i- run in after her specie and then taken he
e on her return, she would have made
e haul in jed. But she was too hasty an
a lost the game. She will not try in thu
spot again, but ere this is no doubt km
l? dreds of miles away, while our cmisers ai
watching for her just where she is nc
d likely to appear. Private contract won!
d catch her. Let the government atlvertif
jr for proposals, and we warrant in less tha
tliirty days from their opening the Alabi
>" ma would be open for exhibition in Bostc
harbor.
tn
er PAYMENT OF THE SOLDIERS,
at New York is beginning to speak pret
u, loudly over the unreasonable neglect
id the army payments. Our people thii
that there is money enough to pay up,
it- there was the right spirit among the prop
m authorities. Depend on it, this delay w
ed not last much longer nor happen aga
n- very soon. On whatever side our ci
he takes a stand, she commands respect, a:
ey in this matter of paying our soldiers s
lie must soon have it acceded to. "We all f<
>ar that the~brave fellows who have gone frt
he us to fight the battles of right and just:
he ought to be properly paid and not perm
>us ted to wait for their money. They c
rr- rest assured that their claims are lool
w- after by their friends at home who t
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many days haye elapsed. en
THE ErnsT OF JAXTABY.
We are awaiting with patient anxiety I,
for the first clay of January. Rebellion ^
then receive* its heaviest blow, and must
give way before it The great question of yC
the age will then pass from the halls of *f(
debate to be settled by the sword. Will jT
Abraham Lincoln do the act which cuts
slavery from all constitutional rights ?
Two days will telL We believe he will,
for his mind has long since been made up P1
that tho institution must die ere peace can ?*]
he restored to onr demoted Land. (7od
^jcetl the day that strikes down the cruel
lystciu of wrong! God nerve each patriot
co do liis full duty in carrying out the laws
of man and the laws of heaven. May the . .
New Year bring with it sunshine to dis- perse
the dark clouds of 18<>2, and may
the year to come, be at its close, one of .
peace and prosperity. - A. B.
Address* fi
At the celebration of presenting a stand b<
of colors to Col. Higginson's Regiment of
First South Carolina Volunteers, Mr. L. hi
D. Stickney, U. S. Commissioner for the E
State of Florida, spoke.as follows:
Fellow Countrymen:?i obi happy to p(
mingle my congratulations with you on ^
this festive occasion, and to express my
amcere belief that yon will more than re- j?
aiizetb^ expectations indulged for you by m
your most ardent fnpiuls lour Colonel,
in accepting that beautiful banneT has
told us that if in the hour of conflict yottr
back shall lie turned to the foe, the blame '
will rest solely with the officers in com- 18
mand of the Regiment. He, not you jF
will be responsible. To lead von to victor 5
ry is only an act of duty on his part, but
I have seen a black man do more than
command a Regiment, I have seen a negro
as black as any of you navigate his
ship over the trackless ocean, bring her 4
safely to an American port But when he cc
stepped ashore to enter his vessel at the 0i,
Custom house, and transact the business ti<
of the voyage, a vile horde, solely (maccount
of the color of his skin, strove to so
lynch him, and forced him to take refuge
on board his ship to escape their brutal
fury. Thank Gou that is passed. Now,
throughout the land, wherever floats the
banner of freedom, law and justice reign.
Beneath its protecting aegis yon may ran to
your free course ana get to yourself a to
name among the nations of the earth.
It. woe remarked by oae of the no West f
.BQBfiftf America, that a t>poti1p who no?d ^
a Saviour, wETO have lint" the ihanliuess to >
assert and to mainimn their independence,
are not prepared for freedom. Much, I so
know, depends noon the hour when freo- tt
dorn's battle shall begin, but once her p]
| banner is unfurled, stalwart arms and boa tl
hearts must win the victory. a
? Liberty, though of slow growth, is ft ei
puuit iiihiri .-pta.ni] Uke-.-tf
the gospel winch redeems us irom the s<
primal curse of mans first disobedience, n
is adapted to every class and condition of o:
men. Education, however, is indispensible
to the enjoyment of rational liberty;
You of the First Regiment of South Oar- olina
Yolimteers, are now in a school the ,
best suited of all others to prepare you ?
for the high destiny of your future. The
degrading institution under which you (
were born and have dragged out a weary n
life, by the fiat of the Commander in jj
Chief of the Republic, is overthrown. ?
Here, beneath the folds of that flag, all I
radient with the memories of the past, ?
and now crowned with an effulgent glory
which will send renewed hope to the oppressed
nations of the earth. You begin \
your career as citizens of the United ,
States. If you hold out faithful to the (
end and transmit unimpaired to your postnrit.v
the nricele&s inheritance won to
I ~?J ? f-I
day, you will have (lone well, and your i
children, taking lessons from your exam- t
pie, will respond to you like those of i
classic Greece to their sires:
"Hereafter, at our country's call,
We promise to surpass j-on all."
MISCELLANEOUS. ~
1 Contributions for tbe Starving Operatives
of England.
i Contributions for the starving operatives
i of England thus fur over 8100,000 have
. been raised in this city alone. The Britl
ish residents have also, on their own ac;
count, contributed freely, and supplies
> from their hands are already on the way.
I The most curious part of the American
t movement was that all the aid was to go
> to England. Whether the Emperor's
it offer of " mediation" had barred Ins subr
jects from a participation in the bacon
t and flour, or whether the donors here im
agined that the French operatives had no
r stomachs, is not clear, but that Farnce
>1 was not down on the list was certain.
r Well, the contributions for Lancashire
a went on until Thursday last, when h
d thought struck some one that there was
it suffering in France as well, and that it
i- would look singular enough abroad for nil
- ormiproaitv to be dumped in the lap of
c I ?
>t John Bull. So it was proposed that
d " something he done for France."
ie The Courier den Eta* Unts scenting a
n rat in the meal tnb, begged the movers in
a- the affair to desist?that international aid,
m when it sprung from pure motives, was a
noble undertaking, but when, as in the
present instance, it had selfish ends in
view it begged to intimate to the parties
ty interested, that thev had l>etter keep their
in money in their pockets. I believe, lioWlk
j ever, thev decline to receive this good adit
; vice, and that the movement is in procr
j gress.?N. Y. Herald.
jn I It is a gi'cat blimder in the pursuit of
lv happiness not to know when we have got
it; that is, not to be content with n reaue
' sonable and possible measure of it.
Bread is the staff of life, and liquor tin
,)m stilts?the former sustaining a man, the
lf;e latter elevating him for a falL
at- ?. .
ran If we all had windows in our hearts
;ed many of us would take good cape to keel
riill me blinds closed,
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P.RICE FIVE CENTS. J
Drunkenness in the Army.?Drunk- J
mess Among the officers of th^jarmv *
rriblo vice?in itself, but o.sjjfefciRlIy in
i consequences. We can jnog* so naming
of the extent of this evil mrWasK:
gton, for we see many intoxicated offirs
here. It was but the other day that
saw a noble-looking young lieutenant
iggering up the Avenue, and inquiring a
e position of the National Hotel, which - *
is right before him. Yet in time of bat>
the lives of true and honest men are
it m his charge, and ho cannot even ^
rtern himselC or his oppctfK*' " I
xmlcsn Officer should remahr An hour in
e army. No officer who has ever been - ' , ^
en drunk should bo permitted to remain *r I
i hour in the nimy, for he is an unsafe ^ ' I
an. Lot us have a reform in this respect 1
the army. Away with the worthless 1
Beers, and let faithful men bo promoted
Dm the ranks. There is not a regiment
the service which has not in it twenty
ivates fit to be lieutenants and captains,
iiese are the men for such places?the
)ld, brave, loyal men. *
Month after month the British Ministry
k been assailed by Southern organs in
ogland, and by the Tory press, because
solved on neutrality. Their humanity
id their patriotism have been impeached,
urty capital has been made, or rather it
is Wo Attempted to make party capital
rniust the Ministry, becanse firmly )
anding on the ground of neutrality,
bua it lias been in England. And now
s have a large portion of the Paris press
>en-monthed against the British Minisy
on the same account Again '4 Albion
perfidious ; "?perfidious, in not supirting
the odious Francos-Mexican perfir;
and now perfidious, in not striking
Ith a paralyzing 44 mediation " the Govnment
of the United States, and ^ractilly
consolidating 44 the Confederate
?k"
A HAppy Experience.?The following
nversation took place with a slave, an
4 man, in one of the Southern planta3ns
:
44 You are an old man : will von not die
on r
*4 Yes, I know I must."
44 "Where do you expect to go ?"
441 think I shall go'to the good land."
44 Why do you tlunk you will go there ?"
44I cannot tell; but the nearer I come
death, somehow Jesus and J. get nearer
^^^r^sqning; blessedjtecper^
IS* me w^ere I am." New
Use op the Stereoscope.-?Profes>r
Dove, a Prussian, has discovered that r '
le best exeeutod copies of steel or copper
late engravings can be distinguished from
ie originals by placing them together in t
binocular stereoscope, when the differace
between the print produced by the
rixnnnJ plate and the spurious copy, is
Jen at a ghtuee. This will be a sure
lethod of detecting counta^^t -Bank Bills
r Treasury Notes.
Confederate New*.
Through the courtesy of Rear Admiral
)r Pont we have received the C/virleston
hurier of recent date, from which we take
he following :
>NJ3 HUNDRED DOLLARS R&vXrD.?Runaway
from Kaolin, ou Saturday, the fi'th of November,
ty boy HECTOR. Hector ia square built, about flvo
set two or three Inches hi^'h. good looking, black, planstie
in speech, twenty-two or three years old. The
bove reward will be paid for his delivery at the Work
louse in Charledon. Hector will, no doubt, be making
lis wnv down to St Paul's Parish, and to my plantation
in Toogeodoo. JOS. E. JiiNXINS.
Graham's T. 0? December LT, 186'A
The owner is requested to call at the of
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lice of tiie nrovosi luiirsuiu, jot umui t, ?uu
prove his property, especially the living
chattel.
Proposal to Join the Teams.? The
churches in the South seem to be aware
that their view of slavery isolates them from
all the other Christian and civilized conntries.
The Richmond Christidn Advocate
pro]x>ses, therefore, a convention of the
Christian churches of all denominations at
the South, to unite in a formal solemn testimony
in vindication of their "Conservative
and Scriptural" principles on the
slavery question, as well as their position *
in the war.?1Vibmie.
Temperance.?It is stated in a foreign
journal that out of a caravan of eighty-two
persons who crossed the great desert from
Algeria to Timbuctoo last Summer, all but
fifteen used wine and. other spirituous
liquors, as a preventive .against African
diseases. Soon after reaching Timbuctoo,
all who used spirituous liquors died save
one. Of the fifteen who abstained, all
survived.
Soldier's Pay.?The annual pay of a
private soldier in France averages ?10 ; in
England ?24. A colonel in France?full
pay?receives ?300, in England ?1,100.
In France a vice-admiral receives?full pay
??1,000, in England ?2,500; a rear-admi- t
ral in France ?1,200, in England ?2,200,
and so on for the lower ranks.
Taxation Carefully Considered.
If we assume that at the opening of
1803 our national debt will be eight hundred
millions of dollars, it will even then
be lesa then one fifth of that of Great
Britain, one half that, of France, the same
of Austria, and even the little kingdom of
Holland. Our capacity to meet it is really
greater than that of all these nations
together; for -while they have reached the
limits of their expansion and resources,
we are only at the commencement of the
developement of ours. There is nothing,
therefore, to discourage us in the expec1
tation of a happy "issue out of all our
troubles." Wei may look cheerfully at
the taxation which we are about to encounter,
and adopt the philosophy of an
Irish member of the House of Commons,
; who said that the " true way of avoiding
5 danger was to meet it plump."?2f." Jr.
Eccniwj Post.
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, The sixteenth loyal Virginia regiment,
3 800 strong, has been recently must$w4 ,/J
into tho semce of the Government* v/