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r I VOL. 1. ' THE FREE SOUTH. PUBLISHED EVERY ? AT BEAUFO&IjJS. 0 "Wilkew Sc Thompson < " Proprietors. . . f dooms 6. Thompson - - Editor. <J. C. Lelfh, No. 1 Mercer ?kreeU N. Y., Afeot^ fWho is authorized to receive subscriptions.) 8. X. PETTING1LL & C0? No. 6 State street, Boetn, Mass., Agents. TIBX S?Two Dollxm per annum, in advance. JOB PRINTING OP EVERY DESCRIPTION NEATLY DONE AT THIS OFFICE. WST Lieut. Colonel Evrell, Chief Quartermaster for the Department of the South, who met "with so severe an accident several weeks since, has resumed the full discharge of his duties. "We are gratified to learn that this honest and efficient officer will not go North with Gen. Hunter, but will remain at his post in this Department To the great joy of the soldiers, the sutlers, and all have supplied the karmy in the Department of the South with the necessaries and some of the luxuries of life, the Circassian arrived last Tuesday with 0De million and a half money on board consigned to Major Dngght Banfiister, Chief of the Paymaster's Corps ^ for this Department. Tins amount will pay all the troops, white and negro, to the - * ? L 1.1# .*# x 1st ol .May. More man one-nan 11 not two-thirds of this sum will be returned to the North within the next two weeks, by r the SoMier'S WHO Inm? frioiuls and families, depending upon them. Everything connected with the Paymaster's Department, through the efficient supervision of Major Bannister, is now in admirable working order, and not a moment's delay is allowed in placing the small earnings of the soldiers' immediately in their hands. The Paymaster's oorps consists of the following officers, and the Treasury Department is to be congratulated upon having at least in this potion of the army a class of gentlemen against whom there has never existed the slightest suspicion of irregularity of life or a disposition to use their position to advance their own private interests: Mai. Dwight Bannister, Chief; Major Ten Eyck, Maj. Mason, Maj. Dormar, Maj. Moore, Maj. Stryker, Maj. Babbitt, Jfaj. "Wood, Maj. Karnes.?Cor. JV. Y. Tribune 8th. & The correspondent of the Tribune for the Department of the South, in his last letter to that paper, says that gifted and good women from the North, instead of going to foreign climes on the grand mission of humanity, are landing in this i l . department almost every weea, wno immediately engage in the noble task of teaching these benighted blacks to read and write and cultivate the cliristian virtues. Ladies can be found here daily teaching in the negro schools who would adorn the highest social circles, and be admired wherever they are known for their beauty their wit, and their generous and liberal christian culture. If the black race on this continent is to be emancipated, not only from despotic servitude but from the bondage of ignorance and superstition, it will be mainly through the teaching of these good women. The rebels propose to erect a statue in j honor d| Stonewall? Jackson at a rather cheap vafce. Ifbe Richmond Sentinel says A-i'wViiii +1 \/iiioond rlf\l. U IB DM WOV BIAl/J ur vu^touuw ? ? Jars, "in Confedetxitefunds/" '' A little boy at Aroostook, beard a sermon from the text?" Ye must be born again," and came home crying through lear that if born again he sliould be a gal, I ) BEAUFORT, S. C., SATI Vallaudigham and t'ree Speech. INDIGNATION MEETING IN ACCOMAC. I On Thursday, my boy, the report that a friend of the well-known southern confederacy had been arrested and court-martitled, in Ohio, for simply advising the intelligent masses to set fire to a fewUnion hospitals and go hunting after American eagles by the light thereof?this report, I say, excited amongst the loyal but seditious patriots of storied Accomac an indignation that was anything but speechless. Shades of our Revolutionary sires ! was it possible that a citizen of the Republic could no longer speak pieces witnout being arrested for speaking peace! Ashes of the great! could it be, indeed, ' true that, even where there were no police, a man's personal liberty was no longer safe! The people of Accomac, my boy, . were alarmed for their own liberties, and at once held a public meeting, at which I happened to be present. As all the citizens who were worth $300 each sent notes to say that they had imperative engagements to prepare for the approaching Conscription, and could not come, the meeting was composed entirely of the other citizens, many of whom engaged in single combat on their w-ay thither, for the purpose of making the distance seem shorter. Punctuallv at seven o'clock, ?? ii e 1 i. I r. M., a gentleman 01 mucxi musiu iuuuucu ! off a small field piece with such admirable precision as to break all the windows for two blocks around, and then dexterously discharged a two-pound sky-rocket into the third story bedroom of a venerable maiden lady living across the road. The demonstration was received with joyous acclamations by the populace, nearly twelve of whom had already arrived ; and a victim of Federal oppression, with a very large stomach, mounted the platform erected for the speakers, and said that he .j would commence proceeding on this occasion, "by reading a short portion of Washington's Farewell Address from the volume of Bancroft which he held in his hand. (Great applause.) The honorable gentleman then proceeded to read something; but was interrupted by a reporter, who remarked that the speaker must be mistaken about that being Washington's Address, as he had certainly read it in the Bible. The honorable gentleman then turned his book over so that he could read j the title, and said that he had, indeed, made a slight mistake about the volume. He would defer reading the Address for the present, and begged leave to introduce Mr. John Smith, the Hon. Ferdinand De Percey having failed to be presMki cut. Mr. Smith said it was the proudest moment of his life, and he felt it an honor to be there. They had met together to denounce and spit upon an infamous Administration, upder whose tyrannical sway no man was allowed to say one word against it. A fellow citizen had been arrested in Ohio, upon the miserable charge of advocating peace, when he was really disturbing the peace all he could. How long were such outrages to be endured? He advised his hearers to strictly honor the laws; but he would also have them go home, organize into regiments, purchase artillery, procure iron-clads, and destroy every man who dared to speak in favor of an Administration under which the boldest man dared not express his sentiments. He would have them do all this peaceably; but he would have them do it. As Chesterfield Mortimer, the celebrated Accomac patriot, was not able to be present on this occasion, Mr. Jones was introduced, and made a few sensible remarks. He said he had always been a law-abiding man, and would always advo cate the strictest observance of tne laws. The wretched Lincoln, he tnisted, would be assassinated at an early day, by some great-souled man?* * At this moment, my boy, the speaker suddenly stopped short; stared at a white object which had just appeared fluttering down the street; and then, dashing wildly from the platform, tore furiously in the direction of said object, which appeared to be moving; followed spontaneously and with frantic speed by his fellow-speakers and the entire meeting. I was astounded; I was overwhelmed; for such a suddeu breaking up and precipitate flight of a great indignation meeting was never wit/ i ) $ Sot JRDAY, JUNE 27,1863. nessed before. Quickly mounting the vacant rostrum, I drew my field glaiw from my pocket, and proceeded to scan the wonderful white object which had proi duced such an electrical effect. It was moving on, as I fixed my glass upon it, and I found it to be a new banner, born by a fat young man in a white apron, and bearing the inscription: BROOKSES New Bab Room, Just Opened. Free Lunch nmc Ready. This it was, my boy, which had broken I nn nrie of the most significant meetings of the age, by artfully working uponrthe idea of its supposed inn-significance. Upon reaching Washington, on my return, I heard that a serious-minded chap, of Rejmblifom officionsness, had just waited upon Honest Abe to ask if he did not intend to cause the arrest of Smith and Jones for their treason. The Honest Abe smiled feebly, and scratched his head, and, says he: " What Smith and Jones, neighbor?" " "Why," says the" serious-minded chap, earnestly, "the Smith and Jones of Accomac." * "Well, really," says the Honest Abe, pleasantly, "it's curious, now; but I never heard of them before." Drawing an inference from . this little circumstance of Executive coversation, my boy, it strikes me that it would add considerably to the importance of some [ of our large sized local revolutionists, if they could overturn the present ignorant j Administration, and establish in its place a?Directory. Yours, double-entendrily, Orpheus C. Kerr, The Turf.?The patrons of the turf, have liad quite an erecting time during the | pnot %oeky ha?ing had a irore than, usual ; amorftit of sport furnished. On Tuesday, j the 9th inst., the return match between j In* Viwiim ctnllirm "Rnhprt. Fillinoham and I the gray gelding Rockingham, for 82,000, mile heats, to go as they pleased, came off on the Fashion Course, L. I. II. WojlmlTnamed br. ?. Robert Fillingham, in hcSn 1 1 I W. Doble named g. g. Rockingham, nnder the Saddle 2 3 2 Thne-2.24#-2.27?4'-2.32X. On the following day (Wednesday, the 10th inst.,) the third great match of the series between the/ainons New Jersey sttdlion George N. Patchen, and the renowned black gelding General Butler, for | 1 $5,000 a side, to wagons, mile heats, caine." ! off on the same track, and Patchen woiy | the itace ; Five closely contested lieats-C time, 2.27U, 2.29, 2.32*4, 2.30 and2.32?i were trotted, the stallion winning the first, j fourth and fifth, General Butler won the'i sec cad. and third heats. f General Butler, we have been informed, ! hasten purchased by Mr. Frank Baker \ for the large price of $15,000.?Herald, f 1 m. I Billiards.?The billiard tournament 1 ?v v ? i i WUIL'U UUlUlllCliUCU Hi XI. X. UU luuuunj, II the'lst inst., was brought to a termination on the evening of the 9th, and resulted in\ favor of Dudley Kavanah. The whole affai^has been eminently successful, and the playing shown far superior to any ever [ witnessed before in the city. | ^Jfter the Congress adjourned on Friday I Mr. Secreiter arose and exhibited to par- / ties present a challenge to Kavanagh for the Championship; at the same time he stepped forward and placed his ?260 forfeit in the hands of Messrs Phelan & Calender. i Messrs. Kavanagh and Secreiter met oni Friday evening last, and concluded all the\ arrangements for the above match, which wtt take place on Thursday, the 15th October.? Wilkes* Spirit. ^n 1860 over six millions pounds of tobacco were raised in Connecticut, and this year it is calculated the amount will be doubled?as the valley of the Connecticut is.this season to be almost entirely devotlfl to this crop. At the present price of the weed?as much again as it used to be ?the returns to the producers will be exceedingly profitable. This State now stands the tenth in the Union in the production of tobacco. i A a - . I - ' It. \i-vV : "v NO. 25. ' 4 ? . "* GENERAL ORDERS. : GENERAL ORDER?, NO. 41. HXA!>gC.*RTKR8 U. 8. FORlKR, > Port Royal Inland, heaufort, 8. 8., June ll>, 1S63. j ? I. Neither public nor private horses will beridden through the streets of Beaufort at a faster * SwT* ' gait than a walk. Whenever it is uecessary for a mounted orderly to ride more rapidly, his rate of sj)cetl will l>e endorsed on the despatch he carries. Enlisted men of the cavalry and artillery arc prohibited riding their horses faster than a ? trot, anywhere. The public teams, with or , without loads, will not be driven faster than at a walk. II. Commissioned officers must go beyond the limits of the town to try the sjjeed of their horses. % III. The I'r?vuot Marshal will cause to be - arrested all enlisted men, and rejwrt to these Headquarters officers and all others, who violate this order. By Command of W. W. H. DAVIS, Col. lQ4th I'enn. Vols., Commanding Post, W. Kreutzek, Capt. and A. A. A. General. GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 40. IIeaixji arters Dkimktmes* ok rnr. Sform > Hilton Head, Port ltoyal, 8. C., June loth 1SC3.) I. Section 2, of General Order No. 4ft. cur A ? - P.... . If-. 1 A !. PDA.1 rem senes, irem inc^b neauqnancrs, ismouineu to read as follows ^ *> Als<5, " all enlisted men .TSmmended for discharge on certificate of disability." If, in the opinion of the board, the officer or soldier is unfit feu} active field service, on account " of wounds or disease contracted in tlue line of j duty, and is jit fob: garrison duty, they will cer- " , . tify to these facts, a ."ad transmit such certificate to the Commanding Officer of the liegiment, ' who will prepare foils,\ in accordance with Gen- r, ^ eral Orders No. iOf> current series, from the War Department. amVtransrjrit the sup*. -through the i regular channels,,to the Provost Marshal General of the United States. r ; II. Pursuant to instructions from the Snrg. General's Office, the Medical Director Dejiortmcnt ot the booth has convened an Examiuimg Board, at Beaufort, S. C., Itefore which will be brought any jterson, soldier or otherwise, who may apply "for a ]*osition as Medical Officer in the negro liegiment, organized, or to be organized, in this Department. Applications for examination l>cforc the Board will lie made in writing, or in i*fson, to Surg. C. II. Crane, Medical Director, Dcimrtment of the South, Hilton Head. S. C. Q. A. GlLfMOKE, FOURTH OF JULY. Programme of arrangements for the celebration of the Fourth day of July, 1863, by the officers and men of the Fiftysecond Regio n it Pennsylvania Vo'ua teers, in the grove on Beaufort Green, near their camp. The public in general are invited to attend l'UOGKAMMK. The exercises will commence at 10 o'clock A. M. Prayer l?v the Rev. Gbies. Music by the Band. Heading of the Declaration of Independence by Mnj. J. B. Convxgiiam. Music. Prayer. Star Spangled Banner, by the assemblage. / Benediction. The exercises will be concluded by numerous amusements, such as sack race, climbing the , greased jtole, pig race, &c., &c. committee ok arrangements. Lient. J. W. GILCHRIST, Lieut. N. ORCHARD, " H. A. HOTT, J. S. MARCY, ? " fW.RAXNATTNB, 44 G.H. STERLING. 44 J. G. STEVENS, The fair-sex nn<T tlioiv fnalunn y V* ? ? -* ?-** vrx viajuj f 1 skirts is satirized in this clever adaption of the ' id nursery rhyme : / " A way to drew In the mode, I guess, icks a husbands hones quite clean, r And poor Mr. Spratt Slnst cry 'Nofat' And his wife will cri-no-Utw." An old bachelor geologist, was onev boasting that every rock was as familiar to him as the alphabet. A lady who was present declared she knew of a rock of which he was ignorant. " Name it," said the Clycops, in a rage. "It is rock the cradle," replied the lady.