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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
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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
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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,
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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/
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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."
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"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
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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
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GENERAL ORDERS.
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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.