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VOL. 1. ^ : miscellaneous Items. - All accounts agree in placing the effective j Torce with which Gen. Lee invaded the loyal 1 States between 75,000 niul 100,000 men. The corj)s that marched through Chaml>ershurg northward were very nearly 75,000; hut the cavalry and Hanking divisions brought the total ?]> to nearly 100,000. One account gives the number who could l>e brought into line of hatale at 87,000; of whom 17,000 had been killed or wounded; 15,000 (unwounded) taken pris- ; oners, and 5,500 had straggled or deserted w hen he regained the bank of the Potomac, reducing his effective force to 50,000. From the reports of the fisherman who have -1 ?_ T??J# .MUOIV II rotidl nimtf iiA\m. amvcu in iiusiuii, it?j>|iMuo? f?? cr is on our const committing depredations.? The vrhailing schooner J lie mi, from Princeton, | was destroyed by her on the 8th July. Cnpt. J Avery of the Rienzi reports that at G. p. m. he w a bark-rigged rebel steamer steering for a hermaphrodite brig, which shortly afterward j hore to. The pirate in a few minutes came up | ?rith her and set her on tire. The rebel steam- j er then steered for us, when we took to our boats i with what effects we could gather, and started f for land. When two miles awav from our ves- | sel we saw her on fire, and the pirate steaming joff, steering Ji. S. E. Willie, who is just entering upoa his fourth winter, had very attentively watched one of his sisters dressing for an evening party ; and as it was winter time, and fashionable, the dress did not come as far on the neck as Willie's idear of propriety suggested. He went to her wardrobe, and in a moment come back pulling a close fitting basque after him, when the following conversation ensued: gutter.?What is that for? Willie.?For you to put on. gistrr.?But I am all dressed now. I look pretty don't I ? Willie.?Yes (giving a modest glance at her shoulder*,) hut somebody mhjht see you ! At a recent meeting of officers and soldiers of Ihe Second Provisional Regiment of East Missouri Militia, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: "That we adopt the following as our platform as regards rebcldom : Emancipation without deportation ; sequestration without litigation ; condemnation without mitigation; extermination without procrastination ; confiscation without lH>thcration; and damnation without reservation or any hesitation, as the means of bringing a speedy termination to the Southern Confederation." General Foster has ordered that all soldiers lying in the hospitals of the department of North Carolina sliall lxare the privilege of calling uj>on atny chaplain of whatever religious denomination. In case of the death of soldier, the chaplain is instructed to communicate with his friends and relations by letter, giving each details of his last moments, and expressed wishes, as may tend to assure them that he has been proj>erly cared for, and may afford them comfort in their loss. The brig Phantom, from Cape Breton, saw a #.j 4. . 1 / i roilieuentic steamer 111 iimsc ui mi- auvu nuucn steamer Erirjtun, but the latter was too fast for her, and the confederate gave nj> the effort and steered towards a sailing vessel, apparently au American brig. The officers of the Phatom feel sure that the pirate was the notorious Alabama. The Henderson (Ky,) News says that the price -rf " young and likely negro men" lias declined in that county to $850. . Twelve months ago such hands would have brought $1500. A special to The Philadelphia Press says that it is thought prolwiblc that General Hooker will be assigned to the command of the Peninsular force. General Sickles is much improved, and his surgeon now says there is no doubt of his final jccovcrr. Admiral Paulding's son, of the 6th United States cavalry, was taken prisoner by the rebels on Thursday. The total amount of prize money thus far distributed among the officers and men of the navy is $855,258. 4 * The Boston Trantcrijrt says, on the authority of an army officer, who is now in "Louisiana, that of the negroes who compose the colored regiments, not one in 15 aire free from marks of severe lashings, marks of bites from dogs, and other permanent disfigurements inflicted by their brutal masters. Babies are the tyrants of the world.? The emperor must tread softly; baby sleeps ! Mozart must leave his nascent requiem ; baby sleep ! Phidias must drop bis hammer and chisel; baby sleeps ! Demosthenes, be dumb ; baby sleeps! THE FREE SOUTH, SAT! Too Fast fob Them.?Early this morning there were added to our company of travellers a pair who looked very much like runaways?the gentleman a tall, rawhoned specimen of the " half horse, halfalligator" class, and the lady a fair match for him. Among the passengers from Napoleon, Arkansas, was a solemn looking gentleman who had all along been taken for a preacher. About nine o'clock last night, I was conversing with the " reverend" individual, when a young man stepped up, and, addressing him, re- | marked? "We're going to have a wedding, and would like to have you officiate." " All right, sir," he replied, laughingly. We stepped into the ladies' cabin, when, sure enough, the couple stood waiting. There had been several " kissing games" , and several mock marriager gone through with during the evening, and I supposed that this was merely a continuation of the sport: and so thought the preacher, who, i X could see, had a good deal of humor in ' him, and was inclined to promote general j 5 ? v -i : l nn. i good ieenng uuu meiniiicm. xue cuupiu stood up before him?a good deal more 1 solemn than was necessary in a mock marriage, I thought?and the "preacher" ! asked the necessary questions, and then, ! proceeding in the usual way, announced them " husband and wife." There was a good deal fun afterward, and when it was over, I left the cabin, and so did the " preacher," who remarked to me that he liked to see the young folks enjoying themselves, and took a great deal of pleasure in contributing to their fun, but he | did not understand why they selected him to act the preacher. Just then some one called me aside, and the old gentleman stepped into his state-room, which was next to mine. "When I returned, the door was open, and the " preacher stood just inside with his coat and vest off, and one boot in his hand, talking with the gentlemen who had played the "attendant," and who, as I came up, remarked : " Well, if that's the case, it is a good joke, for they are in dead earnest, and have gone to the same state-room." The old gentleman raised both hands as he exclaimed? Good heavens ! you don't tell us so !" - ' i - i - ? i?i i .i ami ruswng jusl as ne was, uuoi iu uuim, to the state-room indicated, commenced I an assault on tiie door, as if he would break it down, exclaiming at each lick? "For heaven's sake, don't. I ain't a preacher." The whole cabin was aroused, every state-room tiying open with a slam, when the door opened, and the " Arkansas traveller," poking out his head, coolly remarked? " Old hoss, you're too late !" What's In a Kiss ??Really, when peo- : pie come and reflect upon the matter calm- < ly, what can they see in a kiss ? The lips i pout slightly and touch the cheek softly, and then they just part, and the job is i done. There is a kiss in the abstract! i View it in the abstract!?take it as it ; 3 stands !?look at it philosophically! What i is there iu it ? Millions upon millions of < souls have been made happy, while millions have been plunged into misery* and < despair by this Kissing; and yet, when 1 you look at the thing, it is simply a pout- i ing and parting of the lips. In every 3 grade of society there is kissing. Go i n-lmvQ T-mi TL*ill tr? what, cnrmtrv vnn will I von are perfectly mire to find kissing! 1 There is, however, some mysterious virtue i iu a kiss, after all. ] A Pilgrim Craft Washed Up.?One of i the most interesting relics of the time of ' the Pilgrims has been recently uncovered by the evermoving ocean, on the eastern i shore of Orleans, Cape Cod. It is the < hull of a small vessel which was wrecked i in that harbor in 1627, of which a particu- 3 lar account is given in Bradford and Mor- < ton, under that year. A portion of it was to be seen about eighty years age; but it i has since been entirely covered by the i sand and salt meadow most of the time, i twenty feet deep. Amos Otis. Esq., of 1 Yarmouth Port, wejl known for his researches into the early history of Cape 1 Cod, is having a drawing of this vessel made, which, if finished, he will exhibit < at the meetipg of the New England i Historical Society, and give a description of it.?Boston Trnascript. It is recorded of the famous Mr. Mytton that, having leaped over a fenee into a gravelpit some tlnrty leet deep, ne lay there with his broken leg perfectly quiet, in hope that he might have company.? i Presently a farmer came down, horse and < man, with grevious damage and almost on i the top of him. < "Why did you not halloa while there ! was yet time ?" < "Hush, hush, you fool," replied Myt- 1 ton ; "if you will only hold your noise, ] we shall soon have the pit full of them !" i [JRDAY, JULY 55, 1863. The Armies Fraternizing. It is very evident that the besiegers and j the besieged have learned a lesson of inn- j tual respect in the course of the protracted struggle now over so happily. On former occasions a dis;. osition toward friendliness has been exhibited by men who a I few minutes earlier or later were seeking one an others lives. To, day both armies . seem to have discarded every feeling of ! personal bitterness, and to have recognized the quarrel in which they have been lighting as a purely public one, that ought ; not to interfere with friendly personal relations. "Wherever you turn in the streets ! of Yieksburg, and on whatever transport you go, you will lind Union officers and soldiers treating rebel officers and soldiers to the best eatables and driaks our army can afford, as if they were old friends just met after a long separation. Cordiality ' aud good feeling prevail throughout the city. On every hand you hear expressions of pleased surprise from the rebels at what they term the gentlemanly diameter of their captors, and they seek opportunities -r to reciprocate the courtesies extended to i them with an avidity showing that they j do not desire to be outdone in politeness. ' There is no jeering or tormenting from ' our men. I am confident that there has I not been to-day a single instance where ! any officer or soldier of our army has in- i duiged in any unseemly exultation over the fallen foemen. We have even refrain- j ed from cheering, and nothing?absolutely nothing?has been done to add humiliation to the cup of sorrows which the rebels have been compelled to drink. Of course this universal prevalence of good feeling has tempted the men of both armies to resort to moral suasion and argument for vindication of their respective positions as belligerents. The rebel soldiers, instead of lying close ' in their trenches, are roaming about the ! city unarmed, in unrestrained but amicable intercourse with those of our own army who have been permitted to enter the town. Gay uniforms of gray cloth, richly bedizened with gold lace, and pro- j luseiy decKeu wiin stars ana ungui iron- i mings, are in close juxtaposition with the 1 holiday attire of our own shoulder-strapped friends?a strange morning sight for ! Vicksburg. The women and children have had a quiet night's rest in their beds j at home?a thing which lias not occurred before for forty-eight hours. Guards in ; blue uniforms are stationed at the en- ] trance of the stores and other places where goods of any kfnd are deposited. Near a | hundred steamboats are lying at the \ wharf?a sight which the people here rejoice at more than any other. Where, yesterday morning, starvation was staring men and women in the face, plenty now ' reigns. The poor conscripts in dirt-color- | ed clothes, are making themselves exceed- i ingly happy over real coflee, which has j found its way to them from our commis- | sary stores. Many of them have not seen anything of the kind before for twelve ; months. "What great changes worked in a single day !" is the exclamation upon every lip. I have listened attentively to many discussions of the cause of the war, had on , Hia street. earners and everywhere. exDect ing them to result in high words of de- < fiance and recrimination. But, to my surprise, I have never elsewhere heard these conversational controversies about the war and its causes and ends so camly md mildly conducted since the commencement of our national troubles. No one tvho has witnessed this extraordinary meeting of thb two armies can fail to have seen this friendly spirit manifested. It is a subject of remark throughout our army. My belief in the irreconcilable character of the feud between the North and the South has been greatly under- 1 mined thereby. Men who can meet each 1 other in the spirit I have seen manifested here to-day, who can forego and repress all the promptings of revenge and person- ( al hatred, under such exciting circumstances as are here presented, could certainly live together in peace and harmony . under a Government guaranteeing free- doni and equality to all loyal citizens. The distorted conceptions of one anothers < characterers have been corrected by the 3tern conflict and shock of bat *e, and a rrvoof nhstiwla fn a nirmonmt. lma therefore been removed. DISPOSITION OF THH PRISONERS. Gen. Grant has determined .to parole the entire rebel army, give them four or live days rations, and let them march off to a camp for paroled prisoners.' "Whether this is done in compliance with the articles of capitulation, or on the score of ? expediency I am not prepared to say.? i Some disappointment was expressed tolay in our army when it 'became known t that the entire rebel force was to be paroled. A moment's reflection must sat- < isfy any one, however, that nothing bet- 1 _ NO. 29. ter coukl be done, whether it was stipulated for by the rebels or not. To transport at least 25000 {men to Cit}' Point, Ya., would necessarily cost the government an immense sum ; to subsist them for an indefinite period would double this expenditure. To take them up the Mississippi river even, would seriously embarrass Gen. Grant, and tax his transportation facilities to the utmost. And besides all this, it is morally certain that wherever these defenders of Vicksburg may go in their own country, they will spread demoralization and disaffection among their friendsand thus contribute to the overthrow of the rebellion ; so that it is really a line stroke of policy to turn them loose at once, from whatever point of view the matter may be considered. The rebel troops in departing "for their own country," in the language of the paroles, retain their personal effects. The mounted commissioned officers are also permitted to take with them one horse each and their side-arms, Thirty wagons are allowed them for transportation purposes. Harpers Weekly has a highly suggestive cut, designed upon Poe's poem, " The Iiaven." A slaveholder is sitting in his parlor at midnight, contemplating a spectral raven with a negro's head, reposing on* the breast of Horace Greely" just above the chamber door." A stanzes of the poem is parodied as follows: And the nigger never flitting, Still is sittimr, still is sitting, On the horrid bust of Horace .Tust above my chamber door; And his lips, they have the snigger Of a worthless, freeborn nigger, And he swells his somber flgger. When I ask him, with a roar, " Will you blacks again be cattle, As yon used to be before f Cries the chattle, 44 Nevermore Miss Lovely says that males are of no account from the time ladies stop kissing them as infants, till they kiss them again, as lovers. The woodman who " spared the tree" has ran short of wood, and is almost splitting with vexation to think how green hewas. He now " axes" a donation from the gentleman at whose request his destractiveness was starved. A certain preacher at Appleton, Wis., in a sermon, made the following comparison in dissecting a miser?"The soul of a miser is so shrivelled that it would have more room to play in a grain of mustard seed, than a bull fruq irould in Lake Michigan." MOTTO FOR A "BRIDEGROOM." Veni 1 Villi! ! Vici I! ! I've been ! and gone 1! and done it!!! ?Punch. Are "spirit-rappings" provided by " tap-sters ?" THE FREE-SOUTH. PUBLISHED EVERY Saturday Morning;, AT BEAUFORT, S. C. Wilkes & Thompson - - - Proprietor*James G. Thompson - - - - - Editor* ' C. C. Leigh, No. 1 Mercer street, N. Y., Agent, (Who ia authorized to receive subscriptions.) 5. M. PETTINGILL & CO., No. 6 State street, Bee ton, Mass., Agents. TERM S?Two Dollars per annnm, in advance. JOB PRINTING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION NEATLY DONE AT THIS OFFICE. To Suttlers* Suttiers Ticket#?Five, Ten, Twenty** rive and Fifty cents-on band and neatly prin:ed at this office. Harness. Two setts of stont new traces for sale at th'u)ffice. NEW GOODS. Messrs. C. G. Robbins & Co. HAVE JUST RECEIVED, DIRECT FROM NEW l*ORKGent's Toots and Shoes, most de~ Hosiery?Ladies and gents. White and other Gloves. Violin and Guitar Strings. Mosquito Netting, different pat American Watches, for which we arc agents direct. And ageneral assortment of newroods suitable for this department, to which attention i? espectfnlly called. SL ITS OF CLOTHES MADE TO ORDER by compc :ent workmen?tit warranted. CSr-Soldiere buying Caps and Boots will get the Coljnel's order when coming to ns, as j>er orders fruaa leadqoarters -otherwise none can be sold. nil