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VOL. L THE FREE SOUTH. ri^zr BEAUFORT, S. C., AUGUST 29, 1863. t*~ Agents wanted in the different Regiments of this Department, for the Fax* Sorra. TO OUTS SQWISBL FRIENDS, An excellent plan to secure a copy of the Free South ' every week is to tmbtribe for THREE MONTHS FOE 50 CENT3, J Tour paper will then be sent by mail and will follow your regiment wherever it may move. Soldiers should send the Free Sooth to their friends at borne. It would be almost as good as a WEEKLY LETTER, and will contain all the news of the department, and fall lists of'the killed and wonnded and death* in hoe- | pitaL Sent bv mail at fcJ.uO per year In advance or 50 CENTS FOE THESE MONTHS. t Latest Northern News. By the arrival of the Fnltou we have ei ght days later news from the north. Advices from Gen. Rosecran's army to the 18th, and from Gen. Burnside's to the 19th, statethat both were then on the move?the former bound for Chattanooga aid the latter for Knoxville. The Cincinnati Gazette of Friday says: 44We have private advices from the Army of the Cumberland up to Monday evening, the 17th inst A movement was in progress, and the public m*?v soon look for important news from Lost Tennessee. The loyalists of that section, so long bound, and so terribly crushe d by rebel tyranny, AA/vn Ka liKo?si+<in nr if riot, the \rmv 1 "Ul OW1* W UWAHWM y V* ? of the Cumberland, which has never been defeated, will fail to accomplish its object. On the 13th an expedition from Gen. Hurlburt's command was sent out from Lagrange, Tenn., to destroy a lot of rebel railroad material at Grenada, Miss. Lt-CoL Phillips of the 19th I1L Mounted Infantry was entrusted with the job. He left Lagrange on the 13th and reached Grenada on the 17th ; drove Gen. Slemmer with 2,000 men out of the place, and destroyed 57 locomotives, 400 cars, all the depots and shops and captured a number of prisoners. A communication from Bemregard's Chief of Staff, published in the Charleston Mercury, announces that the negroes in arms captured on Morris Island are held subject to the order of the Governor of South Carolina, in accordance with the act of the Rebel Congress directing the delivery of such captured negroes to the Governors of the States in wnicn tne caps i tare might be made. Four hundred more Rebels, captured j at Falling Waters and incarcerated in a prison in Baltimore, left that city on Thursday for Point Lookout. This makes nine hundred prisoners, now at Point Lookout, captured at the battle of Falling Waters, which Lee says was never fought. Officers recently arrived in Washington 'from the front report that no movement whatever has token place in either Gen. Meade's or Gen. Lee's army beyond the occasional skirmishing in which the cavalry are daily engaged. The position of both armies is unchanged. The draft commenced in New York on the 19th. Twenty-thousand men were kept on the mlert, ready for action at a moment's notice. No disturbance had taken place, and everything progressed satisfactorily. Gov. Seymour counselled a peaceful submission. The draft In .New jersey wiu commence on Tuesday, the 25th inst It will be very light, as the qnota of the State has I been nearly made up by enlistments. Quantrell the leader of a gang of bushwaekers, attacked the town of Lawrence, Kansas, completely surprising the inhabitants. It. was entirely destroyed. The list of killed and wounded citizens is said to number 180, the majority of whom were killed outright Among those Jailed were the Mayor and his son, and a number of other prominent citizens?all shot THE FREE SOUTH, SATU] down in their own houses, in the midst of their families. Pillage and murder has not before during the war been carried on to such a fearful extent, even by the miscreants who compose Quantrell's band.? General Jim Lane, succeeded in making his escape from the town on horseback, and rallied twenty men, with whom he pursued the murderers, though with no success. It is doubtful whether they; can be overtaken before they will have disposed of theii plunder and dispersed.? The loss at Lawrence, it is estimated, will amount to about two millions, which will fall heavily on New York as well as Law' ? ? Tkfl nAAt\1a r\t T .ft TT_ lCiit'f mciuuau to* jl uc vi oju ? rence it appears, were wholy unprepared for tliis attack, and they received no assistance from the military in the district until too late to avert the calamity. Maj.-Gen. Hooker is now in Washington. He has of late been busily engaged j in the preparation of his report of his operations as the commander of the Army of the Potomac. He is to be assigned to an important command at an early date. What the Firwt Draft amounts to. The Draft now ordered and in progress, calls for three hundred thousand men. According to the present estimates at the ' War Department, little less tha# one half of these are likely to slip through the I iopshes of the net and escape. The estimates, says a correspondent of the Boston Commonwealth, run in this wise: The average number for each Congress - - - - - *+ % 1 1 ional district is about twenty-nve nun urea. Of these, according to present, experience it issafe to estimate that about eight hundred will serve : and two hundred will furnish substitutes. Of the remainder, five hundred will pay the three hundred dollars exemption; and eight hundred will get exempted either for some one of the countless lorrns of physical disability ; or for improper enrolment, being over or under age, residing in another district, or being an alien ; or for being the only son of dependent parents, or the father of motherless and dependant children, or brother to two or more already in the ranks ; or for some of the other reasons the generosity of the law piovides to mitigate its severity towards the poor. Of the twenty-five hundred called for, but two hundred remain ; and of these some cowards will run away, and others will be needed to fill up unexpected gaps in the preceding calculations. The additional fifty p2r cent drafted will not fill out the 1 J aeiiciniqr. One hundred and twenty-five or fifty thousand therefrom seems to be the full number the War department now thinks it is likely to realize from the present draft. Of course this is not enough ; and it has been whispered about for some days that in such districts as fall very greatly short of furnishing their quota, even when the fifty per cent, for exemptions is added in, a new draft is likely to be ordered for the remainder, as soon as the ffrst one is completed and the men are brought into the service.. Masonic Notice.?A meeting of F. and A. Masons will be held at the Masonic Hall, (rear of Mr. Idler's Store) on Sunday, Aug. 30th, at 3 o'clock p. m., for the ; purpose of making application for the dispensation for a Military Lodge at this Post A fall attendance^ expected. S. W. ELY, Sec'y pro tem. 4&*Corporal Robert Sutton of the 1st South Carolina regiment, convicted of mutiny some montbs since and sentenced to death, has been pardoned by the President, upon the unanimous recommendation of the court-martial. Jfca^The Nashville Union is informed that the decline in the price of slaves in : southern part of Kentucky is nearly fifty per cent. It is only those slaves having some ties of family to bind them to the neighborhood that are considered of much if any value. ilDAY, AUGUST 29,1863. Who are tbe Rascal* ? The Sanitary Comnijssion have again been robbed of a large^quantity of Hospital stores which were sent to this Dei partment, on board the Arrujo on her last ! trip from New York. All the stores were ; landed in good condition at Hilton Head, I but on the way to Beaufort, seven entire packages were stolen, and many others were broken open and articles to the following amount taken therefrom, one doz. bottles brandy ; sixteen cans of condensed milk, from one case, and forty-six from ! another, and one-half barrel of onions, | besides a very considerable quantity of sugar taken. We have no knowledge : that the hands on board the Enoch Dean I or the Oneuta have any participations in i these roberies, but it is difficult to con- I ceive how in broad day light that this j systematic robbery can be carried on with every invoice of Hospital stores that come 1 for the Sanitary Commission here, and that no one on board of the steamers that j transports them should know any thing I as to what becomes of the missing )irtij cle3. IJS^The mail facilities between this post and Morris Island are nearly equal to none. We have missed many letters, and those we do receive are longer on their way than those mailed iiv-Jfew York. Our Morris Island correspondence has thus been delayed until too late for insertion on two occasions. Where is the fadlt. , Loxg-looked for, Come at iJ^r.?We retnro our warmest (or coolest ?1 thanks ? \ / to Mr. Edward I- Lloyd, for an immense cake of ice, sent to our office on Wednesday last. He lias brought several hundred tons of ice with him, which will be duly appreciated by our citizens after j their long abstenance from this almost j necessary of life. Mr. Lloyd has a vessel at Morris Island, which will be a grateful sight vo our war-worn soldiers and sailors. A No We Gift. We have received from Lieut. Colonel El well the following letter, which tells its own story : New York, August 15th 1863. Lt. CWL EltcelL, Chief Q. M. South. 1>ear Sir :?I received your appeal for ice, for our poor soldiers just as I was leaving Philadelphia, to address a meeting in Saratoga on behalf of the Christian Commission. While at Saratoga I made a special appeal at the dinner table of the several Hotels anil received in a few hours over $3000, and at once telegraphed to the Chairman of our Boston Committee, E. S. Toby Esq., to invest the amount in ice, lemonsy &c., and forward at once to the agent of our Committee at Beaufort, Rev. Mr. Emmons. I trust the ice may reach our brave men in good ! time. I thank you for informing me of the wants of our soldiers and shall always be glad to hear from you. Yours for our country, Gko. H. Stcakx, . Chairman U. S. Christian Commission. We are glad to learn that the severe indisposition under which General Gillmore - labored last week, has passed away, and he is now as busy as ever in superintending the operations against the rebel strongholds. fiST* The father of Gen. Stevenson has presented to the 24th Massachuseets Vols*, ' of which the General was Colonel, a complete set of instruments for & regimental band. Jfca^Special reports has been received from Admiral Porter respecting the effect of the new species of ordnance projectile, called Greek fire. He states that many fires in Yicksburg immediately followed tl*e first use of the projectile, which was so destructive as to dismay the people. The fulminating material is contained in a metallic shell, which, being placed in a thirteen-inch trud smaller shell of ordinary | ordnance pro jectiles, ignites upon the explosion of the latter, and casts fire in all directions. 4 NO. 34. Acknowledgement*. General Hospital No. 10. > Beaufort S. C. August ,.'7th 1803. > Editor of Free South:? Sib :?I Lave the pleasure in acknowledging the receipt at this hospital for the use of the patients, of cart load of watermelons, in July last, from "Peter" and his friends in the country. Also liberal donations of melons and corn from Messrs. McKae, Capt. Conant, Mr. Rice, Mr. Fairfield. Sweet potatoes and melons have been sent in several times by \ Miss L. Towne ; Mrs. Hyatt has contributed largely of syrups, eggs and chickens. The last donation, a few days since, was from Mr. Gardn^j; it consisted of a barrel of sweet potatogp, a pair of ducks, and a dozen chickens.). Many others have ; shown their good will in a similar way, whose names we did not learn. The people of color have contributed very liberally to supply the wants of the sick and wounded soldiers, and will not soon be forgotten. J. M. Hawks, Asst. Snrgeon in charge of Hospital No. 10. "Go and do Likewise."?On the 20th inst. Capt. Terry, a \Jrother of the General's, left $5 with the*gents of the Sanitary Commission, on ^torris Island, to be applied to its fund in consideration of the good he daily sees it accomplishing. HQ?* The cotton, corn, and potato crop in this department have arrived at a degree of maturity which puts them pretty nearly out of danger. Some cotton has already been picked. It is opening well and has not been disturbed by the caterpillar. The recent heavy rains have been unfavorable, and if they continue as frequent will materially diminish the value of the staple. Corn is past danger, and will yield an average crop. Enough has been planted to supply the people, and leave a large surplus for sale. I lie root potatoes are yielding well, and the slips look promising. Altogether we have every prospect of a large and valuable harvest m 0 m Jft^The President is determined to carry into effect his recent order Relative to the retaliation upon prisoners of war. He has ordered that three prisoners from South Carolina shall be held in close confinement as hostages for three negro sea- . \ men captured on the gunboat Isaac Smith, and who are now in prison at Charleston. All other prisoners, whether white or V , black, treated by the enemy in a manner not applicable to prisoners of war, will bo ^ V equally represented by Southern men.? Mr. Lincoln is determined that negroes in the military and naval service shall bo treated the same as white men. e> . i \ v .* Conflict of Testimony. ?It is not dark V enough to justify it to the prudence of those who are ready to submit, and am lous for peace and the security of their property on the basis of submission, to show their liands yet. There have been some signs of this white feather fluttering during the few past gloomy days. Let us warn them that it is base to feel, and dangerous to be premature in the utterance of such sentiments.?Moliie Advertiiter, 18th ult. The inference is inevitable that there are those in Mobile "who are ready to submit" And after our late victories, " there have been some signs, of the white feather fluttering." But Mr. Yallandigham " met not one man, woman nor child who was not resolved to perish rather than yield to the pressure of arms, even in the most desperate extremity." There seems to be a disagreement among the witnesses on the rebel side. ? . 1/ , t A firm in Bridgewater, Mass., are making a gun from wrought tron which will weigh, when completed, about seventeen tons. It is forged solid, in an octagonal form, with the cavity bored out thirteen inches in diameter, and will be hooped by strong bands of iron put on by hydraulic pressure. The lathe on whioh the metal is turned is said to be one of the largest in the world