The free South. (Beaufort, S.C.) 1863-1864, August 29, 1863, Image 2
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THE FREE SOUTH.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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> .
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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.
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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