The free South. (Beaufort, S.C.) 1863-1864, November 21, 1863, Image 1
VOL. b BJ
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Tk? Prico* ?f Living at Atlanta* 1
The AtUata (Ga? j Confederacy, in a re- |
cent article on the -wants of the people i
and the iaeaus of supplying them, gives j
tliis picture of the condition of affairs in |
thafccitv:
-1 .
"What shall we eat, ami wherewith
roall we be clothed? Cold winter, scarcity j
of provisions,. clothing and fuel, and uanrecedented
high prices, are all upon the !
people of thft city once. Who are the
inhabitants of theVity?' Ti:e civilised
world is r? presented among them. All
classes are here?IMves -and Lazarus are
next-door neighbors. Affluence and misery
are under the nine roof, and wretchedness
and poverty dwell on every street?
in eveiy c ibin?ia old l>ox-cnrs, and under
every available shelter. Many thousands 1
of them aire living ii -very uncomfortable
style jdrondy, and the population is increasing,
while facilities for living in the
city-are rapidly decreasing."
In its market report for the 20th ult.
"the C<Jii/e'icntejf says:
" Provisions are very high and obtained
with difficulty, even at present prices.
The populace of the cify are becoming
verv much incensed at the condition of
the flour market. They have assurances
iW flow ^r?",nld ho hrnnehfc to the citv at
I1 $10 a hundred if there were no restrictions
on the trade. vh<'ieAs tliej* iire now compelled
to pay WO dollars a hundred, and j
and can net get full supplies even at that j
Taite. Sugar?fair to fnily lair, $1.75 to j
$2; prime to choree, $2 to 2 25. Cofiee
?stool: lots* ar.d selling at $10 a ;b. Molasses?New
(>rleaDs syrup scarce and in
demand at 8 150. Georgia-made is only
?o)d at retail, without any established
price. Salt in demand at (55 ets. a pound
bv the ear load. Flour, $72 a barrel. j
TobacvO?Medium and fine grades in de- j
mand at priew ranging form $2 50 to 3 75. J
rotten and inferior,-$1 to $2. -Candles? i
Talkov, $5 to 6; adamantine, $10 a pound.
Whiskey, $25 to $30 a gallon. Brandy?
Apple ami petich?#>5 to $38. Cotton
rope advanced $2 25 a lb. Gsnaburg?
Wholesale, nominal, $2 50. Sheeting?
Wholesale, nominal, $4 75. Shirt ag?
'Whob-sak-, nominal,-^2 50. Cotton yarns
?Wholesale, nominal, $23 for assorted
numbers. Flannels, $10 to $15 a yard.
Cnlieo, $0 50 for common, and$7 for wide
JEnght-li prints. Sole leather, -87 a lb.
Uali skiuk?mie, a dozen. anoes j
?Russet broguns? $30 to $1)5. Finer
boots wxl shoes command much higher
prices."
Rations vf the Ooxtinehtal Army.?
" The following are the rations of proTisiohs
allowed .by the Continental Congress
nnto each soldier, viz :
1 lb. fresh beef, or % lb. pork, or 1 salt
fish per day. 11??. bread or tlour per day ; j
2 pints of i*yis or beans .per week, or vegetables
equivalent (a. 5s sterling j>er bushel
for peas -or beans. One pint of milk
per man per day. when to bd had.
pint rice, or one pint Indian meal, per
man per weak. Que quart of spruce beer
per man per day ; or, nine gallons of molasses
per company of one hundred men
per week. 3 lbs. van dies to a hundred
men per week, for guards. 24 lbs. soft
soap, or 8 lbs. of hard soap for one hundred
men, per week. One ration of aalt,
one ditto fresh, and two ditto of bread to
be delivered on Monday morning ; Wednesday
morning, the sainc ; Friday morn
ing, the same, and one ditto salt iiali. '
All weekly allowance delivered on Wednesday
morning. Where the number of 1
mriments are too many to be served tlio
same day, then the number to be equally 1
divided ; and one part serve on Monday 1
morning; the other part on Tuesday j
morning, and so through the week.
N. B. Two gallons of vinegar per hun- 4
drod men per week, six ounces of bntter 4
per man i>er week."?Hist*trial Magazine. *
Tea-kettles are decidedly Yankee in c
their melody; they sing through their 4
noses.
Soldiers are not to punish their prison - g
ers like malefactors or criminals, but to i
treat them as men. o
P
i: Vr^Z*r^ v,<vs
EAUPORT, S. C., SATUR
.TllHtary Inspiration*.
/ Jter a commanding General has made
all liis plans, pre-wauiged all his combine
iions, given to ail his subordinates dots
tied instructions, and, with a forecast
niirost superhuman, provided as neariy
a a he can for tvei$' possibility, it never
fails to be the case That rimch depends
apon what \re vectnre to call " happy inspirations"
of subordinate commanders
in the moment of conflict. There is no
w ar, there is scarcely a single battle, which
does 3iOt illustrate this. Such for example,
was the ready return of Desaix from
Novi to Marengo as soon as his practiced
ear caught the collies of the First Gousurs
Iwdtle. Bef<ar3 Napoleon could send,
De.ais; followefi his instinct, was making
' a forced march ; and he arrived just in
taievto save the day. "General," said
the First Consul, "the battle is lost."
I MeW had won the field, and had turned
over the pursuit of the French to his
Gbief-of-Stat? General Zach. "Sir," replied
Desaix, taking out his watch, " it
is not four oVlock ; there is time to win
| another." And .>o tl>e battle was won.
I The want of just saeh a spirit lost WaterI
loo. Jomiiuplaces among the three grand
censes < ?i (defeat the uon-arrfvjil of
, Grouchy, even though Bluclier had escapI
ed Lim,
I It was fiie happy inspiration of Bichepanseat
the tattle of Hohenlinden, after
his divi.? on was <?ut in two l>y the Anstrian
left wing, that led him to full with
one-half Mi llie rear of the grand column
of the A justrions. jjloreau has had the
glory in history, hut Itichepanse won the
battle. WarmcTit a testimony is valuable
and dec! save on tliis point. " Such good
fortune, ' he says, *' was.not due to the
disposit: onsof General Aloroai:. General
Kicheja ase, a nan of talent and courage,
finding " lis <livi sioii Kiiirounucd by Aus'triau
tr< ops, faced them in every direction,
an i posse ssed himself with a hundred
pi< cts of tamiion, which were marching
over the causeway."
It was duo to MeAifllion, ilie commander
of the Second Corps of the Army of
the Alps , that the French were successful
at Magt ata. He charged. et an opportune
me ruent without -orders, and for his
success re was made Marshal of France,
and Dul :e of Magenta. We can hardly
take up* jy battle in European annals
which dc?sjnot contain a striking example.
But to o?aie_down to our own times
and jieopile. Mere we-sliali Jteid our subject
lb ore frequently illustrated by the
want -of this inspiration than by exhibitions
of it. Had General Patterson pnsh ed
forward. to Manassas?or baen able to
do so?in a line parallel with-Johnston's
retiring coluisms, to tJieiirsi battle of Lull
Hun, tlieday /would not have been lost;
and the jebel?cry, at the moment of their
despair, " Kiiby Smith is ' coming with
30,000 men !" would soon give .na.v to the
dumb ssiouishsnent at finding that officer
comfroBtiid by a new army on .our own
side.
11 seems to be concealed thit could {
General McDowell have flown to tiie
sound of McClelJan'g cannon on the first
day, or ot Gaines Mill on the seeonJ. of
the great -week of, battles, Lie issue nirght
have been very different. *' I venture to
say," says Col. Est van, of the confederate
Army (and our readers sonny give wh.U
credence .they wiU to his judgement),
" that if AleClelhui had received the sup- j
port that was promised him, he might ]
Uave given a crusinng blow to tlie Uon- I
fedtiney." This support lay in McDow- .
ell on tlie north, and Bumskle at Fort
Monroe and .Newport .News. There were
a hundred times m that memorable week <
?rhen succor from both would have carri- ' i
jd llichmond, even after our retreat had 1
leguu. At least this is now the acknoM-1- I
jdgment of the rebels themselves. The
iirectious for these so-called happy in- 1
pirations ore often the most simple.? '
Lmong them are :?If you have nothing j *
if great importauce to do, fly to the sound ^
>f cannon. Melson'a final order atT ar - | ^
algal- to his Captains was?4'Every Cap- ! Ci
cin will he doing liis duty if hotly en- i 0:
paging the enemy." The spii-it and al- i A
aost the letter is the same now, and for ' n<
ur army. Fight where there an* orders;' i!
DAY, NOVEMBER 21,18'
| light where there are 110 orders and esj
pecioily in an emergency where manifestJ
ly none could be given.
"We do not by any means counsel an
! invasion or transgression of orders, or
' that mean spirit which would seek to ex!
alt one's self by disobedience of orders,
j which is constantly reaching out for iiuI
punity of success ; but we do counsel
-j and hope to see more of the fire of genius
t in our subordinate commanders ; men
j who take advantage of circumstances
which the General-in-Chief could noi forsee,
to win a victory or avoid a defeat.
Such are the men whom history delights
to honor; such are the men who gain
great battles, and save imperilled couu- !
tries; bringing captive in their triumph- ;
ant train, peace, prosperity and national I
glory.? Army and JVbry Journal.
i fitn. Gill more on Limes, Cements, Ac.
I
[From the Army mid Navy Journal.1
The publication, at thia moment, of n stout
' octavo on "Limes, Cements, and Mortars," by j
' one who has made his name illustrious by setiing
| at naught the binding powers of these substances
i on the walls and fonndations of forts, has almost
the air of a practical joke; but General Gill;
more informs ns in an introductory note that
! the experiments and researches emln>died in the :
work were conducted under the authority of the
Engineer Bureau of the War Dej^rtmcrt, and
were complete*! in the summer of ISG1. It will
' prove a valuable- contribution to the engineer
|
and architect, into whose arts the elements
under discussion in this work enter for so much.
General tiillniorc unlike the majority of the
j graduates of our military school, who rest quite :
. content with what they have learned in the text j
books, is fond of original investigation, and he |
has a talent fur recording tiie results of liis iu
vestigations. His report of the reduction of
| Fort Pulaski, overleaping the narrow limits of
a mere official p.a|>er, assumed the form of a :
. comprehensive ami instructive tut moire on the :
! brcaehing power cf rifled ordnance, and tak.n i
j its place as a valuable ]>iecc of military history,
i The |>rescnt monograph, though on a more
specialized snhject, is an important contribution
to the branch of practical engineering which it
I wvoim Siurli a work, embracing all the results i
of the latest experiments, l>oth in this country ,
and in Europe, was very much needed; and
General Gillinore's detailed and exhaustive |
| treatment completely fills the desideratum.
It is needless in a" work of so purely technical '
u nature as the present to do more tliatl briefly j
indicate the sco]>c of its contents, as professional
men, who alone will l>c interested iu it, will j
doubtless procure the book Gener-.t 1
Gillmore logins with a survey of the geograph- ]
ical and geological distribution of limestones, j
; and stono suitable for hydraulic lime or cement ]
throughout the United .States. It need only bo
' remarked that nature has supplied us with these
' elements in great profusion ami endless variety : I
j hut the mo>t extensive Inxls Hutc thus far been
discovered in the valleys of the great Appalachian
chain of mountains, as they traverse tiie States 1
of New York, New Jersey, I'cnnslvvanin, Vir-j
ginia, Tennessee, and the northern portions of !
Georgia and Alabama, lie then gives the '
method pursued in testing the mortars which I
furnish the luisis of ail tables introduced into 1
the report. These tests are with a view to de- I
tenniiic (1) their capacity to resist a transrersc j
strain; ('JJ their reulative hardness; (;i) tk?!* '
adhesive properties. Ciuipter I. is dev , " j
uiv; uricwitiicu lvu^wiiuaic tciuvii.> i
from the fact that tlic stone was ?lmm i
in the township of lioaend-*
.i- l-l L *u 1-iii. ^?tcr Co/intv,
?? il V ? ki"d< >"><1 qib'itu*
OMI.U ccincnt are .ioatriw ami a??|izc,| ,
the van01 is manufactories of tlic cement !
given in foil. Chapter IV. goes iSST
ject ot tunc, its characteristic, tests tl * r
its induration i? the air, classes of? <?7 v
limes,intermediate limc8,natura! - no/ 'J?1 J;
' tnus," "arenes," hydraulic activi
tlruulic energy, artificial "Portlai V
strength of certain mortars, &c. A* <camcnf.'
treats of limestones, kilns, mod Chapter v .
ic. Chapter VI. of cilcaroo ; <*' treatment,
'aggregates," the process of mortals and
uill and hand, and the mod jiaking them. ?>*
Mastering, stucco, &c. (Jh ot application to
role" and " beton," their i apter VII. ot ,4eonnre
in Europe and the U scs, mode of manutac'III.
of the devices off .lited States. Cnapier
-c. Chapter IX. of n* tying stone under wutet,
auses and remedies, .ural efflorescences, their
f artificial duratior and the g neral methods
lr. Van Nostraud' ? The vo.ume is issued in
lt, iuauelcgan* s accustomed excellent m.iniustrotciL
joctavj of U&* !???? *? copiously
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k 15. M
P ots of Traito rs in Canada.
Vnl's. Frlendft at Work.
Washington, Nov. 12, 1SG3.
The discovery of another rebel plot. th?
most serious yot, lias created considers!>!e
excitement :n official quarters ^within tlu*
last twenty-four hours. Inklings of it
have been given in telegrams from the
West, but its full extent was not known
tiH last night. Telegrams from Gov. ^?<
Tod had previously warned the authorities
that a plan was 011 foot for the release
of the rebel officers, nearly 1,500 in number,
confined oa Johnson's Island, Sandusky
Bay, and suitable precautions were
accordingly, taken.
More light was thrown upon the matter
lust evening by a dispatch received from
the Governor-General of Canada by Lord
Lyons, and laid by him immediately upon
its reception before our Government. It
stilted that si plot laid been formed by
rebel sympathizers in Canada, the general
features which were as follows :
A steamer was 1,0 be seized bv the conspirators,
with the aid or which they proposed
to release t'ae Johnson's Island
..ftWrn Tf successful in that rart cf the
plan, they were to ste*.;n to tho other en-i
of Lake Jtlj'ie and bnrn toe City of jinftulo
if possible. IvI-.-ismvs v.ere immediately
taken to protect the island, where tlio
ste.'in r jJieliigan has aiready arrived,
heavily armed. The mayors of the lake
eitie.s wire also pat upon their guard.
Ait t ie Government now desires is that
the re!?"l plotters may have iiic courage
to cross tin; Canada line.
i'artirulurh ot <!?:? Boat Iti'counoif
sauce to Sumter by Capi. Ferris.
Mohbu; Island, S. C.. Nov. T,
There wits a boat recounoissanceto Fort
Sumter last evening. Caps Ferris. of the
"L'Lufans Perdu" regiment, in command
of the boat infantry detached fioia his
regiment, left Cnmmiugs To nt lust evening,
accompanied by twelve of his men.
bound on an expedition to the parapet of
Sumter.
The night was dark, and excepting the
roughness of the waves, everything favored
the undertaking, which was one cf
extreme hazard to the small party engaged
who ran imminent risk of annihilation or
capture. They rowed tlowiy over, approaching
the south fne* silently and
touched the base of the mined wrJi. Leaving
cue man in ihe boat, Capt.. Ferris led
the eleven others up the steep pile of debris,
which crumbled and yielded beneath
their tread, the Cant-hi to slip :.v
the ascenti Dy tins acci-f^ni his pistol
was made to explode, giving the alarm to
those above. The sentry on duty challenged
after the usual manner, whtu
Capt. Ferris requested him to be silent,
as<ing him in a sharp voice if he did not
know his friends, saying they were the
relief from Charleston.
Failing to bo deceived by this, the garrison
immediately opened tire from about 9
fitfcy muskets, when cr.ir men began to descend
to the boat?-two of them slightly
wounded. The co ^wa.'n loft in charge
hud busied himv jif ui securing ft collection
of bricks as tr? These they brought
with them. (j0gether with otliers which
fell prett- thickly in and around the l*?ut.
Much oredit is due Capt. Ferris, for the
T..A/0 v.Mvorv with whicll lie con
MfStt H11U
??ucbed the affair, and, doubtless, had ho
lnul sufficient force, and had it been the
desigu, he would have captured the fort.
, Some do, and some don t. That is
some persons subscribe rt>v a paper and
pay for it, and some do not. We are
happy to announce that most of the subscribers
to the F*yeb SjuUi beloug to the
first named class. ^
A Spanish proverb says: "A littlein the
morning is enough; enough at dinner i?
but little; but a little at night is too much."
The Indian philosopher, equally profound,
he'd that "too much rum was just enough."
" Say, Sam, bub was inquiring after
you."
Sam. " Bub? What bub?"
'Smart boy. 44 Belzebub!"
The learned didVr a? much from the igJ
norant as the living from tire dead.
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