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/?. VOL. It. THE iVHEE SE i a BEAUFORT, S. C., APRIL 2.MSSL pr* Tut Fk?:s :s>ctu may he obtJn>->? at TUlloi T7-. ;<l | f FKED. J. STIMSON, at tfc J f'oro Hdjoiuhij li.o .ui. firrji Fronts Oflkv. I A Police Itcport. For some weeks past oar Pro.v^fs, (Vipts. Bryant and Metcalf, have been ferreting cut the depots where n thriving ; trade lias bee a carried oil in whiskey. This illicit lialbrc ha ; juvdu ,-u here, as every- , wheiv el=c, its traits oi crime. Bv a special jiohco the depot at Cedar Grove ; van discovered and the trial and conviction oi McCrc-u wa.H the result. On the ! night oi the 2 kl nit. the store oi Morris i Weigart was entered a. goods to the ; amount of live hundred dollars stolen, j Certain parties were suspected, and Sergeant Webster, Co. 8th Me. Vols., by ! a ruse succeeded in discovering tr hiu- : ing place of the plunder to be in the building occupied by Q. M. employees on Bay street. Jam^a RUst, ?5Gth N. Y., and Chae. Phillips, 115th X. Y., were arrested and are now in jail who arc believed to ! be the criminals. In the cellar of the i bmlding, buried live feet tinder ground, : was found a keg of whiskey with an ac- i count of sales, which shows that one ' Orner has sold many hundred dollars' worth of liquor at from ten to twelve j dollars per gallon. We trust that C^pts. Bryant and Meicalf will nut vonrv in 11 ' - a! ! inea n;-.U i ,f wen-aoiug. x.*?-ij vuc w. ...v..,- ... ? - crime should be rooted out. Y/e think J it would bo well to remove the detailed ] men from tho dwelling houses and put them into tents where the opportunities ; ? * for concealment would be ^.iriuilcd. Wo j are certain they would be mor". healthy. ; for the filth in which they now live would be setn and remedied. ^ i Capture of a Traitor and Spy. "formerly hud employment under tfe \ :.:r- . . turn;oater at HITton K?cl, tts pric ii al r evedore and aLo a* captain oi u steam- > m transport, and who has heretofore been a / trailer at Beaufort, "was lately captured in ; a schooner off Tybee, trying to run the * blockade into Savannah. His cargo was ; brandies, spices, etc., of great value. Ho declared, when caught, tfcut had not the : mist been so thick lie would have known j where he was, and would have ''shown a clean pair of heels.'"' On board hi* boat j were the mo?t complete sot of elmrto of , the neighboring coaai ever collected. Of ; .these many were of late British maur.fac- j tare, issued for the special use of block- j ode-runners. Two other*, however, must ! ' have been of late completion, since they j contained the meet minute partienfe-j an } to t. e location of' blockading and picket- j boats, including pictorial doacriptiors- of j 4\.o t?w? .-TT-.n ?.> ttin (IJfltinpTiisiiinfi color I ^ of thefrmeke-st'iekB. The exuising-giotmd j oi each national vessel was also denoted, together with the depth of water, courses of currents, Ugh-water and bvw-w~U;r numoranJa, d ??th of water, localise* o: creeks, navigable and oiherwier. These laborious works were in pencil, and *ne 4fuppore<i to bo tho work of the ex-captain, ex-stevedore iiiiubcif. Proof# oi tn&ir authorship are being sought forbv comparison of the handwriting in them with r-3ieial correspondence iu liia Lands filed ?way in tlio Qunrtermu3ter*a Department ?t ilillton Head. Among the novaltiea of the eaptnro were ep&cimcna oi fractional pap*r neoury of a TK-w and improved issue, of whic h meny tliensrziiLs of dollars wcra in.the j possession oi Weeks. The pictures ?... J various coics ?>f the U. S. mintage vcre j pointed in silver upon uliram'urae-colernl cardie Tito liken*:t>6 of tlio quarter, hali, and whole dollar wao depicted on the blue THE TV. EE SOITH?V>EAIT< .at:'. Viiva o' *4ou ujuiaau 1 proaju-o to o: *. The li'.aogrsphyj oi t!;c-so "bo-.Tis ' aiiaivs w-i* wry ^ovd. . t. r.v i . t\ ? t 4.^ ! J t ( t'j.s, << I1-5 1'? uc t ike author of the charts above doc-eiibjd. ' ho wi!! probably bo hanged as a tpv. Local K?mn. The impetus given to private enterprise | by Die transfer o? the* public. property in thi. town to citizens, is evident iu every j rtrect. On Bay street Mr. Bobbin's old Rta i !, now occupied by Mr. Mille'fcs?, has bp*m converted into a spacious store, ; wlr rc goods can be shown sn?l stored to } shout ten times the amount and with i about tlfty tinits the convenience possible i i:*t!:e former condition of the building. j ! Douglass & Co., have completed a lino store on the river side of Bay street, where j ihey will Boon put a superb stock of oi;i- j cers goods. They promise to supply the i trade hero with ? better class of goods than has usually been brought -to this j market. Mr. A. W. Hali has inoTcd down a building from auothcr street, ih*Which u J new store ia opened. He also contemplates 1 fm ihtr improvements. Adaitfe Express Company have moved into a fine building just finished. Mr. , Stimson has been deprived of the use of the large brick store adjoining which he T. . V? .l * L J .*1 I. i lit) .uivj juat iitw?u up, it tieiug lutuug uy i those autocrats, the Surgeons. lie Rceioe I to submit with & good a grace as eonld bo expected. Had it not been for this unexpected seizure, a new liotet would Lave been opened in the upper part of his j building which would have supplied a ; ?ieat public want ('apt. Springer has made a commencement in his contemplated new wharf. Wc hope to chronicle its early completion. Hoary Bram has nearly finished his building on Bay street, opposite pier No. i 3, where he will soon open a first-class j restaurant A Cnptnre R?tl Eecare. ,vr-? :T? n riaiou ^uraiy p?: ouptnvi d on il.-ef Island by a scouting party of rotate and carried to Charleston. A day or two since ho maue his way to the gunboat Eifrifi. -h&\ Wo have not heard ;he particulars of his escape, but learn that while he was being i?iVt'U frem Charleston to li? gpiung from the platform til the cars, r.ud aficr hiding in the swamp by day and traveliig at night he made his way to the coast, where lie stole r. dug-out and came to the lu::g/i$her. ' He is very much exhausted by his severe journey and its incident exposure, but counts all his snherings as nothing since he has escaped from 'Me eceenh." ?3?*" By a general order from the War Deparlmentthe First South Carolina Regiment is hereafter to be designated as the t Thirty:third U. S. Colored Troops; in \ i ko manner the lid S. 0. is the 34ih V. ' S., t-nd the 1st N. C. the 35th U. S. The j 1st S. C. "Regiment by right should be ; entitled the 1st IT. S., vla we believe it j vas tLie first authorized organization of | colorod troops in the country. The Washington correspondent of ; ; the Philadelphia, Lecv.kr flays: "Doubts j \ arc expressed whether the Florida difliictor- < investigation will be allowed to go on. It cannot do so without involving the highest officer of the Government in the evidence which will be adoaced, and the particular friends'of thc"Frcaident will be perfectly satisfied; ii the investigation is postponed j j until after the war." I S Congressman John F. Potter, of j Y?" cousin, who accepted Roger A. Payor's j invitation to fight a duel, and proposed . bovie-liuives as the weapons, which Pryor . declined, has been appointed by the Pres- j ident and confirmed by the Senate, Direct J Tax Commissioner for Florida. ' dl(r, s. r,. APTUL 2, 1864. fornricntiout du the 3?-v.- people, remarks the -Ar. Y. Titmi, are av.aiv of the.large number of improg* mtMy fortili vl works that are b big constructed along the Jlisaissippi River by our troops?maiuly by neg oes. By impregnable \v<: do not mean that all these works arc absolutely beyond the pcssibil * ' j?vi- I ivy ot capture ov r.ny couciuvttuu: u-;vc, | but simply that they" can not be taken by j any enemy that couhl be marched or massed against them?not, for instance, by the v.ht^o military power of the Southern Confederacy, much less by the combined armies and navies of France and England. The rvbels indicated to us * hat were the strongest natural positions on the "river; and some of them they made a hard effort to hold, but in each aind every instance they failed for the want of proper appliance. The positions^such as Port Hudson, Vieksbnrg and others, have been token : fy>ld of by our troops, mid around them j have been built new works, compared with which the rebel works were contemptible, while our appliances of artillery and our iron-clad naval supports add indefinitely tq their superiority. "SVe venture to say that if Jeff. Davis were to marshal nil the armies of tho South against Vicksbt/ry, he could not capture it in twenty years, nor, for that matter, in twenty centuries. And there are twenty places on the Mississippi I$ver of wh)eh the some thing might be Sid. We should like to inquire of Jeff i avis^rhut he proposes doing about it? \?K The U. 8. Government would do j well to designate Beaufort, 8. C., w u depot where all the condemned horses of tte Q. M. Department should he sold, frith Mr. Hyatt as auctioneer. At the tile here o" Monday last thirty-live broken down brutes, affected with every imaginable ill that horseflesh is heir to, and rqore too, wore disposed of for about 88,7ii0, some bringing tw high ns 3180.? Charles O'ldally says tire bet t proof of gentility in Ireland Is never to put foot to tho ground: Such v. e would de*. i to be the idea of our American citizens of African descent, to judge from their ca t ?_u:?i. li- : a ro.aimbluu^, no matter how distant, to the noble animal called a horse. "Gov. Brown, of G.a., Iiw ncr grown more affectionate toward Jeff. Davis and the Richmond government. Ho lias again in hia message '/pitched in" sharply. He does not hesitate to denounce the fiuspenaion of the habeas corpus by Davis as a violation to the rebel constitution. He is very desirous of peace, and wants the rebel government to offer to negotiate iter every rebel victory. Wo do not intend to give them many such opportunities to offer terms. Gov. Brown overhauls several of the laws passed by the rebel Congress, and seems to be in the samo Unhappy ^tate of mind, from which he has b en suffering ever since the war began. The troops at this Post^-ere reviewed on Wednesday last by Gen. IBrcey. The revi w was witnessed by onr British visitors, Jdeut.-Col. GaIway,fof iRoyal fcngineers. CV.pt. Goodonoagh, Royal Artillery, and C'apt. Alder ion, Royal M::vy. < The drill and appearance of the colored regiments attr:mted the particular il !? at ion o i tho visitors. These gentle-' men visit t'uo department hi an ofiLial :r.uacity, and will probably proceed North bi the Araga. HP In our article in the Free South of last week headed "A Secret Brought to Light," Colonel ?Fas. II. Simpson, in command of the picket* at Mechanics villc Bridge, was alluded to as Captain. The regiment oh picket-duty was the 4th N. J. V. The facts, as narrated, ! w ere known to the field officer* of that corp*. | The Secretary of "War bus decided that the volunteers who served for nine months ere not entitled to the bounty oi tweufyfivti dollars, v. Licit they supposed they were entitled to under the act of Con. gross of xTuly 17th, 1^0:1. \ NO. 13. __ _ _ _ _ _ _ . ... _ v LATEST 2L ?;i?H THK NGilTK. ir rival cT tfc? ' ?!a<actiu,Lttj." Tiin iti:i? ktc. -i E?.r irivr o:i?troci;ai) or ii FCKOES. Caip.o, March 24. The rars .v. on^er arrive 1 ih;3 .Morning ' from ;Lo m > ith of the Hcl Kivor, wh?r-j I she was n.efc l>y the gunboat Cricket from which Khe receiver! (hv patches an.l un order flora Hoar Admiral Porter to retain t?> the fleet, which reached Ahhafalay river on Monday the liih. v. hero Gen. J, S. Smith's lorco disembarked to operate on the len f Port Do Ilussy, whore Gen. Dick Taylor was encamped v.itu 11,250 men. As soon as Taylor heard of Gen, Smith/a lauding, lie attempted to roach the rear and attack. Skirmishing commenced ou Gen. Smith's left t!a:ik before he was nwRre of the whereabouts'of the er.err.y. L'eing informed of Taylor's design, he exclaimed, "Away! Away! Now for a race between the rebels and tho United States for the fort. Away Away !:' By a mih'k movement Gen. Smith .succeeded in reaching fort Do 1 fussy three hours before Dick Taylor came up. A charge was made and .some lighting occurred during which the federals had about forty killed and wounded. Th* fort was easily token with 2s3 prisoner^, one eleven inch ?^n which the rebels had taken oil' the gunboat Indian om, and also two thirty-ycuuder Barretts from the Harriet I/ir.e, and two other guns, 2000 barrels of fine powder and an immense quantity of assorted munition, and several thousand dollars worth of Commissary stores. "n.-> P.ntw7 iq a most form liable work. It in quadrangular in shape with bastions and bomb proofs covered with railroad iron. A powerful water battery is connected with the fort, the casemate* of which arc capabl e of resisting the iiosviost shot and fined. '.i"he position cf lire guns was capital for direct osd rapid tiro upon all the boats attempting to pass up or dovrn the river. About 800 negroes were.employed a year in constructing the* carthv/orfcs. Gra. Smith will superintend the thorough defitruction of the fortiricftticus to-morrow. It will take !k1>00 men two or three days to destroy tliem. Glorious r.ews will be expected frora Gout. Banks and Smith within two VFeekw. All details of their deeigna, strength or position is contraband at present. KoT' ^r.NTS OP 0 J>>: i-.SALS. General Grant arrived in Wa*Ling:c? I on ihv 20.1.? I General Tv. P. Smith to command all the armies of the East, nvhilrs Gen Grant is to direct ip person thos.i of the West. General Pleasant on has been relieved f.orn the command of the Cavalry Corps, and is ordered to report to General liosaerury. General Sykee in ordered to report to General Curt'*. General Now ton i?j ordered to report U> General fibenmm. General French i* ordered to report at Philadelphia. General Meredith if* ordered to report at Cairo. Gens. RivXvtte, GiObcn and Wadewortik arc ordered to report to Gen. Meade for assign iiunts to command. Gen. Caldwell i? relieved to enable hin* to hit on court martial. Gen. Fpiaoia is ordered to eoart martiuL jvmKavi. A very eov? re fi^ht has taken place between thp Aust riaiis and Dunes, n ur Viole. There were heavy lo^sc-8 on both si lee.? The Dane/: weredrlvvn bacX. Th? Allies are advancing in CT>at u-r-c tow.nvls FrccTrika. ? ? - i -! i - * - n ? The House o: mums (iconic ? n mark id regarded ah the uiosi hostile demonstration yet inu-ie. The 'J'i/fus' says the country will not plunge into war at the bidding ??f th? Peers. ' The rebel emiser Florida and tue federal corvette St. Louis were at 1-Y.nebai, iladeria, on tho 4th 02 Alurch. It was believed to be the aim of the St. Louis to cnt out the Florida, but tears were entertained of interference of the shore authorities. The Florida required coal.? The Governor of Mftdoria at ilret refused to allow a supply, but ultimately consen ted to her obtaining a bulncif-nfc quantity to enable her to get away from thu St. Lotus. ?r?Y-The reorganization w>f the Army of the Foteruac, now iu progress, reduces I the number of corps to ifcuo?the 1st and ; 3d being absorbed into the '2d. f/ti, and I tith?to be comuutuded respectively by . Major Generals Hancock, War: en, niuT I Sedgwick. This will make three very ! strong vorps.