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BT 8. W. MASON" AXD CO.
PORT ROYAL, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1S64.
taprtut Ckrrespoidente.
lettiUdee ht Ike Mactaf e* Federal
liiMi ?Mcr Fire la CkarlntM.
We last week published a list of the
Federal officers placed under the fire of
our guns, in Charleston, by order of Gen.
fWm Jane*. The foflbwinsr corresDond-1
ence was at that time withheld, but as it
has now been published at the North, by
% . permission of the Segpetaiy of War, we
give it this week. In an official dispatch
from Secretary Stanton, on our irst page,
will be found an extract from Gen. Foster's
letter to him, and the announcement
of a retaliatory measure.
HiAPgcutras, Dxpabtmcxt or Socth,
Caxqlua, Gnoaeia am> Flokum,
Charleston, S, C., June 13, ISM.
General:
Five Generals and forty-Are Field Officers of
tike U. 8. Army, all of them prisoners of war,
hare beeaeent to this city for safe keeping. They
hare baen turned over to Bile.-Gen. Ripley,
Commanding the 1st Military District of this Department.
who will see that they are provided
with commodious quarters in a part or the city
occupied by non-combatants, the majority of
whom are women and children. It is proper,
however, mat I shoo Id inform von that it is a
part of the city which has been, for many months,
exposed, day and night, to the fire of your guna.
very respectfully,
Your obt servt,
(Signed) SAM. JONES,
Major-Gen. Cunun'd'g.
Major-General J. 6. Porter, Commanding U. S.
Forces on Coast of So. C&., C. 8.
Headquarter?, Dept. of the Sooth,
Hilton Head, & C., Jane tt, 19G4.
Official Copy:
Thomas J. Bomxsnx,
lrt Lt Slat IT. 8. C. T.,
Act Ant Adit Gent.
Hxadqcaxtrh, Dm. or th* Socrn,
Hilton Huoi 8. ft, June 1A 1M4.
Major-General Sam. Jones, Commanding Confederate
Forces, Department of Sooth Carolina.
Georgia and Rorida.
General:
I base to acknowledge the receipt this day of
tout communication of the 13th Inst, informing
me that live Generals and forty-live Field Officers
of the United States Army, prisoners of war,
have been sent to Charleston for safe keeping;
that (hey hate been turned over by yon to Brig.Oen.
Ripley, with instructions to see that they
are provided with quarters in a part of the city
occupied by non-oombatanta, the majority of
which latter, yon state, are women and children.
Yon add that yon deem it proper to inform me
Aft thn AHr whioK Km Km?TI fftf
many months exposed to the fire of our guns.
Mahy months since Major-General Q A, GI11>
more* U. 8. A., notified General Beauregard,
then commanding at Charleston, that the city
would be bombarded. This notice was given
that the non-combatant peculation of Charleston
might bb removed, and thus women and
children ^psred from harm. General Beaureregard,
in a communication to General Gillmore,
dated August 22,1863, Informed him that the
non-combatant population of Charleston would
be removed with all possible celerity. That
women and children have been since retained by
von In a part of the dty which has been for
many months exposed to fire, is a matter decided
by your own sense of humanity.
I most, however, protest against your action
in thus placing defeucelessmrfeoners or war in a
position exposed to conduB bombardment. It
is au indefensible act of cruelty, and can be
designed only to prevent the continuance of our
fire upon Charleston. That dty is a depot for
military supplies. It cod tains, not merely arsenals,
bat foundries and factories for the manufacture
of munitions of war. In its ship-yards
several armed iron-dads have already been completed,
white otbess are still upon the stocks id
course of construction. Its wharves, and the
banks of the river on both sides of the city, are
lined with batteries To destroy these means of
continuing the war is therefore our object and
duty. Yon seek to defeat this effort, not by
' means known to honorable warfare, but by
placing unarmed and defenceless prisoners under
our lire.
v k?? forwarded vour communication to the
President, with the request thai he will place in
ray custody sn equal number of prisoners of the
lice grades, to be kept by me iu positions exposed
to the lire of your grans so long as von
continue the course stated in your communication.
Terr Respectfully,
Your ob"*t serv't.
fWgped) - J, G. FOSTER
... v Major-General Commanding.
OffleiaS Copy: ,
ti*o*?aj. rarivson, .
IH JU. ??t U. S. C. T.,
A. A. A, Ot Hiadq'rs Dept. Sooth.
The Xoktukjix News.?On the first
page wtU be feofld the official dispatches
irons tb* papers brought by the Fulton. '
a, .
NAVAL MATTERS.
The lioe-of-battle ship New Hampshire
reported off Charleston on Monday.
Tho steamer James Adger arrived here
fWvm PhU>i/h>lnhiA on Tuesday morn in sr.
but her dates were not so late as those
by the Fulton.
* The following are [recent announcements
In the Army and Navy Journal of
changes in the South Atlantic Sauadron:
Detached?Acting Assistant Paymaster
George F. Barker, from the Catskill,
and ordered North; Acting Assistant
Surg. Dwight J. Harris, from the North
Carolina, and ordered ,to take passage in
the Massachusetts to Charleston, S. C.,'
for duty in the South Atlantic Squadron;
Acting Assistant Paymaster John W.
Hamilton, from the Catskill and wait'ng
orders; Acting Master Frederick F..
Baury, from the South Carolina and
waiting orders; Acting Master's Mate
IS A RntW from the South Atlantic
Squadron, and waiting orders; Acting
Master's Mate William W. Gregg, from
the Iroquois, and ordered to the South
Atlantic Squadron.
Ordered?Acting Assistant Surgeon
W. W. Howard, to take passage in the
Massachusetts tor duty in the South Atlantic
Squadron; Acting Assistant Pay-'
master H. P. Tuttle, to take passage in
the Massachusetts for duty in the Catskill;
Acting Assistant Surgeon Benjamin
.Marshall, to the South Atlantic
Squadron.
Confirmed ?Acting Master's Mate
William Price, and ordered on board the
John Adams.
The Flambeau arrived off Charleston
from New York on the 21st.
The monitor Nab ant, Lieutenant Commander
Miller, arrived off Charleston
from Port Royal on the same night, towed
by the Winona, late fromOssibaw.
Lieut. Alexander Slidell MeKenzie, ol
the Winona, is to be relieved by Captain
Stone, formerly of the Qhippewa.
The JPawnee, captain nuicn, ana uie
Norwich, arrived off Charleston from the
St. John's, on Sunday week. The Sonoma
arrived at Charleston on the 22d.
The Augusta has left for Wilmington.
The Saratoga arrived off Charleston on
Monday week.
A short time since it was discovered
that the enemy had a fatigue party constructing
works nsar Moultrie. A boat
party went up and opened a very accurate
hre on them from howitzers, and they
were induced to desist.
Lieut. Com. Gibson, of the Lehigh, has
been relieved by Lieut. Com. Johnson,
late of the Nipsi'c.
The' resignation pf Paymaster Cowley,
of the Lehigh, has been accepted. lie
is succeeded by Paymaster W. F. A. Torbert,
late of the staff ot Maj.-Gen. French.
Paymaster Barker of the Catskill has
been relieved by Paymaster Tuttle.
Edward Carney of the Nipsic, and Edward
,F. Mansfield, of the Cimmarron,
have been sentenced each to three years
*? ? ?4 ?5*1* kmj IaKav otnol.
liuprisuuilieui WIU1 UOJU muui, iui WWing
and other offences.
Mr. B. S. Osbon, Naval Correspondent
of the NewxYork Herald, is preparing a
"Naval History of the Rebellion,'' to be
published shortly by D. Van Nostrand,
192 Broadway, New York city. The
work will be published in the best possible
manner, and will be illustrated by
plans, charts and sketches of the prominent
events in our naval history. The
illustrated portion of the work "will be
furnished by artists who have been eye
witnesses to many of the brilliant achievements
pf the navy. Admiral Farragut,
in a letter to Mr. Osbon, dated Sept. 7,
1863, says: " I can testify you have had
very good opportunity ol knowing all
about my fleet, ancbso far as I have seen
you have always given the most satisfactory
account of it, and you have my
best wishes for your^uccess in any such
undertaking, and I will aid you In any
special part that may be wanting at any
time?if I have it." Mr. Osbon is well
known in the So.uth Atlantic Squadron,
and throughout the navy, as a talented
ooiTes{>ondent, and his many friends here
wish him all success in his useful enterprise.
Poirr Rotal Restaurant?Mr. D. J.
' Hackins has recently become the proi
prictor of the Port "Royal Restaurant,
formerly kept by Mrs. Margaret Morgan,
j A few days since some members of the
' press A"ud other* tested the quality of his 1
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fare, by invitation, and found it to be of
the first order. He has a capable corps
of attendants, the best of facilities for supplying
his tables, and tfie enterprise to
make hi9 saloon a successful one.
LITER FROM THE NORTH.
?' affaU
New torH uairs iv uit- ztiiu.
By the arrival of the steamer America
yesterday (Wednesday) we have New
York dates to the 2f>th, two dayt' later
than those by the Fulton. We are indebted
to General Hatch for the use of
New York Heralds of the 24th and 2f>th.
[From the New York Herald of June 24. ]
Dispatches from headquarters, at five
o'clock on Tuesday morning, state that
on the day previous artillery firing on the
right and picket skirmishing was going
on at various points along the line, resulting
in the wounding of a few men,
but causing no change m the position.
A battery stationed on an elevated piece
of ground in front of Petersburg kept
annoying one of our batteries on the left
for some time, when it opened in return,
one ot the shells exploding in the midst
of the men at the rebel guns, and causing
a cessation of firing on their part (
Our dispatches trora Fortress Monroe
to the 22d describe the attack of the .
rebels, under Fitzhugli Lee and llamp- :
"? Whitf? Mouse. The charms
'""1 ?*? ' , c
of the enemy was driven back by the ,
fire of the gunboat Commodore Morris ;
and three others. The reikis attempted ,
to intercept Gen. Sheridan, but failed, as (
Sheridan with all his force arrived sately .
at White House. {
The President and Assistant Secratery j
of "the Navy Fox returned to Washington
yesterxlay after their visit to City <
Point.
iFrom the New York Herald of Jnne 25.]
The Second Army Corps had a fight
with the enemy on Tuesday, in which ,
the rebels for a time got the 'advantage,
and captured four guns, which were afterwards
retaken.
General R. S. Foster has gone on an
expedition up the James River, under
the protection of the gunboats and ironclads,
which, it is reasonably expected,
will make its mark in the advance on
Richmond. On the 22d the enemy shelled
our gunboats, but their batteries were
soon silenced.
The rebels have accounts of General
Hunters attack upon Lynchburg^ which
claim a defeat of the Union troops and
the capture of a large portion of General
Hunter's forces. Skirmishing and fighting
on Friday and Saturday are reported,
and a general engagemdnt was looked
for on Sunday.
? A^AAI loliirv PAIMm_
Dy II1C Itmvttl w UJC V'Viuuibia
from New Orleans we learn that the
rebel General Kirbv Smith was reported
to be crossing the Red river with his
forces.
PALMETTO HOOK AND LADDER
CO NO. 1.
A Ilook and Ladder Company with
the above name has just been formed
here. It is composed mostly of gentlemen
engaged in permanent business at
Hilton Head, or holding positions under
the government, and it is designed to
confine its membership to such persons
as will give character to it, and interest
themselves in making it an efficient, ere
ditable organization." A new truck has
been ordered in New York by Quartermaster
General Meigs, for this town,
and it is to be turned over to this
company as soon as it arrives. General
Foster and General Hatch both
approve of the formation of the company,
and kindly promise assistance
in attaining its objects and carrying out
its plans, "it is proposed to erect a neat
anil convenient truck house, and the
merchants are subscribing for the lumber.
The officers are as followsForeman,
Mr. S. S. Itoome, Chief Clerk to Captain
John II. Moore, Chief Quartermaster;
Assistant Foreman, Mr. L. D. Cunningham,
Chief Clerk to Capt. Haves; Secretary,
Mr. Geo. W. Crane, also of Captain
Moore's office; Treasurer, Mr. Wm. Elmendorf,
of Adams Express. The company
have adopted the motto of the State,
' Ever Ready with our Lives and Property.'"
Mr. "Roome was formerly fore%
'
man of the efficient Hose Co. at Beaufort,
and all the officers are right men in
the right place. In a town like this,
composed exclusively of wooden build-'
ings, a Hook and Ladder Company would
be almost indispensable in case of an extensive
tire, aud we Ik pe this one will
receive the enconragen ent which is necessary
to efficiency.
LATE REBEL NEWS.
"We are indebted to Maj.-Gen. Foster
for the use of rebel papers to the 2.*>th.
We make the following extracts from the ?
Charleston Courier of that date:
Marietta, June 24.?The enemy in
two and three lines of battle appeared in
front of Hardees' corps yesterday. Our
pickets fell back, causing them to follow,
when our artillery opened a severe fire,
driving them back to their breastworks
in great confusion and with much loss.
Our batteries upon Manassas Hill inflicted
severe punishment upon the in during
the day. A deserter from Hooker's corps
came into our lines this morning. He
says their loss on the right for the past
two days was eight hnudred, including
two Generals, whose names he did not
remember.
Near Marietta, June 23.?Stevenson,
supported by Stewart's and Hindman'x
divisions of Hood's corps, attacked the
enemy's right at five o'clock yesterday
(Wednesday) evening, at Manning s Mill, \
five miles West of Marietta, carrying two
lines of the enemy's works, we holding
the enemy's position and capturing sixty
prisoners. Stevenson s charge was gallant
and bloody, losing considerable. Hindman's
and Stewart's loss slight. Colcock,
commanding Brown's brigade, was mortaller
wnimilml T i?iiit Tlinmoa Thnmn
toil? I1VUUUWI f AJIUIIl* M 1 UVIU|/
son killed. This morning our batteries
are shelling from Keokesaw.
Marietta, June 23.?The details of the
great fight on Wednesday afternoon are
as follows: Hood's corps, held in reserve,
was ordered at noon to the extreme left.
When it got in position a battery of the
enemy opened fire upon it. Considerable
skirmishing ensued, when our line, under
Hood, with Brown's brigade in advance,
wa#dtrd&ed forward. It moved out with
cheering and a furious battle ensued.
We drove tlie enemy two miles and took
possession of two lines of fortifications,
captured twelve guns and a large number
of prisoners. The loss upon both sides
was frightful for the numbers engaged.
Gleburne's division also engageel tlie ene->
my with success on the right. Gen. Pettus,
of Mississippi, was killed. Colonels
Walker and Stair, of Tennessee, are kill- 9
ed, and Colonel Clark, of Tennessee,
mortally wounded.
Yankee Depredations in Fi-orida.?
On th<? ISth 1 ho VantpM rldti>(l (\tlnm.l
Broward's residence, Cedarville, on Cedar
Creek, a branch of the St. John's
river?and put the destroying flame to
every building. All of the furniture, as
well as wines, preserves, jellies, cheese,
butter, hone}*, syrup, sugar, and barrels
of arrowroot stored away for hospital
purposes,that they could not take off, were
thrown into the creek. A few days before
they committed these depredations, they
visited the house and told Mrs. Brownril
that they regretted exceedingly that she
had been singled out from among others,
but they had been credibly informed that
her husband was the leadr of the rebelliou
in Florida, and that through his influence
they had lost seven gunboats on the St.
John's river; and aS they had been baffled
in every scheme to get him, they
were compelled to execute their order,
and that was, if they did not succeed, to
destroy all his property, which would have
been done long before, but /the delay was
a plan devised to entrap him. Colonel
B. was saved three times by his faithful
negroes.
The News.?Contrary to our expectations,
we received nothing from Petersburg
or Richmond Frioay. A report,
oiiui tn h?VP tippn Itmilirht Vnr nuconmiKi
on the evening trains, was in circulation
that the enemy had made another attack
on our fortifications around Petersburg,
and were disastrously repulsed with
heavy loss and fifteen hundred taken prisoners.
Secretary Memmixger's Successor.?
It is said that Mr. Funnan, President of
one of the Charleston Banks, hus been
appointed Secretary of iht 1 re usury uce.
Memminger, resigned.