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Nov. 8?tf -H. T. PKAKE, Gen'l Sup't.
Oats and Cow Peas
T70R SALE FOR CASH, AT TI1E OLD CORNER.'
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11 UYUU1 ?JOI M. ? ??
Notice.
THAVR THIS DAY, 0( TOBER 24, SOLD OUT
my entire stock of Goods, Wares and Merchandise,
in the town of Uamden, to I. M. Springer, Esq., who
will continue the business at the same stand I have
occupied heretofore in tho said town. All persons
who are in anywise indebted to mo, will pleaso mako
payment of tho samo to said J. M. Springer, at an
early day; and all who havo claims against me will
present them to him for settlement.
Pesember 1R. SPRINGER.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHAMBER.)
April 4, 1802. f
rPIIE FOLLOWING LETTER OF RESIG *
NATION, and the resolutions adopted by
the Governer and Council in reply thereto,
have been ordered to be published :
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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, )
Adjutvnt and Inspector Gen's. Office >
Columbia, April 8, 1802. )
To His Excellency the Governor and Council:
Gentlemen: Having accepted the commission
of Brigadier General in the Confederate service,
I have the honor herewith to resign my commission
as Adjutant and Inspector General,
with which I wa? invested by the General Assembly
of .the State.
In taking leave, officially, permit me ro express
my thanks for many acts of kindness and
the uniform courtesy which has been always
extended to me by each member of your honorable
body. With the kindest regards and
best wishes for your success in the great work
| before' us, ] have the honor to he, very respectfully,
your obedient servant, S. R. GIST,
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EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHAMBER, )
April 3, 1862. J
Itc.solrci/, That the Governor and Council
accept the resignation tendered by General
S. K. Gist as Adjutant and Inspector General
of this State, and request that he will act as
Adjutant and Inspector General until he shall
receive orders from the Confederate authorities,
or until the Governor and Council shall appoint
his successor.
I/csolrcd, That the Governor and Council
sincerely reciprocate the kind feelings expressed
in the letter of Gen. Gist, and express their
reurot at. hoinir coinncllcd to Kpnornto from
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l>v order of the Governor and Council.
F. J. MOSES, Jr., Secretary.
A&T'All papers in the State copy once.
April 11 1
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
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executive council chamber,
April 4, 1862.
Tiie following preamble and
resolutions, adopted by the Governor and
Council, haw been ordered to be published :
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Whereas information lias readied the Governor
and Council that sundry small vessels
have, from time to time, carried from the port
of Charleston cargos of cotton, which the Governor
and Council have reason to believe have
found their way to the cncmv, and which certainly
have not brought back return cargos of
arms, munitions or army supplies; therefore,
Resolved. That during the continuance of
the present blockade the exportation of cotton
from any port in South Carolina is hereby prohibited,
unless by the express permission of
the Confederate State authorities.
Resolved, That an agent, resident in the City
of Charleston, be appointed, who shall be authorized
to grant permission for the exportation
of cotton on the terms hereinafter prescribed,
to wit: Affidavit shall be made that no part
of the cotton exported shall, with the consent
or connivance of the exporter, find its way into
the enemy: and bond, with good surety, shall
be given that the full amount of the net
proceeds or the sale of said cotton shall be
brought back into the Confederate States in
arms, munitions of war or army supplies, tin
less prevented by successful interpotition of the
enemy.
Extract from the minutes of April 4.
F. J. MOSES, Jr.,
Secretary.
JK^"A11 papers in the State copy once.
April 11 1
WOMAN'S RIGHTS.
It is her right to watch beside
The bed of sickness and of pain,
And when the heart almost despairs,
To whisper hopes of health again.
Her right to make the hearthstone glad,
With gentle words and cheerful smile,
Arid when man is with care oppressed,
llis wearied spirit to beguile.
t It is her right to train her sons,
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ou iney may oenuie cunmuers grace;
Thus is she with more lionor crowned.
Than if herself had filled the placo.
It is her right to bo admired,
By every generous, manly heart,
When with true dignity and grace
She acteth well a woman's part.
She hath a dearer right than this?
To be in olio true heart enshrined
Who, though the world may all forsake,
Will.cherish still and still be kind.
And there is yet a higher right,
Which also is to woman given ;
"lis her's to teach the iniant mind,
Those truths divine which come Irom Heaven.
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What should she more than to perform,
On earth file's holiest, sweetest ta.-ks?
When vou a nerfect woman find.
Is'o other rights than these she asks.
Tlic Virgin!;* and (lie Cumber I aiul. '
The New York World publishes a very interesting
statement, obtained fro in Mr^ A. B.
| Smith, the pilot of the Cumberland during the
battle, and who. having escaped from the sinki
ing vessel, arrived in New York on the 10th
inst. We reproduce the narrative in full:
On Saturday morning the United States
sloop-of-war Cumberland laid off in the Roads
at Newport News, about three hundred yards
from the shore, the Congress being about two
hundred yards south of us. The morning was
mild and pleasant, and the day opened without
any noteworthy incident. About 11 o'clock a
dark-lookin?r ol iect was descried co.nin*? round
Clancy Island through Norfolk channel, and
proceeding straight in onr direction. It was
instantly recognized as the Merrimac. We
had been on tho lookout for her for sometime,
and were as well prepared then as we could
have been during the last six months.
As she came ploughing through the water
right onwards to our port bow, she looked like
a huge half-submerged crocodile, ller sides
seemed of solid iron, excont where the crnns
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pointed from the narrow ports, and rose slantingly
trom the water, like the roof of a house
or the arched back of a tortoise. Probably
the extreme height of the apex from the water's
edge perpendicularly, was ten feet. At
her prow 1 could see the iron ram projecting
straight forwards, somewhat above the'water's
edge, and appaicntly a mass of iron; Small
boats were slung or fastened to her sides, and
the Confederate Hag tloatcd from one statf,
while a pennant was fixed to another at the
stern. There was asmoke staek or pipe near
| her middle, and she was probably a propeller,
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110 skio wneeis or mncninery oemg visible.
She is probably covered with railroad iron.
GETTING READY FOR ACTION.
Immediately on the appearing of the Merrij
mac the command was given to make ready
for immediate aetion. All hands were ordered
to their p'aees, and the Cumberland was
sprung acioss the channel, so that her broadside
would bear on the Merrimac. The armament
we could brine to bear on the Merrimac !
was about eleven nine and ten inch Dahlgren i
guns, and two pivot guns of the same make.
The gunners were at their posts, and we wailed
eagerly for her to approach within range.
She came up at the rate of four or five knots
per hour.
OPENING THE BATTLE.
When the Mcrrimac arrived within about a
mile we opened on her with our pivot guns,
a tut rh ?ion ms wo. could boar unon hnr nn.
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whole broadside commenced. Still she came
on, the balls bouncing fron her mailed sides 1
like India rubber, apparently not making the !
least impression, except to cut off her flag staff,
and thus bring down the Confederate colors.
None of her crew ventured at that time on her
outside to replace them, and she fought thence
forward with onlv her pennant flying. She
appeared to obey her helm and be very readily
handled, making all her movements and evolutions
with facility and readiness. We had
fired six or eight broadsides, when a shot was
received from one of her guns which killed
five of our mmino*
It was impossible for our vessel to get out
of her way, and the Merrimac soon crashed her
iron horn or rain into the Cumberland, just
starboard the main chains, tinker the bluff of
the port bow, knocking a hole into the side
near the water line as large as the head of a
hogshead, and driving the vess< 1 back upon
her anchors with great force. The water came
rushing into the hold. The Aierrimac then
backed out. ai d discharged her guns at us, the
shot passing through the main bay and killing
five sick men. The water was all the while
rushing into the hole made by the ram, so that
in five minutes it was up to the sick bay on
berth deck. In the mean timelier broadsides
swept our men away, killed and maimed, and
also set our vessel on fire in the forward part.
That fire was extinguished. I cannot tell how
many were wounded. The sick bay, berth and
gun deck were almost literally coveted with
men killed and wounded, but the surviving
ones still fought well, and every one, officers
and men, displayed the utmost heroism.
The fight lasted about three fourths of an
hour, the Cumberland firing rorv;.ii.*
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the time the water pouring into the hold, and
V?y and by the ports, as her bow kept sinking
deeper and deeper. Near the middle of the
fight, when the berth deck of the 'Cumberland
had sunk below water, one of the crew of the
Merrimao came out of a port to the outside of
her iron plated roof, and a ball from one of our
guns instantly cut him in two. That was the
last and only Confederate that ventured within
sight; the rest remained in their safe, ironwalled
enclosure. We fired constantly, and
the Merrimac ocasionally, but every shot told
upon our wooden vessel and brave crew. Her
guns being without the least elevation, pointed
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straight at lis along the surface of the water
and her nearness, she being ranch of the time
within three hundred yards, made it an easy
matter to send each hall to its exact mark.
Probably her guns would be useless at a considerable
distance, as it appears impossible to
elevate them.
Finally about three quarters of an hour of
the most severe fighting, our vessel sunk?the
stars and stripes still waving. That flag was
finally submerged; but after the hull grounded
on the sand, fifty-four feet below the surface of
the water, our pennant was still tlvincr from
the topmast above the waves. None of. our
men were captured, but many were drowned
as the vessel went down. We had about four
hundred on board, and I suppose from one
hundred and fifty to two hundred were killed
during the engagement and drowned at the
sinking. Lieut. George V. Maurice was in
command of the vessel?Capt. Radford being
absent on the Roanoke, at a court of inquiry,
and, though he hurried back to reach his vessel
he could not arrive till after she had snnk.
Very few of our men swam ashore, most of
those who were rescued from the water being
saved by small boats. The Mcrrimac seemed
to be uninjured, although her small boats and
flag staff were shot away in the commencement
of the action.
A Soldier's life saved bv a Testament.
?One of the w< u ded f m Gei o a '?
(Stonewall) command ha- with him a Testament
Dierced bv a bullet. A physician of
w ?
Richmond, who is attending him, states that
but for the obstruction of the Testaim nt the
ball would, without doubt, have passed through
his heart and proved fatal. The same was
true of a soldier engaged in the fight of the
21st at Manassas.