The Free South, 1863-08-15

inflict injufies 011 our gallant troops wlio wield the spade and pick as well as they have the musket. Fort Wagner, when not kept silent by the iron-clads and our mortar and rifle batteries, directs a shhrp j fire of canister and grape on our working parties, making the air above them vocal with the nondescript missiles they favor us with. The rebels seem to have a peculiar relish for broken bottles and glassware, old bits of crockery, rusty nails, fragments of cooking utensils and all sons of odds and ends which may inflict wounds, and these missiles they pour into our lines with an intense zest and no little spite. Some of crar men have been wounded by these novel projectiles, and in a few instances quite seriously. The rebel stock of iron is quite limited, we must infer from the above facts, or they have chosen to use substitutes for the ordinary missile which render wounds more serious and more apt to occasion death eventually. In either case the show is not at all favorable to the rebels. In the trenches, as in every department, the cupidity and unprincipled character of some of the sutlers have, on Morris Island, occasioned not a little trouble among the troops. Recently the sutlers, regardless of regulations and only desirous to increase their ill-gotten stores," have sold wines and liquors to the soldiere and occasioned insubordination among them. Several have been arrested by Lieutenant Colonel Hall, Provost Marshal General, and proofs of their guilt not being hard to procure, they were sent to the front to ?^ ? 41,*, an/1 l'oliovA fVinm

account of tlieir conduct in the fight of j July 11th, has been construed into a direct | or implied charge of cowardice or demor- 1 alization, I wish to correct the impres- I sion. Time has shown that there was uot j a straggler from the seventy-sixth 011 that morning. Colonel Straw'bridge is still fpiite ilL Major J. I. Plympton, formerly of Gen. Strong's stall', and who being the senior ! officer of that brigade of those who were I not killed, wounded or missing, after the | fight of the 18th, and consequently had ! command of the brigade till a new Brigadier was assigned, was subsequently transferred to General Seymour's staff, and is now on General Terry's, as Division Inspector. In the absence of Lieut. Col. i Jackson at Hilton Head he is now chief ! inspector here. In warfare, of the kind we are now eni gaged in, those who are enlisted or commissioned as combatants are not alone subject to the dangers of the field. Servants, surgeons hospital nurses and civilians often had themselves under a hot fire. Our wagon trains, under charge of Mr. John Nevill, of New York, chief wagon master, and Mr. Clark, his assistant, are often fired on in going to and returning from the front?oftener even than bodies of troops, because a better mark. A few days since two horses were badly wounded the pole of the wagon splintered, and one

Onr Relations with Japan. In the month of November last, the American bark Chert die, of New* York, while on her voaage from Hakocladi to Shanghae, China, struck a sand-knoll, stranded, and became a total wreck, about 100 miles northeast of Kanagawa. Information of the occurrence was promptly communicated to the United States Consul at that port, and a steam gunboat was placed at his disposel by the Japanese Government, to enable him to proceed to the wreck for the relief and rescue of the crew. On arriving at the scene of disaster, the officers and crew of the Chevalie were found on shore having been rescued from the breakers by the natives, who ^rented them with great kindness. TIioa were lodged in the temple, furnished with aa abundance of food, and an ample guard to protect them. On receiving intelligence of this demonstration on the part of the Japanese, of their intention to fulfill every treaty obligation, as well as the obligations of the most enlightened humanity, the President directed presents to be sent to the principal officers of the gunboat who carried our Consul to the wreck of the Chertdie, and to the authorities of the province in which the disaster took place. These testimonials will shortly be sent to Mr. Pruyn, our Minister resident in Japan, for distribution. They consist

BEAUFORT, S. C., SATU General Vogdes, where he has performed his duties in the most satisfactory manner. Lieutenant Colonel Leggett, Tenth Connecticut, is now out of danger and recovering rapidly. He received a wound from .a shell while in the trenches a few days since, which necessitated amputation. lie is now doing as well as could be desired, with every prospect of an early recovery. Colonel M. S. Littlefield, of the Fourth South Carolina, has been placed temporarily in command of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, in consequence of the lack of officers in that regiment, a majority having been killed, wounded or made prisoners in the recents fights, where the regiment behaved most gallantly. ktake or itrfgaoikk OKXERAt. t. ?. 8tevexron. Captain William Psatt, Acting Adjutant Gtucral. Captain W*. V. Hctciiixuh, Acting qnartermaatur. Captain Robert F. Clerk, Asst. Inspector General. Lieutenant Feki?. A. Sawyer, Acting Commissary of Subsistence. Lieutenant GrA N. Malt.ory, Aid-de-Camp. Any statements in correspondence from here derogatory to the character of the Seventy-sixth Pennsylvania, either for courage or discipline, are wholly unfounded. There is not a braver ca- better disciplined regiment on the island. If my

All IUC UCUIUIO , oruu n/ * vuv* w of any inclination to shirk work or escape, orders were given to shoot them down if they did not obey orders. Some of them -were in the advance wielding the shovel for forty-eight hours, and subsisting on soldier's fare, and incurring soldier's liabilities to be blown to pieces by the enemy's shells. They worked well, and most of them have been relieved from arrest ; but their stocks of wines and liquors have been confiscated, and they themselves ordered from the department. Here; after, but little liquor will be sold to soldiers, as twen ty-four hours in the trenches under a hot fire and still hotter sun, is a consummation not much desired by the noble army of sutlers and extortioners. Fear overcomes the desire for gain occasionally, and in no class more completely, under the new order of things, than in the venders of bad whiskey and execrable preserved milk. I am happy to announce the promotion of Quartermaster John L. Kelly, of the Fourth New Hampshire, to the position of Assistant Quartermaster of Volunteers, with the rank of captain. He has been for several months acting as Brigade Quartermaster with the late Colonel Putnam, and more recently on the staff of

right oil the table. . >, Some rich men keep cross dogs around their houses, so that the hungry poor who stop to 4'get a bite" may get it outside of the door. 44 Sam, why don't you talk to massa and tell him to lay up treasures in heaven ?" 44 What for V What de use ub layin' up treasures dar, whar heneber see um agin ?" As gr^w old, we should grow rev-. + erent. .Nature keeps our heads covered in our youth, but uncovers them in our .old age. The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth or courage. Woman must remember tbat she brought more sin and misery into the world by her eating than ever man has by hik drinking. ' The Boston Herald has been specially favored in the draft. Two editors, brothers, two clerks, four compositors, and four pressmen have been drafted. A piece of bread soaked in vinegar and applied to a com on the foot, on going to bed at nmht, and bound with a piece of oil cloth, will remove the corn in two or three applic ations. 44 That's a fine strain,"- said one gentleman to another, alluding to the tones oi n oinflror of o MnAorf fliA nflipr nupninff_

of a solid silver speaking trnmpet, elegant- I ly and elaborately chased with marine and other natiotal emblems, with the inscription, "From the President of the United States of America, in appreciation of courage and hnmnuity two gold chronometers, with Japanese figures, and a doubletnbe marine glass of the best quality, all bearing the inscription similar to that of the trumpet. Major Noah said a hazel eye inspires at first sight a Platonic sentiment, as securely foimded as the rock of Gibraltar. A woman with a hazel eye never elopes with her husband, never chats scandal, never sacrifices her husband's comfort to her own, never talks too little, always is an intellectual, agreeable and lovely creature. We never knew, says a brother editor, of but one hazel eyed woman who was uninteresting or unamiable, and she had a nose that looked, as we Yankees say, like the little end of nothing, whittled down to a point. ! ' The grey is a sign of shrewdness and fol nnf r?rnnf fViinlrova on/1 Adnfoina liovo !

corrupt one's manners ? It takes forty Poles to make one Hood. Wliy are horses in cold weather like meddlesome gossips ? Because they are the bearers of idle tails. Vice is more revolting among the high than among the low, as tilth disgusts one more in the parlor than in the stable. What five names in the bible represent v a child going to get a whipping ? Adam, /'* ?. % Seth Eve, Ca\a Abel. Why cannot the Emperor Napoleon insure his life ? Because nobody can make ' out his policy. *? * : . / Some women think that virtue was ! given them as claws were given to oats? to do nothing but scratch with. Military buttons are very attractive to a woman, especially if they are also bach' elor's buttons. "Katy, have yon laid the table-elotfr and plates, yet ?" " An sure I hev, mens, evervthing but the eggs, an isn't that Biddy's work, surely ? Mrs. Partington say's she don't wondei at it, that there is so much stealing ii Congress, when they always lay their bill*