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FLEEING T ; GOD.
Under the shadow of Thy wing, my Father !
Till life's calamities be overpast,
In that sure refuge let my spirit gather
Strength to bear calmly on unto the last.
Be merciful to me,—for thoughts that crush
larl
Lie like an incubus upon my breast,
Only thy voice, Omnipotent, can hush me
Into the quiet eve of seeming rest.
Oh ! what is life but one long, long endur-
DM
Of this dull heavy weight on heart and
brain ?
Speak to my spirit—speak the strong asaur-
IMO
That nothing Thou ordainest is in vain
WIC C. LIN OBEY
Trembling amid the turmoils of exisienct,
Oh I let me grasp a more than mortal arm :
Father! my Father! be not at a distance
When earth's dark phantoms Thy weak
child alarm.
Under Thy shadow, fear cannot appal me,
If in the Rock of Ages surely hid
Under Thy shadow ! harm cannot befall me,
If thou, All-wise, All-merciful, forbid
Nearer to Thee, my Saviour! my Redeemer!
In Heaven, on earth, whom hath my soul
but Thee f
Though for an instant, as some feverish dream-
Grasps at the treasure which he seems to
see.
I, too, have dreamed, and waked to Ind illu
sion
Inscribed on all I sought to make my own,
And turning from my idols in confusion,
I dedicate my life to Thee alone.
Under the shadow of Thy wing abiding ;
Close to my suffering Saviour's wounded
side,
In the sure prom*. of His love confiding.
Why should I shrink, though earthly ills be
tide
Oh ! if the heart grew strong through suffering
only.
If but through trial it may reach its goal,
I will rejoice, although my way be lonely.
And all Thy waves and billows o'er me roll
Z~gitaul~.
BOREF PIIRGIIBON'S DEATH-BED.
Robert Furguson, the immediate prede
cessor and prototype of Robert Burns, in_
herited both his genius and his virtues
from his mother. His death-bed was a
most affecting , scene.
He was stricken with insanity in his
twenty-fourth year, at which early age he
had written a considerable number of very
beautiful and affecting poems. He was
carried, by his broken-hearted and widow
ed mother, to the only asylum then estab
lished for the insane in Scotland. Visit
ing him a short time before his dissolu
tion, his mother and sister found him in
bed, quite peaceable. He requested his
mother to gatherthe bedclothes round him
and sit on the bed beside him ; his sister
then took her seat on the other side.
He looked wistfully up into his mother's
face. "I was very cold," said he, "before
you came, mother. This is very kind of
you."
Then addressing his sister, he said—
" Ellen, dear, I wish you would sometimes
bring your sewing, and sit and work at my
bedside."
No reply was made, but both mother and
sister were in tears.
"What ails you, dears?" inquired the
dying poet, fancying that he was a little
child again. "Why are you sorrowing
for me, mother? I was cold, very cold ;
but I feel quite warm now you have come.
Mother," he continued, "I don't recollect
saying my prayers before I got into bed
to-night. Will you let me say them to
you now? And then will you sing for
me?"
He repeated then, childlike, the prayers
he had been used, when an infant, to repeat
at his mother's knee.
"Mother," he added, when he had finish
ed, "you have often told me that if I was
a good boy, I should go to hea!ven when
I died. I think lam dying now, and I
know God will take me to heaven for
Christ's sake, through your prayers, dear
mother."
"Ellen," he continued, addressing his
sobbing sister, "don't cry, dear. Be good
to mother when I am gone, for then she
will have no one to care for her on earth
but you. You will both come to heaven
to meet me, won't you ?"
"Mother," he added, after a pause,
"please lift up my head and let me rest is
on your bosom, it aches so bad."
The weeping mother raised her son's
head and rested it on her bosom„as She
had done when he was a little child."
"My head doesn't ache now," he mur
mured. "Oh, now lam so happy. I know
we shall all three meet in heaven;" and
the once strong man sank peaceably to
sleep, and in that Asap passed away to
death on the same breast upon which he
had lain for rest in earlier and happier
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WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1862.
A Word t 3 Young Men.
"What does that young man do
for a living ?" is the common inquiry,
as some foppish, well-dressed individ
ual passes by. "Nothing, nothing
at all," is the frequent reply. "But
what supports him in his extrava
gances ?" None can tell—but we,
being a Yankee, have the privilege
of guessing. That young man that
dresses in broadcloth, carries a cane,
and is so extremely polite to all his
acquaintances, especially the ladies,
is the son of a man in moderate cir
cumstances, who finds it difficult to
sustain himself with a moderate in
come. His son wishes to be a gen
tleman, and lives without labor.—
The father in his folly refuses to put
him to a trade, or send him to work
on a farm, hoping that something
may turn up, by-and-by, when busi
ness will be better, for his son to ob
tain a good living without work.—
He is now obliged to dispense with
the luxuries of life—perhaps with
some of its comforts for his son to
keep up appearances, and get into
good society, as that kind of company
is termed, where young men have
nothing to do but to dress according
to the latest fashion. He is quite in
dependent, and uses language to his
seniors that might be considered
uncourteous in a king. He faces all
classes and conditions without a
blush, .and dares to look with con
tempt on the honest apprentice,
whose generous soul would outweigh
a thousand as light as his own. The
companions he chooses are like him
self, puffed up with vanity, swelling
with importance, and who make a
pretence of doing something, by oc
casionally visiting a lawyer's office,
to read a page or two of Blackstone.
The end of such a youth it needs no
prophetic vision to see. "It is as
plain as the way to market," at lir.
Franklin would say, that he will turn
out a low, despised, and miserable
tool. Perhaps the Penitentiary will
bring him up; perhaps the gallows.
But if he escapes these, it will be to
hang like an incubus on those of his
friends, who for pity's sake, have not
the heart to send him where he de
serves.
A Touching Incident.
A day or two ago, a volunteer,
about to join his regiment, advertised
that he would take letters for his
comrades of the same regiment. He
received a great many letters and
packages containing small donations
from loved ones at home. It was in
teresting to observe the throng as
they,came,and, dropping their affec
tionate donations, went on their way
happier. There were old, young, and
Middle-aged, fathers and mothers to
sons, and sisters to brothers. There
was one, however, who attracted
more attention than the rest. She
was a girl of some seventeen sum
mers, scantily but neatly dressed,
and but for the care which marked
every feature of her countenance,
would have been termed pretty.
"This letter," said she to the lady
who received her, "is for my brother.
Will it reach him, do you think?"
"It will, certainly." •
"I am so glad. There is a dollar
in it, madam, for my brother. It is
a small sum to send him, (and the
tears filled her eyes,) but it is my
last dollar."
"Your last dollar ?"
"Yes, madam. You see, since my
brother went to the war, I am left
alone with my old mother. Work
has been very scarce, and. I can
scarcely make enough to live on.—
But when we heard how our soldiers
were suffering in Western Virginia,
our hearts were much pained, and
mother and I have been grieving
over the fate of my poor brother.—
We had only a dollar, and we sent it
to him."
We need not say that the noble
girl met with a cordial sympathy.—
In ordinary times such instances of
self-sacrifice were scarce, but now
they are numerous.—Cin. Times.
A War Incident.
Among the many instances where
the bravery of our officers and men Tortures of a Wicked Conscience.
A convict in Van Dieman s Land,
have shone conspicuous, the one re- 4 after quarreling with one of the over
lated below is almost unequalled: seers, brutally murdered him. He
Capt. Spencer, aid to Gen. Wool, immediately escaped, with a few
received information from two ladies clothes and a gun, to the wild soli
who went from Norfolk to Fortress ; tude of the bush. The murderer,
Monroe with a flag of truce, that , lived for some time like a savage,
near midnight a six-oared boat was ' occasionally making his appearance,
to leave Norfolk for Richmond,- with armed to the teeth, at various huts,
money for the payment of the rebel ; where he peremptorily demanded
soldiers. He requested permission food.. The convict's mind ultimately
of Gen. Wool to attempt their capture ; succumbed to the severe mental ago
and was told not to place too much ; ny and physical distress to which it
confidence in the information receiv- ; was exposed, and he became a dan
ed. Nevertheless, permission was gerous lunatic. He was eventually
given, and selecting two good oars- ; perceived to be under the dominion
men, on whom he could rely, with of a terrible hallucination. He im
their oars muffled, he started at dark, agined that he was constantly being
and awaited the coming of the ene- pursued by the ghastly phantom of
my's boat. He had previously given his murdered victim. He was obser
direction to his men to pull directly ved to rash frantically from tree to
kir the boat, and on striking to "back tree, bush to bush, house to house,
water" instantly. About midnight from one part of the district to an
the boat, was heard approaching, other,
endeavoring to fly (like an an
and takinghis station in the how, imal hunted to death by ferocious
with a nine-inch shell in his hands, he bloodhounds) from the clutches of
gave the order to "give way." The some persons constantly in his wake,
moment his bows struck the rebel. and steadily tracking his path. The
boat, he - dire* the shell -into the maniac. eventually surrendered him
die ofit,alid was hitnnelf drawn bank, I self into the hands of the pollee, al-
Peeeltvitg l*Ateiert front the ,ksgmf timstnnanhAlaton.Apalreafera-
explosion. Not so the boat and oc
cupants, however, the former of
which was in two, and the latter
were scattered in all directions in the
water, not, however, before dis
charging their pistols at him, two
balls going through his cap and three
perforating his coat. The men were
then told that if they submitted ipli
etly- they would be saved, otherwise
he would leave them to their fate.—
They preferred the former : and
arming himself with a pistol in one
hand and a dirk (taken by him at
the battle of Bull Run from a "Se
cesh").in the other, he took them in
his boat one by one, handcuffing
them as they were pulled in. In ad
dition to which, from the stern of
the enemy's boat, which floated, he
took $l,lOO in gold, and $5,000 in
their worthless paper money. It
was with some difficulty that he
reached the Fort, the gunwale of the
boat being almost level with the wa
ter from its increased freight.
Losses in Battles.
At the battle of Arcola, the Aus
trians lost in killed 18.000 men ; the
i -
French 15,000.
At Hohenlinden the Austrian loss
was 14,000 ; the French 9,000.
At Austerlitz, the Allies, out of
80,000- nen, lost 30,000 in killed,
j wounded and prisoners; the French
only (!) 12,000.
At Jena and Auerstadt the Prus
! slang lost 30,000 men, killed and
wounded, and nearly as many pris
oners, making nearly 60,000 in all ;
and the French 14,000 in killed and
wounded.
At the terrific battle of Eylau, the
Russians lost 25.000 men, killed and
wounded ; and the French 30,000.
At Friedland, the Russian loss was
17,000 in killed and wounded; the
French loss 8,000.
At Wagrarn the Austrians and
trench lost each 25,000 men, or
50,000 in all, in killed and wounded.
At Smolensko the French loss was
17,000 men; that of the Russians
10,000.
At Borodino, which is said to have
been "the most murderous and ob
stinately fought battle on record,"
the French lost in killed wounded
and prisoners, 50,000 men—the. Rus
sians about the same number, making
in all 100.000 men in one battle !
At Lutzen the French loss was 18,-
000 men—the Allies 15.000.
At Bautzen the French lost 25,000
men—the Allies 15,000.
At Dresden, where the battle last
ed two days, the Allies lost in killed,
wounded and prisoners, 25,000 men;
the French between 10,000 and 12,-
000.
At Liepsic, which lasted ti ree
days, Napoleon lost two „ Marshkls,
twenty Generals, and about 60,000
men, in killed, wounded and prison
ers—the Allies 1,790 officers, and
about 40,000 men—upward of 100,000
men in all!
At Ligny, the Prussians lost 15,-
000 men in killed, wounded and pris
oners—the French 6,800.
The battle of Trebbia lasted for
three days, and the French and Allies
lost each about 12,000 men, or 24,000
in all.
Besides these were several others
of minor importance to the forego
ing, as to the loss of men, but large
in the aggregate. There were those
of the Bridge of Lodi, a most desper
ately contested fight; the famous
battle of the Nile, a sea fight, in
which Nelson lost 895 men in killed
and wounded, and the French 5,225
men in killed and wounded, 3,005
prisoners, and 12 out of the 17 ships
engaged in the action; that of the
Bay of Aboukir, where the French
had 8,000 men engaged, and the
Turks 9,000, and every man of the
Turks was lost, in killed, wounded
and prisoners; Marengo, a most des
perate and bloody engagement; Ma
ida, where the'rFrench, out of 7,500
men engaged, lost about 4,800 in kill
ed, wounded and prisoners; Talavera,
another famous and bloody engage
ment; Albuera, where the British,
out of 7,500 men engaged, lost 4300.
ble to the agony of mind which he
suffered. In fact, although insane,
he prayed earnestly for death at the
hands of ttie public executioner, in or
der to extricate himself from the
spectral image that was never absent
from his mind !
A Touching In cident.
The humanizing influences of the great
est of all the virtues was thrillingly ex
emplified in a circumstance which occur
red near Sedalia, Missouri, on the night of
9th instant, the particulars of which have
been communicated to us by a gentleman
well known in this city, who happened to
be present at the time. Sedalia in the ter
minus of the Pacific railroad, aad a mili
tary point of the Federal army, under the
command of General Steel, an accomplish
ed officer of the regular service. A short
time since he learned that Ebenezer Ma
goffin, a brother of our Governor and a
Colonel in Price's rebel army, was stealth
ily lying around his own premises, going
in occasionally to see his wife, who was ex
ceedingly and dangerously ill with the
jaundice, and at the same time anticipa
ting a confinement, which had been terri
bly protracted some six or seven weeks.—
Upon the day mentioned, General Steel
dispatched one of Colonel Magoffin's own
political friends to him, inviting him to
the residence of Dr. James R. Hughes and
hold a conference with Colonel E. R.
Brown, in the presence of the Doctor.—
Colonel Magoffin was at the appointed
place when Colonel Brown arrived. The
latter, after the courtesies of the evening
were interchanged, said : ‘.‘Colonel Ma
goffin, what will you have ?" Colonel M.,
throwing up nis hand to his face, said:
"I want to see my dying wife." Colonel
Brown immediately replied : "You can
do so in entire safety. Dr. Hughes and
myself will accompany you as body
guard." Colonel Brown then asked him :
"Will you have anything else ? Have you
any terms of peace and reconciliation to
propose to me as the Federal agent ?"
Colonel lifogoffin paused for a moment—
again threw his hand up to his head, and
remarked : "Colonel Brown, my brain is
addled ; I am almost crazy ; I have not
slept for three days and nights, I have
slept out in the cold and rain, I am full of
cold. Give me ten days time to answer,
then my poor wife will either be dead and
buried or convalescent."
Col. Brown, full of kind feeling anddeep
ly affected by the terrible sufferings and
mental agony of this misguided gentle
man, replied: "You can have it." The
three then repaired to the residence of Col.
Magoffin, which was about two miles dis
tant. When Col. M. approached the bed
side of his wife, who was speechless and
almost senseless, a momentary glisten of
the eye seemed to indicate a recognition of
her husband, while at the same time she
made a very 'feeble effort to place her dy
ing arm around his neck. Dr. Hughes, an
ticipating her wish, assisted her ; and then
at that perilous hour was demonstrated the
strength and endurance of the pure affec
tion of a noble-hearted woman—"faithful
unto death." She seemed to be perfectly
happy and resigned, as if she was ready to
exchange the love of earth for the joys of
heaven, which were opening on her sight.
The scene was intensely affecting. Col.
M. was bowed down with the profoundest
grief; his heart was as a bruised reed.—
Aroun d the dying lady, as witnesses to the
thrilling event, and the humanity of the
Federal Army, sat Mr. and Mrs. Hutchin
son, the father and mother of Mrs. Ma
goffin, the Colonel's entire family, and sev
eral neighbors and friends.
In most instsnces the chamber of death
should be sacred from the apparent prof
anation of newspaper comment; but there
may be some good accomplished to the cause
of humanity in this instance by detailing
the circumstances. Col. Magoffin has
been the most active, the most seductive,
and the most influential secessionist in
Missouri. When Col. Marshall's cavalry
regiment was passing through Georgetown,
some time in August, Col. Magoffln, from
a window, shot at and killed two of the
number anji wounded others. He was cap
tured by Col. Marshall, taken to Lexing
ton, and kept in the fortifications until
Col. Mulligan surrendered that post. He
then went with Price to the southwest part
of the State, and held a prominent posi
tion in his army ; and yet while the Fed
eral Army is denounced by these very men
as barbarous, this deed of Christian chari
ty was performed by those who sympathi
zed with the afflicted husband, though
they so strongly condemn his pernicious
course and counsels.—Louisville Journal.
"The Methodist minister stationed at
Ware, Mass., recently sued the trustees of
the church for the .unpaid balance of his
salary. The counsel of the defendants
contended that, under the economy of
Methodism, nothing was legally due him ;
that the minister was sent to the society
from his Conference, not called by the so
ciety ; that all payments under such cir
cumstances were voluntary, and not the
result of a legal agreement binding both
sides; and that if the stewards of the so
ciety did not collect the full amount of the
salary, there was no legal means of col
lecting the balance. The court decided
that the grounds ttf the defence were cor
rect, and that. the clergyman could sot re
cover."
Career of a Villain.
The Skaneateles Democrat this
week gives the upshot in the case of '
an imposter, a young Englishman by
the name of Nurse, a resident of that
village, who some months ago. it was ; Death from Intemperance.
announced, had inherited a hand- ,' A shocking ease of death from in
some property by the demise of a ! temperance and exposure occurred in
relative in England, and that with ! Pitt tp., near the mouth of Four Mile
it had descended a title which was ,
Run, on Monday night. A party of
to fall upon him, under the style of , Irish, of the lower class, met at a
"Sir James Burdett Nurse, Captain house in the
neighborhood, to
Tame
of the Queen's Own Guard," 47c. i for
turkeys, the proceeds of which
The young nobleman has flourished I were for the benefit of the widow of
gaily in the best society of Skan- . Lenox Rea. Among those present
eateles for some months. He for med. were Mathias Davis and his wife Ann
the acquaintance of the daughter of a Jane, both of whom became very
citizen of English descent, courted, drunk , and started for home between
and married her. They made a eight and nine o'clock. On Tuesday
grand wedding tour, returned to morning Mrs. Davis was found in the
Skaneateles, took elegant apartments run, frozen to death—her elothing
at the Lake House, set up an "Eng- scattered about her the baby al
lish cab," and flourished generall7 most nude and exhibiting numerous
in grand style. Occasionally, "Sir bruises.
James" made a flying trip to New T hes.
Coroner being absent, Alder-
York, to look after remittances man Donaldson undertook the case,
which he claimed came through an
eminent banking house, known as and after hearing some witnesses,
committed Davis to jail until this
the firm of "Belmont & Co." On the morning, when other witnesses were
i 4th instant he made one of these Ito be examined. In the meantime, a
visits—the last, as he took his "port- ! post morttm examination was made,
able property," his wardrobe, and and it was clear her death had not
' has not since been heard from. The been caused by violence. The bruises
checks he gave to his personal friends' had doubtless been received by re
just before he decamped,have been dis- . peated falling on the frozen ground,
; dishonored; a forged note, for several and in the delirium preceding death
hundred dollars, bears his father-in
she may have divested herself of her
law'S name; he is indebted to many clothing. Her husband was too
of the business men, tradesmen, and drunk to give her any assistance,
farmers of Skaneateles. His young
.and she was Jett to p - eirish by the
wife, cheated, broken hearted, and way.
disconsolate, has returned to her A son of the deceased, aged ten
father's house, with all her bright vi- years, who was with them at the raf
sions dissipated. Nurse has proved ;fie, and who could not be found on
himself an adroit and successful swin
dler and imposter.—Sy racu se_ Journol. and held as a witness. He was ex,
Tuesday, was subsequently arrested
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, amined this morning, and stated4n
substance that his mother fell on her
face while going home. He and his
father raised her up with great diffi
culty, and after proceeding some dis
tance she fell again. They tried to
raise her up, but his father was very
drunk, and they were obliged to go
on without her. In about half au
hour he returned, in company with
his father, and found her dead, in the
spot where they had left her, with
most of her clothing torn off. They
went home again, and did •not re,
turn where the corpse was until day,
light.
Dr. AfeCook testified that there
were no wounds which might not
have been received in falling, and
that her death was caused by expo,
The following singular occurrence
was witnessed on Saturday night in
the neighborhood of Colchester. A
solitary man, in a lamentable state of
drunkenness, driving himself in his
market-cart, was met in the Mersea
road by a well-known gallant major
of the Colchester garrison. The keen
eye of the officer perceiving smoke
issuing from the driver's clothes, he
turned his horse's head, and, clapping
spurs to its sides, gave chase to the
man on fire. As the pursuer neared
the fugitive, the drunken man could
not understand that he was to he so
easily beaten, and, app',3-ing his whip
to his horse, away he flew. The ma
jorput on the steam also,bult thepace
was too great and the road too nar
row to enable him to pass the smo
king man, who, from the draft caused
by his flight, was unaware of his be
ing on fire and leaving a broad trail
of' smoke behind; so away they went,
the wondering villagers turning out
too late to stop the infuriated man.—
At length they reached a wide part
of the road, of which the major dex
terously took advantage, shot past
the drunken man, and actually, by
dint of pulling directly in front of
the driver's horse stopped the cart.—
Not a. moment too soon, however, for
the man's waistcoat was completely
burnt through, as well as his under
shooting-coat. So helplessly intoxi
cated was he that he had to be drag
ged out of the cart head foremost, his
coat torn off, and the fire extinguish
ed. It is most fortunate for the luck
less Wight that he fell in with sogood
a Samaritan, for had he succeeded in
distancing his pursuer, most probably
he would have met a shocking death.
—Chelnvford Eng .Chronicle.
A Scarred Veteran Killed.
The Southern papers are lamenting the
death of Captain Anderson, a gallant old
officer, who they say had been in nearly
sixty battles. He was killed at the late
battle on Cheat Mountain. The Lynch
burg Republican says: Capt. Anderson
had the appearance of a military man, and
everywhere he went would be noticed as a
man of mark. Capt. Anderson was sent
early to West Point, where he was a. co
temporary of President Davis and Gen.
Lee, and remained there three Years, when
be received a bayonet wound through his
right wrist, which permanently disabled
him. He then resigned, and studied law
at Winchester under the elder Tucker, at
the same time with C. J. Faulkner and H.
A. Wise. He practiced law in Tennessee,
and was frequently elected to the Legisla
ture of that State.
At the breaking out of the Mexican war
he raised a large volunteer company, and
was in every important engagement from
Vera Cruz to Chapultepec; at which lat
ter engagement he acted most heroically, ;
having seventeen of his men killed the
first fire, and as an appreciation of his
bravery it sword was presented to him by
his company, bearing the following in
scription: " Never mind it, boys! Com
pany, forward! Remember you are Ten
nesseeans 1"
pact,
He was the first to raise a company of as it could be. There is no prospect
volunteers in Tennessee for the Southern of change either for the better; but,
.
cause, and was elected as one of the Ma-
as tHe winter advances, things are
daily getting orse.
jors of the First Tennessee regiment, but w
the Confederate States having but one
True friendship increases afil
Major for a regiment, he resigned at this life's end approach etajtast, as thesbild.
place, and then together with his lieuten- ow lengthens every degree the. atn
ante, raised sru l liplendid corps of artillery de t ai nee , fps/lambi sett44.3g•
of one hundred men for during the war. '
which company has now been in three itn- .J Remember 4/04 .14,16 wall, lest 414
portant istttles-m•tbe 3ai ,114:egkosin, thine el! tinsiuderose-thee. .
MI
A Good Samaritan.
NEW SERIES.--VOL. 3, NO. 31.
Greenbriar and Allegheny. He wasa ree
[
4ent, at the time he engaged for the war,
of Tullahoma, Coffee county, Tenn., and
was fifty-five years old.
CUM
The jury found a verdict that the
deceased came to her death by the
effect of intemperance and exposure,
and the husband was discharged from
custody. Mrs. Davis was about thir
ty-six years of age, and bad but one
child—the lad alluded to.—Pittsburg
Post.
Carolina Suffering as She Ought.
The facts given in the letters re
ceived from correspondents in South
Carolina, indicate a terrible condition
of affairs in that wretched State.—
Ruin and dismay reign from the
seaboard to the mountains. The po
litical, social and financial ruin which
South Carolina sought to bring upon
the country has first overtaken her
self. The plantation lords of the sea
islands and the coast—the richest
part of the State—have fled in terror;
the business and commercial portion
of the State's only large city is in
ashes; a great part of the poor
whites—and these • constitute the
bulk of the white men in the State—
refuse to fight; the slaves of the sea
board—the densest slave section in
the State—are virtually freed and in
anarchy; while this element isevery
where looked upon with distrust.—
I The entire coast, from forty miles
below to forty miles above Port Roy
al, is deserted by its white inhabit
ants, and the -rattle snake flag and
the rebel batteries are swept from
nearly the whole coast of South Car
olina. The rebel soldiers are every
where firing the cotton—which is
the wealth and life of the State.—
The way in which the rebel soldiers
act seems to indicate a perfect panic,
as the pickets submit to capture with
out even tiring a shot; and heavy
bodies of rebels scamper off at the
least indication of an approach of our
troops. One of the correspondents
avers that not a solitary instance of
pluck has yet been exhibited by the
South Carolinians. The State is suf
fering little short of famine; and
even the coarse food of the slaves is
doled out in scanty rations. The
planters have demanded aid from the
State; but•the State is as poor as
they, and can afford no relief. Put
ting all the stattered facts together
which have been collected by corres
pondents, from refugees, deserters,
captured rebels and slaves, and the
condition of South Carolina appears
to be about as bad, in every rest
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