The new South. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1862-1867, 1862-10-04
LOCAL NEWS.

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tasting in many ways the bitter fruits which have
been produced by rebellion. Fortunes have been
ruined, social and political economy thrown outof
gear, morals and religion languish, and misery,
in all its hydra shapes, haunts the delnded people
Perhaps no better illustration could be afforded OF
this wretched state of things than the following
list of prices, now ruling in Savannah, which was
obtained from gentleman who has spent some
years in that city, and who was permitted to leave
there last week on his way to the North. Confed-
crate scrip cannot be exchanged for gold or silver
except at loss of 125 per cent, and it is still
deprecating. Flour, 4Cal5c. per b.; brown sugar,
60c per lb.; white sugar 60c .a70c. per lb Oh,
5Oc.a6Oc per lb.; potatoes, $40 per bbl.; sweet
potatoes, ST per b. apples, SIS per Dbl eggs,
60c a70c per Dozen; butter, 81 20 per lb.; coffee,
So per lb. and scarce tea, $l0aSl4 per lb. corn
waiskey, $40 per gallon; molasses, 81 50 per
gallon i; sweet oil, 81 so per bottle; sperm eau
dies, So p ID. and scarce; common tallow can
dies, 81 % per ID; ; Gallo, 81 2OaSl SO per yard;
sheeting, 81 per yard linen Sheeting So per yard;
common handkerchiefs, 81 so ea-h; boots, $3Oa
81 So per yard; silks, Sia S. per yard; ribbon,
$2a$2 30 per yard; thread, Soc. per spool; silk,
26c. per skeiu; pins, 81 50 plr paper; needles,
81 Is per paper ; matches, $l2 per gross quinine,
$25 per ounce; opium. $40 per lb neither hams
nor loaf sugar to be had.
SCARED REBELs.-Phc signal officer at Spanish
Wells, Hilton Head Island, having noticed for sew
eraI DAYS past rebel picket and reconnoitering
party on the main land opposite the western end of
Scuil Greek, informed Col. Barton, commandant
vi Fort PULASKI, OF the TACT, and On W "Wednesday
the gunboat Planter was sent to drive the fellows
away. She succeeded in getting within range
before the reb is discovered her, and shot, from
her long bow gun, put an abrupt close to the pic
ME they were having beneath tie trees. They
skedaddled on the double quick % leaving saddles
b-idles three tld-ashioned ntlock pistols, fine
lninie rifle, o grey overcoat, several haversacks
filed with CO. n bre d. besides O. her knck-knacks,
and made for Blufften, three miles distant. Col.
Barton landed party and secured the vicinity for
e mile and halt around, but found no traces of
them. The rebels returned the next day to the
p0int where they had been first seen, which is
within ri,ie-Shot distance Of Hilton Head Island,
AID cas- ri.is-shot Instance of our transports as
they take the inside passage from Hilton Head to
the fort. The Planter on her frequent trips
through Scull Creek will be sure to pay her re-
sp,cts to this corps Of observation.
Sr. AUGUSTINE AFFARs.-Shortly after Gen.
Terry had returned from his tour Of inspection to-
the posts under his command upon the Florida
coast, an incident became known at the Depart
mcnt Headquarters which occasioned another i'm
mediate visit to several Of those posts. 1t appears
that the Provost Marshal General (Lt. Col Beard,
4Sth n W appointed to facilitate the objects Of
civil administration under Brig. Gen. Saxton, had
offered stringent oath of allegiance and obiura-
ton to all the remaining inhabitants of St. Angus
tine, for the most part women, children and old
men. This oath having been declined by num-
ber of the inhabitants, ne had ordered them, with
the wives and children of such persons as are in
the rebel army, to be put beyond our lines, in ac-
cordance with his instructions from Gen. Saxton.
On entering the st. Johns River, Gen. Terry met
the Burgssiae, on her way to the rebels near Jack
sonyille, and having on board forty-eight women
and seyenty-six children, but no men. The Burn
side was Immediately ordered back TO st. Angus
tine, where the women and children were set at
liberty but as they had disposed of such property
as they nnssessed before their removal, some of