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

the city, and made speech 10 tlfe troops, pledg
ing his word that he would retake Fort Pulaski
within 30 days. The Fiagal is nelrly completed.
and the floating battery has been put in working
trim. In about two weeks both these craft are. to
lie used in the work of reducing the For.
ANOTHER RAID ON BLUFPToY.-0n Tuesday
last, Col. Barton, of the 4Sth n: Y, stationed af
Port Pulaski, with the left wing of his regiment,
and with the boats Planter and Starlight, having
guns aboard, started, by order Cf Major General
Mitc lel, to destroy the extensive Salt-works at
Bluffton. After a slight delay, occasioned by the
Planters going aground, he arrived, and his men,
under Capt Strickland, landed and drove in the
pickcts. The boats then assembled the river, and,
at sight of them, the Rebels, having no batteries,
incontinently fed, leaving the expedition to ac-
compl:sh its purpose and return in safety. The
next day the Colonel, with detachment of his
own Regiment, under Capt. Lent, and of the Sd r.
l. Artillery, under Capt. Gould, in the same boats,
went up tha Savannah, and shelled battery at
Cranston'S Bluff, and picket at the GO Needles
The rebels replied but their guns were of SO short
a range that they were easily silenced.
The NEGRoEs.-Some wholesome changes are
contemplated by the new regime, not the least of
which is the removal Of the negro quarters beyond
the stockade. 1t is wisely determined to put them
by themselves, where they can at once have more
comfort and freedom for improvement for it is de-
signed as soon as possible tO educat. them to self
respecting independence apd bits Of sel-reliance.
Accordingly, a spot has been selected near the
Drayton plantation for Negro Village. They aye
to build their own houses, and will probably be
uragcd to Stablish their own police under SUI
persision Of their Superintendent. A teacher,
Ashbell Landon, has been appointed, to be paid
from the Qpartermaster department, and to the
proper conduct of the school the diligent Com
: mandng General will himself attend as Govern
ment interest. This is as it should be. 1t is Of
course Of public Importance that these new heirs
to the rights Of Liberty should be taught how not
TO abuse them. Mir. McMath is at present the ac
tive and efficient Superintendent of this people on
this Island We notice with pleasure the return
of the former Superintendent, Mr.. Lee, who win
be employed by Gen. Saxton, at Beaufort. =
TIE RAuRoAD.-Somebody in authority has
been enterprising enough to order the construction
of that railroad the material for Which has been
cumb .ring the per for mo..t4s. The worS is pro-
crossing under the direction of Col. Serel, Of the
Engineer Regiment; and with rapidity which en-
slires its completion withia a day or. two. The
cars are to run from the end of the pier to the new
forage-houSe, with ssturnouts " c0mmunicat-
ing with the Ordnance Yard and C0mmissariat
Store lOuScS. III Has DccH ulatICN vi oui W
most people that the convenience which the road
will afford has not been made available before,
when it certainly was NEEDED as much as it is now.
But "better late than never Horse flesh, cut
joyful capers! Negro-power, dance your break
downs
QUARANrNE.-The schooner Triumph, Captain
Leury, bound to this Port with suffers cargo,
picked up at sea boat containing ten negroes es-
cauedfrom Wilmington, North Carolina. She was
boarded by the Health Officer, DR.. Crispell, who,
learning that there was yellow fever at inington
and that the e-negroes had been employed in grave
digging, sent the schooner to St. Helena Sound
Sympathy is due to the Triumph thus suffering
inconyen. ence for the sake of humanity.
HORSE AUcrox.-0ur faithful Post Quarter
master enula.es the theory Of his countryman,
g Poor Richard,'' that 'apenny savel is penny