Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-01-09

sixty miles, and have penetrated.as far in
to the interior, on some ofthese excursion:
as our troops have not gone. Every
where, l find the same state of things ex
isting; everywhere the blacks hurry il
droves TO our lines, they crowd in smal
boats around the ships; they swarm upon
our decks, they hurry to our officers, from
the cotton houses Of their masters, in an
hour or two after our guns are fired.
am writing now, not what Eave heard
but what | have seen.
HEALTH OF TROOPS.
The most gratifying announcement
which | can make is, that marked domi-
nutiou of the sick list is apparent. Fevers
and small pox, which, since the occupation
have carried off more than hundred vic.
Tins, seems to have spent their energies,
as the troops, taught by experience, are
learning to avoid their engendering causes.
There is prevailing. however, sort of
bronchial affection, which is very disagree
able. 1t is, doubtless occasioned by the
change in the temperature, from the un-
comfortable heat in the daytime to the
chillness of the heavy dews at night; and
the Inhalation of the fine sand, which is
constantly swept through the camps by the
high winds, aggravate the complaint.
OPERATIONS OF GEN. STEPHENS.
Gen. Stephens has been very energetic
since the occupation of Beaufort. He has
pushed forward his forces, and now has
full possession of Ladies' Cat, and Cave Is
lands, as well as that of Port Royal
Sometimes, however, marauding parties
of rebels came over at light and set fire
to the cotton-houses. The ferry at Port
Royal is held by the Eiflieth Pennsylvania
regiment and the Eighth Michigan, and
the line of the Island, extending about
five miles opposite the main land, is occu-
pied by our forces. Scouts have penetra-
ted INTO the rebel country within a very
short distance of Savannah, and the posi-
tion of every rebel picket within five miles
of our outposts has been ascertained.
WORKING AND FEEDING NEGROES.
Gen. Stephens is pursuing very good
plan with the negroes who come to him
for protection. He makes them all work,
which they do cheerfully aud readily, up
on the promise of receiving wages. In
stead of allowing soldiers rations, as is
done at Hilton Head, he gives them bacon
and corn, just such fare as that TO which
they have been accustomed, although in
larger quantities. They appear to be well
with the arrangements, which has
the advantage of being much more econom-
ical.
SOUTH CAROLINA FAMILY.
In a late visit made to DR.. EIliotts
plantation on Hilton Head, 1 found
group of six staight- haired, bright looking
mulatto children, seated around the door
step of one of the negro cabins, eating ra-
venoasly the boiled sweet potatoes which
a decrepid old man was distributing among
them with apparently great soliciiude.
The little ones were neatly dressed,
which is an exception to the ru;e, and they
werc otherwise more attractive than any
have yet seen. "Oh no sab! Desc are
Children said the old man, in re-
ply TO my questions as to whether he was
their grandfather. "Dere mudder name
Rose; he lib with her as he wife, and
when be die, some time ago, he make her
and de children Free" Then he told me
that Rose had gone over TO Gen. Viele's
camp to do washing for the officers; and
that she had come with herself and family
to the Yankees to escape being sold into
slavery by her masters relations.
DAILY PAPER.
Mr.. Sears, the efficient Postmaster here,
intends to establish a daily paper, which
will contain the latest local and foreign
intelligence. There is ample room for
such an enterprise, and it will meet with
ready support. The prospectus of the en-
bryotic Journal will soon be issued. Mr..
Sears has small printing office in opera
ion now, and a vast amount of labor is
saved to the clerks in the department of
Capt. Pelouse, the Assistant Adjutant
General of the division. by the printing of
he numerous orders and other doc
lnents, of which many copies are required.
Gg- The following picture of Mr.. Sill
lel is from the pen of London Times Rus |
sell:
HON. John SJIDEIJ