Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1863-03-20
NEWS SUMMARY,S.


property. The fire is supposed to have
originated accidcntly. but will te invcsti-
eated,-Cap,ain McNaler, of the lltlr
S. G. Regiment, with detachment of his
company, went on Hilton Head Island ON
the night Of the l2lh inst, to the observa-
! tory, where the Yankee signal corps Were
stationed and without firing a gun captured
the entire party Keeping watch, consisting
OF "A Lieutenant, one Scrgean. and seven
privates. The prisoners have arrived Mt
llardeville.
An explosion occurred on the l3 il inst.
at The Government Laboratory on Browns
Island near this city in one Of the buid
'ng' occupied by women and girls employ
ed i'll filling cartridges, killing aai wound
ing thirty or forty persons. The number
Of killed is not yet known, but i, iec,cd
iha, it will not exceed len. The rxrlos;,n
Is supposed TO hc the result Of accident.
We find i'll our Mississippi exchanges an
eln' i'ia''on OF the mysterious tclcgrarhic
ola, which was not blown up. The Yar-
KEGS, it seems, dill send down Il coal large
with smoke stacks and a wuo,ien Gun.
which in the dark, rcscrnLled Il gunboat.
1t WAS fred Mt 10y or- ha,:cr.e-, and our
guuEoats lcing il disabled con,lirion,
dropped down to Port Hudson. But the
men in charge of tie Indianula did no,
blow her up. An explosion was head
about o'clock Friday night, but it turned
out 10 he tic magazine at the end of the
canal. which tho Yankees blew up them
-c.vcS, snpposing t!,at we had organized All
expedition to take it.
y private letter received from n solicr
in 1-o. gsucct'< corps says that The greater
portion Of the Yankee army had left from
rc!nre Fre,!e: cksburg, cstrn>ibiy fn:
Ch1r!c>ton anl Savannah. All the eavv
baggage Of Lo' gstlee,s DIvi$on had '"cn
sen, to Richmoud, apd his ucn were un-
der marching ord,r,-whcrc for was nol
known. They wili doubtless be- sent to a
point wh.rc the uffemy leas, cxaec;s 10
tind t,icm.
News from the amy Of Tennessee re-
PIE cuts i, in good ccn,ni;nu, having been
considerably rcc:"ilci within rhc last few
: h.," l.: conv;lc:crmls. al,sent~es, &c.
Gov. nrow", rf Georgia. viii convene
: the Legislature on the 25th March, and
roc"mnenl \ slringa.t prohibition OF Tie
cultivation oI more c.ttpn ,Lau !, urc.,,,l
; for seed l-o, prohibition of ii:e yisli!.;..
ton of articles OF foil
!! 1t take, ft'y ttou>,nd horses and n,u,.s
to supply the army # tile pot"m.c y
: thousand die every 'rw days. Not less
than five thousand horses are in lhc horse
hospital Of Washington
Thirty deaths, on the l.lrh inst, had
occurred from the recent explosion at the
Cartridge Factory on Browns Isiand.-
a Monitor lGoncIad appeared II the brr,
at Charleston, on the .4lh, and took posi-
ton among the fleet, and on the 5th went
son'hwald. She is supposed to be the
keokuS from New York, for Port Royal.
A British steamer within the past few days
Neacled a Confederate port, and brings
NASSAU dates up to Thursday 18th. The
Steamers l:uhy from Charleston, and
Giraffe from Wilmington had arrived at
Nassau. Many steamers had r, ached Mas,
ST" from England, intending to run the
blockade. The prisoners taken on Thurs
day night OIL Hilton Head Island fully c"n-
fi'ln the intelligence OF Burnsidc's appoint
ment to the command of the expedition
against Charleston. He had not arrived
at Polt Royal OH Thursday, hut WAS hour
ly expected.
The bridges on the East Tennessee and
Virginia Railroad, which were destroyed
by the Yankees a lew weeks ago, have
been rerIace.l, and The regular schedule
resumed on The 18TH
A correspondent of the Mon'g gomcry
| advertiser, writing from Richmond on the
23l ul'., says that President Davis has
been confined to his house for two weeks,
and is great sufferer An aLscess has
been formed on his temple, next. to his
sound eye, and it Is Ieared by his friends
that he will lose the sight of that eye also.
The sons Of deceased soldiers tleslrous If
liberal education, whose means are Iim
ted, are offered by Mr.. r. G.. Chisolm,
Columbia, S. c., in behalf of himself and
St. Johns Lutheran Sundy School, Of
Charleston, and by the Rev. Z. A. BoIes,
Orangeburg, s. c.. scholarships in New
berry College, S. c., without charge.
A, very fatal disease is prevalent in some
pXfons OF this Safe among the hogs.
fsThe first symptom isa stiffness in the
shoulders.