The new South. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1862-1867, 1864-01-16

There is scarcely city government in the
State without one representative of the press in
in it W. W. Clapp, Esq, Of the Evening
Gazette, is Boston Alderman Robert Worthing-
ton, Esq, one of the proprietors Of the Traveller,
is President of the Ro1bury Common Council, and
Edwin B. Haskell, Esq, one Of the editors of the
Herald, is one of the Charlestown School Com
mittee.
Speaking of newspaper men reminds me of
some newspaper items:-
Rev. James NJ Usher has just started new
weekly in this city called The Nation. The
Daily Advertiser is in its SD year. The Herald
has introduced the feature of Supplementary
half-sheets at the rate of from two to four week.
/ A shocking murder occurred at Holmes Hole,
about week since. Mr.. VIM. Luce, trader,
had just closed the shutters of his store, at 73
o'clock, in the evening, and was doing up some
candy, with his back toward the door, when he
was attacked from behind with hatchet, his head
split open, and the arteries and veins OF the neck
severed Not satisfied with this, Mr.. Luce's
throat was cut from ear to ear with o knife. He
was then robbed, and his empty pocket-book was
found near BY and bloody shirt in the vicinity.
About two hundred vessels were in the harbor,
wind d-bound, and the murder was at first attribu-
ted to sailors, but that theory is now discredlted
There is no clue to the perpsRntor Of the act.
The mystery of the Maiden Bank murder and
robbery has not been explained On Saturday last
Mr.. George T. Bailey, who skRps tin shop near
the bank and who is a son 81 Ms former President,
was arrested for the murder at the instance OF
"George, the Count Johannes" who has filed
claim for the rewards offered for the detection OF
the murderer. Mr.. Bailey was the last man
known to have been in the bank previous to young
Converse's death, but he will be discharged to-
u ", in (Ior,,-
bridge Jail.
On Wednesday morning last, James W. Cole,
John NJ Perry and William Mitchell, three sailors
from Harrington, Me-, while going through
Prince street, were assaulted by one John Hath
ON alias Smith, who belongs to the gunboat Ii
conderoga, and killed him. They say they did it
purely in selfdefence, and voluntarily gave them
selves up. They are in Jail awaiting trial.
/ Hon. Samuel A. Blake, OF Bangor, Me-, has
arrived here to present to Gov. Andrew the views
of that State relative to the accounts between
Maine and Mass, growing out of the expense in
CURED in collecting the Massachusetts, claim
against the General Government for monies ad-
yanced during the war of 1925. The sepera-
ton between Maine and Massachusetts, occurred
in 1920 and there was therefore Joint interest In
the advancement of the funds, as it is claimed
there is in the reimbursement by the United
States for expenses incurred in collecting the
penses having been reimbursed to Massachusetts,,
Maine thinks it no more than right that she,
being portion of the original party at interest,
should receive her allowance in the same.
In report of an agricultural meeting recently
held at Springfield the following astounding
statement occurs GA man who grew one hun
dred and thirteen bushels of Dutton corn per
acre, had ears from twelve to fifteen inches in
length"
| Here is an item which illustrates the perils OF
winter navigation on the Eastern coast -
"The schooner Eureka, of Portland, which left
Bath, Me-, on the 18th ult, for Long Island, near
Mt Desert, was wrecked the same afternoon on
the Western Sister, desert rock in Bluehill Bay.
She had on board Messrs. William and George
Crosby, Capt John Libby and the Captain Of the
Der for the store of VIM. Crosby & Co. They
were caught in gale, split jib in going in stays,
and endeavored to come TO anchor, but the an
chor fuke brokeshort of, and they drifted ashore