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The Daily Dispatch: April 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
events now taking place at the anticipated points of collision between the Northern and Southern Governments, the systematic and persistent efforts which have recently been made to burn up the town of Charlotte, North Carolina, on account of its strong secession sympathies, have not attracted the attention they deserve. An intelligent correspondent of the Charleston Courier gives a detailed account of the plot, which is full of interest. The first fire was on the morning of Friday, the 29th of March, evidently the work of an incendiary, which was only prevented by the greatest exertions from involving the surrounding dwellings.-- The next was on the succeeding Saturday night about 12 o'clock, which was followed by an attempt to fire the Methodist parsonage, at 4 o'clock the next morning. The church, adjoining the parsonage, took fire twice, but the citizens worried nobly, and succeeded in arresting the progress of the flames. Each of these places was in a thickly settled locality j